rareslash | Fic: Peter Pan - Peter Pan/James Hook (implied)

Title: Warning Between Friends
Author:

thesilentpoet
Rating: PG
AN/Disclaimer: Original prompt was the line "if you play with your heart before eating it, it will break." This was supposed to be something else. Instead there's this.
Needless to say, I don't own any of this, and J.M. Barrie is probably rolling in his grave about now.

"I want you to listen carefully," he said. "You are going to stop chasing the captain, do you understand me?" He paused, peered more closely at his companion in the water, and sighed. "Of course you don't." He crossed his arms, and leaned over his knees. He was almost into the water himself. By now, he wasn't so much sitting on the cliff, as he was floating just above it.

"I am going to say this once, on the chance you might understand, so pay attention. Just in case. You must stop chasing the captain. If you keep playing with your heart before you eat it? It will break. Do you understand this? If you keep chasing him, if you keep making a game of it, you're going to break him. We can't have that, can we?" The boy stared menacingly into the water.

No response.

The boy sighed. "I don't really expect you to change, you know. But you have to understand how these things work. The Captain and I fight, we take our tea, sometimes together. Occasionally, we have visitors: lost boys, and wendy-birds with her brothers. If I destroy his ship, so he destroys my tree. That's how it works, you see. And if anyone is to kill the Captain, it will be me."

The crocodile's mouth lolled open, and he grinned up at Peter Pan.

Peter shook his head, and almost smiled. "You don't understand a word I just said, do you?" he asked, and patted the crocodile's snout.