Spellbound
This is my first published bleach fanfiction it was not betaed so sorry for any grammatical errors. This is an OCxMC fic so if you don't like OCs don't flame please.
Disclaimer: Bleach is not mine, it is the sole property of its creator Tite Kubo.
But my OC's areexactly that mine so no stealing, If you want to use them please, please, please, ask me first!
Chapter 1: Moving
-Part 1-
It's an oppressively humid summer day in early august in Berlin, Germany. In the city the beer gardens were overflowing with people, locals and tourists alike, trying to escape the heat and humidity with mug or two of cold lager and hoping for a breeze to cool their sticky bodies.
The lakes and forests on the outskirts of the city were far quieter and a bit less humid, the cooler temperatures and icy lake water taken advantage of by the native Berliners who knew how to beat the heat with style.
In a six story apartment building in 16 year old Regina Kleid lived with her father Siegfried Kleid, a surgeon at Charité Medical Campus in Mitte. The father and daughter shared their modest home with several pets; a dog, two cats, and an African Gray Parrot.
In the living room of their small flat Siegfried was about to drop a bomb that Regina, normally a very calm and rational teenage girl would not be happy about. They were moving. Siegfried had been transferred to a hospital in Japan that was in need of a few top class surgeons.
"I can't believe you're doing this to me!" Regina shrieked at her father green eyes burning with rage "Regina sweetheart I don't have a choice in the matter, do you think I'm happy about being transferred to a hospital in Japan?" Siegfried Kleid tried to calmly tell his daughter.
"I only have 2 years left in high school! Why can I just finish school here and then move?" Regina sobbed "All of my friends are here! My life is here! I don't want to have to start all over!"
He walked forward and tried to embrace her and she violently shoved him back "Get away from me!" she snarled she ran down the hall back to her room and locked the door behind her"Regina come back here!" her father yelled and pounded on the door "Regina Emer Ava Kleid you unlock this door right now!"
Regina didn't answer she grabbed her old satchel and started shoving in basic necessities. Her eyes darted around the small yet organized space making sure she didn't forget anything important, she ran over to her bookcase shoved several Shonen Jumps and science fiction paperbacks aside to grab the old square candy tin that held her emergency cash. Her cell phone and license were shoved into the pockets of her leather jacket and the jacket itself was crammed into her satchel.
Her father knocked on the door again calmer this time "Regina we have to talk about this please open the door." The doorknob jiggled sensing she was running out of time Regina put on her motorcycle helmet and grabbed her keys.
She shouldered her pack, opened her window and started climbing out onto the fire escape. She was halfway out the window when the door was forced open "Regina!" her father yelled ,she froze for a split second before booking it down the iron stairs to the road five floors below.
Regina hit the ground hard and landed on all fours. She saw her father coming out on the fire escape and ran for the alley around the side of the building where her motorcycle was parked. She jumped on, hit the starter and fired it up with a roar; the Black '87 Honda Shadow rocketed out of the narrow alley mouth and onto the road heading toward a quiet wooded area.
-Part 2-
An hour later Siegfried pulled into a gravel parking lot in a forest outside of Berlin 'she's attached to this place she must have come here to calm down.' He thought He found the old overgrown deer path that led to his fathers' favorite fishing spot; she had spent a lot of time here with her grandfather as a child.
He started off on the path and in about 20 minutes walked out onto the gravel beach of a small lake, sure enough Regina was there, sitting next to her bike and throwing small rocks into the water, long auburn red hair hiding her face.
She looked up when she heard twigs start snapping and turned back to staring at the water at her feet when she saw who it was. "Hey." He said softly and approached her quietly sitting down beside her. When he looked over at her he saw that her eyes were red-rimmed and bloodshot and her nose was red, she had been crying "Regina, come here." She sniffled and relented she hugged him burying her face in the front of his shirt.
"Regina I'm so sorry about all this, but I don't have a choice if I don't go I will lose my job." He said softly. Regina pulled out of his arms "why did they choose you to go to Japan?" He sighed "I was qualified for the job."
She nodded and turned back to the lapping waves "How long have you known about the transfer dad?" He looked at the ground "About a month I didn't want to tell you and ruin your summer vacation. But I already bought a house and enrolled you in school. You start in September."
She nodded silently realizing that the choice to move had been made already for her "When do we leave?" she said in a depressed voice. He replied "July 24th our flight leaves at noon."
Regina's head snapped up "July 24th! That's in four days!" He nodded "Yes honey I know. Short notice." Regina started to get a little hysterical " What about Angel, Zatoichi, Jewel and Zen are they coming too?" he patted her shoulder "Yes, of course they're coming but they will have to be in quarantine for two weeks before we can take them to our new home."
Angel was a mischievous foul-mouthed African Gray Parrot that Regina had gotten from a pet store. Zatoichi was a rambunctious male 2 year old red Shiba Inu adopted as a puppy from a breeder in Berlin. Jewel was a female flame point Ragdoll cat with big blue eyes that had belonged to her mother. The youngest and newest member of their furry family was Zen an adorable 12 week old female Bombay kitten with gorgeous golden yellow eyes purchased from a breeder. All four animals were like her babies and she loved them dearly.
Jewel was one of the few pieces of her mother she had, as her mother had left when Regina was 2 years old. All she knew about her was that her name was Bridget she was from Ireland; she had Auburn red hair, bright blue eyes, and that she was an artist, a good one at that.
Regina had only seen one picture of her mother it was an old photo from when her mother and father were still dating. She was incredibly beautiful and Regina knew immediately where she got her looks from, the only things she inherited from her dad was his easygoing attitude and olive green eyes.
Unfortunately another trait she got from her mom besides her looks was her eyesight issues. Luckily for her she only needed her glasses for reading the rest of the time it didn't bother her.
The next few days were spent saying farewells and packing up their apartment. The day finally came and all of Regina's friends came to say goodbye, Roxy the brooding Russian brunette, Sara the bubbly hyperactive American blonde, Nikita the dark haired Italian princess and her dearest and closest friend Leon Black a Japanese American with black hair and big brown puppy dog eyes.
They all came forward and group hugged her good bye there was a Chorus of "I'll Miss you's" and Leon said "We will IM you and send you stuff when you're feeling homesick." Sara cut in bouncing around like a rubber ball "Oh Oh! And I'll keep you updated on all the juicy school gossip!"
Roxy was the next to speak "Reggie (Roxy was the only friend who called her that all the time) Send me some cool Japanese stuff and be careful on Deirdre (Her motorcycle)." Nikita was the last to speak she bounded forward and simultaneously smothered Regina with her boobs and squished her in a spine cracking hug. "Queenie, darling." She said in her thick accent "You simply must find yourself a boyfriend while you're over there; you need a man in your life!" Nikita leaned down and whispered in Regina's ear (Nikita being 6'4 ½" and Regina being 5'8 ½") "when you find out you'll have to tell me if that stereotype about Asian guys is true. ~" Regina turned bright red and everyone laughed uproariously at her expression the laughter drawing muttered curses from the red faced teen.
Before she left she took one final walk around her home for the past 16 years, it was so strange she had never seen it so empty before.
All the walls had been repainted clean bright white, the smell of the drying paint still hung thick in the air. The dark wood floors had been re-varnished and they gleamed, any nail holes or damage in the sheetrock were covered up with spackle.
Any sign of the life she and her father had lived here had been completely erased.
She walked down the hall into her room here too her presence had been erased with spackle and white paint. She walked in and kneeled in the spot formerly occupied by her bed. She pulled her grandfathers penknife out of her pocket and in small, careful letters, carved her name into the floorboards.
"Regina"
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