Hey guys, I have had this idea rattling around inside my head for a while, and don't worry I will be continuing my 2 other fan fictions but I felt I needed to get this one out there. R+R pls
chapter 1
I woke to the sound of my alarm going off,
I did my best to notice
When the call came down the line
Up to the platform of surrender
I was brought, but I was kind
And sometimes I get nervous
When I see an open door
Close your eyes, clear your heart
Cut the cord
I roll over to encounter a large furry lump, I huff as I try pushing the lump off my bed, they aren't supposed to even be on it in the first place. I push harder but only receive a pair of twin moans for my efforts. I give up and the lump picks his furry head up, stretches, and jumps off my bed. I look over my shoulder at the other lump who is looking at me, with a what are you going to do look. I shrug in response and follow the large furry tail through the doorway, a wet nose touching my hand, as I place it on the others head. My alarm still playing in the back ground.
Pay my respects to grace and virtue
Send my condolences to good
Give my regards to soul and romance
They always did the best they could
And so long to devotion
You taught me everything I know
Wave goodbye, wish me well
You've gotta let me go
Are we human or are we denser?
My sign is vital, my hands are cold
And I'm on my knees looking for the answer
Are we human or are we denser?
I let them out into the large green space, that I consider a yard. I walk over to the railing and look out over the city of ottawa, to my left the parliament building. I walk back towards the sliding doors that let me back into my penthouse.
"bear, aurora." I call for my two furry wolf dogs, (they look a lot more like wolves than dogs in my opinion). They come trotting inside and sit by their food bowls as per routine. I walk over to the fridge and grab myself the milk, and a slab of hamburger meat. I walk over and evenly divide the meat before putting each in the bowls. I grab my cereal and pour myself a bowl, before sitting down at the counter to eat. I flip the tv to the news, nothing really new. I lean back from the now empty bowl, bored. It was friday the last day of the week, I turn the tv off and walk over to the sink. I place my dishes in and go over to the dog bowls and pick them up as well. I walk back to my room I hit the off button on my alarm as I grab my outfit for the day and walk over to the bathroom attached to my room. What am I going to do, I have the next week and a half off for summer vacation. I get out of the shower just as the phone rings. I wrap myself in a towel and run over to the phone on my night stand.
"hello?" I answer cautiously, most of the times its just a wrong number.
"hey, Scarlet? Is that you?" a hesitant voice answers from the other end of the line. I know that voice! I haven't heard from him in months!
"Matthew! is that you!?" I question, my voice a little more confident, now that I know whos on the other end of the line.
"ya, its me, sorry I haven't been in contact with you lately, I had to go see some…. friends." he answers the question that was the loudest in my head.
He always was shy, and he told me about some of his family, from what I heard they sounded… what's the right word… fun, crazy, forgetful? Never mind, they were better than what I had, which is nothing, no parents, no siblings, no next of kin well none thats left any way. I had my aunt but she died a few years back, of an anxiety attack.
"how are you?" I ask the simple question,
"good, hey guess what"
"what?"
"I'll be in ottawa for the next few weeks!" he says sounding really excited
"really?"
"yep, the only thing is, I have business to attend to while i'm there.." he says sounding truly disappointed
"that's ok, guess what, i'm off for the next couple weeks as well!" I tell him happily, Matthew and I have been friends ever since I met him when I was on parade with the mounties.
"so let me guess, you'll need a room?" I ask him, referring to my 5 star hotel that I inherited from my aunt.
"um, ya, about that turns out my friends-" he gets cut off by yelling in the background "will be coming with me…" he trails off after the yelling had died down,
"oh, ok that's fine by me, so how many rooms?" I ask as I search for a pad and pen to write down the number.
"12 people in total," he says after a few seconds, he probably did a head count.
"ok, when are you guys coming in?" I asked
"we'll be there tomorrow around 8, we have a flight tonight." he says
"oh, can I ask where you are now?" I ask curiously.
"ya, i'm in london" he says he sounds like he's getting quieter, it must just be the yelling in the background, its getting louder. I look over at my clock, I have to leave in the next half an hour to get to the hotel on time, luckily its just on the other side of the parliament buildings.
"sorry to cut this so short, Scarlet, but" - more yelling - "its getting too loud…" he tries to say over the yelling.
"its not a problem, mattie" I say back "see you soon"
I hang up, after matthew says a quick goodbye. I get changed into the skirt and blouse, that I grabbed and walk out the door, with a quick goodbye sent to bear and aurora.
I take the elevator down to the first floor, I of course am ignored completely as I walk through the lobby, people walking into me without an apology. I continue on my way, occasionally being pushed or bumped, no one taking notice of the thin, silver haired girl, with ice blue eyes, sometimes mistaken for white. Her ice white skin in pale contrast with the world around her. 'The ghost' they called her, the elusive owner of one of the most prestigious hotels from all over. I knew all the rumors, about how she killed her aunt, she was an assassin in the military, I know them all.
Some how I got through each day, only being acknowledged when I made myself known in a room, usually by moving things around the room, or by making a noise.
~ time skip ~
I got home around 8 or nine at night, I said hello to bear and aurora who greeted me at the door and went to my room, it had been a particularly rough day, I lay back on my bed, and almost immediately fall asleep.
I wake up around midnight to realize I fell asleep in my work clothes, I get up and change, before realizing I can't fall back asleep, I end up walking around the apartment, randomly cleaning things, tidying things, and just wandering. I always was a night owl. I walk silently over towards the pool room, I look in to see the moonlight reflecting off the surface of the water. So beautiful, so calm. I step along the edge, before turning and walking out of the pool room towards the stairs that lead up to my room. I walk up the few steps and slid open the door quietly, aurora looks up at me, but then goes back to sleep. I look at my alarm clock, its 2:00 in the morning, I sigh and slip quietly back into bed with my two large wolf dogs.
I wake around 7:30 to the sound of large dog snoring in my ear,
"bear," I groan as I use my leg to nudge him, he stops momentarily, but then goes right back at it.
I sigh as I roll over and out of bed. Neither of the dogs get up.
"Suit themselves" I grumble as I wipe the blurriness and sleep from my eyes, I walk down the few steps as I round the few corners past the pool room into the kitchen. I grab a glass of orange juice and walk out on to the terrace/ green space. I watch as the sun rises against the pinky orange sky.
I stand there for a few minutes, before realizing what's missing, Matthew, he's coming today, I smile to myself at the thought. I walk back inside, wondering what time he's coming. I check my phone, no texts. I wander back to the pool room, might as well take a swim. I walk over to a dresser by the edge of the pool, the cream colouring perfectly matching the beach wallpaper. I grabbed a lilac coloured bikini and walked over to, the bathroom attached to the pool room. I walked over to the door to let bear and aurora in, before walking over to the stereo system wired throughout the whole house, I had plugge in my ipod to the stereo in my room, I accessed my many songs from the control panel in here, and put the music on shuffle. I turned around as the first song started to play, cooler than me by mike posner,
If I could write you a song,
And make you fall in love,
I would already have you up under my arm.
I used up all my tricks,
I hope that you like this.
But you probably won't,
You think you're cooler than me.
You got designer shades,
Just to hide your face and
You wear them around like
You're cooler than me.
And you never say hey,
Or remember my name.
Its probably 'cause,
You think you're cooler than me.
I smirk as I slip into the water and start by swimming back and forth, one end to the other.
Then I swim over to the edge of the pool and climb out, I check the time 7:45, wow time really flies. I continue on my route past the clock on the wall to the dresser, I open a different drawer and pull out what I need before walking back to the water, I shake my head as I listen to the song that comes on, Houdini by foster the people,
Rise above, gonna start the war!
Oh, what you want, what you need
What'd you come here for?
Well, an eye for an eye and an 'f' for fight
Taking me down as the prisoners riot
I attach the belt around my hips and wade deeper, I keep going even as the water closes over my head.
Yeah yeah
Got shackles on, my words are tied
Fear can make you compromise
With the lights turned up, it's hard to hide
Sometimes I want to disappear
I keep going until I am standing in the middle of the pool, at the very bottom looking up. I sit and close my eyes.
When I feel kinda bad and don't want stress
Just pass it off on ability
Well you got what you want, what you never knew
Perfect gift from me to you
Yeah yeah yeah
Got shackles on, my words are tied
Fear can make you compromise
With the lights turned up, it's hard to hide
Sometimes I want to disappear
I open my eyes and look up when I hear and feel a disturbance in the water around me, at first I think one of the dogs jumped in, before I see the body of a person swimming towards me, I being myself look around, and seeing no escape, launch myself off the bottom of the pool to the surface while whoever it is, is still surrounded in his bubbles made by his dive into my pool. I take a deep breath of air, before whistling shrilly twice, at once I hear deep throated growls, from both my wolves and a really quite girly scream of fear.
"no, down bear, heal aurora." I hear the familiar quiet voice, say.
I blink before turning to face the intruders.
"matthew?" I say surprised, as I look over incredulously at the blonde.
"what the heck!?" I ask in surprise and anger, as a blonde head pops up between us, on the other side of the pool. I dive underwater and swim down to the bottom of the pool, touch the bottom and grab one of the many weights that fell off, on my launch from the bottom. I swim to the other side of the pool where the blonde is being pulled from the pool. I tread water before swimming to the spot previously occupied by the blonde. I pull myself from the water, and grab a towel, aurora and bear still growling and occasionally snapping at Matthew and his five friends, I flick the hair from my face,
"heal" I tell the dogs softly. My music still playing in the background
(Raise up to your ability)
You never knew that I could find
What could come when we realize
I don't want to compromise
(Raise up to your ability)
Yeah I'm scared that I'll disappear
Running around before it corners you
Nothing good cause my life's a wreck
(Raise up to your ability)
I know that you want it
It's more simple to see
For my ability
Both dogs come over at once and stand beside me, I reach down and undo the weight belt, I take it by the handle and give it to aurora who takes it and trots by the group of people, towards the bin beside the dresser.
"now who was it who jumped into my pool and almost gave me a heart attack?" I ask quietly narrowing my eyes slightly.
"that would have been me, dear." I hear from the apparently sopping wet english man. My angry demeanor dies, after I see him start to shiver, I turn away so they don't see this though, I walk towards a rack of towels behind me and grab one.
"We thought you were drowning, aru" I hear a chinese accented voice say from behind me.
"drowning" I say turning around with a smirk, this seems to throw them off, I throw the towel to the english man. I turn to matthew,
"you let them think I was drowning?" I ask surprised, he smirks a little himself when they all look to him,
"scarlet, can hold her breath for around 7-8 minutes" he explains,
"What! dude, not cool, you let us think she was drowning," another blonde with a little stray flip up hair, accuses.
"Well, I tried to tell you guys she wasn't drowning, you just weren't listening." he explains, that makes more sense, he always was quiet.
"well i'm fine now, and if you don't mind waiting in the living room, while I change," I ask quietly, they nod and I turn to the englishman,
"I have a change of clothes if you would like?" I ask again in my quiet demeanor, he nods, "Matthew, can you show him? We can do introductions after I change." I say, I turn and walk towards the door, bear and aurora following me. I hold it open as everyone files past me matthew leading them to the living room. I go the opposite direction into my room, closing and locking the door for safe measures. I change into a nice sundress, with shorts underneath, better safe than sorry right? I drag a brush through my wet hair as well.
When I come back out most of them are sitting on the couch, the englishman, now in a pair of jeans and a shirt that fits him just right. I only see four people on the couches, I tilt my head just as a yelp from the kitchen occurs, I turn and walk into the kitchen to hear a quiet 'I told you so' from matthew, I see the blonde with the hair flip holding his finger and aurora sitting in front of the fridge.
"hey, scarlet" matthew says as soon as he sees me,
"are you hungry?" I ask the blonde behind matthew, he nods.
"sorry about that, they are rather protective, and their foods in there" I explain to the loud man. I open the fridge,
"here," I make him a ice cream cone, from my freezer where the ice cream maker is. I watch as his eyes widen in delight before taking the ice cream cone. I smile,
"come on, you still have some introductions to make" I laugh gently as I walk back to the living room. I walk into the living room and grab a seat on the edge of a sofa, so as not to make anyone uncomfortable in my presence.
"well, the loud, american you just gave ice cream to, is Alfred, the english man is Arthur, the long blonde, is Francis, the dark haired man with the ponytail, is Yao, and the tall white haired man with the scarf is Ivan. And this is scarlet, guys." he finishes,
"nice to meet ya, dude!" the american, called alfred, says around the ice cream in his mouth, the englishman sends him a disgusted look, before walking over and shaking my hand.
"nice to meet you, sorry about the bloody git over there." he apologizes
"it's no problem, really." I say "its nice to meet you all" I say.
"trust me, its my delight, ma belle petite fleur" francis says, well it sounds a lot more like he's trying to flirt with me, as he walks over and kneels before me holding my hand before gently kissing my knuckles. I smile gently as my face heats up, before I can say anything arthur has dragged francis away, to my great thanks.
"we wanted to know if you wanted to come to hang out with us today?" alfred asks, I look to matthew and he smiles although it looks a bit more like a grimace, an apology for the loud american.
"sure," I agree, "what are you guys going to do first?" they all look around at each other, lost.
"we were kinda hoping you could show us what we can do around here, Scarlet," matthew says,
"oh, um sure," I say looking around.
