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I pull my wings in and dress in record time, not giving a fuck about my appearance as I storm from the penthouse and into the bar. “Tinkerbell!” I yell for her.
She pops up from behind the bar, her eyes are wide as saucers and filled with fear at the sight of me. I’m in front of her in the blink of an eye, grabbing her throat and lifting her up before slamming her back on top of the bar.
I can barely contain my rage as I squeeze her throat. I want to fucking rip it out. I want to pry her chest open and watch her heart beat before I crush it in my hand. I want to damn her soul to the realm of nothing. I want to damn everyone until I get answers. Until I get Wendee back.
“Where is she?!” I yell in her face. “You’re going to tell me everything, Tink, or I swear to God, I will fucking destroy you.”
“She left,” she wheezes out.
“Did you have anything to do with this? Do not fucking lie to me!”
“I…can’t…breathe…” She taps on my hand that’s clutching her neck. I somehow manage to loosen my grip enough to let her speak, but I don’t remove my hold entirely. She’s one fucking second away from dying if she doesn’t tell me what I want to fucking hear.
“Tell me,” I say through clenched teeth as I stare daggers at her.
“I summoned The Crocodile,” she admits. “I needed gold dust to make her remember. I just wanted her to move on, Sinn. She’s not good for you.”
My hand clamps down on her throat again. She’s clawing at my hand, trying to remove it, her mouth is opening and closing like a fish out of water, gasping for air. I can feel my fingertips sinking into her flesh, needing to rip out her throat right this second for what she did to Wendee. The only thing that stops me is the need to find out where Wendee is right now.
I release her and step away from her. My hands are balled into fists at my side and my entire body is thrumming with barely contained rage. I feel like I’m about to fucking detonate and no one is safe.
“Where is she, Tink? What did you do?”
“I didn’t do anything, I swear,” she explains, as she sits up on the bar. “She came to me.She asked me to get a message to Hook, to have him come so he could ferry her to the Afterlife. She said she was doing it for you, Sinn, so you could get your wings back and be whole again. I’ve only ever wanted what’s best for you! Don’t you see that?”
I pick up a bottle of alcohol and throw it across the bar, glass and liquid exploding everywhere. “Don’t fucking lie to me!”
“Sinn…” Her voice is full of tears. “I love you,” she whispers.
“You don’t think I fucking know that? What you’ve done to Wendee has been because of your fucking jealousy. You want what’s best for you, Tink, not me! Because what’s best for me is the woman you just sent to fucking Hell, and I will never forgive you. You had my friendship but that wasn’t enough for you, was it?”
“Sinn,” she pleads as the tears fall down her cheeks, “please.”
“You’re banished, Tink. You will spend the rest of your time in Purgatory on Hook’s ship ferrying souls to the Afterlife. You will leave the next time he ports, which will be as soon as I find him, and if you ever so much as set one motherfucking toe on my land again I will rip your soul out of your body and send you into the darkness.” I jump over the bar and head toward the front doors.
“She’s already gone, Sinn. You’ll never reach her in time.” There’s a hint of satisfaction in her voice as she yells after me.
I set my wings free and I hear Tink’s gasp at the sight of them. “I’ll get her back or I’ll die trying.”
As soon as I step outside, I’m airborne. It’s been fifty years since I’ve felt the wind on my face and in my hair. It should feel like coming home, where I belong, but all I feel is dread. I’m terrified that I’m not going to find her. That I’m going to be too late and she’ll be behind the gates of Hell where even I can’t go.
I focus on the connection I have to her soul. I follow the pull and fly harder, faster, across the choppy waters of the Mermaid Lagoon and out into open water. It’s as if the realm can sense my mood and is matching my chaotic thoughts and feelings. Dark clouds are moving in above me and the ocean below me is raging with dangerous waves and even more danger lurking below its depths.
Thunder rumbles the sky with a battle cry seconds before lightning crackles and sizzles close by. The storm wind is behind me, pushing me forward, urging me faster toward my destiny. I hear Hook’s booming voice on the wind as he yells directions to his crew. I can barely make out his ship in the distance, fighting against the merciless waves threatening to take it under.
I pull my wings in tight to my body and shoot like a torpedo toward his ship. I don’t slow down as I approach it. I land with the force of a damn nuclear bomb, and if the ship wasn’t literally a divine vessel it would have blasted into pieces at my assault.
I lift my head up and push off of my knee. “Wendee!” I yell for her as my eyes quickly scan the deck of the ship, desperate to lay eyes on her, desperate to make sure she’s ok and that she is still here and my senses aren’t tricking me.
“Sinn.” I hear her voice and turn toward the sound.
She’s emerging from below deck, the wind whipping her hair all around her face. The ship is still being rocked by tempestuous waves caused by my reckless emotions, and she’s struggling to remain on her feet. The sight of her, here, unharmed, eases the rioting storm inside of me. The winds die down and the sea calms as if it was all an illusion or daydream.
I flap my wings once and I’m launched toward her. I land softly in front of her and take her into my arms. “Wendee,” I swallow down the emotion threatening to explode once again. “I thought I lost you. What in the fuck were you thinking? How could you leave me like that?”
When she doesn’t answer, I realize her body is shaking in my arms. I pull away from her but remain holding her arms as I look down on her tear-stained face.
“I’m so scared, Sinn,” her chin wobbles as she tries to fight the urge to break down.
