The Neverland Inn : One-Shot Collection

NL Recovery : S3E1

Faith ran to the key rack and she cursed,
"Damn it! She took my car!"

Michael appeared behind her with a poof and he says,
"Take Shania's!"

Faith runs for her coat in a sprinting panic and she cries,
"Her starter is messed up! She's been meaning to put in the shop for a week!"

Michael swung open the door, jerking the keys into his hand. Faith hears the jingling of Shania's keys and she spits from around the corner,
"What are you doing?"

He had already vanished the drive way and she hurries out. The engine  in her gray Honda was clicking over and over and Michael bit his lip frustrated.
"Michael! That car is dead!"
Faith called out and Michael focused. He grasped each side of the steering wheel and he closed his eyes. He put all his EMF energy into the engine and Faith screams,
"No! Michael! You'll drain your energy!"

She ran to the car door and he pressed the lock button. She beat on the window with tears rolling and he turned the key with the engine now roaring.

He panted as his energy drained to nearly nothing and he unlocked the car. She swung open the door and she tried to hug him, she fell straight through his form and into the seat. Michael had nothing left and she cries,
"Michael! No!"
He barely stood outside and he shuts the door.
"Michael! Your energy!" She sputtered and he calmed her hoarsely,
"Go to Shania, Faith honey please.."
She cried but started to buckle up and Michael says with  an echo as his energy nearly depleted,
"Drive safe....I'm already gonna lose you to college..can't lose you to a wreck too.."
Faith's lip quivered and she held her face in her hands sobbing,
"I got accepted.."

There was a silence that was only her ragged breathing and Michael echoed,
"I'm so proud of you."

Faith cried harder and she knows she wouldn't have had this without Michael and she can only spit out,
"I love you, Michael. I love you.."

"I love you too.." he barely spoke, "Go..go...Shania's almost with me please, I can..hear her.."

Faith whipped it out of the drive way and sped off. Michael faded into nothing and he found his way into Neverland. He stumbled but he knew it was necessary for one of his girls to continue living.
~~

"Move!" Faith growled pushing through the crowd, "Move!"
The paramedics were already on the scene and Shania in critical condition layed beside the car as the team maneuvered around. The truck had T-boned Shania fully into oncoming traffic and it was a blessing a passing car stopped in time.

"Shania!" Faith yelled and an officer began to control her,
"Gonna need you to step back, ma'am."

"Shania!" She screamed over his shoulder and she fought his shoves backwards, she was watching her best friend die and someone was actually trying to stop her.
"Listen to Michael, Shania. You can't go yet!"
~

Shania opened her eyes to wind whistling and surrounded by an overwhelming light. She was dressed in glimmering white with a modest dress hugging her waist. She had felt better in her mind than she had in years with energy and not a bit of anxiety. She sat up from laying.
She stood to her feet and she called out not hearing a sound in the strange void she had found herself in,
"Hello?"

The breeze whirred slower behind her and she spun around to the noise. He stepped infront of her like a dream and he was a sight for any set of sore eyes.
"Michael."

She gasped and he held out his arms.
He wore broad, shimmering white that shined in the suit around him and he spoke,
"Baby? What's happened to you?"
She ran to him and hugged him tight. It felt more real than the illusion and her heart found a new excited beat.