Author Note: First off of course I don't own anything and am not making anything off of this... Etc, etc, etc, because you know all of this already. Anyways so this is my very first fan fic ever and I'm still very new at this, but this is just a little story I've kicked around for years and just now decided to do something with it so I would love reviews of course. So feel free to critique but do please be nice :)
Chapter 1
Her long blonde hair is in curls and her bright green eyes shimmer in the moonlight. Her thin body is draped in a blood colored dress from centuries before. We are standing in one of the old Salem cemeteries that I remember from when I was a kid. She reaches out for my hand and I see the ring her mother gave her on her 13th birthday, she intertwines her ice-cold fingers with mine.
"Come with me." Her voice is soft as she kisses me. She releases my hand and then gathers her skirt up and takes off running down a path.
"Wait." I call out and run after her. It's like dropping through a black hole one minute we're in Salem and the next we're in Ipswich at the old Stein home.
The stone driveway, the formal entrance, and the grand staircase are just as I remember them before the accident, all of it frozen in time. Including her mother, who is looking down upon us from the top of the stairs in the formal entrance. Everything changes when I look into her eyes.
"Ah the dear young Mister Garwin. What a delicious pleasure." The old bitch says. I look up and watch her descend the staircase. The woman who almost killed me is nothing like I remember her. Something in me want to run but I stand there awestruck as her eyes change into cat like slits with a rich golden color. Her body still young and glorious not at all like the last time I saw her.
Time jumps forward again and she's standing in front of me now holding my wrists in her hands, her daughter is no where to be seen. I try to take a step back but my body is locked in place.
"Dear dear little Garwin. I'm so glad you could join me for this moment." She says, her voice sounds like chimes.
"Let me go." I say struggling to back away from her grasp.
"No. You must stay. Stay and see what becomes of bad little boys who misbehave." She says holding tighter to my arms. Her painted red nails began to dig into my flesh and break the skin.
"I'm didn't do anything." I tell her, becoming frightened.
"Oh but you did." She says. I jerk away but once again am unable to move.
"Then what did I do? Tell me!" I demand becoming more anxious. I catch our reflection in a nearby mirror, my reflection keeps changing from fourteen year old me to seventeen year old me. Her reflection is terrifying though. Her body is burnt and charred and wildly distorted in the mirror.
"This is what you did to me." She hisses drawing my attention back to her.
She flips my wrists upward and blood suddenly starts pouring from them to the floor.
"Make it stop." I cry. "I didn't mean to do anything."
"Reid." I hear my name but it sounds like a far away thought.
She laughs and the blood turns black. "So young and so ignorant. You pay for what you do even if you didn't mean to do it."
Blood begins dripping out of the mirror..
"It hurts." I scream in pain. The room becomes thick with smoke and I feel my lungs start to burn.
She laughs and reaches out and touches my face, smearing blood across my cheek. "It will only hurt for a little while and then you feel absolutely nothing."
"Please." I beg. "I'm going to die."
"Oh trust me they want let you." She knocks me to the floor in the hallway and then the mirror shatters cracking our reflections. I just lay there on my back crying.
"Reid."
"Oh don't cry Reid darling, you've already killed me." With that she disappears.
I'm alone as smoke consumes the room and I feel like I can't breathe. My vision becomes blurry and then everything around me goes black.
"Reid."
"Reid."
I open my eyes and gasp for air.
"Reid." Tyler repeats his voice urgent and I look over at him. He's sitting on the edge of his bed half asleep fumbling with the lamp which he finally just uses to turn on. "Are you okay?"
I sat up and take a deep breath. Spencer Academy dorm. Me and Tyler's room. Everything is as it should be. "Yeah man fine."
"You sure?" Tyler asks hesitantly. I nod my head in the dim light.
"Get me my smokes will ya baby boy," I say rolling out of bed in just my boxers and wince as my bare feet hit the cold hardwood floor.
Tyler gets out of his bed swearing about how cold it is then goes and digs around in my desk for a lighter and my pack of cigarettes. "We are going to get in trouble for this one day."
"Uh huh." I mutter. Like I care, any trouble I get in and dear daddy Garwin writes another check and tells me what a screw up I am. I unlock the window and force it up letting in the freezing night air. "And you baby boy shouldn't be smoking period... Blackens your lungs and all."
He looks at me and rolls his eyes taking one from the pack and lighting it then passing them to me. Tyler Simms and his one dirty little habit that he keeps secret, not even Caleb and Pouge know. He's too concerned about what everyone would think and all that bullshit. I sit in the windowsill and lean my head back as I take a drag. The dreams and what really happened are all blurred together so I turn my wrist over and touch the remaining scars. Still there as a permanent reminder of that night.
Tyler puts on a t-shirt and a hoodie then pulls a desk chair up to the window and sits down in it propping his feet up on the desk beside the window. "Maybe you should talk to somebody about it."
"Why? So some shrink can tell me I'm screwed up in the head. Give me some more pills. I'm not crazy."
"I don't mean someone like that. I meant one of us. Caleb has already ascended and Pouge is about to. The reason your getting these dreams is because your next you know. We are all going to have to face our worst nightmares eventually. And you could always talk to me" He says adding the last bit quietly.
"You were there Tyler." I remind him blowing a smoke ring. "There isn't anything that needs talking about."
Debbi Stein had been my father's mistress for years, possibly even before I was born. They had been business partners are something like that, anytime they were out of town together, my mother always offered to watch Debbi's daughter Carmilla. Carmilla and I for the most part grew up together, she was even my first kiss.
But when I found out that Debbi was the reason my parent's were splitting up around the time that I was fourteen, I got pissed and had the brilliant idea to use my newly acquired 'abilities' to freak her out and make her leave my dad alone. I convinced Tyler and Pouge to come along and wait outside on me, but things didn't go exactly as planned, as she not only knew of my powers but also had some of her own.
Midway through giving her a piece of my mind and about to perform my "trick" she told me I didn't know a damn thing and took another sip of wine. I closed my eyes and willed my power to pick up a vase to throw it across the room but I felt this odd buzzing sensation around me, something else held the vase suspended in midair. She just stood up and smiled this old witch like smile. I went running at her but that same invisible force suddenly caught me too.
"Don't be a bad little boy Reid. Go home before I have to tell your father that you misbehaved." She told me and then the force disappeared. I took my chance and went full speed at her again but felt a invisible force push me away but then I tripped backwards knocked a candle over and then fell into a huge mirror that shattered on impact.
I held up one of my arms above my face as I was lying there dazed on the floor and saw the deep gashes that were just starting to pour blood and then panicked, started screaming, and crying until I passed out cold. Tyler who had been listening by the window thought she had killed me and promptly took off like any thirteen year old would. Pouge, being the fearless warrior he's always believed himself to be went running in the other direction for the front door and started pounding on it.
By the time he finally found away in the living room was on fire around me, Debbi had ran upstairs to get Carmilla, and I had woken up enough to be aware of the smoke filling my lungs. The last few things I remember are hearing Debbi screaming, being carried outside by Pouge and looking back over his shoulder to see Carmilla dragging her mother outside. Debbi was still on fire.
But I don't remember anything else about that night or the rest of that week for that matter.
"Ever wonder what life would be like if we didn't have the powers?" Tyler asks exhaling a stream of smoke.
I shrug my shoulders trying to suppress the shiver from the night air. "Maybe life wouldn't be so complicated."
He nods and takes another drag. "I don't think I want to ascend. I don't think our power is worth it."
"I can't wait to ascend." I say with a laugh and Tyler just rolls his eyes. "But I mean I guess I see what you mean baby boy. We wouldn't have to go through so much shit if we didn't have this."
"We'd be normal." He says.
"It would be kinda boring though don't you think?" I question him turning to face him as I use to flick the light switch and the radio on and off a couple of times.
He laughs and soft breeze of the night air sends chills through my body. Tyler instantly gets up and walks over to the floor beside my bed, picks up my a hoodie, and tosses it to me. "Here, you're going to freeze."
"Thanks mom." I say sarcastically as I shrug it on.
He rolls his eyes as we sit in silence and finish our cigarettes. When he's done he asks me again if I'm okay then goes on back to bed. Even an hour later when I finally get back in bed sleep doesn't come easily and instead I lie there awake for the next couple of hours until Tyler's alarm goes off.
To Be Contd.
