Hello! I am completely new to FanFiction, and this is my first fic... ever. So yay for that! I'm still undecided where I am going with this story, so I can't promise much. I also have no clue what I'm doing, I have no experience with jobs, or large cities like Central... or relationships. So, here I am... I hope you enjoy, please review!
Edit: Hi, after really getting into my story, Ive come back to read this and realised that the first three chapters are kind of bad and cringy, I've tried to fix them but they can't be saved. Please just bare with me, the story gets much better and more exciting.
DISCLAIMER: All characters, lines, plots and places that that have been taken from the hit TV series The Flash belong to the CW writers of 'The Flash' and Warner Brothers. All I own are my own original characters. This disclaimer applies to all chapters within this story.
Prologue:
(Day of the particle accelerator explosion)
Today was supposed to be a 'family day,' according to my parents.
I was skeptical when I arrived, I didnt think it was possible to have a peaceful conversation without the presence of awkwardness and fake love. Now I'm sure, it isn't possible. Buried childhood memories are resurfacing, and they aren't good ones.
"Melissa! We do not have the money for this! How many times have I told you to-"
"Stop! You have got to stop treating me like this Richard! I can buy what I want!"
My Mum and Dad's voices echoed loudly through the small house, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the neighbours could hear. However, they probably would have been used to it by now, seeing as this raging fight had carried on since I was in 7th grade.
I had stopped by to visit my parents house tonight as they had just gotten back home after a holiday overseas. I had instantly regretted returning to my childhood home, the house was haunted with old memories, bad out weighing the good. I was in the bathroom, quickly tidying up before the hour drive back to my apartment in the city.
Satisfied with my appearance, I sling my brown leather bag over my shoulder and begin walking down the hall to announce my departure to my bickering parents. I enter the kitchen, purposely thumping my shoes slightly louder than nessicary against the dark tiles to catch my either of my parent's attention.
"Mum? Dad? I'm leaving," I call to them from just over three meters away.
My words are forgotten in their quickly worsening argument. Why do I even bother?
"MUM! DAD!" I practically scream in their faces.
"Hazel, honey? Did you say something?" My mother's face softens as she turns to me, her face red and stained with tears.
"I'm leaving," I huff, "I left dinner the fridge."
"Oh, thank you so much for coming sweetie," her face lights up with a kind smile, but I really can't tell if it is sincere, "we really appreciate it."
"Your welcome," I gather the strength to pull on my brightest fake smile as I hug my father and bid both parents farewell.
Finally, I made it out the heavy wooden front door and quickly walk alone along the cold concrete path to my small silver Honda parked peacefully by the side of the road. I can feel tears pricking my eyes by the time I quietly shut the car door.
I sincerely hope my boyfriend Derek and I don't end up living a angry life as miserable as the one my role model parents live.
Xx
"HAZEL!" My best friend, Tilly's high pitched scream painfully murders my innocent eardrums as she wraps me in a tight hug. Quickly pulling me inside our apartment and slamming the door behind me.
She pulls back and gazes over my puffy eyes and tear stained cheeks, "oh no, what happened?"
I simply groan and retreat to the black leather couch, collapsing into the soft comforting couchy goodness. My black schipperke dog, Oshi, excitedly bounds up onto the couch, sitting on my stomach whilst hitting me repeatedly in the face with her tail.
Oshi was once my parents dog, they bought her when I was 14 years of age. I don't know why they did it, they had already been fighting for about a year and they were barely managing me as a teen.
Still, after just a few weeks Oshi became neglected and I took care of him in place of my parents. Oshi helped me deal with my emotions over the years, she would lay with me as I wept about my parents fighting, or walk with me in the mornings and share my excitement over upcoming art festivals or upcoming seasons of of my favourite shows.
When I left home, I took Oshi with me. I don't know how I would live without her.
"Good to see you too, you filthy animal," I mutter as I sit up, screwing my face up as I wipe the black dog hairs off my face.
"Hazel!" Tilly impatiently shrieks, "what happened?"
"My parents were fighting again," I supply.
"Ugh, how are they not divorced?" Tilly falls onto the sofa beside me.
"I personally think that their both too stubborn to give up on their already failed relationship, I just don't understand why their fighting still effects me the same way it did when I was a teenager. I mean, I'm 24 years old, why do I still feel like bursting into tears?" I sigh.
"I don't know. But you know what?" Tilly suddenly jumps back onto her feet, "I'm gonna distract you from this, 'cause we both know that I suck at comforting."
Tilly looks down at her pink guinea pig covered pyjamas, clearly she spent the day at home. If I were to guess, I'd say she spent the day watching The Vampire Diaries on Netflix. That show is incredibly addictive, despite the fact that its target audience were teenagers, not adults.
"I'm gonna go change," Tilly muses, "then we're going out! Most people are going out to see the STAR Labs particle accelerator turn on, so hopefully the place I have in mind isn't crowded."
She stalks out of the large kitchen/ living room, and marches down the narrow hallway to her bedroom.
"So... where exactly are you taking me?" I call after her, but she ignores my question and shuts her door.
Personally, I would rather stay home and mope in self pity. Tilly is a good enough friend to not allow that.
Reluctantly, I haul myself to my feet and look around the large room. The entire apartment has white walls and cream tiles, a chocolate brown rug is located in the corner of the room which the door isn't in.
Gathered around the rug are a bunch of cow patterned bean bags and and the black sofa I was just moping on. The TV resides on the wall in front of the sofa. Tilly and I are both huge couch potatoes, if we didn't have work most days, we would gladly sit around watching TV and drinking coffee 24/7.
Behind the sofa is the kitchen, grey cupboards and benches everywhere. Just across from the kitchen is the hallway which leads to my room, Tilly's room, our shared bathroom and a fourth door which leads to the roof as ours is the top apartment.
I head to the bathroom to fix up my hair and face because apparently, Tilly and I are going out. If only I knew where.
Xx
Tall lamps tower above us as we sit on the edge of the long, old, wooden dock. The water is dark with mystery and the reflection of lights from the city dance across the surface.
Tilly sits beside me, struggling to keep her long blond hair out her her raspberry slushy as her feet dangle in the water.
Tilly and I are very alike, we became friends in the last few weeks of 12th grade, bonding over the tragedy that both of our high school boyfriends cheated on us with the same girl and then broke up with us in the same week.
We mourned together and made sure that bitch had a painful last few weeks of school.
We then stuck together through our few years of University, we were roommates however we shared our dorm with three other people. Both of us are hard workers who would give anything to reach our goals.
Fortunately, both is us did. I became an artist, I own a store near CCJitters which I open every Tuesday and Thursday. I display all of my artwork in that store and usually manage to attract quite a crowd.
I am also a photographer and I own a website with my best photos displayed. I mostly take photos of couples, however I sometimes get to photograph weddings. Tilly works for the Central City Picture News, she had originally studied to become an author, however she found writing newspaper articles more intriguing.
Slurrrrrppppp!
Startled, I jumped a few centimetres in the air at the sudden noise. Well that certainly pulled me out of my thoughts. Tilly snorted at me and loudly slurped the last of her now melted slushy through the straw, before setting it down on the ground.
Just then, the STAR Labs accelerator lit up, I could hear the cheering from my seat on the dock about a mile away.
"They say it's gonna change the world," my thoughts somehow burst from my mouth.
Tilly simply hummed in agreement, she was also deep in thought.
I looked down the jetty back to the shore. It was a long walk from where we were currently seated back to the mainland.
"We should get going..." I say as I stand, my legs both slightly numb from sitting down for a long time.
"Yeah, I'm freezing," Tilly agreed as she grabbed her now empty slushy and stood beside me, "though I'm not sure if I'm cold 'cause of the wind, or 'cause I thought it was a good idea to eat a slushy on a cold night..."
Halfway back to the mainland, I sense that something's wrong. I would have missed it if we weren't on such an old, unstable surface. The ground was shaking.
"Do you-" I start.
"Feel the ground shaking?" Tilly whispered, "yeah, I do."
The lamps which lined the edges of the dock began flickering on and off. Franticly looking around, we search for something to explain the trembling dock. Then we hear the boom. And from my experience watching Netflix, big booms are never good.
We watch in horror as the the entire city blacks out, suddenly, we a caught in a blanket of darkness. Another boom. A good boom? Hah! Of course not. Tilly and I reach for each other's hands as the seemingly unreal event plays out before us. STAR Labs EXPLODED?! What the actual hell?! All those people...
Just when I thought it couldn't get worse, a golden light begins radiating out across the city. My hand is shaking as I reach into my pocket for my phone, I fumble to turn on the torch. I shine it down on the ground, if we are still on this dock when that light hits us, we're gonna go splat in the water, caught under heavy wood and swimming with sharks. I'd heard that drowning was the worse way to go.
Tilly and I exchanged a glance, before breaking into a sprint.
It all happened so fast. One minute I'm running, the next I'm blinded by golden light, pushing Tilly to safety. Shortly after, I'm pinned underwater beneath heavy planks of wood.
I feel the cold, I feel my lungs screaming for air. Then, I feel nothing.
They said the particle accelerator would change the world...
Well, I guess they were right.
Xx
Well, taddah! That was really short... I mean, its the prologue and I couldn't really write anymore than that... anyway. Thanks for reading! Please review, or comment or whatever it is that you do. Once again, I'm new to this. I know where I'm going in the next 2 chapters or so.. but after that I'm still unsure. If you have any suggestions on how to make my writing better please tell me. I'm hoping to introduce Barry in the next chapter or so... Is this worth continuing?
Thanks again,
Yaysies536