Fickle Mistress | By : Jikei Category: M through R > Peter Pan > AU/AR Views: 2018 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Fickle Mistress
By Jikei
I don't own Peter Pan or anything that you may recognise... I thought I did, but checked again, and it's just Peanut Butter.
This story was sparked from Dancing_Salome’s Worse Then Death. In the last chapter, it mentioned about Wendy seeing Hook lurking in Peter’s eyes, and the endless cycle of Neverland. It got into my head, and wouldn’t let me rest, thus I had to write it out. I’m not usually a writer, and so any comments (and constructive criticism) are welcome.
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You are a fickle mistress. I should know. On some level I knew it, even back then. I was your Pan. Young, exciting, precocious. I had everything, lost boys, faeries, mermaids, and even the pirates who despised me. And there were many pirates, too. As I would defeat one, another would arise to take his place. So was the endless cycle, Pan and Pirate, Pirate and Pan. It was as natural as the rising and setting of the sun. And yet I never saw it coming.
I was fighting the newest captain. I had fought so many of your Pirate captains before; I never bothered to learn his name. He was expendable, and in my youth, not worth remembering his name. I do remember, he was a stout little man, with a raged beard, a pompous hat, and an eye patch. I should have known the fight would end wrong, when a storm developed overhead. It never stormed while I fought, except this once. He was an easy mark, really, you could have done better. Of course, perhaps it was not your idea to give him a chance. When the fight was over, I noticed the ship had sailed quite a bit away from shore. Instead of flying in the harsh weather, I decided to ride the ship back to land myself. I had quite good fun. Several of the scraggly pirates had remembered me from previous fights with previous captains, and thus let me have my way with the ship. I wore their fallen captains’ large hat, and his eye patch, as if they were badges of honor. Perhaps my own greed and self-assuredness was my undoing. We arrived at the shore in a matter of hours, and there I received the shock of my life.
Flying high over the trees was Pan.
I could feel the air get thick around me. The pirates weren’t the brightest, and didn’t quite understand the magnitude of it all. But I did. You had replaced me. It wasn’t a new Pirate you were looking for, but a new Pan. My heart turned then, irrevocably for the worst, I would say. The only thing left for me to do was to fill the roll left vacant. I was to become the Pirate Captain. I should have seen it coming. I was foolish and naïve. I won’t let myself fall for you like that again. Your disregard of me had left me bitter. To think I, who had been cared for out of your bosom, was to be left on your cold oceans to survive, while you occupied yourself with another. I would not allow myself to fall so easily, as the previous Pirates had. I have seen many of your Pans come and go since then. Each more precious to you then the last.
Then there was Peter. He was special, right from the start. He skirted the tree tops in his flight, playing with the clouds, and making like a big cock on the walk.
He is the most like I was.
I can see it in his eyes while fighting. He is as I was in every manner. Cocky, sure of himself, loved in your eyes. And perhaps, one day, he will be where I am now. He will be the next James Hook. After all, you are a fickle mistress.
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Just in case my writing isn’t as good as I hope it to be, the fickle mistress is Neverland herself.
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