Writer's Note: Though this is not my first posted fanfiction, it is the one I have been working on the longest. I intend for this to be more in depth with many more scenes in the future but to start I decided to only posted the parts about Heather and Vincent since I love pairing the two of them together. With this version of the story I am trying to keep their characters true to themselves as best as I can but I do have to tweak the story a bit for it to work out in my favor. Reviews, feedback, and suggested pairing welcome. I hope you enjoy!

IN THE BEGINNING

Flames burn hot in the room as thousands of candles are laid out in a large circle around a bloody painted symbol of The Halo of the Sun. Kaufmann stands over Dahlia who is lying naked on the floor over the symbol. In the circle along side her are critters such as snakes, spiders, and rats. Kaufmann reads from The Book of Lost Memories, then after finishing the passage he lays on top of her. Members of The Order chant as they witness the two of them making love. As their bodies climax the flames from the candles erupt in huge balls around them. The ritual is a success.

(7 years pass)

Alessa sits on her living room floor with her hands over a pile of books. With her eyes closed, she concentrates hard. She groans struggling, thinking as hard as she can. The Halo of the Sun shines through the skin of her forehead then fades. She takes a deep breath concentrating hard again and the symbol appears a second time.

"That's it, concentrate," Dahlia commands from her chair beside her.

Alessa opens her eyes. Their natural green color are now a pale gray. Her forehead symbol grows brighter and the pages of the books begin to turn on their own.

"Good keep going."

Alessa's eyes turn back to their natural green and the symbol disappears from her forehead once again. She whines frustrated, "I can't do it mommy." She rubs her eyes.

"Yes you can Alessa. You're just not trying hard enough."

Alessa shouts at her, "I'm trying as hard as I can! I can't do it! Why can't I just read the books?"

"Alessa... if you learn to use your powers correctly you will be able to know every word in the book without even having to open the covers."

"But why me? Why am I the one who always has to be different. Why can't I just be like all the other kids?"

"Alessa... you are making mommy very angry. Just do as you are told."

"I don't want these stupid powers! I just want a normal life with a normal mom!" She storms out of the room crying and runs up to her bedroom.

Kaufmann walks into the room smoking a pipe unsure of what happened after he had stepped out. "What's with all the shouting?"

Dahlia sighs, "Alessa is refusing to cooperate Michael. I don't know what to do with her. She doesn't understand how important her powers mean to the future of this town. If she doesn't learn to control them The Order might take matters into their own hands."

Maybe you're pushing her too hard. With all the stress she goes through at school being called a witch and then coming home only to be pressured by her mother who treats her like some kind of lab animal..."

Dahlia laughs interrupting him, "You talk as if your plans are not the same as mine. I know you want her to take control just as much as I do. Without her we will never get this town operational like we want. We have to move faster or we might have to end this and start all over from the beginning."

"Maybe we misunderstood something from the book. Maybe it really is hard for Alessa to gain control of her powers. After all, even though she possesses the strength of Samael himself, she is still only a little girl."

Dahlia approaches Kaufmann, "She clearly is not the one to handle such responsibility. We need a child who is really willing to commit."

"You may be right, but in order to do that we would need to extract the power Alessa already has and transfer it into another. But how would we do that?"

Dahlia stands silently for a moment thinking then looks up at him, "I'll keep trying for now." She moves past him then stops at the end of the stairs in the hall to look back at him. "I just want to make this clear, the only reason you are still a part of this is because without you, we couldn't perform the ritual. But don't for a moment think that she is our daughter. There is no we after this is all done." She then turns back to the stairs and makes her way up to Alessa's room.

Alessa is sitting on her quilted bed drawing in her sketchbook still angry at her mother. She is drawing a picture of an Apparition with dark crayons. Dahlia knocks on the door then enters without Alessa's consent. She opens the door wide then stares at the pictures of monsters she has covering the walls.

"Alessa, why do you draw these pictures?"

"They're pictures of how I see my classmates."

"Really? Who is this then?" She points to a drawing of an Insane Cancer on the wall.

"That's Tyler. He eats everything. I'm surprised he has not eaten himself yet."

Dahlia points to another drawing, "And this one?"

"That's Vincent. The Closer."

"Oh yeah, I know him. He's a cute one."

Alessa sticks out her tongue and shakes her head disgusted, "No way, yuck!"

"Why did you draw him with such big lips?"

"Because every day he sits next to me in class and tries to kiss me. He is so gross."

"Why don't you like him?"

"He's a boy and boys have cooties. Besides all he does is read his book. He is so boring and never wants to play games. Nobody likes him."

As Dahlia looked over the drawing she found one that was a normal picture of a girl with long blond hair and dressed in a dark cloak, "Is this one your friend Claudia?"

"Yeah she is really nice to me. She is not like everyone else. She never calls me names."

Dahlia laughs, "Don't worry. One day everyone will grow to love you. I promise."

(7 more years later)

Alessa still struggles to use her powers to their fullest abilities and has started to refuse running tests with her mother who has become impatient with her disobedience. She sits in her room drawing when Dahlia enters the room.

"All I am asking you to do is try. Why can't you just do as you are told?"

"Because I am tired mother. I am tired of everything. Trying to understand these powers, being different, having a mother who doesn't treat me like her daughter but rather some kind of experiment. I am also tired of all the kids at school making fun of me. Calling me a witch. Why even give me these powers in the first place if all they do is make those around me hate and fear me?"

"That doesn't seem to be the case with that Vincent boy. Don't think I haven't noticed you sneaking away from your church lessons to meet up with him elsewhere."

"So what if we do? He is the only person other than Claudia who treats me normally. Lately he has even been singing The Holy Hymn to me and I like it. It takes my mind away from all the sadness I feel when I am around others."

"Well I suppose you won't have to worry about any of it anymore."

"What do you mean? Are you going to do something about people teasing me?"

"Yeah, I'm going to do something about it. Right now." She steps out of the room and slams the bedroom door shut.

Alessa hears her lock it and jumps off the bed, running over to the door. "Mom, what are you doing?"

"You've been a very bad girl Alessa. You have disobeyed your mother for the last time and now you're going to be punished."

Alessa can hear the sound of a match being lit on the other side of the door. She set her ear against the hard, wood to listen more closely. She can hear her mother head down the stairs and out the front door. Smoke begins to seep in from under the doorway into her room. She becomes frightened and confused.

"Mom?" She cries out as she frantically tries to open the door. She bangs her fists on it panicking. "Mom let me out!" Her screams become louder and louder as she watches the door set ablaze, then the floor, and ceiling began to give way. "Mom I'm sorry! I didn't mean to be a bad girl. I didn't mean to yell at you, please mommy!" She runs to the window and sees Kaufmann looking up at her. "Father! Father please help me!"

Kaufmann looks away unable to bare the sound of her sweet voice in agony. The house bursts into flames and eventually collapses into a pile of rubble. Dahlia steps up to him and places a hand on his shoulder. They exchange no words.

HELL ON EARTH

The next morning Dahlia and Kaufmann search the rubble and find Alessa still alive but very badly burnt and hardly breathing. They take her to the Alchemilla Hospital and place her in the care of Lisa. They discover that Alessa is trapped in a circling coma from which she can not be awakened. The sight of her burnt body disgusts Lisa and she isn't sure she can take on the responsibility. She looks down at her bottle of White Chrism and sticks a pill into her mouth. The tastes of the drug helps to calm her.

"Michael, what are we going to do? How could she have survived the fire?"

"Apparently Alessa is a lot more powerful than we thought, but I think that if we keep her this way we might be able to control her powers without her even realizing it."

"But if she has the power of Samael inside her then why is it that she can't use them? Are they dormant or somehow incomplete?"

"No. I think what it is, is she does not have the willpower to control Samael, which means if we transfer his power into that of a willing recipient we will have better luck."

"I have the perfect child in mind. I found him over at Wish House Orphanage just a few days ago. His name is Walter Sullivan."

"Oh yeah, I have heard about that kid. Top of his class and spends a lot of time studying The Book. So then what are we going to do with Alessa?"

"Well leave her be for now. As long as she is immobile we wont have to worry about her and it will give us plenty of time to set up the next ritual."

Lisa gasps having hearing their conversation from the doorway. She prayed neither of them heard her as she runs to Alessa's room. Alessa still lies unconscious on her recovery bed. Her hands rest together over her chest that are all now wrapped in thick clothes that are soaked in blood. Her chest moves up and down slowly as she struggles to breathe. Lisa sits down in a chair next to her and runs her fingers over Alessa's brow.

"You poor child. How could they do something like this?"

As suddenly as she spoke, Alessa opens her eyes and stares at her. Her eyes shine like two large emeralds as she takes in a deep gasping breathe. Lisa jumps from her set, nearly falling over the chair and presses her back against the wall.

Alessa struggles to speak through her bandages, "Help me." She reaches out her right hand rolling over onto her side as large portions of blood begin to seep out from underneath her soaking the bed.

Lisa cries in fear pressing her back even harder against the wall. The blood continues to spill over the floor then climbs up over the walls. Lisa stands unable to move as she watches the entire room fill with blood.

(Several days later)

Alessa twitches in her bed while having a nightmare.

Lisa watches her from her bedside crying and talking to herself, "Why won't she stop bleeding? I change the bandages but the blood and puss just keep seeping through. Why? What is keeping this child alive?"

She then notices Alessa stirring. She opens her eyes and stares into Lisa's. Her eyes begin to glow again and Lisa can see the Halo of the Sun symbol glow on her forehead. A bright light forms on the bed next to her. Lisa looks in amazment as the body of a baby girl appears in front of her. She looks at Alessa in confusion. With her hand shaking she takes out her pills and pops the last one into her mouth. Alessa holds the baby out to her and then points to the door. With little hesitation Lisa takes the baby from her hands and heads for the door.

Kaufmann hears the sound of Lisa's car door close and run out to the parking lot. He watches as she drives off towards the way out of town. Confused and worried he runs to Alessa's room finding her in a puddle of her own blood.

Lisa speeds all the way out of town until she sees the sign reading Thank you for visiting Silent Hill. She reaches to take another pill from her pill bottle only to remember that the bottle was empty. She takes one more look at the baby girl in the seat next to her and decides to pull over. She holds the child in her arms then sets her on the ground next to the road. She wraps the baby tightly in a blanket, gets back in her car, and drives back to the hospital.

Entering the hospital driveway, Kaufmann awaits her arrival. As she steps out of the car, he approaches her, "Where did you go?" He grabs her by the hair on the back of her head and pulls her closer to him.

"I had to go back to my place," she cries.

"Don't lie to me. I saw you heading out of town so what were you doing?"

"Nothing I swear."

Kaufmann smiles, "Well see about that." Using his suitcase he strikes her in the head knocking her unconscious.

The next morning Harry and his wife find the child on their way out of Silent Hill.

(Events of Silent Hill 1 happens then the story of Silent Hill 3 begins)