A/N: Like I said in the authors note before, this story is currently being rewritten. Some chapters may be different than the ones that I had before. But I think most will be cleaned up and lengthened. The storyline is mainly the same. Michael may still seem a little OOC and for that I apologize but it is fanfiction and I hope that you enjoy the story either way. It takes place within the remakes.
Adrian is now 18 when the story begins. I still think she's about four years younger than our masked killer? I'm not entirely too sure. However I don't think four years is a huge age difference at least not in adults because the difference between 10 and 14 seems like a lifetime. However 18 and 22 not so much. Her only sibling in this version is Alex because the others didn't matter so there was no point in mentioning them at all. Her basic appearance is the same. Hair that's been dyed a dark red, she has a heart shaped faze, hazel eyes and an average body shape. As average as a mixed girls body is, she's also 5'4. She's a shrimp compared to Michael.
Disclaimer: I don't own Halloween or It's characters.
It was safe to say that Adrian hated Smith's Grove. She hated everything from the white walls to it's sterile smell and even the employees. Smith's Grove was hell for the sick and the crazy. Having been sent there nearly two and half years before, Adrian was used to the place. She like any other adolescent on the face of the earth had issues. Adrian had never been very skilled at hiding her true emotions, when she was mad you knew, when she was happy you knew and when she was sad you knew. She struggled with severe mood swings and crippling depression. As a young child she was rather happy, then again most children are because they aren't aware of how cruel the world really is. It was when she hit her preteen years that her happy demeanor began to fade. Playing with her friends outside took a back seat to school work that she struggled to understand. Asking for help was not an option because she feared being laughed at by her peers. Her performance was less than excellent which did not sit well with her parents. She was put under a tremendous amount of pressure because of it. At the time it felt like it would crush her. Though as she moved through middle school and into high school she didn't care as much. While she continued to be hounded by her parents about her grades and her future that she would surely fuck in some way, Adrian found that she no longer cared. Somewhere along the way, she had a found a switch that allowed her to turn of the guilt she felt for disappointing her parents. Though on the rare occasions she did find herself caring, she did something she never really thought was wrong. She hurt herself, though not in any ways she felt earned herself a one way trip to hell. A cut here and a burn there did not seem like something to make s big deal of. However one of her teachers thought differently. It was because of a particularly observant teacher that she was sent to Smith's Grove. After she had opened her mouth to her parents and the counselor of the school, Adrian was sent to be evaluated. She was asked a series of questions, had pictures of her brain taken and been checked throughout her body for scars from self inflicted injury. To her own shock she was deemed a danger to herself which could lead to her being a danger to others. To her dismay she was sent away. Sent to a place she'd only seen in movies. For the past two and a half years Adrian was forced to eat when someone told her to eat, sleep when the lights were turned off, sit with a counselor in silence for an hour a day in hopes of her revealing her darkest thoughts and socializing when she was told it was time to socialize. Adrian quickly got used to the routine, it wasn't difficult to follow. Her life within the sanitarium made her feel like a robot, doing the same thing day in and day out. As her first days in there turned into weeks, months and years Adrian could not help but resent the teacher that had started her journey. She couldn't understand why her teacher couldn't simply keep her mouth shut and do what she was paid to do. Which was to babysit a bunch of spoiled and dramatic teenagers. The job didn't sound too difficult yet this teacher had to go above and beyond to poke her nose where it didn't belong.
Adrian sat by the window in the cafeteria watching as the clouds moved in front of the sun. She watched the branches of the nearby trees sway from the force of the wind, clearly it was going to rain but there was no thunder or lighting. It wasn't a storm that was coming but a small shower. The teenage girl was so focused on the outside world that she didn't notice someone come up behind her.
"Still pretty as ever I see" Adrian couldn't help but jump when she heard a deep voice behind her. She then let a small smile grace her lips as she turned to look at her brother. Her brother a man she loved more than she loved anyone else on the planet. Alex was the one person that connected her to the outside world. He's the only one that would visit her when he could; god forbid her parents made the trip to see their only daughter. He was the only one that kept her sane while she was in Smith's Grove. The only person she could ever count on when she was growing up. Alex had always had her back and protected her from the bad things when he could. She didn't believe there was a stronger bond that could exist between a sister and her older brother.
Adrian stood from where she sat then proceeded to launch herself into the open arms of her brother. She did this every time she saw him so he was ready for her when her arms wrapped tightly around his mid section. "Alex!" She couldn't help but squeal as she breathed in his all too familiar scent. Over the years it changed from overbearing body spray to a more bearable cologne. Even so their was a scent that was uniquely his.
Alex gave a small laugh that rumbled throughout his chest as his arms circled around her smaller frame. He couldn't help but notice the weight she seemed to lose since he'd last been to visit her. He could only assume it was because she wasn't eating. She'd made it very clear that the food in Smith's Grove reminded her of the plastic toy food that came with a kitchen set. Though he refused to mention that she needed to eat on the account of it would only earn him an eye roll from her. She wouldn't listen. She rarely ever did. "How you been?" He questioned before placing a kiss on the top of her head.
"Shitty." She replied into his chest. It was an answer Alex had heard many times and it always made his heart ache when he did. He knew Adrian didn't like where she was. Hell he didn't like it either. He asked her how she was in hopes that the answer would change but sadly it never did.
Adrian tightened her hold on her brother, she feared that if she let him go he would disappear. A part of her knew that wouldn't happen though it didn't stop her from clinging to the only support she'd ever had.
Alex had to all but pry her off of him so that he could sit at one of the nearby tables. Of course once he had sat down she was by his side again. "I haven't seen you in a while. Tell me what's been going on."
It didn't take long for Adrian to think of a reply. "Nothing, nothing at all." She let out a sigh. "I do the same thing every day."
"Don't you have any friends?" He questioned curious.
She let out a humorless laugh. Friends? Why would she have friends? Most of the patients were incapable of holding any sort of conversation. Be it because they didn't want to or because they were too drugged up to be able to speak. The doctors were rarely ever seen as they usually hid away in their office when they didn't need to speak with patients that were so clearly beneath them. The nurses were lost in their own little world, too busy gossiping about other patients to realize that some of them were worth getting to know. Not all of them were completely insane but Adrian couldn't care less. She didn't need a reason to like the sanitarium, she was fine with hating the place and waiting for the day when she would get to leave. "No, I don't have any friends." Came her simple reply.
"Why not?" He questioned like she knew he would
And while normally Adrian would have came up with an answer that could make him laugh, she didn't feel much like being funny. "Because I don't" She replied curtly.
Upon hearing the finality in her voice Alex said nothing more on the subject. Instead her went about explaining what was going on in his own life as she listened quietly with her head on his shoulder.
A/N Yay, chapter one done as most of the chapters that I had written up until the point that I stopped. I added in a couple of new chapters here and there which was why it took me so long to update. I was trying to figure out where I want the story to go. For the most part I think I have it but things do change. We'll see what happens.