In a Cloud of Green

Red-Handed Jill

What would Mother think if she became a pirate? But the more Wendy thought of her mother, the less she could remember.

"John," Wendy shouted, "John!"
"Yes?"
"What is your father's name?"
"My father's name? Peter."
"Michael, who is your mother?" Wendy asked.
"Well, he got the easy one."
"Kayla's my mother, Wendy."
"And isn't she just first-class?" Suddenly Peter came in with news, news that wasn't quite new to Wendy.
"There's a new pirate aboard the Jolly Roger. The mermaids say she is called Red-Handed Jill."
"Another adventure, boys. Come on!"
"Red-Handed Jill? She sounds quite fearsome!"
"Fearsome? She's just a storyteller." Peter scoffed.
"Just a storyteller?" Wendy shouted, "Red-Handed Jill may be a brave swordsman."
"A girl like her?"
"Brave or not, I shall run her through!"
"Then ready yourself, Peter Pan, for I am Red-Handed Jill."
"Wendy?! What are you talking about!?"
"'Tis true Kayla, Your sister has been invited to piracy."
"But, Wendy, Hook is a fiend. And a bounder."
"On the contrary, I find Captain Hook to be a man of feeling." As soon as she said those words, Peter lunged at her!
"No!" Kayla shouted, and grabbed a sword to defend her sister. But Peter quickly disarmed her and held the sword up to her throat.
"Mother and Father are fighting again."
"Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient."
"How am I deficient?"
"You're just a boy." Kayla stated.
"Is Wendy really to be a pirate, Mother?" Micheal asked.
"No." Kayla told him, "We are going home."
"Home?"
"Leave Neverland?"
"We must. We have forgotten our parents. We must leave at once before we... in turn are forgotten."
"I've forgotten... my parents. We must leave."
"If you wish it."
"'If you wish it'?" Slightly shouted.
"If you wish it!" Peter fumed.

Peter walked back into the room,
"I have arranged a fairy guide to lead you back."
"Peter, we've been talking." Kayla announced, "What if you came back with us?"
"Can we go, Peter?"
"Please, Peter, can we go?"
"If you wish it."
"Get your things." Kayla said, "You too, Peter."
"Would they send me to school?"
"Yes."
"Then... to an office?"
"I suppose so."
"Soon I should be a man," Peter whispered, "You can't catch me and make me a man."
"Peter."
"I want always to be a boy and have fun.
"You say so, but I think it is your biggest pretend."

"Don't forget your medicine." Kayla said before she left. When she walked out of the hideout, she saw the lost boys all tied up. Suddenly, a gag was placed on her mouth,
"Surprise." The pirate that grabbed her said.
"A new era begins. Take them away." Hook ordered.

Hook climbed through the walls of Pan's hideout, and tried to kill him in his sleep, but couldn't reach. Then, in the corner of his eye Hook caught sight of Peters medicine.

Lest he should be taken alive, Hook always carried upon his person a dreadful poison... distilled when he was weeping from the red of his eye. A mixture of malice, jealousy and disappointment, it was instantly fatal and without antidote.

He dropped one or two drops into the flower, then left. Not before Tink saw what he was doing though!

"I was not asleep!" Peter yelled as he hit his head on the ceiling, "Kayla? Kayla? Are you there?" He stood up and looked at the medicine, started to walk away, but then looked back. He picked up the flower closed his eyes and, "Tink." He said while pulling her off his mouth, then throwing her onto the table, he tried taking his medicine again and, "You drank my medicine! Tinker Bell? Tink? Why is your light going out?" He reaches out to touch her, "Tink, why are you so cold? Stay warm, Tink. Stay warm." At that she looked at him one last time, and her light went out, "Please come back. Please, Tink, don't leave me. Forgive me, Tink. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, Tink. Please forgive me." He begged.
"Tink!" He yelled as the skies grew stormy and it started to snow.

Meanwhile on the ship.
"There's still room for a storyteller."
"I'd rather die." Wendy spat
"Shame."
"Cap'n, Cap'n. Look at the sky." Smee exclaimed, "And look at the water."
"Pan must be dead!"
"No! No! Impossible!" Kayla whispered
"Ship's company, hats off! A moment's silence for our fallen enemy, Peter Pan. We sail at dawn!"
"I do believe in fairies. I do. I do. I do believe in fairies. I do. I do. I do believe in fairies. I do. I do. I do believe in fairies! I do! I do! I do believe in fairies. I do. I do." Peter kept on chanting!
"I do believe in fairies." Kayla is whispered,
"You what?" John asked.
"I do believe in fairies. I do believe in fairies. I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!" She started chanting. Soon all the children were chanting the same thing,
"I do believe in fairies. I do believe in fairies! I do believe in fairies. I do. I do. I do believe in fairies. I do. I do. I do believe in fairies..."
"Stow that gab, or I'll run you through! I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!" One pirate yelled
"I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!"
"I do believe in fairies. I do. I do."
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"I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!"

"I...Oh, Tink, you're alive! Oh, Tink! You're alive! You're alive!" Peter shouted with joy, the snow stopping and the skies clearing!

"I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!"
"I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!"
"He's alive!" Hook yelled, Why is he? What is he? I'll have one last story before you die. The story of Peter Pan. From you," he said pointing at Kayla,
"But," she started, "I'm no good at stories."
"Who cares," Hook spat, "Once upon a time..."
"Once upon a time..."
"Brutes, Red-Handed Jill's twin is gonna tell us a story."
"There was a boy named Peter Pan... who decided not to grow up."
"Skip the prologue."
"So he flew away to the Neverland where the pirates are."
"What fun he must have had."
"Yes. But he was rather lonely."
"Lonely?" Kayla nodded her head, "He needed a Kayla. Why a Kayla?"
"He liked my inventions."
"What inventions?"
"A self-sewer. A self-writer. One that helps you clean the room."
"So your imagination?"
"I guess."
"Anything else?" Hook asked.
"He also liked my singing," Kayla said after much thought.
"What songs?!"
"'How Does a Moment Last Forever', 'The Call', 'You'll Be In My Heart'"
"Sing one for me," Hook mused.
"O-okay?" And she started to sing

"Love songs?"
"Well, yes." Hooks eyes went wide,
"So he does feel, he feels about you!" He said, his eyes lighting up with ideas, "She sang him songs. He taught her to fly. How?"
"You just think happy thoughts. They lift you into the air."
"Alas, I have no happy thoughts."
"That brings you down."
"How else?" He asked bringing his hook closer to Kaylas face.
"No!"
"Leave her alone!"
"It's fairy dust. You need fairy dust!"
"Michael!" Everyone yelled.
"What of Pan?" Hook asked, "Will unhappy thoughts bring him down?"
"He has no unhappy thoughts."
"Aw. How if his Kayla walks the plank!"
"Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank! Plank, plank, plank!"
"You know, I really am terribly sorry about this."
Tick-tock tick-tock tick-tock!
"The irony." Hook mused, "It comes for Hook... and gets a song."
"No! No!" The boys yelled.
"Kayla!" Wendy yelled. And Kayla fell of the plank, towards the depths below...