Disclaimer: I do not own "Silent hill", but i DO own the characters and their personality...
A/N: Try to read it slowly, grasp the personality of the chars and their actions because thats is what my story is all about: Actions and Reactions.
Chapter one: Reason
So that was it…. Terry finally gave up, he accepted it. He was now "free".
As he was walking through the gratin street, contemplating with a sad and resigned look all the creatures around him, he started to think on the past and the future…. Or the lack of it, because, Terry knew that the end was just meters away, and that means he was going to rest at last.
So, where everything went wrong? When the fairy tale was over? When the truth come out?
When his father died.
"- I'll get it, – screamed Lonnie as the phone rang – is for me!"
Lonnie picked up the phone after the third rang.
"- Hello?"- said Lonnie.
"- Hi Lonnie, its Miry, remember me?" –replied the other side of the phone.
"- Hi aunt miry!" – Lonnie was happy.
"-How are you? Are you ok?" –Miry asked.
"-Yes aunt, you? " –Lonnie was very polite, one quality his father was proud of him, besides many.
"-How is your sister?" – She continued
"-Ummmm…. She is grounded now, because she was catched cheating in one of his tests" – Lonnie was a bit happy for that.
"-Oh that's bad… Anyway, is your dad around? I really need to talk to him." – She was beginning to denote some anxiety.
"-Yes, I'll go call him, he is in his studio right now, hold on" – The kid put the phone in the table and started to run the stairs up, pass across his bedroom, his sister bedroom ( from which a very loud music sounded) his parents bedroom, and finally at the end of the corridor his father studio. He knocked once, and enter it without waiting for an answer (he know he didn't need it). His father was sitting in the couch looking at all the rows of books his library held with a very clear expression of deep thinking.
"-Dad, aunt Miry on the phone!" – says Lonnie like a wake up call for his father.
His thoughts will have to be suspended for now.
His father looked at him with a look of surprise as he was starting to get up from his comfy position and asked
"-Aunt Miry is calling?"- Very surprised.
"-Yeah! – Lonnie replied – Do I hung up downstairs?"
Terry wonders about what will happen if he didn't take the call. His "sister" almost never called him…. "It must be important" were his final thoughts on the matter.
"-Please Lon" – He finally says smiling the boy.
"-Ok"- Says Lonnie as he was running back down the corridor and the stairs.
As the father watched his son running down the corridor happiness struck him and a sense of love to him and his wife, but now he has other thing to worry about.
Terry closed the door his son left open and turn around to his desk in front of the windows, he sit in the chair and pick up the phone.
"Hello."
"-Hi Terry, long time, huh?" – Her voice didn't change.
"-What you want Miriam? " – Terry said abruptly.
"-…..Dad died." – A hint of sadness and grief was founded by Terry in her voice.
"…..." – Terry was speechless.
"- Ter?" –Said his sister.
"-I'm here…. When it happened and how? " – The eyes of Terry had begun to show signs of tears forming up.
"-Last night… he was like he always was, you know, and then he stop breathing… that's what the doctors told me: "A natural death"." –Miriam finished.
"-Where are you at now? Brahms?"- Inquire Terry.
"-Yeah, they call me and I came as soon as I can."
Terry felt a sudden pinch of jealousy at his so call sister
Why they call her first? Why not him?
"-Ok….. I …I'll leave tomorrow"- Terry's last sentence.
"-Ok." –Miriam's last word.
He hung up the phone. Not even saying "bye" to her. He lowers his head, turn his chair around and watched the sunset coming out from the windows.
The Porsche was flying down the road, and his only occupant was also flying but in his own thoughts.
"-Are you sure?" – Asked Fiona from across the room, sited on the bed watching him come and go with clothes, books, and bags.
"-Yep" – Answered a distracted Terry.
"-Really?"
"Yep" – Repeated
"Ufff… – Fiona sighed, reluctant to the wishes of his love. - Come soon, or we'll go there"
"Yep "- He wasn't paying attention to her, but she didn't mind
He stopped breathing? That was the cause? Who found him? How did she get there so fast? Why?
All of these questions pressed against Terry minds screaming for an answer, slowly, very slowly forced the driver to make a stop to clear his head. He knew he couldn't drive in his mental state, he never has to face a loss so directly so how he must feel it remained unknown for him.
Terrance always carried a photo of his family in his shirt pocket, and after he stopped near a sign besides the road, he reached for it.
A tall, light brown haired smiling man stood in the middle and around him a beautiful blonde with hazardous green eyes holding a baby in her arms and a little girl about 6 years old hugged to him, with the very green eyes and blond hair from his mother.
He reflects a long time holding the picture. The real tall light brown haired man, now 7 years older sited in a Porsche car slowly and quietly put the photo back to his safe place and trough the windshield he read:
"WELCOME TO SILENT HILL"
"-Take the shortcut…" – Fiona suggested.
"-Yeah, I was planning to do that." – Agreed Terry.
"-Dad, when you'll be back? " – Lonnie said.
"-Don't know… Could be a day or a week… Don't worry about it, I'll call you guys." –Terry answered as he finished loading his bags in the back seats.
"-Good luck dad, be careful." – Ashley wished.
"-I will, thanks Ash. – Said this as he was giving his daughter a hug, and adding in a whisper- (Be good with your brother… And study)."
"-Ok…- Ashley monotone voice really sounded sorry.
"-Bye Lon, I'll bring you something from Brahms." – Terry added as he hugged his son.
"-Ok dad."
"-Bye Fi." – And kissed her.
"-Bye… - After the romantic scene ended, she added – Take care"
"-Yep." – Said the family man, and climbed into the car
"-So I take Bachman and then Sanford… or is it Nathan's avenue? And that will lead me to the interstate again?" – Said a confused Terry looking over maps of roads
Minutes passed as Terry was still sated in his car with the sign in front of him and looking at the maps. Finally he thought out loud putting and end to his static movement:
"- I'll just follow the road along the lake and that's that."
He folded the maps and hidden them underneaths his cushion leather seats, turn the ignition keys again and drove off into the town...
A/N: Review with coments, either positive or negative. I need feedback about the characters (what they look like to you?).