Darker Than You Know ( A Peter Pan (Robbie Kay) Fan Fiction)

Chapter 12

Ow. Ow. Ow.

My mind registered the pain in my back, arms, legs, well actually my entire body. I opened my eyes slowly only to find the moon high above my head floating around with the stars. It was still night and bloody hell it's cold! The sound of rushing water surrounded me and I remembered how Peter had left me here lost, alone and cold.

The second I find that boy I am going to slap him very hard. Who does he think he is? Leaving me here after he tells me he cares and kissing me like that...

Oh wow that kiss, my lips tingled at the memory of his lips on mine. His hands on me and my hands on him. Stop. No thinking of Pan. He didn't even have the proper manners to make sure I don't die! I shivered in the cool night air, I had to woman up and get myself back to camp. I stood up from the rocky ground and rubbed my sore back. Slowly hunched and in pain, I walked in the direction of the camp.

The forest was eerie and made me quite frightened. It was like the scene in Disney's Snow White. Snow is running through a dark and scary forest and everything looks like a monster. I swore I heard whispering but for all I knew it was the wind... Or was it? As I walked the voices grew louder and formed coherent words. The wind picked up the sentences and tore them apart until all I could hear was fragments.

"Trying to eavesdrop are we?"

The voice made me jump and turn fast to defend myself.

"Holly, you scared me! Don't do that." I laughed at my own silliness for being afraid of Holly.

"What are you doing here?" I questioned her.

"Same as you, listening to Pan and Felix talk about the big plan. Of course nobody but those two are supposed to know, but Felix told me there was a plan." She smiled at the thought of Felix for a second and returned her attention back to me.

"Do you think we can get closer?" Holly looked around and listened to the quiet whispers. I shrugged in response.

We slowly creeped closer, careful not to make any noises. As we slowly moved along the voices became clear and louder.

"It's necessary, there isn't much time left."

"No, she's not going anywhere, she's staying here, with me, forever."

Suddenly I stepped on a twig and Holly and I froze and stared at each other in panic.

Pan and Felix moved closer to where Holly and I were crouched in the undergrowth. They drew daggers from holsters around their hips and raised them overhead as they descended upon us. Holly and I screamed and grabbed onto each other in fear.

"Oh, it's just you two." Felix said as he laughed at us and smiled. "You ladies shouldn't be out here."

Felix was all smiles, but I looked up at Peter and he did not seem happy. I didn't understand why he acted like he hated me so much but then at other times he treated me like I was the heavens and the stars to him.

"Felix take them back to camp, and make sure they stay there." Peter stared down at me angrily. A flame of fury slowly started to burn within me.

"It's not exactly my fault that you left me alone in the cold with no way to find my way back." I tried to keep my voice calm but I was on the border of yelling.

"Em, I don't have the time nor the patience to listen to you complain. I suggest you learn to take care of yourself here, because no one else will." My eyes stung at Peter's words. The anger inside me was replaced by hurt. I felt Holly take my arm as she lead me away from the boys.

"Why do you do that?" I heard Felix question Peter.

"It will make it easier in the end." He whispered back as Felix nodded and began to follow Holly and I.

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"Ok." I said to myself out loud. I realized that my illusion of having a relationship with Peter wasn't going to happen. I knew what I had to do and how I was going to do it. It would be risky, but I was willing to take a chance.

It was still night as I walked to the cliff that I had now grown fond of. I was finally going to leave Neverland, or die.

I felt the cold metal dagger in my hand and gripped it tightly as I finally arrived to the cliff. I looked down at t water beneath and watched the waves crash up hard against the rocks.

I turned my back to the water and screamed Peter's name as loud as I could, over and over again. I stopped calling for a moment and listened... Nothing.

"Fine Pan, if that's the way you want to play. I said to the night as I took the dagger in my left hand and brought it up to my arm. I put the tip of the dagger at the middle of the inside of my arm. I pressed down hard and grit my teeth, bracing myself for the pain. I closed my eyes and I felt the dagger slicing through my skin as I brought it closer to my wrist.

"Stop." I opened my eyes in an instant and there he was.

"Em, what are you doing?" He spoke calmly as if trying not to scare a doe.

"Take me home." I said confidently. I didn't move the dagger from my arm.

"Nobody leaves Neverland." His eyes looked more frightened than angry.

"If you don't take me, then I will do a lot of damage to myself with this!" I shouted as I moved the dagger. Blood was dripping down my arm and onto the ground.

"Em, I can't let you go." His eyes were pleading with me.

"Fine." I said as I brought the dagger to my wrist.

"NO!" He shouted as he ran at me and took the dagger before I could even blink.

He stood a few feet away from me, holding the dagger from me.

"You are never going to do that again, do you understand me?" He said as his eyes looked down at my bleeding arm.

He thought he had the power now, little did he know I was prepared for his speed. It was time for plan B.

"No." I said as I let myself fall backwards over the cliff.

"EMERALD!" He screamed as he watched me fall to the waves.

Just when I thought it was over I suddenly jerked up. I was flying back up and realized the shadow had caught me. I groaned from the pain in my arm and the defeat I was feeling. I thought the shadow was taking me to Peter, but instead we were flying away from Neverland. I looked back at Peter standing on the cliff, he had a smug expression on his face.

It was like he knew I was going to be back.