Felix walked through the jungle, and finally reached the tree. He waited a second before tapping the trunk five time. Then he stood leaning against it and waited.
He fidgeted with his knife, nervously when he heard very quiet footstep then a voice.
"Felix."
He snapped his head towards the young blonde girl who looked at him with wide eyes and strode to her
"What are you doing here?! " she motioned for the tree.
"Haven't used this calling for more than four years..."she said sadly.
Felix replied nothing.
"We agreed not to see each other anymore, so what are you doing here, calling for me..?"
The blonde boys scratched the nape of his neck, embarrassed, hesitating between two things. He finally chose the second thing.
"I just need your help." She eyes him carefully, hoping.... the young fairy sighed "Why? You have Pan, you have Olivia, and I don't see why you should need me, Felix. "
She started walking away, disappointed when a hand caught her arm and Felix said quietly.
"Actually I came to see you. Just to see you. It's one of the rare occasion when I can so... I came" he shrugged. She looked up at him.
"You can't Felix. Pan would kill us both if he knew that you disobeyed him. I am banished Felix, remember? You are not allowed to see banished people."
He smirked "I just did."
She smiled slightly but then her smile faded and she sighed.
"Look, I don't think you need my help and anyway, I have... I have things to do!"she said and began leaving and he said
"Tink, wait, you're leaving?"
She sighed, painful and came back to him before stating carefully.
"Felix, look... I think..." she paused, it was difficult to say when you didn't want it to happen. Felix knew what she was about to say.
"I think we should take our distance bec-"
She was cut off by Felix pressing his lips against hers. Utterly dumbfounded, she didn't respond and he pulled away with a smirk.
"Sorry, I don't do distances. "
She looked at him with hope, did it mean something? He cupped her face in his hands.
"Listen, I didn't come here for help, I just, I had to see you. I thought it had gone away, after all these years without seeing each other, but ever since I saw you I realised they never left, those feelings. I love you Tink. Always have."he said, looking straight into her eyes. The blond fairy couldn't believe it, she scanned his face, his eyes, to be sure it was all true. It was. She knew it.
"Please tell me I was right to say it."he pleaded. She smiled and pulled him him into a long and loving kiss. He immediatly responded and when they pulled away she said with a small smirk
"Took you long enough.
"Wha- what?"he scoffed playfully and added sarcastically "why didn't you say it before then?
She giggled and pecked his cheek
"I like to see you embarrassed, good for your ego. "
He shook his head with a smile and sidehugged her, kissing her temple.
"Sure."
She smiled with glee and pulled him into a long and passionate kiss this time. Their lips moved in sync and he felt her smile through the kiss.
They pulled away and she took his hand. "I love you too, Felix."
He smiled and intertwined their fingers together.
"Come on. Let's go for a walk together."he said firmly.
She followed and they started running through the jungle.
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Olivia stood up, void. Empty. That's how she felt. She shook her head,blocking any attempt from her memories to break through and have her freak out once more. She grabbed her weapons and stormed out to find Dodger sitting before the fire.
She walked to him.
"Hey..."
"Liv! You're up!"
There was a silence.
"Mind if I sit with you?
"No not at all."
She did so, and a lost boy brought her breakfast. She put the plate aside, feeling nauseous. A twig snapped and she looked up and frowned.
Something was off, no one was there anymore.
Suddenly figures popped out of nowhere, and slowly made their way to her.
In less than a minute she was surrounded with people she loved
Her mother, her father, her friends, her cousins and of course Arthur and Alexa . There was also her friend Maya and Josh her boyfriend.
They were all glaring at her, full of hate. She backed a few steps, her heart beating faster.
"How could you?!" her father growled
"How could you do this to us?!"
Olivia shook her head
Dodger jumped as Olivia sprang to her feet, staring at something in the distance, her face pale. She started shaking her head."no...no no"
Dodger stood up cautiously, and asked carefully "Olivia... are you...okay?"
She didn't answer, looking around her as if there were people surrounding her. She backed a few steps and then tumbled to the ground.
"Olivia!!"he said but she couldn't hear him. She could see it all. Christian spat:
"This is your fault. You selfish scum. You did this. It's all on you!! All these deaths! Go, accuse your brother, but in the end you'll admit that you're the one behind it all! You!"he shouted. Everyone followed, at first they were murmuring, then it grew louder to a mumbling, then louder and louder and louder until they were all shouting at her yelling it was her fault, and how she deserved none of the love and care she had been given. They were moving closer and closer, until she tumbled to the ground with a yelp. As they kept shouting she clutched her head with her hands, tears ran down her cheeks, she knelt down, her face inches from the ground, their shouts echoing in her head, and suddenly she exploded and screamed her guts out.
Dodger shook her, calling out her name and suddenly she jumped and gasped, clutching to his arm, panting.
"Dodger!"
"Yeah, it's me, it's me, you're fine. There's nothing. It's all in your head."he said as she kept snapping her head from side to side as if she knew they would come at her again.
She then looked at her friend whose heart boiled in anger for Driniun and the things he had done to her. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and pulled back her hair, inhaling big breaths.
"I'm okay. I'm sorry..."
He nodded with a tight smile.
"You wanna,... go rest?
"No, I'm tired of resting."she admitted and forced herself up.
"I wanna go hunting. You coming?"she offered, trying to sound confident. He rose an eyebrow at her
"You serious? You just had a panick attack and now you want to go hunting?
"I'm fine."she lied. She wanted to be fine. So she would act like it. She grabbed her bow and arrows and stalked away. Dodger felt puzzled but eventually grabbed a few blades and followed.
Olivia was walking fast, she knew all these scenes playing before her eyes were memories of the torture she had gone through. She suddenly saw Pan kill Felix and grunted, squeezing her eyes shut, before opening them and see him kill Dodger. She clenched her jaw.
"This isn't real, this isn't real, this isn't real."
She opened her eyes and suddenly took a knife, inhaled, whipped her head around and threw. A rabbit down. She walked to it and whispered, passing a hand on its fur.
"Thank you."
She took it and faced Dodger who smirked at her.
"Impressive. Now come on. I know a good place."
Before he could go, Olivia pulled him back and hugged him. He instantly hugged back as if he understood. No words needed. When they pulled away she smiled.
"Thank you, Dodger, for being there for me."
He smiled back and then she sighed
"Okay, now, I want to have fun. Like real fun. I want to spend the day having fun."
He rose his eyebrows, having unexpected this but smiled.
"Okay. To the water. Come on! RACING YOU!"he yelled. She cried in indignation and sprinted after him, they both laughed all they could and got to the shore, running as fast as they could. There, he conjured a swimming suit and she conjured some red bikinis and changed discreetly in a second before racing to the water, laughing, forgetting about all their problems, just being two teenagers having all the fun they could. She splashed him
"Oh really?!"he replied before splashing her big. She yelped and for the next twenty minutes they did their water splash fight. Then it was an apnea competition, but when she realised he would win, she swam to him, tickling her stomach so he puffed out air, laughing and surfaced a second before her.
"NOT FAIR!" She burst out laughing but he went under and grabbed her legs and threw her over his shoulder. She yelped in surprise
"DODGER!! Put me doooown!!"she whined. When he came out with her still in his arms, climbing rocks she shook her head "no no no Oh nooo I got a reaaaaally bad feeling about this. Dodgerno!"she cried but he jumped with her and she screamed before splashing in the blue water. She resurfaced with a gasp
"DODGER THIS IS THE END OF YOU!!!" she yelled with a laugh. She swam to him, and he tried to sink him in.
They got out of the water and sat on the shore with a happy sigh. After a while they grabbed their things and changed back into their usual clothes. When they turned around they heard someone laugh. Raising an eyebrow, Olivia sent her friend a questioning look. He shrugged and started going away but she shook her head and jogged in the direction if the laugh.
"Olivia waht are you doing? Come on, don't bother!"he whispered yelled.
Olivia ignored him and quietly walked to the place of the sounds. She hid behind a tree and glanced at the two people there.
A hand grabbed her arm.
"Olivia! Come on!"Dodger whispered, as if he was scared she would find out about them.
She sent him a strange look before shoving his arm off hers and glancing behind the tree.
She smiled at the scene until she recognized the boy. She frowned
"Is that...?" She looked at Dodger for confirmation and back at her best friend. She looked down and bit her lip. She couldn't help the stinging feeling in her heart and clenched her jaw before stepping out of the shadows and took one last look at the scene : Felix, hugging a girl, and he even kissed her briefly.
Then she took off, sprinting through the jungle as fast as she could, silently. She ran and ran, crossing glades, paths, a big meadow, then again forest until she got the cliff, panting and winced at the pain in her leg. She heard a rustle and knew it was Dodger. The girl sat on the rocks, thoughtful. The wind blew, gently stroking her face and the hair out of it. She heard steps coming her way. Hesitant steps.
"Go away, Dodger, I'm sorry but I need a bit of time here."she grumbled.
But then this wasn't his way of walking. She knew that one and gritted her teeth.
"What do you want?"she spat.
"Livy I just want to explain-"
She whirled around angrily standing up and growled.
"What ?! Explain what?! That you lied to me?! That you kept this from me all the time?! "
Felix looked away for a second and back at her.
"I didn't lie. I didn't tell you because I... Pan cannot know."
He regretted his clumsiness before her crestfallen expression.
"Waoh..."she breathed out.
"So what, am I just as bad as him? You think I would betray your secret?! Do you think me so untrustworthy that you should keep this from me?! Felix answer me!"
He walked to her quickly
"No no no, Livy, you are not like him and what I said was stupid, I reformulate,
Pan cannot know about us, and since he watches you closely to make sure you're safe, I had to be careful... but I have to ask, you're not mad at...us?"
She closed her eyes a second with a sigh as Felix stared at her anxiously and she looked at him once more.
"Felix, you are my best friend, my brother and I love you, but sometimes you really are an idiot."
She smiled and shoved him playfully.
"I'm not mad at you for having a girlfriend, on the contrary I think it's wonderful! I just, I wish you'd told me."she said with a shrug. He sighed in relief and said
"I'm sorry.
"I thought rule number two said Lost boys never apologised. "She teased. Felix shook his head and pulled her in a hug.
"No, but I'm serious though. I really am sorry. I should have told you.
"So, who's she? What's her name?
"Tinkerbell.
"Wait what?! Tinkerbell?? Like, Peter Pan's fairy?!
"Well, technically yeah. He trusts her, and she is a fairy. She was banished a long time ago, but he still goes to see her sometimes, only we're not allowed to go to her.
"Ah. But you still do."she stated and he nodded.
"Well, we're even more alike then. Rules are not for us bitches!!"she yelled extending her arms in triumph. Felix chuckled "you are crazy you know that right?
"Yeah, I happen to be called that a loooot of times. Now come on. Present me to her. Finally a girl in this hellhole!"she shoved him playfully.
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A blonde girl, quite petite stepped out of the shadow and faced Olivia.
"So... you're Felix's sweetheart?" The young witch asked the fairy who smiled
"I am, yes you could say that. And you are Pan's lost girl?
"Um, yeah not his, but I'm a lost girl."
There was a silence and eventually Olivia spoke up.
"You know all this time I thought I was the only girl on this island, until I saw you talking with Pan the other day, about a month ago, or more. Feels good to talk to a girl again! "
Tink smiled and nodded before glancing at Felix and saying, carefully
"I hear Pan was wounded?
"Yes! Damn, what a stubborn guy he is! I had to bargain so he would get treated. He got quite a nasty thing, so now Isaac is with him and with luck, he'll be back on his feet soon.
"Do you want him to get better?"
At the question, Olivia frowned, sending her a funny look.
"What's that supposed to mean? Of course I want him to get better..."she said still wondering where the fairy was getting at.
"No, sorry, what I meant to say was, don't you want him to... you know, die, after all the horrible things he's done to you?"
Olivia's eyes widened but then she looked away, thoughtful before letting out.
"No. He has indeed done terrible things which I found difficult to forgive, but... I think he deserves a second chance.
I think... he suffered a great deal, and now he wants to make others suffer so he feels better about all of it, eventhough he won't. It just gets worse. Peter's not a monster, he's just hurt, besides, he saved my life, so I owe him now.
"Do you know how much he cares about you? I've never seen him be so protective around someone and he genuinely cares, Olivia. "
The young girl shrugged, but convinced at all.
"Don't you?" Tink insisted, ignoring Felix trying to tell her to stop. Olivia frowned
"No!"she said too quickly. "I mean I do, but not like I care about Felix or Dodger. I just want to help him. Nothing more.
"So if he died, it wouldn't matter that much to you?
"I..."she hesitated, and cringed.
"I don't know, I... I don't know. Why are you asking all these questions anyway??"she said trying to sound unmoved, but clearly uncomfortable.
"Olivia listen, I-
The fairy was cut off by someone calling out her name.
"OLIVIA! OLIVIA!"
The young girl turned to face Will who was now panting.
"What is it Will?!
"It's Pan.
"What about him?
"Something's wrong."
Olivia went pale in a second and started going towards camp quickly.
"What do you mean something's wrong?!
"I don't know, he just won't wake up."
Olivia ran back to camp, immediatly.
Tink watched her leave with a frown but a curious expression.
"I think you're right Felix. Maybe she can actually save him. "
Felix nodded and added
"Yes. I'm hoping again, Tink. I might be able to get my bestfriend back."