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14 year old Captain Hannah Artemis Hook wouldn’t admit it but she already regretted accepting Lampwick and Tiger Lily’s invite to their Christmas party the moment she walked through the front door with her siblings and her crew.
Why?
Well.. it was simple.
She could practically feel the stares their group was getting.
Something she wasn’t sure her siblings, their partners, and her attending crewmates could.
Harriet was arguing with Anthony.
Harry was getting handsy with Chad, Audrey, Gil, and Uma and not even trying (and failing) to hide it like their sister, Ginny, and her partner, Clay were.
Cj’s partners were with their parents so she was instead being introduced to her long lost twin, Ally’s, adoptive parents—Pinocchio and Alice—and seemed to be having a riveting conversation that Hannah wanted absolutely no part of.
Peter was zipping around the room, high on sugar as he stuffed his face with christmas cookies—occasionally stopping to say hi to the fairies, mermaids, and other Neverland residents that were attending.
All while the few older crewmates Hannah brought along—the ones without families or with families they didn’t want to go home to—(Anna and Aaron Bog. D.E Anonymous who had surprisingly accepted the invite Hannah had passed on, Herlando Dancer, Issac Cipher, Liberty Titan, and Fiona Foundling) raced after all the wee ones that the lost of them were responsible for.
All of them seemingly oblivious to what Hannah just couldn’t ignore.
The neverending staring of the party goers who’d sneak a peak at them when they thought no one was paying attention.
But Hannah always was paying attention and it set her on edge. Made her wonder if this entire thing was a trap and made her never take her eyes off of her siblings and crew. All while she held the youngest member of her crew at this point—baby Skelebar—close to her chest.
Trying hard to keep a steady grip on her with her shaking hands.
A laugh broke out from somewhere nearby, causing the brunette to flinch.
She could see Tiger Lily and Lampwick sneaking a kiss in the kitchen—completely oblivious to their mischievous looking daughter, Tulip, and Ally’s brother, Pin, and some blonde girl with wings that she was pretty sure was Carter and Scarlet of Llyr’s younger sister who were setting up some kind of prank in the window behind them.
They seemed to be oblivious to what all their children were doing, it seemed—given that no one but her seemed to know that Blue Veronica was on the roof reading or that Tiger Peony and Bobby Hood were holding hands and sneaking cookies to baby Sunny and what Hannah was pretty sure was Tiger Lily’s nephew, Anakin, and Lampwick’s younger sister, Bella, and the littlest Darling cousins.
Hannah numbly wondered if she should tell them but decided against it. Falling back on the age old, life saving isle advice of ‘mind your own motherfucking business, bitch’ that she typically ignored.
She so did not get paid enough for this.