Chapter 15: Hook or Me This Time

Peter came to Captain Hooks ship to save Wendy and the boys. At
first, he thought he was not noticed by anyone as he came to Wendy, and
he was amazed to see the pirates cowering from him, with Hook in their
midst as nervous as if he had heard the crocodile. Soon, Peter, on tiptoe,
vanished into the cabin; for more than one pirate was screwing up his
courage to look round.

The exultation of the boys, the lowering looks of the pirates, both
were seen by Hook.

First signing the boys to hide, Peter cut Wendy's bonds, and then
nothing could have been easier than for them all to fly off together; but one
thing barred the way, an oath: "Hook or me this time."

Hook had lifted up one boy with his hook, and was using him as a
shield, when another, who had just passed his sword through Mullins,
sprang into the fray. Thus suddenly Hook found himself face to face with
Peter. For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering
slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face.

Then Hook sought to close and give the signal with his iron hook,
which all this time had been pawing the air; but Peter doubled under it and,
lunging fiercely, pierced him in the ribs. At the sight of his own blood, whose
peculiar color, you remember, was offensive to him, the sword fell from
Hook's hand, and he was at Peter's mercy. All the boys cried, but with a
magnificent gesture Peter invited his opponent to pick up his sword. Hook
did so instantly, but with a tragic feeling that Peter was showing good form.

This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that
Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very
pinnacle of good form.

Wendy praised them equally, and shuddered delightfully when

Michael showed her the place where he had killed a pirate; and then she
took them into Hook's cabin and pointed to his watch which was hanging on
a nail.

Chapter 16: The Return Home

One thing the author like to do immensely, and that is to tell Mrs. Darling, in
the way authors have, that the children are coming back, that indeed they
will be home on Thursday. This would spoil so completely the surprise to
which Wendy and John and Michael are looking forward.
Of course, as we have seen, Mr. Darling was quite a simple man; indeed
he might have passed for a boy again if he had been able to take his
baldness off; but he had also a noble sense of justice and a lion's courage
to do what seemed right to him; and having thought the matter out with
anxious care after the flight of the children, he went down on all fours and
crawled into the kennel.
And there never was a more humble man than the once proud George
Darling, as he sat in the kennel of an evening talking with his wife of their
children and all their pretty ways. For some time he sat with his head out of
the kennel, talking with Mrs.Darling.
He did not know the tune, which was "Home, Sweet Home," but he knew it
was saying, "Come back, Wendy, Wendy, Wendy"; and he cried exultantly,

"You will never see Wendy again, lady, for the window is barred!" Thus
Wendy and John and Michael found the window open for them after all,
which of course was more than they deserved.
Wendy and John had been taken aback somewhat at finding their father in
the kennel. They went round Wendy and John and Michael, who had
slipped out of bed and run to their mother. He was looking through the
window at the one joy from which he must be forever barred.

Chapter 17: When Wendy Grew Up

Wendy and her brothers were home together with the Lost Boys, who
were seen by Mr. and Mrs. Darling. The Darlings adopt the lost boys, after
realizing how much they were liked and became in good terms with Mr.
Darling. Peter returns and tries to get Wendy to fly away with him back to
Neverland, but she refuses to leave her parents again. She does go once
each year to clean his house for him during spring, but each time they meet
she sees him, Peter seems to have forgotten that years have passed by,
but still has stories and adventures with Wendy. Once or twice Wendy tries
to get him to see her as something more than a mother, but Peter does not
know what she means. The Darling siblings and the lost boys lost their
ability to fly.
Peter skipped fetching Wendy during spring cleaning, and there came
a time when Wendy already refused flying with Peter to Neverland. Wendy
already grew up to be a woman, and eventually got married, same with her
brother John. Michael, Nibs, Curly and the twins already worked. Mrs.
Darling and Nana already passed away.

Wendy had a daughter named Jane, who stayed in the nursery where
Peter Pan used to visit her for the first time. Jane also heard the story of
Peter Pan from her mother, and wishes to fly with him and see him. One
day when Peter was about to fetch Wendy for spring cleaning and Wendy
refused, he sobbed by Janes bed and thought Jane was Wendy. However,
Jane goes with him to be his mother again and clean his house after which
she will return. She also grew up, and her daughter Margaret continued
what she and her mother did for Peter Pan, as well as the generations after
her.