Silent Hill: The forgotten road.
Hey there, this is my first Silent Hill fanfic. I hope you like it.
Silent Hill belongs to Konami.
Original Characters belong to me.
Rated MA, it means that if you are underage you can't read this, so shoo, go away.
This story contains femslash, as in girlxgirl relationship, so if you are a homophobe or this kind of things disturbs you I think you better follow the advice I gave to the underage people; Go away.
Read and Review, people.
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Chapter 1: A forgotten nightmare.
Blinding pain…
Rage…
"Alessa! Hold on, Alessa!"
She could feel the blood running down her curled left fist and the moisture of the tears pouring from her eyes. Her right hand was a mess of burned tissue, it hurt like hell and she could barely move it, but she kept pounding at the door of the burning house.
The love of her life was in there.
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The redhead woke up with a gasp, reaching out to thin air. She looked around, frantically, but soon realized she was in her room, alone. She got out of the bed and went into the bathroom.
"Get yourself together, Gabrielle; it was only a dream…the same dream you had three nights ago…" she whispered to herself, splashing some cold water on her face. She grabbed her toothbrush, her beautiful grey eyes wandering to her right hand; she had burned it badly when she was seventeen but she couldn't remember how or why. Her childhood and her early teen years were a blur; she could vaguely remember that her birthmother was dead, but nothing else until that fateful day, ten years ago, when she found herself wandering on a highway clutching her burned hand and bleeding all over with no recollection of what had happened to her.
A couple of guys helped her; Theodore 'Ted' Morris and his romantic partner Josh 'The Captain' Smith. They'd been driving from Portland to Brahms to a family meeting when they'd found her. Because no relatives showed up to claim her, they took her under their wing, helping her to get into a good school, paying for the multiple surgeries her hand needed. They treated her and loved her like a daughter and she loved them back.
"I probably should call Teddy and the Captain and tell them about this nightmare…" she mused, putting on some clean clothes while searching for something to eat. She grabbed an apple and her cell phone, calling the first number on the speed dial.
"Hello?" answered a charming male voice on the other end of the line.
Gabrielle grinned. "Hi Teddy!"
Ted Morris smiled, turning on the phone's speakers so his husband could hear the call too. "Hey Josh! Your daughter is on the phone!" he said in mock-tiredness.
"In the early morning, she's your daughter," answered the Captain, planting a kiss on his partner's cheek and sitting beside him to hear the conversation. "What's up, Gabby?"
"Hey it's not that early! You two are just lazy," said the redheaded woman, looking at the kitchen clock; it read nine o'clock, but then again, it was Saturday, so maybe she was calling too early. "I hope I'm not interrupting anything."
"Not at all, honey; we're just back from our morning jog," answered Ted. "So what is it? You rarely call this early on your free time; how's work?"
"Great; I finished the proposal for that Japanese videogame company last week and they loved it. I handed them the final work yesterday," said Gabrielle, picking up her mail and looking through it. "Oh! My check just arrived!"
"That's our little artist! But I bet you didn't call just to tell us your check arrived," said Josh, worried. There was something in his little girl's voice that wasn't quite right and it didn't matter that she was twenty seven years old now; to Ted and himself, she would always be that frail teenage girl they'd found on the side of the road, hurting so badly she couldn't even remember her name.
Gabrielle smiled, feeling the worry in her foster father's voice. "You're right, as usual, Captain; I've been having some weird nightmares…and I think they might be connected to my past."
"So what are you waiting for? Come home, we'll discuss this over breakfast; I'm making pancakes," said Ted.
"Ok, I'll be there in twenty minutes. Love you!" said Gabrielle and hung up, putting on her jacket and placing her cell phone inside her pocket. She put on her shoes and grabbed her keys, pocketing her check to cash it later.
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Gabrielle arrived to the nice house in the suburbs that had been her home for the last nine years and a half. A tall, bulky man was waiting outside; he had strawberry blond hair with some grey strands, sparkly blue eyes and a well kept beard. He wore a pair of black shorts and a sleeveless white shirt, showing off his nicely toned body. "Hey Gabs!"
The redhead wrapped her arms around him. "Hi Teddy."
They went inside, to the kitchen. A man with chestnut colored hair and hazel eyes was setting up the table. He wore a red shirt, dark blue overalls and an apron that had 'Kiss the Cook' written on the front. "Our little cub came just in time," he said, planting a kiss on the redhead's forehead as she hugged him. "Of course, Captain," she answered, kissing him on the cheek.
The three of them seated and began eating the delicious meal, chatting about work and heating bills. After they finished, they moved to the backyard porch.
"So why did you call us this morning, Gabs? You sounded a little agitated," said Josh, stirring his cup of coffee while Gabrielle and Ted lit their respective cigarettes.
"I had a nightmare three nights ago," said Gabrielle, taking a long drag and blowing out a little smoke. "In this nightmare there's a really big house on fire and I'm banging on the front door, trying to get inside to save someone...someone called Alessa."
Josh and Ted's faces turned dark upon hearing that name, but they let her continue.
"I try to hold the doorknob but it's too hot and it burns my hand, my skin sticks to it and my hand starts bleeding, my other hand is all scratched and bruised, with wood splinters embedded all over it, but despite the pain I keep pounding on that damn door until someone grabs me and throws me to the ground, saying that it's too late…do you think this nightmare has something to do with my past?"
Josh sighed. "Maybe. When we found you, you were a wreck; you were covered in dirt, with scratches all over your body. You were sobbing too, mumbling 'They killed her' repeatedly. Your right hand was bandaged but it still bled profusely. We rushed you to the hospital and the doctor said you were going to be ok, but he wanted to keep you overnight to see how you progressed. That night you talked in your sleep, calling out to someone…"
"…someone named Alessa. In the pocket of your coat we found a little card that read; 'Happy 17th Birthday, Gabby! Love, Claudia and Alessa'. That's how we found out about your name. We left Brahms the next morning," finished Teddy.
Gabrielle sat there for a minute, stunned. "You never told me about that card."
Ted sighed. "We told you at the time. You were pretty traumatized when we found you. The surgeries and physical therapy for your hand took a lot of your time." He paused for a second. "And then you had to adjust to life with two fathers."
"So I just don't remember?" asked the redhead.
"We haven't tried to keep anything from you. We just didn't learn anything about your early life. There were no relatives who came forward for custody, no friends who said 'we want her to move in with us,'" answered Josh, folding his arms across his chest. "We took finding you as a sign we were supposed to watch over you."
She smiled at her foster fathers, "My very own guardian angels."
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After some more talking, Gabrielle went back to her house to do some investigation after cashing her check; Josh and Ted promised her to do some searching on their own and call her when they got something.
As soon as she got home she went to the computer and searched 'Alessa' on the internet; it was risky, but the name wasn't that common. She got a handful of entries, but one of them got her attention; it was a newspaper article written ten years ago.
-The Brahms Observer
Teen dies on house fire
Brahms- The community of Silent Hill mourns today; a fire out of control claimed the life of fifteen (15) year old Alessa Gillespie. According to the neighbors, the teenage girl was ill, so her mother, Mrs. Dahlia Gillespie, left her at home to go to the drugstore. The next door neighbor, Mr. Kauffman, tried to get inside the house once he realized there was smoke coming out the front door but he failed. Then Mr. Wolf, their neighbor from across the street called the firefighters but they arrived too late.
A devastated Mrs. Gillespie refused to give us a statement.
Services will be held at Balkan Church.
There was a picture of the girl attached to the article. Gabrielle gasped in shock; she was absolutely sure she knew this girl! But from where? Could she be the person she called for in her dreams? Was Silent Hill her hometown?
All this questions made her head hurt, badly, so she took an aspirin and went to bed to lie down for a minute. Soon she fell asleep. And the dreams returned.
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Gabrielle stood in a beautiful field, full of green grass and daylight.
A pretty young girl stood in front of her; black hair, pale skin, dark eyes. The girl was wearing a blue dress that looked like a uniform and black shoes. She was smiling at Gabrielle. "Finally…after all these years I get to see you again…"
The redhead could feel her throat drying. But how? This was a dream, wasn't it?
"Alessa?" she whispered, holding out her right hand.
The black haired girl smiled again, taking Gabrielle's scarred hand on her own. "Look at your hand…you tried to save me…and paid the price for it."
"I failed…I promised I would protect you from them but I couldn't…" The words escaped Gabrielle's lips; protect Alessa from what?
"You are going to get your second chance…do you still love me?" asked Alessa, gazing lovingly into the redhead's eyes.
Gabrielle felt the tears running down her cheeks and an emptiness inside of her that had to be real. "Yes."
Then Alessa kissed her softly on the lips. "Then come back to Silent Hill…come back to me…you have the strength now…"
"The strength? I don't understand," said the redhead, cupping the younger girl's cheek.
"You will…once you get here…" whispered the black haired girl. Then the environment changed; the sky went dark red and flames surrounded them. A familiar door appeared in front of them.
"Gabrielle, I'll be waiting for you!" cried Alessa, holding on tightly to the redhead's waist. Then the door opened violently and a tentacle made of flames grabbed the raven haired girl, pulling her out of Gabrielle's embrace and into the door.
"NO! ALESSA!" cried Gabrielle, running to the door, but it closed before the redhead could make it there.
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For the second time in less than 24 hours, Gabrielle woke up startled, gasping for air and covered in cold sweat. She went to the bathroom, her hands shaking as she splashed some cold water on her face. Then she ran back to her bedroom and put on some fresh clothing; a white shirt with long sleeves, black jeans and her black mountain boots. After that she grabbed her backpack, storing useful items inside; a change of clothing and a roadmap.
Then she went to the living room, putting on her jacket and placing some other items on her pockets; her trusty Zippo lighter, a pack of cigarettes and her stun gun. She grabbed her cell phone and her keys and left the apartment.
The sun was setting when she got to her car; a black Jeep. She got on it and called her parents while she warmed the engine.
"Hello?" said Josh's soothing voice from the receiver.
"Captain, I had another dream," answered Gabrielle, very quickly. "And this time I actually saw her!"
"You saw who?"
"Alessa! I talked to her…she said she's waiting for me…in Silent Hill."
Josh turned on the phone's speakers and motioned his partner to come closer. "Honey, we did some research and almost every Alessa we found on the internet is dead or lives far, far away."
Gabrielle groaned in frustration. "I made a research too and I found an article about an Alessa who supposedly died on a fire ten years ago, but there was a picture of the girl and I'm absolutely positive that it's her! I'm going to Silent Hill now."
The two man exchanged looks for a minute. "Ok, just be safe; we know you're going anyway even if we tell you not to. We love you," said Ted.
"I love you guys too…you're the best parents a girl could ask for…if everything works out I might bring you another daughter," answered Gabrielle.
"Take care of yourself, honey and call us once you get there," said Josh.
Gabrielle smiled. "Yeah, Captain. Bye!"
Then she hung up and started her engine. "Hold on, Alessa…I'm on my way!"
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End of chapter one.