O'Children (A OUAT Neverland Fanfic)

Chapter 14:Never Ever Land

"Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that."

--Allie Condie

Centuries ago

"I've gotten you something, my lady." A bold voice declare's.

Soren's face brightens. "Oh dear." She breathed, eyes hovering to his hands. "P-Peter. It's just darling." She cooed, eyeing the bouquet of flowers.

He leaned closer to her, placing them in her hands.

"But-- You shouldn't have picked them. You killed them Peter." She cried, caressing the stems of the flowers, like a worried mother.

"But Soren, more will grow. They always will." He promised, looking into her eyes.

She tucked a lock of hair behind her ear, her long, blonde hair flowing behind her. She was truly a sight to see. Doe eyes and a big bright smile, a beauty.

She flashed him a weary smile, nodding before placing them on the ground before her. She crossed her legs, indian style.

Peter sat on the other side of her, eyes reverting to the flowers which he picked.

"Peter. Promise me something." Soren muttered, eyes never leaving the gathering of flowers. He looked up at her.

"Anything." He replied, a serious expression on his face.

"We-- we will be friends forever. We must. You musn't ever leave me. I can't bare being alone." She whispered, out of the blue. She eyed the flowers, which picked and strewn before her left her with a change of mood.

Peter couldn't quite place what had made her so blue. But he knew the answer to her proposal with certainity.

"Why would I ever leave you? And for whom? How could I ever do that to my best friend." He answered, in attempt to reassure her. When she lifted her head to meet his eyes, he smiled.

Soren was the only one who roamed the land when Peter had first come to Neverland. She was a nymph, the only one of her kind. And she was his first friend. She had a sort of angelic charm, and quickly adopted boyish traits as they began to spend more time together. She had thought it would be like this forever.

But Peter grew tired of being around just a girl. Especially one who knew nothing of tragedy, who knew not how to assist him in his struggles.

When he began to bring boys to the island, she noticed the change in him. The lust for power grew in him, and she couldn't even try to tame it.

He was growing up. And this was not a result of time. If a child is stuck in the same place for so long, they will begin to wish upon adulthood, and begin to try at it, even if they claim to want to stay young forever. Subconsciously, they will pretend to be adults, know the struggles that they endure. But it is only an act of playing house, and children are no adults. It takes time to learn the lessons it takes to become an adult. And in Neverland, there is no time.

Peter began to forget about her, as he promised he never would. He was never one to be good with promises. And than, she began to know loss, and with loss came sorrow. She had been abandoned by the only one who was willing to be her friend.

And he had thought it a lesson she needed to learn, or at least, thats what he tried to tell himself. He needed an explanation as to why he would leave her as he did, and that was what he came up with.

He saw a vulnerable, innocent girl and wished to see her tainted. It was a new revelation in his mind, a new thought to tend too. But no matter how hard he tried, no matter what he had said, whether that be that she wasn't good enough, or not strong enough to be a friend of his, it never corrupted her to the point of no return. She never saw the edge, therefore she hadn't a thought to jump off of it.

He told her she wasn't a boy, that she couldn't understand him. She didn't know the pressure they had to endure, all the weight that it held to be king of an island of children.

And when a majority of boys populated the island, he began to mock her, laugh at her, tell her that because she was a girl that she couldn't handle a sword no matter how hard she had tried. She was the laughing stock of the island.

When she stopped trying to approach Peter, he didn't bother. But a part in him missed having a girl among the lost boys. And that was why he had first brought Wendy.

She was the shadow of the nymph that had came before her. The one that had been abandoned, used up. But this time, the girl was different. Human. One that could be tainted.

But it was Peter's mistake to have fallen for her.

Soren had formed an alliance with Tiger Lily, one of the natives who was rejected of their rightful land. They both knew what it was like to be used by a boy who knew nothing but greed. And as Peter had began bringing boys to the land, Tiger Lily had began bringing girls.

And those girls were curious ones, who had wandered from their den into the lost boys, some had fallen for them, and others knew better, but eventually, they learned of heartbreak. And with that came anger, the lust for revenge.

But Soren, she wanted nothing of these things. She wanted her best friend back. She wanted to prove him wrong for all that he had said, that girls were not worthy as boys were, that they could not handle swords. And so Tiger Lily taught her girls how to feel worthy, and how to handle their swords.

And soon after Soren cut her hair and stole away to the lost boys, posing as one so eventually she could be what Peter said she could not.

But when she found out what he was doing to the lost boys, how he was treating them, she grew angry and vengeful. She was tainted, as she thought was impossible for a nymph who once burned as bright as the sun. 

And she wanted him to pay for the lives that he stole from his lost boys, and from the life he stole from her as well. So she plotted to get him alone and teach him a lesson.