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Peter and Wendy RevisitedWas their relationship real?

McKenna Merrill and

Courtney Stringfellow

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Wendy Darling, the naive daughter of a wealthy English family, had just finished tucking in her brothers, John and William, when a familiar shadow of a charming young fellow, named Peter, appeared in her window. But Wendy did not see him yet. In fact, she had tucked herself in and

dozed off for a few hours until a golden fairy woke her up.

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Wendy was amazed at what she was seeing, yet excited. She went over to wake her brothers and together they followed the boy to a place he called Neverland. The boys had heard of the boy and his home among children who never grew up, but they never imagined that such a place could be true.

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Wendy followed the boy through the bedroom window, and her brothers followed her to the city park. After a few hours of playing around the pond and trees, Wendy becomes exhausted and sleeps in a nearby gazebo, which she thinks is a hut. The brothers, not wanting to wake her, go

home to sleep and agree to go get their sister in the morning.

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When Wendy awakes, she finds herself surrounded by six little boys. It is not until Peter comes in and tells her that her brothers are missing that she understands their presence. The boys argue that Captain Hook must have them. Wendy, Peter, and all the little boys search for John and William

but they are nowhere to be found!

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Finally, Wendy catches a glimpse of her brothers across the water returning to the hut. John and William had lost sight of Wendy. She was no longer at the park and they were getting worried, so they decide to run back home and tell their parents about her strange behavior. Wendy, seeing her brothers run away from Captain Hook’s crew, decides to take action. With Peter by her side, Wendy flies across the water to help fight Captain Hook and his mates away from her brothers.

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The brothers, out of breath from running, explain to the parents what happened the night before. The parents look at each other with fearful looks, and Mr. Darling rushes to the phone and calls a search party. After hours of searching, they finally find her in a pond flailing her arms as if she were fighting another person. They call for her, but she is too entranced in her own battle. Finally, John runs up to her and grabs her, and she screams for joy, claiming that he was finally safe.

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Five years later, Wendy’s parents and brothers visit her at the nearby psychiatric hospital, which has been treating her for schizophrenia. They believe this explains the wild hallucinations Wendy had been experiencing the past few years, the strongest being her trip to Neverland. Sadly,

Wendy had gone too long without treatment that doctors were forced to take desperate measures for her treatment. They felt electric compulsive therapy was the only way to rewire her brain into

blocking out her bizarre hallucinations. Followed by strong doses of Thorazine, the doctors believe Wendy will regain a full sense of reality, though the hallucinations may never go away.