Third Kiss: On the nose/That blink of a second
Note: This started off as a gag fiction for my friend who abhors kisses and mushy stuff. I had a great pleasure of writing the seven part series of this for him (he hated it which is why he refused to read it up until this day) and now I had decided to recreate the seven part series for my blog as well starring Peter Pan from Once Upon A Time. Though I had written the gag story as a Hogwarts AU, this one will be purely OUAT verse.
This is a Cursed! Peter x Reader which takes place during the first curse or the first season of OUAT. Yes, Peter was swept by the curse and so is the reader.
Just a little bit of a background, Reader is the Princess of Underworld and her story is that she was born because she was prophesied to do something (it is an on-going story of mine in ffnet although in that version, Peter Pan isn’t really her love interest). In this version, the Reader and Peter Pan are best of friends in their alternate life. The name Camryn Hale happens to be my OC’s name in ffnet but in here, that’s Reader’s Enchanted Forest- or in her case, Underworld- name which is kinda ironic because her last name, Hale can be derived from Halo, or if you are looking for specifics, it can also mean to healthy which is the opposite of everything in the Underworld.
This is the third part of the Seven Kisses series. As implied, there will be seven parts. You could say that the stories can be read as stand alone, or if you want, you could read the other two as well.
Prompt: Third Kiss: On the nose/ That blink of a second
Strings of profanities left your lips as you removed the fresh tray of cookies from Granny’s oven. You didn’t mind baking cookies, nor did mind that you’re doing this for the fund raising event for Miner’s day. You just wished you have more time of baking it rather than on the day itself.
“You know, you should’ve never left things to last minute, Y/N.” Henry commented as you placed the last batch of cookies into the oven, heaving out a sigh of relief knowing that you’re done for the day.
“Well, I would’ve done it yesterday but you know how much those teachers gave us homeworks.” You countered him as you went out of the kitchen only to see that Henry had managed to acquire a companion while you were slaving away with those cookies.
You raised your eyebrow as you sent a silent question to Henry as Peter shot you a smirk and a nod of greeting.
“Well, I’m off to my mom’s,” Henry didn’t bother answering you, figuring you could ask the boy in question yourself. “She promised me she’ll spend time with me.” the boy said, leaving you alone with Peter.
Silence engulfed you two as you chose to sit across the counter, facing him. Even though you two had been acquainted-courtesy of Henry, who is still convinced that Peter is your soulmate- you hadn’t been exactly been buddies despite having almost the same classes as him.
You weren’t really sure how to approach him- the boy had given you more kisses than conversations these past few days that you couldn’t help but think that this was mere nothing but a game to him.
A game to make you uncomfortable.
After all, this boy has a reputation for playing several games that you couldn’t understand.
“So, Y/N.” you whipped your head only to see him staring at you. “How come you’re using Granny’s as your personal kitchen?” he asked curiously.
“Well, Ruby asked me for a favor. Only, I had forgotten to do it yesterday since I was swamped with school works and all.” you explained as you went back to the kitchen and see if the cookies were baked. “I rushed here as soon as I woke up so that I could finish baking before Ruby’s stall is open.” You heard rustling and the next thing you knew, Peter was next to you, helping you out with the last batch.
“Thank you Peter,” you quietly said as he placed the tray over the kitchen table as you start packaging them. “You know you’re not obligated to help right?” You asked him as he watched you. “I mean, don’t you have anything better to do than package cookies with me?”
“Oh well, there is.” Peter answered you. “I could’ve been with Felix and our other friends, wandering aimlessly but then, there really is something that’s been bugging me.”
You furrowed your eyebrows. “And what is that?”
Immediately, he leaned over, placing a light feathery touch on your nose, sticking out his tongue to wipe what you assume stray batter. You let out a squeak as he pulled away, his lips formed that familiar smirk.
You turned around only to see Peter Pan looking at you with unreadable expression on his face.
Your breath hitched as you haven’t seen the teenager ever since you decided to lock yourself in the castle you loathe just so to avoid any more run ins with him. Thanatos told you how ridiculous you were behaving, not to mention how humanly you were acting just because of that boy and so you retaliated that it was probably because of the kisses you two shared.
Well, technically, it was more of generic, polite kisses- something that you remembered seeing when you were still in the care of your mortal mother but that was too long ago.
Probably too long that you started questioning if living with your mother happened once in a dream.
“No,” you answered him to which he replied with a raise of an eyebrow. He knew you couldn’t lie. Not by a long shot. So why does it feel like you were lying just now? “I had to attend my duties as the Princess of this realm.” you elaborated which technically wasn’t a lie.
But you loathe living in this castle, that he knew. You disliked being imprisoned by your own father.
“Is that so?” he tested you, the tension in your room grew as you knew just how displeased he was of your answer.
You sighed. “Who are you really?” you asked him, catching his attention as you crossed the room, your eyes desperately trying to look for answers in his. “Is this some game to you: how long will the Princess keep up her act-” you were cut off by a feathery feeling placed on your nose.
Blinking, you realized he had cut your rant off by kissing your nose as gently as he could.
What is up with this guy and his kisses?
“You doubt me,” he stated as a matter of fact, a hint of amusement and something else laced upon his voice. “Guess we’ll just have to change that,” he said as he teleported himself out of your room just as your father had barged in.
What did he mean by that?
You blinked as you tried to process what had just happened. Did he just...? You shook your head, snapping out of your thoughts as you turned to him, blush heavily forming across your cheek.
“Well for one thing, I don’t know you... just your name.” you told him, ignoring the butterflies swarming on your stomach. “And yet here you were, dropping kisses just like that. Tell me, Peter. Are you like this to every girl you meet?”
He smirked. “Well, well... look who decided to grow a backbone,” he commented as you sighed. Your guess is that he will never be straightforward with you so why bother coercing him to an answer?
“You think so low of me, Y/N.” he mumbled as he stood up while you went back to work. After all, Ruby will want to have these cookies as soon as possible. “Guess we’ll just have to change that.” he said, catching your attention.
Before you could even ask him what he meant by that, he had already left, leaving you to your confusion.
What did he mean by that?