The Real Neverland // WATTYS 2015

19. Dust

I had no idea how long I had been in this cage. The boys fed me well, they said it was to keep my heart strong. I didn't know how that worked considering my heart wasn't in my chest, I didn't care either. I ate very little of anything they put in front of me. I wanted to die. Maybe I could see my parents again and my brothers. These thoughts ran through my head everyday. At first I tried to keep count of the nights that passed since Munch left, but after while it seemed pointless.

Pan visited often he never talked to me, all he did was stand in front of the cage and stared at me. He stayed there for hours and then he would leave. At first it was creepy, but I got used to it. There was no way for me to get free. He had my heart and I was in love.

Night after night I was in the small cage that hang from the tree. I would sometimes look up into the night sky imagining where Munch was. One night a bright idea popped into my head. What would happen if I didn't love Munch anymore? My heart would be rendered useless Pan wouldn't want it anymore. I could be let out of this cage! But then I remembered, there was no way that would happen. If anything, Pan would just crush my heart and kill me. The only reason I was alive is that Pan needed me. If I was no longer needed I would die, but I couldn't just sit here and let the days and nights pass anymore. I needed to do something. I worked all night on a plan to get out of the cage. My plan was put into action when one of the boys brought my breakfast and Pan arrived.

That morning Pan stepped into view and leaned against the tree trunk and stared at me. What he didn't know is that I had already eaten all my breakfast and put the plate on the outside of my cage. "So you already ate? Are you finally getting used to being crammed in there?" He spoke for the first time in forever. I kept my thoughts clear of my plan to escape. Instead I put thoughts of killing Munch into my head. I never spoke a word. I knew that Pan could read my mind.

"What's with the thoughts of killing Baelfire?" Pan asked me. I thought about how Bae left me and would never return. How he left without any regret and how I am now tortured for letting him leave. "So you're mad him? You're a lair. You still love him deeply, your heart still beats with love deep within Neverland. If you now hate Baelfire, then who is it that you love?" Pan came closer and closer to the cage. I thought of the boy that gave me food each morning. He was nice to me. He smiled and apologized for the things Pan was doing. I liked him. I looked up at Pan and he was mad. He suddenly flew off and that was time to start my plan. I started to chew through the vines that help my cage together. I got about half way through one of them before Pan came back with the boy who served me my breakfast. Pan floated in the air next to my cage with the boy dangling by his collar.

"Is this the boy you love now? Hmm? Is it?" Pan screamed at me and waved the boy as if Pan were a dad showing his child their bad grade. I said nothing and looked at the poor boy.

"Wait what? What's going on here?" The boy questioned. He was blameless. Although he was only a year younger than me he seemed to have such innocence to him. I felt sorry for him.

"You my dear friend have captured the heart of this young lady right here. She is now, for what ever reason, in love with you. Isn't that right Jill?" Again I said nothing. I had to keep my thoughts straight or else Pan would find out everything.

Pan flew away with the boy after all that. I continued to bite through the vines. I got threw three of them. It wasn't that big of an opening but it was enough for me to remove one bamboo shoot and reach the vines that kept me cage suspended in the air. I cut the vine and my cage went plummeting to the ground. It hit with a solid thud. The bamboo broke apart from the hit and I landed on my ankle weird, I think I sprained it pretty bad because I couldn't walk for awhile after that. I was just glad that Pan wasn't around to stop me. Once my ankle felt better I got out of my cage and started to run. I ran far away. Part one of my plan was done now for phase two.

In the morning I awoke to the sound of falling trees. Not just one but many. Good, so Pan knows I'm gone by now. I got up and started walking. I needed to get to the dust trees before the boys found me. It was a long time before I heard another tree fall. It came from the opposite direction and it seemed to be getting quieter. Is he going toward the ocean? Maybe he thought I just made a break for it. With this opportunity I ran the rest of the way to the tree. I needed to get that dust.

It took another hour or so before the trees were in my sight. They were taller than I thought. No branches to claim until have way up the tree. How am I supposed to get the dust if I can't reach it? I looked around for something that could help me. Out of the corner f my eye I saw a fallen flower. I went over to it and opened it. It was the fairy dust! I sprinkled what little was in the flower on to the top of my head and said "I believe" and with that I started to float into the air. I went all the way to the top of the trees and started to pick all the dust flowers off of the branches. There was so little in the flowers I could see why Pan needed my heart. I collected the dust into the vile that I had kept from the day that Baelf- Munch left. Even with all the flowers picked and the dust taken the vile was barley full. I floated back down looking at the sparkling powder.

My feet touched the ground and there were hands around my wrists. I looked up and Pan was standing right in front of me with my fake love by his side. His goons were keeping me still.

"So you just used this boy to distract me? Did you think it would work?" Pan took his hand a plunged it into the boys chest, ripping his heart out. "I'm king of this island, love. There's nothing that goes on here that I don't know about." Then Pan crushed the heart and the boy dropped to the ground. He was dead. "I knew you would come here and take the dust. You're not very good at hiding your thoughts. I left that flower for you so you could collect the dust for me." Pan looked at the ground and at the poor boy that lie dead and made a small comment to himself "I hate doing the dirty work." Pan stepped over the boy's limp body and came closer to me. Our noses were almost touching. "You are mine. You belong to me. As long as your living heart is in the ground you can't escape." Pan stood straight and gave a command to let me go. The first thing I did was go over to the dead boy and try to see if there was a way to save him, but there was none.

"You're right Pan. As long as my heart is in Neverland I can't leave, but there's one thing that you have wrong. My heart isn't were you thought is was. I reached into my pocket and pulled out a glowing red organ, it was my heart. I had dug it up just before I went up into the trees to collect the dust. There was only one way this would end. I threw Pan the vile of dust that I had taken. He looked puzzled, but then his eyes went wide. "Keep it because it's the last vile you're ever going to get." Pan started to run toward me to stop me, but he was to late. My heart was already dust and I was finally free.

This is the last chapter of this Fanfiction. If you guys like it please comment and vote. I will be making more Fanfictions I already have a few ideas for some. Thank you so much for reading this. I hope you all enjoyed my verison of Peter Pan and Neverland.