Will pulled her pillow to her naked battered body, crying into it and Dean stood at the foot of her bed pulling his pants back on. This was the third time this week and she was to the point of wanting to kill herself as no one cared. Not even her mother who was just in the other room and even knew what was going on as Dean had hit the redhead hard after Susan called her a stupid idiot after failing another History test. And this was only the end to what seemed like a perfect day from Cornelia and the other girls spitefully ignoring her all day to Matt and Caleb beating the hell out of her after school for daring to speak up and refuse to go to the guardian meeting.
She hated her life so much as it only seemed to get worse with each passing day as her mother had started blaming everything that went wrong on her since Tony had abandoned them three years ago on her twelfth birthday. Since then it seemed the older woman had brought home a different guy almost every weekend. Some of the guys were pretty nice and the redhead often found herself fantasizing about them staying and becoming her new father making everything better.
It never happened though as Susan's attitude became worse almost daily and degraded from words to actually smacking her around to finally beating her with anything handy and even letting her newest boy toy rape her on a constant basis.
If her home life wasn't bad enough her friends had become just as bad. At first the girls was a godsend as they had accepted her into their tight group as the five became guardians. As it grew harder and harder though the girls began to resent Will for it and began talking down to her and ridiculing her every decision. Then Elyon was taken from them and they had blamed her for it, even holding her while Cornelia took out her frustration and rage on the redhead.
No one would help the redhead either as she had tried going to the police but Tom, Irma's dad, was furious that Will was what he said lying about everything and wrote it off. Even when she tried to kill herself no one even cared except to punish her for it. They had even finally met the Oracle right after that as he told her how sickened he was of her stupidity and told her he had no idea why the Heart of Candracar could choose such filth as her.
Now the redhead was just hoping through each day almost on auto pilot hating her life and constantly wishing for death but the fear of trying again and failing kept her from it as the pain that her mother and Dean caused the last time paled in comparison to the little bit of pain she felt when she slit her wrist.
When Matt found out about the whole guardian thing he became enraged that Will would hide something like that from him. He went from the caring and loving boyfriend, the only light in her life, to the jealous and hateful man he was now.
When they finally defeated Phobos a few days earlier Will was hoping that her friends would finally forgive her but they didn't. The had told her that if it wasn't guardian business they never wanted to see her again. She told them that if they didn't want to see her she didn't want to see them at all. That turned out real well as Matt and Caleb confronted her and when she refused to go took turns beating the hell out of her.
"Miss Will, there is a phone call for you." Judy's, her cell phone said coming from her nightstand. She wanted to ignore it but Caleb had warned her that if she did ever again that he would through her in a cell with Phobos and see what he would do to her in revenge for his downfall.
"Hello." Will croaked hitting the call button after picking up the phone.
"Will, get your ass to Candracar now." Came Cornelia's angry voice over the phone, "Hay Lin's grandmother is taking us there now."
"I'm coming." Will sighed, wincing from the pain as she moved. She didn't have time to get cleaned up as she sat up. She hit the end call button and threw the phone across the room before cursing. She was going to probably get another beating from her mother for this, the woman hated anytime Will damaged anything.
Getting up she went to get dressed, having to forget about putting a bra on as it hurt to much and opted for a loose over sized t-shirt with VMJ on it and a pair of jeans. Slipping her shoes on she didn't bother going to the mirror and fixing her appearance as no one gave a damn about it or her anyways.
Moments later she was standing in the vast chamber of the Oracle surrounded by the angry delegates on the council and four guardians glaring at her.
"It is about time you arrived." The Oracle said coldly, looking at the redhead in disgust.
"I'm sorry I'm late." Will sighed though it was only five minutes at the most since Cornelia's c all.
"I don't want to hear your excuses, your job as the Keeper is over as is the others as is the Guardians. They have already returned their powers to the aurameres, all that is left is for you to hand the Heart back over." The Oracle said as Luba, the kind cat like woman walked up to Will.
"I must take Will to the aurameres chamber to ensure her powers are completely drained as they are much stronger that the others." Luba said after Will regretfully returned the Heart. She couldn't use it though to protect herself as she had tried once and it had sent sever shocks through her body making her feel like she was being electrocuted.
"I will take the others home." Yan Lin said bowing deeply to the Oracle.
"Of course Yan Lin, thank you for your services. If you or the other guardians ever need anything just let me know." The Oracle said smiling brightly at the older woman though Will knew that she herself wasn't included in that statement as The Oracle often told her how disgusted he was that she was ever chosen to be the Keeper.
She silently followed the older gentle woman through the sterile halls of the floating fortress until they arrived in the room with a pedestal in the center and five bright balls of energy spinning around in a circle.
"We must hurry." Luba said hurrying to the center, "The Oracle must not know what I am doing until it is done."
"Wh-What?" Will asked in shock as Luba held the Heart by it's chain over the aurameres as the spun around it. The woman said something in a strange language that Will couldn't even make sense of before all five aurameres melted into the Heart. Luba was gasping for breath as she pressed the Heart back into Will's almost unresponsive hands. What was the woman doing?
"Go Will, make a better life for yourself and be happy." Luba said as tears was falling down her face. "I'm so sorry this is all I could do for you."
"But…" Will started as The Oracle stormed into the room.
"What the hell is the meaning of this?" The Oracle demanded glaring at the two.
"GO!" Luba screamed at Will scaring the redhead into making a fold and stepping through it. As soon as it closed the entire fortress started shaking violently, chunks of the ceiling falling as the walls started turning black and turning to dust in places.
"You fool! Do you know what you have done?" The Oracle demanded.
"Yes." Luba said peacefully waiting for her fate, "I gave a girl who deserved better a chance for a good life and a world who deserves her a chance to find peace."
"You idiot!" The Oracle growled just before the two was crushed under the massive collapse from the structure caving in on itself.
WITCH
Will stumbled to her bed drained from the energy taken from her to create the fold back home. She wasn't sure what Luba had done but she was sure that whatever it was had caused the Heart to drain more power than usual for the fold home. The redhead stumble to her bed before collapsing into it, a part of her mind wondering where the stuffed frogs came from as the were launched into the air around her from the crash landing in the bed.
"WILL!" Susan's voice screeched causing Will to jump into a sitting position, wincing from the pain as the older woman crashed into her holding the younger girl tightly while sobbing loudly.
"M-Mom, I'm sorry I went out last night." Will whimpered as she struggled to escape the tight embrace from the older woman. Finally the woman pushed a frightened redhead to arms length and studied the girl.
"Oh god, is it really you?" Susan cried, tears streaming almost like twin waterfalls confusing the redhead. Looking at the woman though she could see minor differences in her features. Her eyes weren't hard and hateful like they usually were, nor was there and redness in them from them being bloodshot from a hangover like most morning.
"Mom, what's going on?" Will asked looking around the room to notice the huge differences. There was posters of groups she didn't even really know except for VMJ as his CD was the last one she had gotten before her mother turned psycho. There was a full closet of what looked like new clothes from the redhead's view from the bed. There was a computer sitting on a nice desk in the corner as well as a small shelf CD player sitting on a dresser. All over any place that there was a perch was frogs of all kinds ranging from stuffed to pewter. This wasn't her room, her room was barren except a few outfits that wasn't any better than rags as its all Susan said she deserved.
"I thought you were killed by Phobos!" Susan cried pulling the redhead into another tight embrace, stroking her hair as she fought from crying out at the pain the tight embrace was causing her. "What happened to you, are you okay?"
Question in Will's mind is what happened to her mother, why was she acting all nice? And how in the hell did she find out about Phobos?
NOTES
This is a story that I had posted on my web site under story ideas but decided to post it here to as I'm making it into a full story. In fact I'll be taking a break from Never a Normal Life until Saturday or Sunday as I rework some of where it is going and try and take a little more time with it as several has suggested like Aesop. Hope the next arc of it will be better. As for this story I have a second chapter done that I will post in a little bit as I read through it again and make sure it's okay to be posted. Also, I only need to type up one more page for chappie 3 and I'll post it as well. Fans of Fear or Hate will be happy to hear that I will be starting work on it's full story version very soon so keep an eye out for it.