Young Peter was angry with his parents when a genie appeared. The genie agreed to grant him three wishes if he won a game and, upon winning, he wished to never grow up and to go to a place with no parents and other children that he could play with forever and to be able to fly. Peter was sent to Neverland to join the Lost Boys. The genie didn’t stay this time, instead looking for more good that he could do from here.
In Neverland, Peter Pan did not grow up, instead becoming the leader of the lost boys. He discovered pirates, mermaids and all sorts of other strange things here and had an eventful, entirely too long childhood, but eventually wished for more games to play. With the Lost Boys and other people out of ideas, he left Neverland for the first time with Tinkerbell and found three new children, two boys and a girl who insisted on coming along as well.
Wendy, John and Michael eventually grew used to the land of Neverland, gradually forgetting about their home the longer they stayed and the more Tinkerbell sprinkled on her fairy dust. Because fairy dust doesn’t work on happy memories and thoughts, but instead doing that distracts you as it steals the memories. They were happy for a while until the darkness from Wonderland started to bleed over into Neverland. They had no idea this was happening.
John and Michael had been captured by Hook again and this time, Peter wasn’t going to save them because he had a disagreement with John, so it was time he saved himself for once. Wendy cried for him to go and save them and they finally go. Pan banters with Hook and tries to prod John into saving himself again, but this time something very different happened. hook threatened to kill John and actually killed him.
No one had ever died in Neverland before. Never.
Once the grief passed over the death of her brother, Wendy was enraged that Peter had refused to save him. Peter didn’t understand the death or what had happened. Things only started getting worse from there, the pirates happy that they can finally be pirates again and started to kill the children who had been causing them so much trouble. Peter was too scared to do anything and ran away, leaving the Lost Boys, Wendy and Michael to fend for themselves. Tinkerbell helped get him out of Neverland and back into the real world.
Peter can’t seem to remember anything about his life before Neverland anymore, but knows that the world has changed drastically from when he was there last. His guilt catches up with him when he finds a missing person poster, old and yellow and forgotten, of John with two on either side covered or damaged with age.
Ariel is the one that eventually finds him, bringing him home and getting him back on his feet. She is upbeat and they feel a kindred spirit in one another, both outsiders who don’t know how to work in this world and Peter finding comfort in the girl because she was a mermaid, which is at least familiar, and they bond over tragedy and their shared ADD.
Tinkerbell, seeing that he’s fine and not happy with being ignored in favour of the red head, leaves to see if anyone in Neverland survived.
