Coraline; A Second Glance

"The beginning of the end"

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the character, plot, theme, or story line. (Epically the story line, only in this first one though)

A/N: This first one is basically the same as the movie starting from when the other Wybie helped Coraline go back home all the way to her falling on the balcony of the other Mr. Bobinsky

The other Wybie had just saved me dragging me out of the window and making me go to my real home. It was no use to go home though because when I got there the house empty.

"I'm home!" I paused, "Anybody here… Hello hello hello?" I walked to dad's study, "real dad?" Then walked to the kitchen, "real mom? Oh mom's groceries!"

Suddenly the doorbell rang. "I missed you guys so much you'll never bel-" I said walking to the door but when I opened the door I saw Wybie standing there. "Oh the Wybie that talks," I said sighing. "Uh?" Wybie said then laughing, "Yah uh… so you know that old doll I gave you? Um my grandma's real mad... said it was her sisters'. The one that disappeared." "You stole that doll didn't you?" I asked madly. "Well it-it looked just like you and I figured…" Wybie said getting cut off. "First there was this pioneer girl, then huckfin junior, then this little rascals chick with all these ribbons and braids and… grandmas missing sister. I think I just met her. Come on." I dragged him in to the drawing room. "Listen I'm reallly not suppose to be her," he said I pushed him to the ground. "She is there," I continued. Can you uh… can you unlock it?" Wybie asked looking at the key in the door. I blocked him, "not in a million years but it wouldn't matter… she can't escape without her eyes. None of the ghost can." "Riightt… yah… so I really need to get that doll," Wybie said. "Great! I'd love to get rid of it." I took him up the stairs to my room, "where are you hiding you little monster." "You and grandma been talking?" Wybie asked me as if I was crazy. "The dolls her spy… it's how she watches you… finds out what's wrong with your life." Wybie was confused, "the doll is my grandmas spy?" "No the other mother," I corrected him, "she's got this whole word where everything's better; the food, the garden… the neighbors." "But it's all a trap," I said looking at him straight in the eyes. He swallowed hard, "yah uh I think I heard someone calling me, Jonsey." "Don't believe me? You can ask the cat!" "The- the cat? I- I'll just tell grandma that you couldn't find the doll." I threw one of my shoes at him. "You're not listening to me!" "That's… 'cause… you're crazy!" I threw my other shoe at him. He screamed running down the stairs I followed picking up the shoe. We were outside. "You creep," I said. "Crazy!" he yelled getting on his bike. "Crazy? You're the jerk wade who gave me the doll!" I screamed as he rode away.

I turned seeing the car, "mom… dad!" I hopped in the car and called my dad from my mother's phone, "pick it up dad… pick it up!" The phone rang and the voice mail answered, "Hi." "Dad!" "I'm digging in my garden right now, but leave a message and I'll get right back to you." "Where have you gone?" I asked to the wind.

I was in Miss Spink and Forcible's. Miss Spink was making an angel dress for one of the dogs, "Uh don't you only make wings for the… dead ones?" "Just looking ahead dear… Angus hasn't been felling well of late," Miss Spink said. "April aren't you getting ready?" Miss Forcible asked behind the dressing room. "We've lost are ride Miriam… Caroline said her parents have vanish quit completely," Miss Spink said. "What? We waited months for those tickets," Miss Forcible appearing from behind the dressing room. "I suppose we could walk," Misses Spink replied. "With your gammy legs? It's nearly 2 miles to the theater." I coughed. "Oh oh yes, your missing parents we know just what you need," Miss Spink said while Miss Forcible got the bowl of taffy. "Miriam get," she look at her with the bowl, "yes that's right." She put on the table, "how is hundred year old candy going t help?" Miss Spink stabbed the candy then Miss Forcible blew the remaining dust away leaving one gem with a hole in it. "There you go sweetie," Miss Spink said. "What's it for?" I asked. "Well it might help… it's good for bad things sometimes," she replied. "No they're good for lost things," Miss Forcible said. "It's bad things Miriam." "Lost things April." "Bad" "Lost" "Bad things" "Lost" "Bad" "Lost" "Bad" "Lost" "Bad" "Lost!" I left the flat letting them argue.

I went back to my flat, going to my parents' room. I made the pillows look like mum and dad kissing them good night. I started to cry and fell asleep peacefully. The cat was purring on top of me when I woke up, "Hullo? How did you get in? Do you know where mom and dad are?" The cat simply blinked its eyes I knew it meant yes. He walked me to the mirror in the hallway. I gasped, "mom… dad." My dad's arms were around my mom keeping her warm. My mom leaned over righting HELP US backwards. I broke the glass, first thing that popped in my head. The glass shattered around me. The cat meowed I turned around, "how did this happen?" He led me up the stairs to my parents' room. I gasped, "She's taken them hasn't she?" Under their bed there was a doll. It had to faces on it one side my mom's the other my dad's.

Me and that cat watched as the fire burned the doll to pieces. "They're not coming back are they? Mom and dad… not on their own." The cat blinked. "Only one thing to do." I grabbed a candle and lit it; I took my bag, and the gem with the hole in it. I unlocked the door in the drawing with the black key the corridor appeared. I walked through it. "You know you are walking right into her trap," the cat said. "I havta go back… they are my parents," I replied. "Challenge her then… she may not play fair but she won't refuse." The corridor seemed longer then before. The cat continued, "she's got a thong for games." "Hmm… ok." The door to the other world open with that the cat disappeared and the light on the candle vanished.

"Coraline?" I thought it was my real mom, "mom?" "Coraline… you came back for us," she said. "Mom!" I ran over and hugged her. "Darling why would you leave me." I looked up and she had turned back to the beldam I jumped in fear. She laughed evilly. "Where are my parents?" I asked. "Gosh I have no idea where your old parents are, perhaps they've grown bored of you and run away to France," she said. "They didn't run away from me… you stole them!" "Now don't be difficult Coraline," she replied, "Have a seat won't you?" My other father looked like a squash now he forced me to sit. The Beldam grabbed the black key from the real world and locked the door after shutting it and swallowed it. "Why don't you have your own key?" I asked. "Only ones keys," my other father said. "The garden squash need tending don't you think pumpkin?" the beldam said dragging him out of the drawing room. I heard something sounding like someone rubbing glass, "mom, dad where'd she hide you?"

Other mother rung a bell and had called out from the kitchen, "breakfast time." She hummed a little song. 'Be strong Coraline' I thought to myself. "Why don't we play a game?" I asked while she was cooking, "I know you like them." "Everybody likes games," she said, "what kind of game would it be?" "An exploring game," I replied, "a finding things game." "And what is it you'd be finding Coraline?" she asked. "My real parents," I said. "Too easy," she said slowly. "And- and the eyes of the ghost children. "Uh… what if you don't find them?" "If I loss I'll stay with you forever and let you love me," I sighed, "and I'll let you sew buttons into my eyes." "Hmm… and if you some how when this game?" "Then you let me go… you let everyone go… my real father and mother… the dead children… everyone you've trapped here." She sighed, "Deal." She threw her hand out ready to shake on it. "Not until you give me a clue," I said. "Oh right… in each of three wonders I've made just for you… a ghost's eye is lost in plain sight," she said. "And for my parents?" I asked. She laughed then taped her black button eye. "Fine don't tell me," I sighed, "it's a deal." I turned around she wasn't there anymore only the sound of the water faucet leaking. I sighed, "what does she mean… wonders?" I opened the curtain looking at the garden, "Hmm."

The flowers tied around me trying to eat me up. I grabbed my garden tool from my pink bag and cut the flowers apart. The green gem with the hole in it fell to the grown and the mechanical dragonflies took it and flew away. I threw my bag at them they fell to the ground sand spilling out of them. "Why steal this?" I wondered out load. I looked threw the hole everything turned gray. "Wow," I said at awed. I looked around and saw a red glowing thing. I took the gem away from my face and saw my other father sitting on the prey mantis. "Sorry," he said the prey mantis seemed to move on it's own, "so sorry… mother make me… don't wanna frighten you." I went over the bridge the prey mantis machine followed me and it fell down to the water. "Take it," my other father yelled to me as he sunk, it was the top on the clutch controlling the machine. The world around me turned grey. "Bless you miss, you found me. But there's still two eyes lost," the boy said. "Don't worry I'm getting the hang of it," I said back. I looked at the sky the moon sort of went black in one corner.

I walked toward Misses Spink and Forcible's flat. There was a flashlight on the floor. I picked it up and turned it on walking toward the stage. I heard something and lifted the flashlight up shinning on the dogs that were now bats. They freaked out so I turned the flashlight off. Then the stage light turn on showing a big taffy wrapper in the middle. I took out the gem and looked threw the hole. I saw something glow blue and moved the gem back into my pocket. I reached my hand threw the paper. A green and pink and were closed together. I opened it slowly, "The pearl!" The hands clasped together. I pulled my hand away and the screamed, "Please give it back! Please? Please! Give it back! Please… Please… Please… Pleaseee! Give it backkk! Please!" I shined the light at the bats on and off; I then threw it at them. They flew down I moved my head at the right time and they attacked the two. The world went grey again. "Hurry on girl, her web is unwinding. I walked outside the moon had more shadow part on it with two holes.

I walked up to the next flat 'the last eye' I thought to myself. When I got to the top other Wybie's clothes where hanging on the pole. "Oh Wybie," I said sadly, "Evil witch, I'm not scared!" I hope she heard that I wouldn't even care if she did. I opened the door of other Mr. Bobinsky's flat. "Hullo Carobushka," he said. "I'm Coraline," I said. "Is this vhat your vooking vor?" I looked there the jewel and saw a glow, "uh huh." "You vink vinning game is good ting?" He hid somewhere and I looked through the gem and I saw him when he went around the wooden poll beside me, "You vust go home and devour and ve nevected same as valvay… stay here vith vus… ve vill visten to you and lovez you… if you stay vere you can have vutever you vant, valvays," he explained. "You don't get it, do you?" I asked. "I von't understand." "Of course you don't understand you're just a copy she made of the real Mr. B" "Not even that anymore," he said collapsing rats coming out of his clothes. I got a little frightened. The rat with the ball rolled on the cheese under my feet. He ran out the door I tried throwing the jewel at the rat. "No!" I yelled. I ran out the door running down the steps to get the mouse. The balcony fell to the ground and I past out on the ground.

My eyes blurred a little then the things around me began to take shape. The moon had what seemed to be a full shaped button. "Oh God," I said, I've lost the game… I've lost everything." I began to cry. There was no hope I couldn't find the rat or the eye anywhere and the game had ended. "It's ok miss we know you tried," the boy said. "It really is ok it took you guts to do this and since you found us we are free but tell the other girl we're sorry," the young girl said. "You mean she's the only one going to be left?" "Other then you yes," the boy said, "I'm sorry for you both." "What about my parents?" I asked. "She doesn't need them anymore she's setting them free," she said. I began to cry I was going to miss them so much. "You have to go back to the house or she'll make your life miserable," she continued. "What will happen to me?" I asked. "You lost the game you'll do what you promised," the boy said. I swallowed hard I cleared my tears away and headed to the house.

My memories flooded threw my head I remembered my friends from Michigan my short life that was in Oregon. For an 11 year old my life really had no meaning.

I walked through the hallway the world had stopped falling apart. In fact some stuff came back; the walls refilled, the ground became hard again, and the other Wybie crept up from the other hall. He appeared right in front of me he still couldn't talk, but I felt the emotion from him. I put my hand on his shoulder, "it's ok Wybie… I'll be fine." His frown turned to a slight smile and he went up to me and hugged me, tightly. Tears filled my eyes yet I held them in. He let go lifting his down. I sniffed and gave him a hug back, "thanks for helping me earlier, you're a true friend." It felt has though he was the real Wybie, for some reason, but deep down I felt the fakeness crawling thorough his blood. "A deal's a deal," I said feeling the emptiness in me, "I promised her, I'm sorry but I have to." He nodded knowing the Beldam wouldn't let me go. He grabbed my arm wanting me to go with him then let go the moment he looked into my eyes. I frowned walking away from him slowly. When I turned around he was gone.

"Hello Darling," the Beldam said to her voice seemed to be very dark and scary, "you lost." "I relies that thank you," I sad sarcastically. "You shouldn't play games that you can't win," she said with a smirk on her face. "I could of one if it wasn't for that stupid rat," I said annoyed. "What did your 'friend' not help you? He hates rats you know." Where did that mangy thing go? It sure would of helped if he had caught the rat. "Does he not want you?" the Beldam continued. "That- that's not true!" I said lying to myself. "No? Well I guess he'll try and save you then, she said shrugging. She looked around seeing nothing but me. 'Guess she's right he really didn't care' I thought to myself not completely sure if this was true. "Not here," she said slowly. "Just get it over with," I said impatiently. "Don't be scared sweetie it won't hurt a bit," she said going to the drawer taking out the box filled with the two buttons and the needle. She moved closer to me putting the tread around the needle then took out the button. I closed my eyes as a reaction. I felt her put the button over my eyelid and then the needle went slowly, yet smoothly, through my eye.

My life was over, the pain hurt intensively. I was now in the dark room on the other side of the mirror. When I saw the faint glow from the bed in the corner I knew exactly who it was.

I hope you liked story, a lot. I sure liked writing it. But if you didn't you can tell me what you didn't like about it (please and thank you) I really like reviews (ok this is technically my first story but still.) Also I had to record 20 minutes of the movie just to remember what they said and stuff (which was fun but also hard when only the music plays for awhile and my sisters bothering me every time they stopped talking, even though it was only for like a second) If you liked this I will soon post the next one all my stories will be good : D anyways thanks for reading. See you soon, bye! ; D