I stood in disbelief, my heart pounding, my head spinning. I stumbled over to a nearby table, leaning upon my elbows for support. A tremor shook my hands, moving through my fingers, wrist, arm then to my head. I don't understand. I turned around to face Penny again but she was gone. I looked around again in utter confusion. I had so many unanswered questions, confusion clouding my every thought. A hand lightly appeared on my right shoulder and I turned around to his face. His face? I knew the face, but not the person.

"Are you Okay?" He asked

"Ah Yeah I'm fine" I replied

"You sure, you don't seem fine"

"Yeah, I'm fine really"

He still stood there though, not convinced. I pursed my lips.

"I need to go find my friend…Ah…" I looked at him for a name.

His eyes seemed to stop and stare. He looked away towards the ground, almost disappointed.

"Ah Peter"

"Right Peter, I need to go, so, nice meeting you" I said, nodding.

I stood up and walked around him towards the door. As I walked outside, I saw Penny on the steps. I moved down and sat next to her, her bright eyes greeting my with a big smile.

"Hey! You made it!" She said. Her arms encircling me in a hug.

I smiled in return but I couldn't ignore it. They lay there, upon her back. Brightly lit as a candle, moving slightly with her movements.

"Penny, you need to explain"

She looked at me muddled, "Explain what?"

I looked at her eyes, their shine dimming slightly. She was biting her lower lip, her cheeks calmly blushing.

"I remember it all, his face, I know his face but I can't remember from where…And my nightmares, I know their cause but I can't name it. And…And I can see them on your back, I said it before but I can't even name them now, I've lost the words. I don't understand Penny, but I know you do".

She bit her lip harder, her eyes darting away from mine. She took a deep breath.

"Classic line, but not here, come on" She took my hand and led me down the stairs. We walked under the limelight of the streetlamps. She knows, she has always known. The darkness between the lights clouding her face but not her thoughts. I could almost feel the buzzing of her mind racing through an explanation, the one I needed for so long.

The streetlights continued to her house, the bright yellow glow of her bedroom light erring through the curtains. She took my by the shoulders and angled me on her bed. Standing upright in front of me. She took another deep breath, exhaling softly but slowly. Her hands lay by her side, as the brown leather jacket she wore, slowly slid off her shoulders. From behind her, they emerged. They laced out, creating an outline of colour from behind her back. A stuttered sound emerged from my lips, but not forming any words. She pursed her lips, once again exhaling deeply and softly.

"There's a silence, a chant if you will, wish allows for folks to not see the truth, our identity. However, if you aren't a folk, the silence will only last for a certain amount of time. Wendy, you're not a folk, you're not just a human. You're one of us"

I swallowed steadily. Folk, we always talked about them, as if they were a joke, a under grade of us…us.

"Hook is a pirate," I said

She nodded.

"Hook is James"

She nodded once again.

"Mum's boyfriend, James, is a pirate"

She smiled, finally, and nodded her head.

The jigsaw pieces came together. Neverland, James, the pirates, the memories, I remembered it all.

"My mum, she…she's from there, from home" I said

"Yeah, she brought you here to protect you from James" She said. Penny came and sat next to me on the bed.

"Of course she did, typical 'protect your children' move, but he came here. What was she protecting then?" I said, raising my voice slightly.

I felt it, the anger, the frustration rising up inside my throat, bubbling from my words.

"She wanted to keep you safe"

"But I'm safer there, with you and…and"

I know him, I know his face, but I can't remember his name.

"Peter, Yeah, it's Peter," She said, smiling once again.

I laughed, I knew it. I knew the name, I knew his face, his smile, and those bright blue eyes.

"James did it, James did it"

Penny's eyes dropped to the floor.

"My nightmares, drowning, choking, he did it. He got inside my head"

Penny swallowed "Yeah, that's his knack".

It all made sense, my nightmares, the scars on my back, was James.

"Peter…of course, trying to protect me"

She nodded.

"What is with everyone trying to protect me!" I yelled

"That's what you do Wendy, when you care about someone, duty of care"

"But I don't need it! I don't need protecting from the people that care about me!"

"Not anymore"

I turned around, the voice I knew. The face I knew. The name I knew.

Peter stood by the door.

"Of course, you were there the whole time"

He laughed, "No, but I was here when I needed to be"

He walked over to the window on my right, pushed the curtains open, undid the latch and pushed the window wide open. The chilled breeze blushed through the room, creeping up upon my skin. He jumped up upon the ledge and crouched, facing Penny and I.

"I think this is where I say, come on" He smiled, reaching his hands out.

Penny and I both laughed. We left the bed and walked over to Peter, each placing a hand in his. I looked into his eyes, those deep blue eyes and smiled. I felt the familiar rush, the thrill as my soles left the floor and felt the air gushing beneath them. The house below us grew smaller, the world bigger, brighter, than ever before.