Carrie AU

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing and what if one night a few weeks after the start of the school year gym teacher Rita Desjardin is on her way home from the store when she stumbles across Carrie White bleeding and crying in the rain cause she was locked out of her house…again? AU slight OOCish.)

"The one time I decide to walk to the store and back it rains! Talk about rotten luck!" Rita Desjardin said scowling up at the sky from under her sweater which she had hastily removed and used as a makeshift umbrella, leaving her to shiver in a white tube top and pair of grey sweat pants. The gym teacher lived just down the road from the only grocery store in town so she decided to run there and buy some last minute grocers before running back home, although the weather man had said it was going to be a sunny day rather than rainy.

Rita was running home as fast as she could without slipping on the wet cement when she ran past a park and stopped. Sitting on one of the nearby benches was a young girl, one of her students actually, and from the sound of it the girl was sobbing. Rita recognized the girl instantly, how could she not? The other teachers had been warning her about the girl ever since she accepted the job as the new gym teacher at Ewen High. It was Carrie White, the supposed bible-crazy klutz Senior.

Personally Rita didn't believe most of what the other teachers told her about the young girl and how she was as crazy as her mother, sure the girl was a little shy and uncertain about common things but she was nowhere near as…unhinged as Margaret White had been the one time that Rita had actually met the woman. That woman had been ranting and waving about how Mr. Collins at the dry cleaners was going to hell for some small thing or another. And sure the girl was a little clumsy but that seemed to be more nervousness than anything else and she had never heard the timid girl say a single unkind thing to the other students even when they tormented her relentlessly.

Rita didn't even notice that as she had been thinking all this her feet directed her body towards the sobbing girl who was wearing one of her usual all covering outfits that her mother had made her.

"Carrie?" Rita asked when she finally noticed that she was literally right behind the girl who had yet to notice her. Carrie let out a small surprised squeak like shriek sound as she jumped nearly a foot off the ground, falling off of the bench as she did so. Carrie laid on the ground staring at Rita wide eyed and panting slightly from fear as she clutched her left arm tightly in her right one.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to startle you so badly." Rita apologized as she quickly walked around the bench and crouched down next to Carrie to see if the girl had hurt herself by accident. Carrie watched her warily, slowly calming down from her near death fright, as the rain fell around them.

"M-Ms. Desjardin?" Carrie asked cautiously, recognizing the gym teacher that had treated her kinder than the other teachers did, but never spoke to her before.

"Yes Carrie?" Rita asked as she tried to get a look at the girls left arm but Carrie clutched it tighter to her chest protectively, cradling it slightly with her right arm.

"W-Why are you out here in the rain?" Carrie asked confused as she looked at the kind PE teacher who gave her a wry smile and lift up the shopping bag on her arm.

"Last minute grocery shopping. It was predicted to be a sunny day so I thought I'd run to the store since it's not too far from my house. It's my rotten luck to be walking back to the house when it started to rain. Now why are you out here in the rain?" Rita asked causing Carrie to shrug slightly.

"Mama locked me out the house for tonight and the rest of the weekend again cause I didn't want to go to the praying closet." Carrie said sounding unconcerned while Rita was startled.

"Your mother did WHAT?!" Rita asked shouting the last bit in anger, how could anyone lock their child out of the house for the weekend cause she didn't want to go to the 'praying closet'? That woman must be even more unhinged than Rita thought. Rita only slightly calmed down when she noticed Carrie flinched and whimpered slightly at the yell.

"And she didn't come get you and let you back in the house when it started raining?" Rita asked causing Carrie to shake her head in the negative while another thing caught Rita's attention about Carrie's previous sentence as the girl nervously sat up.

"And what did you mean she locked you out again? Does she do it often?" Rita asked, looking a bit worried about the answer.

"Momma locks me out of the house at least once a month for one reason or another." Carrie said slightly confused, most of the people in Chamberlain knew that her momma locked her outta the house…so how come Miss. Desjardin didn't? Oh…wait…she had just moved here at the start of the school year…maybe that was why? Rita swelled like an angry bullfrog at this before she counted to ten…five times…in three different languages before she un-swelled.

"Alright. Get up Carrie and let's go before you get sick." Rita said extending her free hand to help the girl off of where she was still sitting on the wet grass of the park.

"Go where Miss Desjardin?" Carrie asked nervously taking the teachers extended hand and letting herself be pulled up off of the ground by the woman who was stronger than she looked.

"To my house of course. I'm not letting you stay out here by yourself in this weather. It isn't right." Rita said with a shake of her head.

And just like that Chamberlain was forever changed, thanks to one womans kind action to the 'freak' of the town.