Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Runaways ❯ Chapter 8
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: Saiyagurl87 
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Suspense | Type: Songfic | Uploaded On: 05.30.2009 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.7K | Visits: 177 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Suspense | Type: Songfic | Uploaded On: 05.30.2009 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.7K | Visits: 177 | Status: Completed
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Disclaimer: Don’t own Sm.
A 7 year old girl with long chocolate brown hair pulled up into a high ponytail and sapphire green eyes grinned, fidgeting in her seat excitedly. Today was her mother’s birthday and her father had planned a special surprise. They were going to do their normal weekday routine and leave in the morning like usual. Though, the normal routine changed when instead of her dad going to work, she herself going to school, and her little brother going to daycare, they went to the store and bought her mother a birthday present. She and her little brother were going to spend the whole day with their mom while their dad was going to take care of her baby sister at home.
Turning towards her 3 year old brother, she eyed him as he sat in his car seat, unruly chocolate brown bangs hanging loosely in his large sapphire green eyes. He suddenly giggled, clutching a large nicely gift wrapped box within his small arms and turned towards his sister.
“You think Mommy is going to like her gift Lita?”
Lita nodded, ruffling her brother’s bangs playfully. “Of course she will Aiden!”
The young boy giggled once more, turning his head towards the window to look outside. Kicking his feet excitedly, he realized they were nearly home. Lita smiled, turning from her brother to look in the rear view mirror, spotting her father staring at them through it, a large grin upon his face. Lita returned the grin, drawing her attention to the windshield as they pulled up in the driveway of their home.
Aiden unfasten the buckles to his car seat and impatiently waited for his sister to unfasten her seat belt so she could take the present. As soon as Lita took a hold of the present, Aiden threw the bar of his car seat over his head and quickly took a hold of the gift. Lita helped him out of the car and their father John picked up his anxious son, helping the boy hold his wife‘s present.
Lita closed the car door and made her towards her father’s side, taking a hold of his hand and he lead them to the front door. John released his daughter’s hand to retrieve his key to unlock the door and once done, he replaced his keys in his side pocket and pushed the door open to allow Lita to step in. Walking in, he set Aiden down on the floor and turned towards his two children.
“You two wait in the kitchen while I go and get your mother.” The two nodded and ran off into the kitchen and with a shake of his head, John made his way towards his bedroom. Seeing his bedroom door
slightly ajar, John pushed it open and spotted his wife fast asleep on the bed. He entered the room with a warm smile upon his face, eyes falling onto his 2 month old daughter lying in her frilly white bassinet, beneath a pale pink blanket. Walking towards her, his eyes narrowed, noticing that the infant’s complexion was a startling blue.
Taking quick strides towards the bassinet, he leaned down and pulled back the blanket, arching a brow as she was nude and dripping wet. Swallowing the lump that formed in his throat, he pressed his fingers against his daughter’s neck, shivering upon making contact with her icy cold skin. He snatched his hand away in horror, unable to find a pulse and ran a hand shakily through his short raven locks, sapphire green eyes wild with panic.
He turned towards his wife, taking several steps away from the bassinet, pressing his back up against the wall behind him. He shifted his eyes towards the nightstand beside the bed and stared down at his wife’s nearly empty bottle of anti-depressants and an empty pint size bottle of Jack Daniels lying beside it.
He fell to his knees, tears welling in his eyes. “Oh my God.” He whispered brokenly, shaking his head in denial. “This isn’t happening…” He closed his eyes; tears falling silently. Hearing something clatter from within the kitchen, he quickly shook himself out of his stupor and slowly climbed to his feet.
“Lita and Aiden.” he murmured, quickly leaving the room and heading to the kitchen. Entering the said room, he spotted Lita placing a 2 liter bottle of Sunkist in the refrigerator. With steady strides, he made his way across the kitchen and took a hold of Lita’s arm, briskly turning her towards him and squatting down at eye level with her; the young brunette winced and looked up her father with wide startled eyes.
“Lita, I want you to take Aiden and get in the car.” stated John, holding a look in his eyes that made Lita’s own eyes well with tears of fright. She furrowed her brows in confusion, sensing that something was definitely not right.
“What’s wrong?”
“Don’t ask questions, just do as I say!” snapped John standing erect and nudging Lita towards Aiden, whom was drinking from his sippy cup and staring upon the two with a look of confusion apparent on his young face.
“Where’s Mommy?” questioned the three year old.
“She’s asleep, go with your sister to the car.”
Aiden frowned, shifting his eyes towards the gift wrapped present. “But Mommy didn’t open her present yet.”
Clenching his jaw, John took a hold of his son and jerked him up from his seat and set him down beside his sister with a huff.
“Just get to the car!” yelled John, now loosing his cool. Aiden’s eyes filled with tears, bottom lip puckered out and trembling. Lita took a hold of her his hand and began to tug him along towards the front door.
“Come on Aiden, let’s just go to the car.” Lita shifted her eyes up towards her father with a frown, just as her little brother nodded, rubbing at his eyes with a sob escaping him. John immediately felt guilty, but didn’t have time to dwell on it as he had to deal with the situation in his bedroom.
Once he heard the front door close, he advanced his way back towards the bedroom Entering the room, he made his way towards the bassinet, silent tears of remorse and sorrow trailing down his ghastly pale face. With a wavering hand, he trailed his fingers through his daughter’s curly raven locks, choking back a sob that rose in this throat. Turning away suddenly, he took slow steady steps towards his wife, unable to grasp that this was really happening.
Trying to keep his now rising anger in control, John placed a large hand upon his wife’s shoulder and shook her awake. The brunette yawned, dark brown eyes wearily fixing themselves upon her husband. She smiled up at him, the tension in the room going unnoticed by her.
“Hey honey, how long have you been here?” she questioned, her speech slurred.
John clenched his trembling hands and glared upon the woman before him. “What happened to Caitlyn?”
Natalie stifled a yawn, lazily drifting her eyes towards the bassinet. “She wouldn’t stop crying.”
John narrowed his eyes dangerously close, utterly confused. “What?”
Natalie’s eyes glazed over as a small smile tugged at the corners of her mouth. “She just wouldn’t stop crying…I tried everything…God I tried everything to make her stop…so… as a last resort…I thought that maybe a warm bath would work.” Her smile slowly broadened with a shake off her head and a small chuckle. “No…she just wasn’t having it! She continued to cry and….” She grinned, hands clenching upon the comforter that laid across her lap. “…and I just her go...” Natalie shifted expressionless eyes upon her trembling husband. “Then the crying stopped…”
John shook his head, tears trailing down his pale cheeks. “Damn it Lee, she has colic! Of course she’s going to fucking cry!“ He shook his head from side to side. “You are sick…sick and fucking twisted!” He took several steps away from his wife as she began to rise to her feet. “I’m taking Aiden and Lita with me Natalie…you ..you need to find some help.”
Natalie sneered upon her husband as she took a menacing step towards him. “You are not taking my babies from me!”
“Yes I am!” yelled John, his eyes emotionless. He turned away and began heading towards the door. Natalie suddenly let off a deranged scream as she bolted for her bed, reaching under her husband’s pillow and she pulled out his 9mm pistol. She aimed the gun at her husband’s back, her arms shaking and body swaying; she pulled the trigger.
A loud band sounded off and a bullet shot out, barely missing John and hitting the door frame; splinters exploding everywhere. John dropped to the ground and stared up at the destroyed door frame, than slowly shifted his eyes upon his wife whose eyes were narrowed into slits, taking aim upon him once more.
“You are not taking them!”
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Lita nearly dropped her brother when she heard a loud bang sounding off from within her house. She snapped her head towards her home with wide eyes and caught up in her stupor, Aiden was able to escape Lita’s tight grasp she had upon him. Aiden dropped down to the ground and suddenly took off running towards the house.
“MOMMY! DADDY!” he screamed.
Lita turned to grab a hold of her brother’s arm but he was just outside her reach. “Aiden! No!” The three year old ignored his sister’s plea and bolted for the front door, throwing it open and running inside.
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John turned his head towards the front door when he heard it open and scrambled to his feet. Natalie growled, charging after him. In her futile attempt the tackle her husband to the ground, she tripped over the bassinet, pulling the trigger to the gun as she hit the floor.
John pulled away from his dazed wife, grabbing a hold of his bleeding shoulder. Pulling at the collar of his shirt, he examined his wound, seeing that the bullet had only grazed him. Turning towards the front door, he gasped in horror as he saw Aiden lying flat on his back in his own pool of blood. Blinking back tears and forgetting about his gun wielding wife, John crawled his way to his son; heart sunken to the pit of his stomach.
He inhaled sharply, seeing a hole torn through his son‘s chest. Letting out a shaky breath he leaned forward and closed his son’s open eyelids, than turned towards his wife as she stepped up behind him, her eyes wide with shock and horror.
“Aiden!” she screamed, dropping to her knees and clutching a hold of her son by the collar of his shirt and began to shake him roughly.
John growled and shoved her away of him. “Get off of him!”
“Aiden!?” called Lita, making her way to the front door.
John snapped his head towards the front door with widen eyes and jumped to his feet. He made a mad dash towards the door as Lita began to push it open.
“Lita! Stay back!”
John suddenly dropped to his knees a few feet from the door way as he felt a searing burning sensation in his chest. He gasped as he felt a second hit and fell face forward, eyes locked upon Lita’s blood splattered face as he dropped. Colliding heavily to the floor, he gather up all of his strength and gave Lita his final plea.
“Lita…please…run…” with that said, John gave his last breath, praying to the Gods that his daughter would be alright.
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Lita looked upon her father with wide horrified eyes., trembling as she stared upon his lifeless bloodied form. She slowly shifted her eyes upon her mother, as the woman was rising rather awkwardly to her feet. Swallowing deeply and taking a step back, she spotted a glimmer of red from her corner of her eye and slowly turned her head, settling her eyes upon her little brother who lay lifelessly on the floor as well.
Gasping in pure shock, she adverted her eyes from the terrifying scene and shifted them upon her mother once more. She narrowed her eyes when she spotting her father’s gun in her mother’s hand. Taking a hesitant step back, she frowned when her mother smiled upon her.
“Lita…come here…” called Natalie; a eerie smile creeping upon her face. “Come to Mommy, Lita.”
Lita took another hesitant step back as warning bells and alarms rang off in her head and the only logical thought she could muster up was to run! So, she did just that! Spinning on her heels she ran, hearing her mother screaming at the top of her lungs for her to come back. Making her way to the white picket fence in the front yard, Lita jumped, climbing up to the top of the fence. Just as she was about to jump over and escape to freedom, she felt a burning sensation tearing through her shoulder.
Startled by the unexpected pain, she lost her grip and fell over the fence and onto the concrete ground below her with a grunt. Quickly rolling on to her knees and grabbing her bleeding shoulder, Lita jumped to her feet and made a mad dash down the sidewalk. She ignored her mother’s screams as she continued to call for her, apologizing for what she had did. She ignored the overwhelming pain pulsing through her small form…and she ignored the images or her father’s and brother’s bloodied forms.
She only wanting to run as fast and as far as she could…
Another gun shot sounded off and Lita knew that her mother was gone now too. Letting the tears fall silently, she motivated herself to keep going…
She wasn’t going to stop until her legs give out.
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Amara slipped on her navy blue blazer of her school uniform, adjusting it across her shoulders comfortably. She looked down at her button down white shirt, navy blue slacks and black dress shoes with a frown.
“I think I liked my old uniform better.” she muttered, walking out of her bedroom and towards her sister’s. Upon entering the room, Amara spotted Serena sitting upon her bed, with her head bowed, hands clenched upon the ponytail of her hair. With a frown, Amara walked across the room and sat beside her on the bed, throwing her arm around the blonde’s shoulders.
“What’s wrong?”
Serena sighed, than began to chew on her bottom lip. “Everything is changing…new family…now a new school and new friends.” Serena shifted her eyes up at her sister. “I don’t think I’m ready to start all over.”
Amara tightened her grip around her sister’s shoulder, leaning her head up against the blondes. “I’m not ready either…but its this or go back to Dad…and I would choose this any day.”
Serena gave a small smile. “I guess your right.”
Amara grinned. “I know I’m right! So lets go and get this over with! The first day is always the worst.”
Serena sighed deeply, pulling away from her sister and standing from the bed with a grin. “I can do this…peace of cake!”
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Serena stood in the main office of her new elementary school, body tense, hands clenched so tight her knuckles were a ghastly white. She swallowed deeply, shifting slightly panicked eyes upon her nonchalant sister.
“I can’t do this.”
Amara shifted her eyes upon the blonde, burying her hands deeply into her pockets of her slacks. “What happened to the ‘I got this…peace of cake!’ confidence you had?”
“Screw that! I can’t do this…so many kids…and teachers…a new principal…”
“That I’ll probably be seeing every other day…”
Serena glared at the tomboy. “Don’t be starting trouble Amara!”
Amara scuffed, crossing her arms over her chest. “I don’t cause trouble, trouble comes to me.”
Serena rolled her eyes. “Whatever!” Before Amara could retort, Elaine turned towards the two blondes with a smile.
“Alright girls, time for you to go to your classrooms.” Serena gulped as Amara looked indifferently upon Elaine.
“Well, I need to get to work. I hope you girls have a good day and I will be here to pick you up when school is over.”
“Okay.” replied the blondes in unison.
“Alright…bye.” Elaine waved as she walked out of the office and soon out of the school. Two ladies stepped in front of the two blondes and the tall one with the light brown hair spoke.
“We will be taking you to your classes now.” she waved Serena forward. “I will be taking you.”
As the sisters parted, Serena turned to Amara to see that the short haired blonde was smirking at her. “Peace of cake.”
Serena grinned. “Peace of cake…” with that said, the duo went their separate ways on their own path.
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The woman who was escorting Serena to class smiled down at the nervous blonde. “My name is Mrs. Maxwell.”
Serena nervously looked up at the woman. “Nice to meet you.” she quickly turned away from the woman as began to slow her pace in front of a door. Mrs. Maxwell lightly knocked upon it and within a few seconds a rather short and plump woman came to the door and smiled upon the pair.
Mrs. Maxwell returned the smile, ushering Serena forward. “This is your new student Mrs. O’Neal, Serena Tenoh.”
Mrs. O’Neal’s smile broaden. “Oh yes, Serena. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”
Serena smiled bashfully. “Hi…”
Her teacher giggled. “I see you’re a shy one. Come along, lets get you settled.”
Serena waved her escort goodbye as she was lead into the classroom that held lightly chattering students. Once Serena came into view, the room silenced and all eyes were on the blonde.
“We have a new student, her name is Serena Tenoh and I expect you to treat her kindly!”
“Yes Mrs. O’Neal!” chorused the class. The teacher scanned the classroom for a moment, than looked down upon the small blonde.
“You can sit over there at the table.” Serena turned towards the area the teacher was pointing too, seeing that it was the only group that had two people, instead of five. Quickly making her way towards the area, she was suddenly tripped and fell to the floor, hearing her new classmates erupt into laughter.
Quickly climbing to her feet, Serena whirled around and glared upon a smirking boy with short cropped silver hair and violet eyes. Mrs. O’Neal looked around the classroom startled, completely oblivious to what had happened.
She shifted confused eyes upon Serena. “Is something wrong Serena?”
“He tripped me!” stated Serena.
The teacher frowned. “Diamond, your starting off your morning in the principal’s office once again!” The boy named Diamond stood from his seat, giving Serena an amused smirk. Without a word he left the room and the teacher turned to Serena once more.
“Please take a seat Serena.” The blonde nodded, quickly making her way to her seat as her teacher began to write on the chalk board. Serena looked upon the two girls that were in her group, the first had short blue hair and dark blue eyes, the other had curly red shoulder length hair and hazel eyes.
The red head smiled upon the blonde. “Hey, my name is Molly.” she turned towards the bluenette. “and that’s Amy.” The small blue haired child smiled bashfully, a light blush tinting her cheeks.
Serena grinned. “Hi!” she suddenly frowned, turning towards the seat theboy that had tripped her once occupied. “Who is that boy that tripped me.” Serena watched as both Amy and Molly frown deeply.
“That’s Diamond Kurotsuki.” replied Molly. “You should stay away from him…he’s always doing bad things…”
Mrs. O’Neal suddenly came up to Serena’s table with a couple of texts books. “These are your new books, please take care of them.” she suddenly turned her attention towards Amy. “I believe its time for you to go Amy.”
Amy’s dark blue eyes suddenly shot up towards the clock and they widened in alarm. “Oh no!” she quickly scrambled to her feet and gathered her belongings and was soon at the door and out of the classroom. Once the bluenette was gone, the teacher once again drew her attention towards the small blonde and began to show her where they were in the lessons.
Serena sighed heavily…today was going to be a long day…
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Serena quickly made her way into the girls bathroom to do her business. When she finished, she exited the stall and washed her hands and made a quick retreat from the bathroom. Lunch was only 20 minutes away and she was dying to get something into her belly. Plus she was really liking this Molly girls and couldn’t wait to talk to her some more.
Stepping out of the bathroom and into the hallway, Serena ducked back into the doorway of the bathroom as she spotted Diamond walking towards the classroom. She furrowed her brows as she watched Diamond smile deviously and suddenly quickened his pace down the hall. Once he was out of her line of sight, Serena stepped out of the door when she heard someone cry out.
Moving out into the hallway, she spotted Amy being cornered by Diamond. The blonde frowned, hearing Diamond spewing out insults upon the young bluenette as the girl cowered back in fear. Without warning, Diamond suddenly lunged forwards and knocked Amy’s books from her hands.
“Stop it!”
Diamond snapped his violet eyes upon Serena with a sneer. “What are you going to do about it?”
Serena’s frown deepened , making her way over to the two and stepping in between Diamond and Amy. “Just leave her alone.”
The boy pushed at Serena’s shoulder. “No.”
“Stop…” growled the blonde. Amy frowned, looking upon the two as she gathered her belongings. She nervously chewed upon her bottom lip, unsure of how to get her and Serena out of this predicament. Diamond grinned maliciously, pushing at the blonde’s shoulder once more.
“Make me!”
Serena gritted her teeth, eyes darkening. “I’m telling you to stop and I mean it!”
Diamond rolled his eyes, not at all fazed by the threat. He reached forward, grabbing a hold Serena’s pigtail and yanked down on it rather hard. Serena gasped when she felt her head jerk painfully to the side and before she knew it, she had reared her hand back and slapped Diamond clean across the face. Amy fell back against the wall, letting off a surprised gasp, completely at a lose for words.
Diamond stumbled back and raised a hand to his throbbing cheek startled. Now angry, the boy charged forward, shoving into Serena and causing the blonde to slam her back up against the wall behind her. Letting off a soft cry, Serena leaned against the wall, glaring upon the smirking Diamond with all her might. Without any warning, Serena stepped off the wall and head butted the boy in the face. Diamond dropped to the floor in a crumpled heap, grabbing at his blood gushing nose.
“You stupid idiot!” screamed Diamond, panicking at the amount of blood pooling in his hands. He looked up at Serena with wild rage filled eyes and the blonde smirked, placing a hand on her hip and pointing a wagging finger at him.
“I told you to stop!” She suddenly frowned as she felt a warm trail of liquid run down her forehead and off the tip of her nose. Swiping at the bridge of her nose, her eyes widened as she saw her finger tips coated in blood. Dabbing at her forehead, she inhaled sharply as she felt a jolt of pain rush through her.
“Oh my gosh Serena! You’re bleeding!” exclaimed Amy, dropping her books to the floor and rushing to the blonde’s side. She pushed Serena’s hand from her forehead and began to examine the blonde’s self inflicted wound. Amy quickly reached down into the pocket of her skirt and pulled out a white bubble imprinted handkerchief. She folded it up in her hands and pressed it against Serena’s forehead.
“You’re bleeding badly!”
Serena’s eyes welled with tears. “What do I do?”
“We…” Amy was cut short as she was suddenly shoved to the side. Serena let out a startled gasp as Diamond suddenly stood before her, blood pouring from his nose, eyes wild and crazed, fist raised back and ready to strike.
“What’s going on out here?!”
Diamond, Serena, and Amy snapped their heads towards their teacher who stood in the hallway, hands upon her hips, and a deep frown upon her face. Her brows suddenly furrowed as she noticed the children in their bloody state.
“Oh my…what happened!” she quickly made her way to her three students, shifting her eyes down upon Amy.
“Amy, are you alright?” When the blue haired child nodded, Mrs. O’Neal continued. “Alright, go on back to class.”
Amy nodded, quickly making her way back to her books and gathering them up. Without a word, she scurried off and made her way back into the classroom. Mrs. O’Neal turned her attention back onto Diamond and Serena, taking the both of them by the arm and pulling them towards the nurse’s station. She began asking questions upon question that neither Diamond nor Serena paid any heed too because the duo were too busy glaring each other down.
Author: ^_^ So what do you think?! Tsk Tsk, Serena fighting on the first day of school. Who would of thought?! Yes this is part one, I’m still trying to decide if I’m going to make a part 2 that has all that I’m plotting in it or divide the info up in two more parts... I don’t know! ^_^ I hope to have the next chapter up soooooon! Please review!
Disclaimer: Don’t own Sm.
A 7 year old girl with long chocolate brown hair pulled up into a high ponytail and sapphire green eyes grinned, fidgeting in her seat excitedly. Today was her mother’s birthday and her father had planned a special surprise. They were going to do their normal weekday routine and leave in the morning like usual. Though, the normal routine changed when instead of her dad going to work, she herself going to school, and her little brother going to daycare, they went to the store and bought her mother a birthday present. She and her little brother were going to spend the whole day with their mom while their dad was going to take care of her baby sister at home.
Turning towards her 3 year old brother, she eyed him as he sat in his car seat, unruly chocolate brown bangs hanging loosely in his large sapphire green eyes. He suddenly giggled, clutching a large nicely gift wrapped box within his small arms and turned towards his sister.
“You think Mommy is going to like her gift Lita?”
Lita nodded, ruffling her brother’s bangs playfully. “Of course she will Aiden!”
The young boy giggled once more, turning his head towards the window to look outside. Kicking his feet excitedly, he realized they were nearly home. Lita smiled, turning from her brother to look in the rear view mirror, spotting her father staring at them through it, a large grin upon his face. Lita returned the grin, drawing her attention to the windshield as they pulled up in the driveway of their home.
Aiden unfasten the buckles to his car seat and impatiently waited for his sister to unfasten her seat belt so she could take the present. As soon as Lita took a hold of the present, Aiden threw the bar of his car seat over his head and quickly took a hold of the gift. Lita helped him out of the car and their father John picked up his anxious son, helping the boy hold his wife‘s present.
Lita closed the car door and made her towards her father’s side, taking a hold of his hand and he lead them to the front door. John released his daughter’s hand to retrieve his key to unlock the door and once done, he replaced his keys in his side pocket and pushed the door open to allow Lita to step in. Walking in, he set Aiden down on the floor and turned towards his two children.
“You two wait in the kitchen while I go and get your mother.” The two nodded and ran off into the kitchen and with a shake of his head, John made his way towards his bedroom. Seeing his bedroom door
slightly ajar, John pushed it open and spotted his wife fast asleep on the bed. He entered the room with a warm smile upon his face, eyes falling onto his 2 month old daughter lying in her frilly white bassinet, beneath a pale pink blanket. Walking towards her, his eyes narrowed, noticing that the infant’s complexion was a startling blue.
Taking quick strides towards the bassinet, he leaned down and pulled back the blanket, arching a brow as she was nude and dripping wet. Swallowing the lump that formed in his throat, he pressed his fingers against his daughter’s neck, shivering upon making contact with her icy cold skin. He snatched his hand away in horror, unable to find a pulse and ran a hand shakily through his short raven locks, sapphire green eyes wild with panic.
He turned towards his wife, taking several steps away from the bassinet, pressing his back up against the wall behind him. He shifted his eyes towards the nightstand beside the bed and stared down at his wife’s nearly empty bottle of anti-depressants and an empty pint size bottle of Jack Daniels lying beside it.
He fell to his knees, tears welling in his eyes. “Oh my God.” He whispered brokenly, shaking his head in denial. “This isn’t happening…” He closed his eyes; tears falling silently. Hearing something clatter from within the kitchen, he quickly shook himself out of his stupor and slowly climbed to his feet.
“Lita and Aiden.” he murmured, quickly leaving the room and heading to the kitchen. Entering the said room, he spotted Lita placing a 2 liter bottle of Sunkist in the refrigerator. With steady strides, he made his way across the kitchen and took a hold of Lita’s arm, briskly turning her towards him and squatting down at eye level with her; the young brunette winced and looked up her father with wide startled eyes.
“Lita, I want you to take Aiden and get in the car.” stated John, holding a look in his eyes that made Lita’s own eyes well with tears of fright. She furrowed her brows in confusion, sensing that something was definitely not right.
“What’s wrong?”
“Don’t ask questions, just do as I say!” snapped John standing erect and nudging Lita towards Aiden, whom was drinking from his sippy cup and staring upon the two with a look of confusion apparent on his young face.
“Where’s Mommy?” questioned the three year old.
“She’s asleep, go with your sister to the car.”
Aiden frowned, shifting his eyes towards the gift wrapped present. “But Mommy didn’t open her present yet.”
Clenching his jaw, John took a hold of his son and jerked him up from his seat and set him down beside his sister with a huff.
“Just get to the car!” yelled John, now loosing his cool. Aiden’s eyes filled with tears, bottom lip puckered out and trembling. Lita took a hold of her his hand and began to tug him along towards the front door.
“Come on Aiden, let’s just go to the car.” Lita shifted her eyes up towards her father with a frown, just as her little brother nodded, rubbing at his eyes with a sob escaping him. John immediately felt guilty, but didn’t have time to dwell on it as he had to deal with the situation in his bedroom.
Once he heard the front door close, he advanced his way back towards the bedroom Entering the room, he made his way towards the bassinet, silent tears of remorse and sorrow trailing down his ghastly pale face. With a wavering hand, he trailed his fingers through his daughter’s curly raven locks, choking back a sob that rose in this throat. Turning away suddenly, he took slow steady steps towards his wife, unable to grasp that this was really happening.
Trying to keep his now rising anger in control, John placed a large hand upon his wife’s shoulder and shook her awake. The brunette yawned, dark brown eyes wearily fixing themselves upon her husband. She smiled up at him, the tension in the room going unnoticed by her.
“Hey honey, how long have you been here?” she questioned, her speech slurred.
John clenched his trembling hands and glared upon the woman before him. “What happened to Caitlyn?”
Natalie stifled a yawn, lazily drifting her eyes towards the bassinet. “She wouldn’t stop crying.”
John narrowed his eyes dangerously close, utterly confused. “What?”
Natalie’s eyes glazed over as a small smile tugged at the corners of her mouth. “She just wouldn’t stop crying…I tried everything…God I tried everything to make her stop…so… as a last resort…I thought that maybe a warm bath would work.” Her smile slowly broadened with a shake off her head and a small chuckle. “No…she just wasn’t having it! She continued to cry and….” She grinned, hands clenching upon the comforter that laid across her lap. “…and I just her go...” Natalie shifted expressionless eyes upon her trembling husband. “Then the crying stopped…”
John shook his head, tears trailing down his pale cheeks. “Damn it Lee, she has colic! Of course she’s going to fucking cry!“ He shook his head from side to side. “You are sick…sick and fucking twisted!” He took several steps away from his wife as she began to rise to her feet. “I’m taking Aiden and Lita with me Natalie…you ..you need to find some help.”
Natalie sneered upon her husband as she took a menacing step towards him. “You are not taking my babies from me!”
“Yes I am!” yelled John, his eyes emotionless. He turned away and began heading towards the door. Natalie suddenly let off a deranged scream as she bolted for her bed, reaching under her husband’s pillow and she pulled out his 9mm pistol. She aimed the gun at her husband’s back, her arms shaking and body swaying; she pulled the trigger.
A loud band sounded off and a bullet shot out, barely missing John and hitting the door frame; splinters exploding everywhere. John dropped to the ground and stared up at the destroyed door frame, than slowly shifted his eyes upon his wife whose eyes were narrowed into slits, taking aim upon him once more.
“You are not taking them!”
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Lita nearly dropped her brother when she heard a loud bang sounding off from within her house. She snapped her head towards her home with wide eyes and caught up in her stupor, Aiden was able to escape Lita’s tight grasp she had upon him. Aiden dropped down to the ground and suddenly took off running towards the house.
“MOMMY! DADDY!” he screamed.
Lita turned to grab a hold of her brother’s arm but he was just outside her reach. “Aiden! No!” The three year old ignored his sister’s plea and bolted for the front door, throwing it open and running inside.
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John turned his head towards the front door when he heard it open and scrambled to his feet. Natalie growled, charging after him. In her futile attempt the tackle her husband to the ground, she tripped over the bassinet, pulling the trigger to the gun as she hit the floor.
John pulled away from his dazed wife, grabbing a hold of his bleeding shoulder. Pulling at the collar of his shirt, he examined his wound, seeing that the bullet had only grazed him. Turning towards the front door, he gasped in horror as he saw Aiden lying flat on his back in his own pool of blood. Blinking back tears and forgetting about his gun wielding wife, John crawled his way to his son; heart sunken to the pit of his stomach.
He inhaled sharply, seeing a hole torn through his son‘s chest. Letting out a shaky breath he leaned forward and closed his son’s open eyelids, than turned towards his wife as she stepped up behind him, her eyes wide with shock and horror.
“Aiden!” she screamed, dropping to her knees and clutching a hold of her son by the collar of his shirt and began to shake him roughly.
John growled and shoved her away of him. “Get off of him!”
“Aiden!?” called Lita, making her way to the front door.
John snapped his head towards the front door with widen eyes and jumped to his feet. He made a mad dash towards the door as Lita began to push it open.
“Lita! Stay back!”
John suddenly dropped to his knees a few feet from the door way as he felt a searing burning sensation in his chest. He gasped as he felt a second hit and fell face forward, eyes locked upon Lita’s blood splattered face as he dropped. Colliding heavily to the floor, he gather up all of his strength and gave Lita his final plea.
“Lita…please…run…” with that said, John gave his last breath, praying to the Gods that his daughter would be alright.
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Lita looked upon her father with wide horrified eyes., trembling as she stared upon his lifeless bloodied form. She slowly shifted her eyes upon her mother, as the woman was rising rather awkwardly to her feet. Swallowing deeply and taking a step back, she spotted a glimmer of red from her corner of her eye and slowly turned her head, settling her eyes upon her little brother who lay lifelessly on the floor as well.
Gasping in pure shock, she adverted her eyes from the terrifying scene and shifted them upon her mother once more. She narrowed her eyes when she spotting her father’s gun in her mother’s hand. Taking a hesitant step back, she frowned when her mother smiled upon her.
“Lita…come here…” called Natalie; a eerie smile creeping upon her face. “Come to Mommy, Lita.”
Lita took another hesitant step back as warning bells and alarms rang off in her head and the only logical thought she could muster up was to run! So, she did just that! Spinning on her heels she ran, hearing her mother screaming at the top of her lungs for her to come back. Making her way to the white picket fence in the front yard, Lita jumped, climbing up to the top of the fence. Just as she was about to jump over and escape to freedom, she felt a burning sensation tearing through her shoulder.
Startled by the unexpected pain, she lost her grip and fell over the fence and onto the concrete ground below her with a grunt. Quickly rolling on to her knees and grabbing her bleeding shoulder, Lita jumped to her feet and made a mad dash down the sidewalk. She ignored her mother’s screams as she continued to call for her, apologizing for what she had did. She ignored the overwhelming pain pulsing through her small form…and she ignored the images or her father’s and brother’s bloodied forms.
She only wanting to run as fast and as far as she could…
Another gun shot sounded off and Lita knew that her mother was gone now too. Letting the tears fall silently, she motivated herself to keep going…
She wasn’t going to stop until her legs give out.
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Amara slipped on her navy blue blazer of her school uniform, adjusting it across her shoulders comfortably. She looked down at her button down white shirt, navy blue slacks and black dress shoes with a frown.
“I think I liked my old uniform better.” she muttered, walking out of her bedroom and towards her sister’s. Upon entering the room, Amara spotted Serena sitting upon her bed, with her head bowed, hands clenched upon the ponytail of her hair. With a frown, Amara walked across the room and sat beside her on the bed, throwing her arm around the blonde’s shoulders.
“What’s wrong?”
Serena sighed, than began to chew on her bottom lip. “Everything is changing…new family…now a new school and new friends.” Serena shifted her eyes up at her sister. “I don’t think I’m ready to start all over.”
Amara tightened her grip around her sister’s shoulder, leaning her head up against the blondes. “I’m not ready either…but its this or go back to Dad…and I would choose this any day.”
Serena gave a small smile. “I guess your right.”
Amara grinned. “I know I’m right! So lets go and get this over with! The first day is always the worst.”
Serena sighed deeply, pulling away from her sister and standing from the bed with a grin. “I can do this…peace of cake!”
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Serena stood in the main office of her new elementary school, body tense, hands clenched so tight her knuckles were a ghastly white. She swallowed deeply, shifting slightly panicked eyes upon her nonchalant sister.
“I can’t do this.”
Amara shifted her eyes upon the blonde, burying her hands deeply into her pockets of her slacks. “What happened to the ‘I got this…peace of cake!’ confidence you had?”
“Screw that! I can’t do this…so many kids…and teachers…a new principal…”
“That I’ll probably be seeing every other day…”
Serena glared at the tomboy. “Don’t be starting trouble Amara!”
Amara scuffed, crossing her arms over her chest. “I don’t cause trouble, trouble comes to me.”
Serena rolled her eyes. “Whatever!” Before Amara could retort, Elaine turned towards the two blondes with a smile.
“Alright girls, time for you to go to your classrooms.” Serena gulped as Amara looked indifferently upon Elaine.
“Well, I need to get to work. I hope you girls have a good day and I will be here to pick you up when school is over.”
“Okay.” replied the blondes in unison.
“Alright…bye.” Elaine waved as she walked out of the office and soon out of the school. Two ladies stepped in front of the two blondes and the tall one with the light brown hair spoke.
“We will be taking you to your classes now.” she waved Serena forward. “I will be taking you.”
As the sisters parted, Serena turned to Amara to see that the short haired blonde was smirking at her. “Peace of cake.”
Serena grinned. “Peace of cake…” with that said, the duo went their separate ways on their own path.
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The woman who was escorting Serena to class smiled down at the nervous blonde. “My name is Mrs. Maxwell.”
Serena nervously looked up at the woman. “Nice to meet you.” she quickly turned away from the woman as began to slow her pace in front of a door. Mrs. Maxwell lightly knocked upon it and within a few seconds a rather short and plump woman came to the door and smiled upon the pair.
Mrs. Maxwell returned the smile, ushering Serena forward. “This is your new student Mrs. O’Neal, Serena Tenoh.”
Mrs. O’Neal’s smile broaden. “Oh yes, Serena. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”
Serena smiled bashfully. “Hi…”
Her teacher giggled. “I see you’re a shy one. Come along, lets get you settled.”
Serena waved her escort goodbye as she was lead into the classroom that held lightly chattering students. Once Serena came into view, the room silenced and all eyes were on the blonde.
“We have a new student, her name is Serena Tenoh and I expect you to treat her kindly!”
“Yes Mrs. O’Neal!” chorused the class. The teacher scanned the classroom for a moment, than looked down upon the small blonde.
“You can sit over there at the table.” Serena turned towards the area the teacher was pointing too, seeing that it was the only group that had two people, instead of five. Quickly making her way towards the area, she was suddenly tripped and fell to the floor, hearing her new classmates erupt into laughter.
Quickly climbing to her feet, Serena whirled around and glared upon a smirking boy with short cropped silver hair and violet eyes. Mrs. O’Neal looked around the classroom startled, completely oblivious to what had happened.
She shifted confused eyes upon Serena. “Is something wrong Serena?”
“He tripped me!” stated Serena.
The teacher frowned. “Diamond, your starting off your morning in the principal’s office once again!” The boy named Diamond stood from his seat, giving Serena an amused smirk. Without a word he left the room and the teacher turned to Serena once more.
“Please take a seat Serena.” The blonde nodded, quickly making her way to her seat as her teacher began to write on the chalk board. Serena looked upon the two girls that were in her group, the first had short blue hair and dark blue eyes, the other had curly red shoulder length hair and hazel eyes.
The red head smiled upon the blonde. “Hey, my name is Molly.” she turned towards the bluenette. “and that’s Amy.” The small blue haired child smiled bashfully, a light blush tinting her cheeks.
Serena grinned. “Hi!” she suddenly frowned, turning towards the seat theboy that had tripped her once occupied. “Who is that boy that tripped me.” Serena watched as both Amy and Molly frown deeply.
“That’s Diamond Kurotsuki.” replied Molly. “You should stay away from him…he’s always doing bad things…”
Mrs. O’Neal suddenly came up to Serena’s table with a couple of texts books. “These are your new books, please take care of them.” she suddenly turned her attention towards Amy. “I believe its time for you to go Amy.”
Amy’s dark blue eyes suddenly shot up towards the clock and they widened in alarm. “Oh no!” she quickly scrambled to her feet and gathered her belongings and was soon at the door and out of the classroom. Once the bluenette was gone, the teacher once again drew her attention towards the small blonde and began to show her where they were in the lessons.
Serena sighed heavily…today was going to be a long day…
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Serena quickly made her way into the girls bathroom to do her business. When she finished, she exited the stall and washed her hands and made a quick retreat from the bathroom. Lunch was only 20 minutes away and she was dying to get something into her belly. Plus she was really liking this Molly girls and couldn’t wait to talk to her some more.
Stepping out of the bathroom and into the hallway, Serena ducked back into the doorway of the bathroom as she spotted Diamond walking towards the classroom. She furrowed her brows as she watched Diamond smile deviously and suddenly quickened his pace down the hall. Once he was out of her line of sight, Serena stepped out of the door when she heard someone cry out.
Moving out into the hallway, she spotted Amy being cornered by Diamond. The blonde frowned, hearing Diamond spewing out insults upon the young bluenette as the girl cowered back in fear. Without warning, Diamond suddenly lunged forwards and knocked Amy’s books from her hands.
“Stop it!”
Diamond snapped his violet eyes upon Serena with a sneer. “What are you going to do about it?”
Serena’s frown deepened , making her way over to the two and stepping in between Diamond and Amy. “Just leave her alone.”
The boy pushed at Serena’s shoulder. “No.”
“Stop…” growled the blonde. Amy frowned, looking upon the two as she gathered her belongings. She nervously chewed upon her bottom lip, unsure of how to get her and Serena out of this predicament. Diamond grinned maliciously, pushing at the blonde’s shoulder once more.
“Make me!”
Serena gritted her teeth, eyes darkening. “I’m telling you to stop and I mean it!”
Diamond rolled his eyes, not at all fazed by the threat. He reached forward, grabbing a hold Serena’s pigtail and yanked down on it rather hard. Serena gasped when she felt her head jerk painfully to the side and before she knew it, she had reared her hand back and slapped Diamond clean across the face. Amy fell back against the wall, letting off a surprised gasp, completely at a lose for words.
Diamond stumbled back and raised a hand to his throbbing cheek startled. Now angry, the boy charged forward, shoving into Serena and causing the blonde to slam her back up against the wall behind her. Letting off a soft cry, Serena leaned against the wall, glaring upon the smirking Diamond with all her might. Without any warning, Serena stepped off the wall and head butted the boy in the face. Diamond dropped to the floor in a crumpled heap, grabbing at his blood gushing nose.
“You stupid idiot!” screamed Diamond, panicking at the amount of blood pooling in his hands. He looked up at Serena with wild rage filled eyes and the blonde smirked, placing a hand on her hip and pointing a wagging finger at him.
“I told you to stop!” She suddenly frowned as she felt a warm trail of liquid run down her forehead and off the tip of her nose. Swiping at the bridge of her nose, her eyes widened as she saw her finger tips coated in blood. Dabbing at her forehead, she inhaled sharply as she felt a jolt of pain rush through her.
“Oh my gosh Serena! You’re bleeding!” exclaimed Amy, dropping her books to the floor and rushing to the blonde’s side. She pushed Serena’s hand from her forehead and began to examine the blonde’s self inflicted wound. Amy quickly reached down into the pocket of her skirt and pulled out a white bubble imprinted handkerchief. She folded it up in her hands and pressed it against Serena’s forehead.
“You’re bleeding badly!”
Serena’s eyes welled with tears. “What do I do?”
“We…” Amy was cut short as she was suddenly shoved to the side. Serena let out a startled gasp as Diamond suddenly stood before her, blood pouring from his nose, eyes wild and crazed, fist raised back and ready to strike.
“What’s going on out here?!”
Diamond, Serena, and Amy snapped their heads towards their teacher who stood in the hallway, hands upon her hips, and a deep frown upon her face. Her brows suddenly furrowed as she noticed the children in their bloody state.
“Oh my…what happened!” she quickly made her way to her three students, shifting her eyes down upon Amy.
“Amy, are you alright?” When the blue haired child nodded, Mrs. O’Neal continued. “Alright, go on back to class.”
Amy nodded, quickly making her way back to her books and gathering them up. Without a word, she scurried off and made her way back into the classroom. Mrs. O’Neal turned her attention back onto Diamond and Serena, taking the both of them by the arm and pulling them towards the nurse’s station. She began asking questions upon question that neither Diamond nor Serena paid any heed too because the duo were too busy glaring each other down.
Author: ^_^ So what do you think?! Tsk Tsk, Serena fighting on the first day of school. Who would of thought?! Yes this is part one, I’m still trying to decide if I’m going to make a part 2 that has all that I’m plotting in it or divide the info up in two more parts... I don’t know! ^_^ I hope to have the next chapter up soooooon! Please review!