Neverland's Captive - Ouat Peter Pan

Chapter 35 - Fresh Start

2 years later:

It's been two years since I came through the portal from the enchanted forest and I'm almost 18 now. After talking to the police, they were able to contact Jack and he was able to explain everything for me.

Of course he didn't tell them the truth about what happened. He told me that when he disappeared and came back, he fabricated a story about what happened to him and then told them that I was involved in the disappearance.

Ever since then, I have been living with him. He's a few years older then me, so he has his own apartment. I have also made friends with his friends; Madi and Kyle. They were dating each other and would break up constantly but I was close with both of them.

Also, during the two years, I started to take self defence classes. When I was in neverland, I felt so weak and vunerable and I decided I didn't want to feel like that anymore.

Unfortunately, the new sense of power didn't stop me from having nightmares almost every night. They have been mainly about Pan and the lost boys but some have been about the people I've lost.

One time, I thought I saw Thomas outside of my window and ended up running out into the streets in the middle of the night, whilst it was raining, to see if he was really there.

Let's just say I haven't really been in my right state of mind. So I've tried to take medication and therapy to help calm it down but nothing seems to be working.

The memories and the horror that I've seem to leave my side, no matter what I do. I still get paranoid of basically everything around me and I always think that I see something when it's not really there.

All I want is a fresh start and Jack has been a huge help to me and has tried put me back on my feet. He knows about the nightmares and tells me that they will eventually go away but I'm not sure.

When I left the Enchanted Forest, It made me so annoyed that i had to leave him. Even though I only knew him for a few days, I really did like him. But like everyone else in my life, he left. He was so genuine, nice and a good person.

But I never forgot that he was Thomas's brother though. Even if I stayed, I wasn't even sure of how I would act around him after I found that out. Maybe it was for the better that I left him, death seems to have a way of following me.

Right now I can't sleep and I'm just lying down and staring out the window. This happens to me a lot; I'll wake up in the middle of the night and won't be able to sleep.

It's pitch black right now, which means that it is nowhere near the morning and I have a long time to go till I get up so I will just try and have to get back to sleep. As soon as I begin to close my eyes, I hear a crashing noise coming from the kitchen.

My whole body shoots up instantly as I look over to the door. I believe that the noise definitely came from a different room. I slowly get off of my bed and approuch the door.

I slowly, gently and quietly turn the handle and open it. I creep out into the hallway and walk along it until I reach the kitchen. It is almost pitch black in here and I can barely see a thing.

I can still hear the sound coming from the other side of the kitchen and I look up to see a dark figure. Immediately, a grab a knife from the side and start to approach them as silent as possible.