Away from Neverland | By : Rosamund Category: M through R > Peter Pan > Crossovers Views: 11902 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Chapter 2: Games Uncovered
Captain James Hook slowly sipped his after-meal brandy as he watched the young woman sit with her party. He had noticed her earlier that day, feeling a strange connection to the stranger. Now at dinner, as he studied her face, he realized who she was. He turned to his companion.
“Well, well, Smee, tell me that my eyes do not gaze upon the young Wendy Darling herself, in the flesh.” He asked.
The older man, dressed in his usual striped shirt and pants as well as a worn dress coat, turned to see w you young lovely maiden the captain had settled his attention upon, not immediately catching the name his captain had barely whispered. He shifted his glasses as the name finally sunk in. “Wendy Darling? As in the same Wendy Darling as...as Peter Pan’s Wendy Darling?”
“Yes, the very one.” The Captain said as he twirled the brandy around in the glass then gulped the rest.
They waited until Wendy and her group left before settling their bill and then went to join the rest of the Captain’s men, who were drinking heavily in a more seedy part of town.
The Captain, who sometimes enjoyed the rough and tumble bars his men frequented during their land stops, preferred to dine in more established jaunts. He laughed to himself as they entered the Dead End bar where bottles were being smashed, gunshots fired to nowhere as the image of little grown up Wendy and her little boyfriend came into his head. Dressed in his finest red coat but still armed, Hook took out one of his pistols and shot it at someone’s shot glass being lifted in the air in some drunken toast.
Meanwhile, Wendy had retired to her room. It had been a long and leisurely day, but tomorrow she had to be up early for some site seeing. A carriage was taking the group to a nearby estate where they were to join their hosts for a game of croquet, a walk through their gardens, and perhaps a short boat ride on the lake if the weather permitted.
Still, she opened her journal and proceeded to write in it. Only this wasn’t a typical journal filled with a young ladies hopes and dreams. Instead it was a collection of tales made from her imagination, stories of adventure and courage.
“Darn!” She gasped aloud as a splash of ink spilt onto her thin nightgown. Wendy sighed. How she wished somehow the adventures she wrote about would come true for her!
Down the hall Steven had not exactly retired to him rooms, but made his way to see the chaperone, his aunt, whose quarters were next to his. She quietly shut the door as he sat in one of the chairs. He waited as she poured them each a brandy and then gave him a toast.
“You’ve made progress. The Darling girl certainly must think you’re a catch by now.”
“True, but I hardly think she has affection for me. Her kisses are cold and appear to not affect her in the least.”
“Tsk tsk, has Mr. Loverboy lost his touch with the ladies?” His aunt teased.
“I hardly think so. Wendy Darling has never shown interest in members of the opposite sex. However, she does realize the importance of marriage and starting a family. And she knows that her family approves of me. I am quite sure she will consider their wishes over her own.”
“And what a family she has…her father went to the Americas some years ago and came home with a fortune! Her inheritance will be quite a sum, even if her brothers control the most of it.”
His aunt paused to laugh. “Her family will have no problem letting a husband of their daughter’s control her money. And that is when we will have the big pay off. Now, when are you going to propose?”
Steven smiled. “Tomorrow night.”
“And if she says no?”
“Then my attentions will politely and appropriately turn to Ms. Toomey. Her family is just as wealthy even if her looks aren’t as comely as Wendy’s.”
The next came and went quickly. Upon returning to their hotel in the early evening, Wendy and the girls retired to their quarters for a brief rest. Meanwhile the two men agreed to a game of billiards at a nearby bar in a section of town that belonged to no part of society, just whoever wanted a friendly game and some spirits.
As Steven and his companion, William, settled into their first game cosatisation came about regarding their female companions. It was when one of them mentioned the name “Wendy” that another’s ear piqued and listened to the rest of their conversation.
As the captain smoked on his pipe his face scowled at the gentlemen’s conversation…and he was beginning to realize these were no gentlemen at all! He thought about shooting them, but then thought wiser. “Perhaps this could lead to my advantage,” He thought to himself.
It was later that night, after supper, when Wendy and Steven were taking a leisurely stroll by the harbor. Little did they know that they weren’t alone as the walked along the seemingly empty street.
“Wendy, I…” Steven asked as he sneaked his arm around his pretty young companion.
“Yes, Steven?” Wendy tried to appear relax, but a warning shot through her.
“Well, I was thinking that perhaps it was time I ask for your hand in marriage. I know you have been expecting me to, and I think now would be a most advantageous time for us and our families.”
“I am sorry, Steven, but my answer is no.
“No?” Steven turned her to face him.
“Yes, I said no.” Wendy answered quietly.
“Surely you can’t mean that, I will give you some time to think it over and…”
“I said no!”
“Surely you can’t be serious…like I said, think it over and…”
Wendy interrupted him. “Steven, you are a bore to be quite honest. The answer is no, and will always be no. I could never marry a man who wouldn’t know the hilt of a sword if his depended on it.”
In his hiding place the Captain suppressed his laughter at her statement. Little Wendy had turned into an interesting woman after all! He turned to the irrepressible Smee and gave him the signal.
“You dare insult me!” Steven cried out to Wendy, then raised his arm as if to strike her.
Before Wendy had the opportunity to react she saw an object hit Steven at the same time a blanket was thrown over her. She tried to scream and struggle, but to no avail. Someone lifted her over their shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Within a short distance hearheard whispering and felt herself being carried across the docks, then onto a ship.
As Steven came round he looked up. There he saw a man with unruly black curls and a shaped moustache and beard. The man was well dressed despite the ravage look in his deep blue eyes. Steven gulped, not know if he was being robbed or about to be killed. Regardless, he knew this man terrified him.
“Who…What do you want of me?” He barely asked, his head throbbing in pain.
“Tsk you young boy. No thoughts as to the girl? I shall tell you anyway. She’s been kidnapped by me.”
“You? Who are you?” Steven struggled to ask.
“Captain Hook.d dod don’t forget it.” With that the captain knocked him out again with the hilt of his sword and laughed his way back to the ship.
“Men!” He cried to the men on deck. “Draw the anchor. We leave tonight!”
To be continued.
Okay, I’m posting this all tonight (chapter 1, too…) without any edits. This is my first story at this site, I have many other stories posted elsewhere on a book series not mentioned on this site, which is okay...this spit fire blonde teen detective has three huge fan fiction sites already dedicated to her.
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