by Emily Dove
Young Captain Hook:
The dreams of a troubled youth. To find a world where one never grows old. Where a boy forges his own way and fears nothing. Where he can live in happiness until the end after the end. They were only dreams. I found Neverland once. I was young too.
“Perhaps it is tell tale to divulge that for a moment, Hook entranced her.” [ Hook & Wendy, JM Barrie’s Peter Pan]
Peter Pan AU
Peter Pan isn’t so much a boy as a name. When Peter grows older, he must defeat Captain Hook, but with this defeat he must take Hook’s place thus becoming the very man he swore not to. Peter, now Hook, returns for Wendy.
He had seen the crocodile pass by without noticing anything peculiar about it, but by and by he remembered that it had not been ticking. At first he thought this eerie, but soon concluded rightly that the clock had run down.