Comments: This was wrote in 2008, when I was just fourteen years old, and one of my oldest fanfics. I figured I'd upload this again, considering it played such a big part in my life (: Enjoy the crapiness wrote when I couldn't write at all xD There's a lot wrong here and there, but hopefully someone can feel the emotions XD Please don't base this fanfic on what I write now – honestly, three years ago was a very, very long time ago.
Flowers Taste of Blood
Chapter One –
I Hate You
Sedaytion Clementine: a young teenager living at the Yuriev Inustrite since she was twelve years old: that makes it two years there. A normal human being, her father is a highly respected Doctor there, and so she lives with him. Sedaytion has her own section of the building, made to look just like her old home. There she lives with a carer named Helen.
It was supposed to be fun.
Or at least good.
It wasn't supposed to be as horrifying as it was for her. She didn't want it to be like that: not one bit.
Sedaytion walked down the light hallway, wearing a pair of skinny grey jeans, a black skirt on top and a grey, short sleeved top. She stuck out like a sore thumb, with her cloths and bright red hair, but mostly because she was the only teenage girl. She was beautiful though: she had bright blue eyes, framed by thick black eyelashes, and she had silky, long, red hair. It was straight that day, her bangs brushed across her forehead.
She had been there quite a while now, but still didn't know her way around too well. Often she got lost and had to ask a U.R.T.V the way round. She didn't know them well either: they kept their distance from Sedaytion. Well, most of them did. Only two boys said hello to her: a red headed one and a black headed one. It was funny how she still didn't know their names.
A door opened for her, and she was greeted with a breath of fresh air. The sun was out, casting beautiful light across the park. She jumped down the stairs, and walked across the path to the bench. There wasn't much to do on days off. Her father wouldn't take her out as he was always busy and she didn't know the city well enough to look around herself. And anyway: he father would not let her go out alone. She was too precious to him.
'Too bad it's not because I'm his daughter…' she thought, sitting on the bench. Sedaytion brought her legs up, and put them on the bench, spreading them out in front of her and leaning her back on the side.
In her hand was a white backpack. She opened it up and took out a book called Unlondon. Seeing someone read a normal book was extremely rare them days, and none were being published. Her book she held was old: extremely old. And even though it was strange, she still enjoyed reading. Maybe it was because of the way her mother brought her up, but she enjoyed simple, none-electrical things like that.
She had read quite a bit before she was rudely interrupted by someone pulling it down. Her eyes widened and she prepared herself to yell at someone, but then she saw the redheaded boy smiling down at her. He smirked seeing her slightly mad and confused face.
"Hi," she said, quietly. She sat up properly and put the book down. As she did so, she noticed two other people with the red head: the black haired one and a white haired boy. These U.R.T.V's were different to the others: they were more human then the blonde headed ones. No, it was wrong to call them U.R.T.V's. They were human, like her and the Doctors.
"You're reading a book?" the redhead asked. "Didn't know people read them. Can I see?"
Sedaytion nodded and handed the book to the redhead. She smiled at the black headed boy and he smiled back. The red handed the book back and smiled.
"I'm Rubedo by the way," he said. "This is Nigredo and Albedo."
Sedaytion nodded, and made herself remember their names. She smiled at them both, but Albedo just ignored her. She frowned, but shrugged it off. She looked back and Rubedo.
"I'm Sedaytion," she said, with a smile. Rubedo shook her hand and once he did, Albedo grabbed him by the shoulder, making him turn around.
"Can we go now?" he asked in a slight begging way. He glanced at Sedaytion, which obviously told Rubedo the reason why.
"Look, she's not going to do anything to you," Rubedo whispered, pushing Albedo backwards, so they could speak in private.
Nigredo sat down by Sedaytion. He shook his head a little and looked at her. "Albedo just doesn't like strangers."
"Okay," Sedaytion said, nodding.
"I just don't like her," Albedo whispered. Rubedo frowned.
"But why? You haven't even spoke to her properly or anything," Rubedo whispered. "Albedo, she doesn't know anyone here so I want you to be social. She's not going to do anything."
Like a child, Albedo glared at Rubedo and folded his arms, not saying another word. Rubedo sighed and went back over to Nigredo and Sedaytion. Albedo still followed him, keeping his arms folded.
"How long have you been living here for?" Rubedo asked.
"About … a year and a half maybe," Sedaytion answered.
"Really?" he asked, surprised. Sedaytion nodded. "Why haven't we seen you a lot?"
"A lot's happened lately so I didn't come out much," she said, sadly. Rubedo nodded and there was a pause of silence.
"When are you leaving?" Albedo asked harshly. Rubedo turned his head and glared at him.
"Albedo!" he exclaimed. Albedo shrugged and glared at Sedaytion.
"I don't see why she should be here," he said. "She's not like us. She's not a doctor either: just a little useless girl."
Sedaytion looked to the ground and Rubedo stared at Albedo with wide eyes. Sedaytion sighed, and picked up her book. She put it into her backpack and stood up to her feet, swinging it onto her shoulder.
"I should be going," she said, walking away from them quickly. Rubedo watched as she went back inside the building and then he turned around to Albedo.
"What the hell is your problem?" he yelled. "She didn't do anything to you!"
"I told you I don't like her," he said. "Gives me this horrible feeling in my stomach."
Rubedo sighed and Nigredo stood up, brushing down his blue cloths. Rubedo looked back at Albedo. "Well you'd better start getting used to her because we'll be hanging around with her."
"What?" Albedo yelled. "But she isn't part of us. It's always been me, you and Nigredo. We don't need some stupid girl."
"Albedo, I don't know what your problem is," Rubedo said. "But you'll have to get it sorted out soon."
"Sedaytion can't socialize with any other U.R.T.V's," Nigredo said. "They're not … as human as us."
"Well that's her problem, not ours," Albedo said, crossing his arms again. Rubedo sighed at him.
"Albedo, she won't take your place," Rubedo said assuredly. Albedo stared at him for a few moments. This made him feel much better knowing Rubedo wouldn't push him out, yet he still didn't like her. But, just for Rubedo, he nodded.
As they walked off, he felt a strange feeling in him. A quick burst of excitement as he thought about seeing her again. He frowned, and made it go away but then he was left with confusion. Why did he feel excited to see her?
It made absolutely no sense.
"What a jerk…" Sedaytion whispered, as she opened the door to her section of the building.
The scenery immediately changed, and instead of being technical and wires on the walls, there was cream floral wallpaper and wooden floors. The hallway was like a normal house: and there was a huge arch, where a door used to be, leading into a kitchen. A few feet to the left of the arch was a staircase, leading to a second floor, and there was a wooden door on the right, leading to the front room.
Sedaytion shut the door behind her, and dropped her bag on the floor. Kicking it against the wall, she walked in the kitchen. It was big, with old fashioned stuff inside from the year 2000. Even though it was all old, it felt normal to Sedaytion: this house was just like her old one.
She sat down at the wooden table and a woman walked in. She had shoulder length, brown hair, and looked about 30 years old. When her brown eyes saw Sedaytion, she smiled widely.
"Thought you were spending the whole day out," she said. Sedaytion sighed and put her elbow on the table and leaned on her hand.
"I thought so too, Helen," she said. Helen moved across the kitchen and took out a glass from the cupboard and began to fill it with cold coke.
"Did you make any friends?" she asked, looking over her shoulder.
"I saw the redheaded boy again," Sedaytion said.
"Oh yeah?" Helen asked. She brought the drink over to Sedaytion and sat down opposite her.
"Yeah. His name's Rubedo," Sedaytion said with a slight smile. She took a drink of the coke. "And the black headed one is called Nigredo. There was another boy with 'em too."
"Did he have milky kind of hair?" Helen asked. Sedaytion nodded.
"Name's Albedo," she said.
"It's good you've met those U.R.T.V's," Helen said. "They have separate minds, unlike the others."
"Albedo was horrible though," Sedaytion sighed.
"How? What did he say?" Helen asked.
"He was saying I was a useless girl I don't belong here," Sedaytion answered. A long sigh escaped her mouth. "He really hates me."
"Probably not used to havin' a girl his age around," Helen suggested. Sedaytion shrugged, not really caring.
"He was right though: I am some useless girl," she said. "There's no point me being here. I'm just here on accident."
"Hey, that's not true," Helen said. "They use your mind to do experiments and simulators in."
"Only because I was just sitting here so father decided to make use of me," Sedaytion said. "You know he doesn't care about me. He's using me is all."
Helen sighed, not knowing what to say. She knew Sedaytion was right: her father didn't have a care in the world, but she didn't want to say that. There was a long pause of silence, and then there was a knocking.
Sedaytion and Helen both looked up at the same time, and Helen stood to her feet. Sedaytion looked over her shoulder, and watched as Helen quickly answered the door. From her seat, Sedaytion could just about see some people dressed in blue. Then her heart pounded, and she began to get hopeful. Was it Rubedo and Nigredo?
"Sedaytion, some friends here for you," Helen said, turning around. She gave a small wink to the girl and Sedaytion stood to her feet, quickly going to the door.
How long had it been since someone called for her?
At the doorway were Nigredo and Rubedo. Behind them she could just about see Albedo, leaning his back against the hallway wall, sulking. Sedaytion ignored him and smiled at the boys who wanted to see her.
"Come on, Sed," Rubedo said. "Want us to show you around?"
For a few weeks Sedaytion began to hang around with them frequently. But, Albedo's behaviour was changing towards her. He was normally a timid person, yet he kept glaring at her, and as time passed he tried to trip her over, or knock into her on purpose. Rubedo tried to reason with him, and get him to leave her alone yet he wouldn't. He offended her, and was just plain spiteful. But, she tried to ignore him the best she could. Nigredo was kind, and so was Rubedo. He got in the way, but she had to avoid him. She just didn't understand why he was so horrible and she hoped he wouldn't get anymore worse.
Sedaytion spent another day hooked up to the machine so her mind was the place for the Simulator. It was so the U.R.T.V's got a better place to practise. It was dangerous if Sedaytion tried to follow them, so she stayed in a section of her mind just to herself. Her father had managed to give her a drug to stop her memories being projected, somehow, and the U.R.T.V's had no idea they were in her mind: not even Rubedo, Nigredo or Albedo.
It was tiring and a long day. She got back to see Helen eleven at night, ate and then had a bath. Afterwards she went to bed, dressed in a pair of white, cow pijama's. It felt good to get into bed and she fell asleep quickly.
Suddenly, she woke up and sat up quickly. Her sheets fell to the left and lent on the wall. A faint light came from the window behind her bed, from the moon outside. She glanced around her room, thinking she had heard someone walk around. The room was dark and it was almost impossible to see.
She reached for the switch for the lamp on the side table, and then a warm hand grabbed her wrist. Sedaytion gasped, and almost screamed. Her heart pounded and she broke the grip, taking her hand back. She moved back on her bed, until her back was against the wall and the dim lamp was switched on.
The person stood up and it took a moment for Sedaytion to realize who it was. Standing there was Albedo. He glared at her, but Sedaytion's heart stopped racing and she thought she was safe. She smirked a little.
"What are you doing here?" she whispered.
Suddenly, he lunged foreword and grabbed her arm. With an unbelievable tight grip he pulled her to her feet, almost making her trip and fall off her bed. Sedaytion's heart was pounding as he brought her close to his body. He kept one hand on her arm, and held her hair with the other, so that she couldn't move. Sedaytion breathed deeply and was too frightened to yell or call out.
"I hate you!" Albedo screamed down her ear. His voice was deep and horrifying. So much it made tears well up in eyes. "Why can't you die?"
Tears were streaming down the girl's face, and her frightened blue eyes looked deeply into his glowing purple ones, yet she couldn't hold the contact for long. She hadn't done anything to cause Albedo to get so angry at her, and she was frightened of what he would do to her. She heard so many stories of him beating others, nearly to death in his rage. Would he do the same to her? She hadn't tried to hurt Rubedo or steal him away, and that was what ticked him off the most. She hadn't done anything but try to be his friend.
"I'm sorry …" she whispered. Foolishly, she hoped that one word would make him let go of her but it didn't.
Intimidating her, he brought himself closer and looked down at her. Her arms were shaking, so were her legs. She was trying to be brave but she couldn't, and she couldn't even look him in the eye. He stared at her for a moment, clenching his teeth. He didn't understand any of the feelings he had when he looked at her. For weeks he had tried to figure them out and he couldn't: it just made him angrier at her. "It's easiest just to kill you!"
He let go of her hair, and put his hand into a fist. He lifted it, and she braced herself for a strike. The pain against her face was hard and sharp: the force pushed her down to the floor and Albedo let go of her arm. She hit the carpet quickly, and stayed lying there for a moment, a little shocked from what happened. Luckily, her head missed the bed.
Albedo looked down at her and grabbed her arm, pulling her back to her feet. She was shaking slightly, and she stared down. That was it: he was going to beat her to death. It was horrifying and scary: she didn't want to die. She wanted someone to find them there, and save her! Helen wouldn't be in, which was horrible, and he wasn't loud enough for people to hear him. All her hope rested on whether Nigredo or Rubedo noticed he had gone. If they didn't, she would die.
He lifted his fist again. He was shaking himself but his fist didn't move: it stayed in mid air. Albedo looked at her face red face, her crying eyes, and her shaking body and he didn't want to hit her. But, the feeling made him more confused and he did. He was at war with himself: wanting to hit her, not wanting to and then wanting to hit himself for thinking that he wanted to hit her.
"Why do you have to be in my life?" he yelled.
Suddenly, the door swung open and light from the hall was let in. Albedo looked to the side to see Rubedo and Nigredo standing there, both shocked by the sight. Rubedo's eyes widened in shock and anger towards Albedo. He couldn't believe what he was doing to her.
"What the hell are you doing?" he yelled.
Albedo let go of her arm, and before Sedaytion was able to run away, he wrapped it around her neck. He pulled her back, and rested her head on his chest. His grip was tight enough to make her struggle to breath but not enough to strangle her. She tried to pull him off yet he wouldn't let go.
"Rubedo …" she moaned lightly. Sorrowfully, Nigredo and Rubedo looked at her.
"Albedo, let Sedaytion go," Nigredo said.
"No!" Albedo yelled.
"Albedo, get the hell off Sedaytion now!" Rubedo yelled, taking a step foreword. Albedo shook his head.
"I hate her, Rubedo," Albedo said. "She confuses me!" his arm tightened around her slightly. "She gives me these strange feelings and I hate it! I've dealt with it for weeks now!"
"Albedo …" Nigredo said. "Helen will be here soon and you'll be in serious trouble."
There was a long pause of silence, and both Rubedo and Nigredo wished they could help Sedaytion. They both knew what Albedo was capable off, especially after incidents with other U.R.T.V's. Sedaytion's face hurt and so did her head. Her hair was a mess, and her arm was quite sore thinking about it. Her heart was pounding against her chest and there was nothing she could do.
"Albedo, let her go," Rubedo said. "You're hurting her …"
Albedo looked down at her; he stared at her hopeless eyes; her wet face from tears and her shaking body. Then he looked at the mark he had made under her eye and on her arm. His heart broke slightly seeing her in such a state and slowly his arm loosened around her neck, until it was back to his side.
She was thankful to be free, and the proper breath of air was wonderful. She relaxed slightly, and in his final fit of rage he pushed her to the floor. She hit her elbows on the carpet, along with her knee's but it wasn't painful. Quickly, Albedo ran out of the room, and Rubedo chased after him.
Nigredo stayed, and took a few steps foreword. Hesitantly he went over to Sedaytion. She sat up on the floor, her legs spread out in front of her. She sighed deeply and wiped her eyes and face, along with brushing down her hair with her fingers. Nigredo bent down on his knees and looked at her.
"Are you okay? Did he hurt you badly?" Nigredo asked. Sedaytion shook her head.
"He didn't hurt me bad. Just hit me," she said. She forced a smile to her face. "Thanks for finding me."
"No problem," Nigredo said.
A sigh left Sedaytion's lips and she stood to her feet. Her heart was slowing down and the two of them went downstairs into the kitchen. Nigredo sat Sedaytion down on a chair and poured her a glass of Coke. Nigredo sat opposite her and she drank her drink quickly. She stared at her glass, trying to recover from what just happened.
"He really doesn't like me, huh?" Sedaytion said.
"He normally gets mad at people who hurt Rubedo," Nigredo said. Sedaytion looked up at the ticking clock. It read half two in the morning. She sighed and leaned back on her chair.
"Do you mind waitin' with me until Helen gets back?" Sedaytion asked. "She should be ten minutes."
"Yeah, okay," Nigredo said.
The door opened and Sedaytion quickly turned around, hoping it wasn't Albedo. It was just Rubedo being followed by Helen. He looked angry and tired but showed Sedaytion an assuring smile. Helen quickly ran past Rubedo and ran up to Sedaytion. She pulled her up from the chair and hugged her tightly, brushing down her red hair as she did.
"Oh Sedaytion," she whispered. She let go of the hug and looked at her apologetically. "I'm so sorry I wasn't here! Don't worry darling, I won't work nights anymore. Promise. Are you okay?"
"I'm fine Helen, don't worry about it," Sedaytion said with a smile. Helen's eyes widened as she noticed the quickly appearing bruise on her face.
"He hit you!" she gasped.
"Helen," Sedaytion said firmly. "I'm okay!"
"Albedo's been put into isolation for tomorrow," Rubedo said. "He's not too happy about it."
"Sorry," Sedaytion said.
"You don't have to be sorry," Rubedo said. "You didn't do anything."
Sedaytion nodded and Helen put the glass in the sink. She turned around to Nigredo and Rubedo. "I think you should be going back to bed."
"Yeah. Night," Rubedo said, leaving the room. Nigredo stood up and smiled lightly at them both.
"Goodnight," he said, following Rubedo. The door shut and Sedaytion sat back down at the kitchen table.
She leaned one side of her head on the table, and began to fall asleep quickly.
