Author Note :
This is an idea that wouldn't leave my mind so I decided to give it a try.
This is going to be a Beyond Birthday story, rated M for later chapters since the OC is jinxed.
I have absolutely no clue where I'm going with this so review with tips, advices, opinions or ideas.
If there are mistakes, forgive me. Message me and I'll correct them as soon as possible! Thanks in advance for your patience! :)
No flames or I swear your head will end up in a giant barbecue.
There Are Angels In Hell
Chapter 1
- How We Went Down -
The alarm clock rang, waking up a pale brown haired girl. She looked at the glowing red numbers on the screen; as usual, it was exactly 2 A.M.
Sighing, the young woman pressed the button to stop the alarm and stretched in bed. A long day was waiting for her...
She had a quick breakfast, took a warm shower and got dressed before heading to the bakery. Actually, she just had to go downstairs. The bakery was on the first floor of the house and she lived with her father on the second floor.
She was seventeen and had already left school. Well, her father didn't ask for her opinion...
When the teachers got curious about the bruises on her face, Devon, her father, decided she didn't need to go to school anymore.
Devon, who had been a well-known cook and a famous baker before he became alcoholic, taught his daughter how to cook, how to bake, he trained her until she practically ended up running the bakery on her own.
Well, obviously, it was her father who kept all the money.
Yet, there was something that Linael was glad she had been taught: how gratifying it was to see groups of children come everyday to buy a piece of cake or any other sweet she had spent the night working on. Their smile and the obvious joy on their faces was all that gave her the courage to get up every night.
Linael Black was born in February, on a snowy day. Both her parents were happy, they absolutely wanted to have a child together but all their attempts had been fruitless; their previous babies had all died for different reasons... Then Linael arrived.
To Devon and Susan, her parents, Linael was Heaven sent, she was the proof that someone had heard their prayers.
To Linael, the previous deaths were only a sign that her parent's couple was cursed and that they shouldn't have had any children.
Slowly, their relationship got worse; they divorced, Devon started drinking, threatening every night to kill Susan and Linael, making them live in fear and terror.
Poor Susan didn't stand that situation and time took her away... Linael was thirteen when her mother died. Her father first was nice to her, he comforted her and took care of her...
Until he started drinking again, spending entire nights outside with his 'friends', sometimes forcing his daughter to taste his improvised medicine; all kinds of wines, whiskeys, liquors etc. Beating her when she refused, insulting her, humiliating her.
She got used to her father's anger issues and his temper.
Of course, it hurt. Very much.
But there was nowhere she could go, there was no one to help her; she was alone and had to face reality; her father was holding her life, her fate, between his trembling hands and he could break it any time if he ever dropped it.
In silence, she repeated the same gestures everyday, working from 4 A.M to 6 P.M, earning money only to have her father wasting that money in bars.
Once a week, Devon sent her to an orphanage; Wammy's House.
They ordered a lot of sweets for the children there, but since Devon was always drunk, he asked Linael to go for him.
She brought whole carts of food and every time, dozens of children gathered around her as soon as she had passed the gates!
This was the only time we could see her truly smile. When there was a birthday, she always added a surprise to the order.
Those days, an old man named Watari waited for her and allowed her to spend the whole day with the Wammy's children.
Even though she looked considerably older than she actually was, she was still a teenager and the children enjoyed her presence.
She gave them attention and affection, compensating her own lack of affection at the same time. Watari even told her some of the children referred to her as their 'Mama'.
She felt so... Alive, when she was around them.
It felt like they needed her as much as she needed them.
During one day, she could forget about her life, her past, her father, her wounds.
Though sometimes she couldn't hide all the bruises on her face. Children asked questions, but they easily believed the lies she was forced to tell them about that.
On the other hand, Watari knew pretty well what was going on, but never said a word about it; they both knew there was nothing they could legally do to help Linael escape Devon Black's claws.
Here is the first chapter, I know it's short, but it's more of an introduction of the OC and how/where she'll meet BB.
Still tell me how it sounds, I should post the second chapter soon!
Thanks for reading.