Who am I? The question keeps hurling itself at you as you pace through the jungle and back to camp. You finally reach it and you spot Pan and Felix conversing. Marching over to them you clear your throat and they both look at you, concerned. "Everything ok?" You snort at Felix's question. "I know for a fact that everyone here knows something about me that I don't even know about myself." You tone is cold enough to freeze over the island. "I need to know what's going on. If this was the place where I was before the Enchanted Forest- because I know there was a place- I deserve to know the truth. Then I swear to god I'll make whoever is to blame pay." Pan nods at Felix and then grabs your wrist, flashing you onto a smooth rock surface on the side of a mountain.

"You're right." You blink at Pan's somber tone. You face him as he looks into your eyes. "You were once a Princess here. Princess of the Lost Girls. We had a love-hate relationship, a kind of best friends. All the boys loved you, just like all your girls. But then one day Hook came. He imprisoned many of the Lost Ones. So- being the stupidly brave person you are, you went and fought him. Alone. Because you didn't want any others of your family being hurt. Those where the exact words you said to everyone before you left." You feel your anger turn into cautious heartbreak, and Pan clenches his jaw before continuing.

"We waited for hours- until I couldn't take it anymore. I.." A distant memory slowly resurfaces, and as you feel your eyes well up with angry tears, you continue his sentence with a shaky voice. "Until you showed up on that ship. And Hook nearly killed you. So I made a deal. For everyone to be released free I would hand myself over." Tears stream down your face, and for once in your life you don't wipe them away.

"I don't remember anything else." Your voice is a whisper, and then you are wrapped up in Pan's arms. "I vowed that day to get you back. No matter how long it took." As you hug him back you still feel muffled from yourself. "I know that would have helped but not broken whatever curse you are under. So...can I try one more thing?" You pull back from his chest and nod.

He slowly leans down -giving you enough time to stop him if you wished- before gently placing his lips on yours. The world stops. You feel your head and heart shatter as if it were surrounded by fog and you can finally see clearly. You body surges with its forgotten powers and flashes of your life on Neverland suddenly bombard your mind. You playing with your Lost Girls, your mock confrontations with Pan. Your joy at being free. The wonder and magic. Your best friend Princess Serena of the Mermaids.

As you grasp Pan's forearms your mouth parts and you stare at his chest and whisper. "Peter?" You look up in his face and see him doing something you have never even heard of him doing. Crying. Big, fat, tears. "You're- you're back. It's really you now isn't it." His voice is broken and weary. "Yes. I really think it is." You give him a huge smile and launch yourself at him again. "Thank you." You whisper, just for him.

- Ahhhh! That was a MASSIVE chapter! Thoughts? 🧚💚