The Jewel of Neverland

Chapter 31

           

The drive to the station was a long, painful one. Everyone avoided looking at me, like I was some kind of dangerous criminal.

Only Emma, David, and Mary Margaret took me inside the station, where we were greeted with a surprise.

Felix wasn't in the cell. Serena was. And she looked pissed.

"Finally!" Serena cried. "Took you guys long enough!"

"What happened?" Mary Margaret asked as David rushed to unlocked the cell door.

"The motherfucking jackass tricked me!" She began shaking and hitting the bars as if they would move.

"How?" Emma demanded, still keeping a grip on my arm.

"Pan's stupid shadow came in and tried to kill me, so Felix was all 'Oh it won't hurt you if you're in here with me because I'm a Lost Boy' and shit."

"And you believed that?" Emma said incredulously as Serena stepped out of the cell.

"I was under attack by a smoky demon with glowing eyes!" she said in exasperation. "Damn straight I believed that at the time! And it did go away once I was inside. Only Felix knocked me out and ran away with it!"

"Great," David said with a sigh. "We need to go find him. Both of them."

Emma nodded and gently led me inside the cell and closed it behind me with a horrible 'clang'. I went to the bed and curled up on it, facing the wall.

"What are you doing?" Serena demanded furiously.

Even after Peter's shadow tried to kill her she was defending me.

"We'll tell you outside," Emma said, sounding distressed. "We need to go warn the others that now Felix is on the loose too."

"I didn't know, Serena," I said in a quiet voice, not looking.

"Know what!?"

I said nothing. She'd understand what I meant once they told her about the Blue Fairy.

I heard them leave, Serena arguing with them over leaving me there the whole time. Once she knew what Peter had done, she'd hate me too.

I had ruined everything to keep him alive.

And I had no regrets.

The jail was already suffocating me. I curled up into a tighter ball, clenching my eyes shut. I tried to block it out, but it was impossible. I didn't blame Felix for doing what he had to do to escape. Eventually, I drifted off, but I wish I hadn't.

The nightmare came back. Only this time, it wasn't a flashback. I was only watching Peter getting his heart ripped out and then getting his head cut off. Over and over again, like one horrifying replay that I couldn't stop.

"Amy!"

I jolted up, shaking badly and gasping for air. I looked to see Serena standing with her keys in the cell lock, as if she had been about to come in to wake me up herself. Once she saw that I was awake, she slowly pulled the keys back out.

I buried my face in my hands, trying to bring myself back down to reality. I couldn't keep letting these nightmares break me.

Awkwardly, Serena went to Emma's desk and put the keys down before coming back to me.

For several seconds, we just stared at each other, both of us unsure where to start.

"Did they find them?" I finally asked.

She shook her head. "No. They're all out searching still."

I nodded. "Are . . . you okay?"

Knowing I meant the Blue Fairy's death, she shrugged, looking slightly lost. "As okay as I can be, I guess. I didn't like her but . . ."