I Tear My Heart Open, I Sew Myself Shut

The Story of Alexis Leroy

By: The Ultimate Hufflepuff

AN: This is my first fanfiction ever, guys! Please review with helpful advice! No flames, please! I'm doing my best to not make Alexis a Mary-Sue! ;)

Chapter 1.

"Lexi!" A six-year-old Samantha Leroy hissed as she shook her older sister, attempting to wake her up. Alexis responded with a muffled groan. "Wake up!" Sam's shakes became more insistent. "Maman said zat we can go outside! Eet's ten, sleepy 'ead!"

"Ten?" Alexis asked sleepily, blinking the sleep out of her eyes. "Why would eet be ten o' clock at night?"

"I'm waking you up, duh." Sam giggled. "Now c'mon!" she tugged on Alexis's thin arm and toppled over when Alexis pulled herself away from her younger sister's grasp.

"Oh.. pardon-moi, seester. I need to change." Alexis pointed to her silk pajamas before she stripped them off and dressed in a simple blouse and skirt. She slipped her shoes on hastily before her sister dragged her away from her room to the gorgeous garden in the back of the Leroy manor.

"Sam! Sam! Slow down, madmoiselle!" Alexis panted as she tried to keep up with her sister's bubbling energy.

"Non!" Sam shook her head as she skipped along. "We need to get zere soon, before maman sees where we are going."

Alexis's smile faltered. "Where are we going?" she asked suspiciously, dark blue eyes boring into her sister's soft brown ones. Her sister flinched away from her seven-year-old sister's gaze.

"Somewhere... somewhere maman told us not to go!" Sam replied in a small, but slightly rebellious voice.

"Sam.. no." Alexis whispered, gaze shifting away from the bright garden into the dark forest beyond. Dread pooled in the pit of her stomach.

"Aw, Lexi, does zat mean zat you are chicken?" Sam taunted, a small little smirk playing on her lips.

Alexis looked infuriated. "What? No." she gave Sam an angry scowl. "Don't call me chicken."

"Chicken, chicken, chicken!" Sam taunted, placing her hands on her hips and sticking out her tongue.

Alexis flinched and stumbled away from her sister. She could just go to her mother and tell her that Sam was being a brat (as usual), or she could go into the probably harmless forest.

"...Fine," Alexis huffed after a short pause. "I'll go." she gulped down the bile in the back of her throat. She walked tentatively towards the edge of the forest, gazing up nervously at the bright full moon. She squinted at the darkness, trying (and failing) to decipher anything in the blackness.

She peeked behind her shoulder at an impatient Sam. "Faster!" her sister demanded. "See eef eet's safe."

Alexis gulped again before stepping inside the gloomy forest and being engulfed in black. There was a fresh burst of cold air pushing southward, beckoning her in like a predator beckoning its prey. She shivered, rubbing her arms and letting out shaky breaths as she walked deeper into the frightening area.

She had no idea about how far she had gone; it seemed like miles when it could have merely been feet. She stopped aruptly when she heard the snap of twigs breaking.

Her heart stopped, hairs on the back of her neck rising as her brain screamed at her to run away.

But she couldn't move a muscle. She couldn't even blink. The fear that now gathered in the pit of her stomach kept her frozen in place.

She only broke into a run when she heard a howl.

Tears ran down her cheeks as she sprinted, leg muscles aching and tree branches scraping the sides of her face. Droplets of blood dripped down from these cuts and mixed with her tears.

She was almost to the edge. The light was up ahead...

It was too late. Her legs gave out, her lungs ached, and her screams mingled with the howls of the monster that had now pinned her down. Those screams heightened when the beast's fangs dug into her shoulder blade, and the razor-sharp claws scraped at every inch of skin that it could find.

Agony clouded her brain as her throat went dry and she spat up her own blood. The warmth of all of her blood that was split was everywhere, forming a small puddle in the otherwise green grass. "M-M-Maman..." she managed to croak as a last attempt before her entire being surrendered to the pain.