!DISCLAIMER: I do not own Clock Tower and/or Silent Hill, nor am I affiliated with their IP holders!
Chapter 1: Isolation's Cut
Jennifer never had it easy in life. Her parents left her before she was even an adolescent, her father seemingly dropping off the face of the Earth, and her mother disappearing shortly thereafter. Like so many discarded children, she was sent to live at an orphanage. The shy girl somehow managed to make a few friends, like Ann, Laura, and Lotte.
Mister Barrows was to adopt them. The case worker, Mary, who seemed like an utterly normal, decent woman, took them to the Barrows Mansion.
It was then that they were seperated. In more ways than one.
Laura, poor, blond Laura, was the first one that she found. In one of the bathrooms on the first floor. Steam permeated the room. Jennifer found her suspended from the curtain rack in the bathtub. And then, he came-no, bursted-out of the water, the boy with the scissors.
That horrible, demented boy.
Somehow, she was able to avoid him as she searched for her other friends. Instead, she found Mary, who drugged her and threw her into a cage in the barn with the starving Mister Barrows. She did not know what would have become of her if she hadn't given him the ham that she pocketed earlier from the kitchen, and she didn't want to.
It was then that Lotte tried to rescue her. She opened the cage and Jennifer was able to escape. Lotte wasn't so lucky. With the door open, Mary shot her and then came after Jennifer, who picked up a two-by-four and waited by the door. She was shaking, but was still able to crack Mary on her hard head with the plywood when she came inside.
With that, Jennifer was alone again. Ann. Ann was the only one left, if she was still alive at all. She had to find her, but hadn't the slightest idea where to look.
Jennifer returned to the room on the second floor where Mary had drugged her. Poking around in every corner, she was able to find a golden key. She remembered a door on the second floor that was locked. Success! It unlocked the door.
This new room had eerie green walls and a mural on the wall. It depicted people surrounding a ghostly silhouette, much larger than the group itself. On the table, there was a book about some occult ritual. Jennifer didn't understand it, except a reference to a clock tower.
Aside from a book full of things that she didn't comprehend and a bookshelf that couldn't be moved, but seemed to be hiding something, she was lost. She slid to the floor, expressionless, dazed. Hopelessness was settling in. This was much harder than anything she ever had to do. Even losing her parents wasn't this hard.
"Ann..." She sobbed. Even the scissorboy had seemingly abandoned her. She didn't want to die alone, even if that meant that she had to die on display, like Laura did.
"Please, don't leave me alone," she thought. "Just..."
Next- Twisted boys
Author's Comment: This first chapter is basically a recount of my experience with Clock Tower. I thought that cutting it off at Jennifer's breakdown was a good idea. In the next chapter, Jennifer goes looking for the scissorboy. I may have taken a few liberities with CT, and in terms of collecting more data from the game, I was ultimately thwarted by my emulator, which lost all of my play data for the SECOND TIME. Ugh. If you're interested in the game from this fic, TRY IT.