Disclaimer: although this storyline and the main characters are mine, the
night world concept is L.J.Smith's and so are some of the caracters that
might seem familiar to u.
This is my first fanfic so I donno if putting it up was a good idea or not. Please r/r to tell me whether I should bother to keep writing or not. Sorry about any spelling mistakes and I think they're mostly comprehendible anyway. Hope u like it.
Note: text between *'s are thoughts, text between ~'s are telepathy and text between ^'s are meant to be italic.
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Chapter one
Burt Redfern stood on the edged of the cliff, his new favourite spot. He came here nearly every night after he discovered it two weeks ago when his family moved here from the enclave on the sunny west coast. *Huh, now I'm stuck with stupid vermin* he thought as he stared out towards the ocean to the place where the sky and sea merged as if it had never been apart. The strong wind teased and tossed his blood red hair. * It will be quieter here than the enclave but I'll find my fun, if I'm stuck with vermin, I might as well use them for my amusement. * And that thought made him smile.
Lurking in the dark, unnoticed, someone watched with piercing golden hawk like eyes watched that dark silhouette against the blood red sunset. An unseen smile crept over his lips; it was a smile of evil, loathing, and, was that pain? "I'll get you little brother, don't think I've forgotten, because I never will, no, I'll never forget what you did to me. And now I'm back little brother, and you'll have to pay for what you did, oh yes, actions have consequences, it's time you learnt that."
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"Mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screeched my little sister, well, actually, my foster sister, my parents were murdered when I was four. I don't really remember them, I only know that my parents were Vanessa and Rod Sorciere and I had inherited my mother's maiden name - Harman, for some strange reason. But that was all in the past so now, I like to think of my foster family as my real family.
"MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she screamed, this time even louder.
Man! I still can't believe that this little ^Monster^ was once a nice, normal little girl. Exactly ^how^ she can scream like that is just beyond me.
Melissa Harman sighed and flopped herself carelessly on her unmade bed. * Ever since we moved here, everything's just been flat out strange,* she thought to herself *my cat had suddenly grown ridiculously fat, so fat that he can't even walk properly anymore. My disc man went all bezzerk so I had to get a new one, which turned out to be five (and, painfully, cost me a fortune) because they all kept doing the same thing. And my angel of a little sister turned into a hellish little devil. What's more? This all happened in less than^ two^ weeks!!!!!!!!!!!! Goddess, when will I be able to live a normal life again?*
Melissa surveyed the bombsite that was also known as her room and sighed again. Reluctantly, she dragged herself up from her bed and started sorting out the nearest box which was labelled photos. She took out a stack of photo albums and stacked them neatly on the bottom of her bookshelf, but as she stood up to get more, a photo slid out from the hand-bound leather photo album that sat at the top of the pile. She bent down to put it back in place but when she looked at it, a flood of memories came back to her, memories that she never knew she had before. They were so painful, she tried to stop them but they just kept coming, until finally, she was engulfed by them.
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*Where am I?* was the first thing that popped into Melissa's head as soon as she stepped into what seemed like another world, well, actually, you could probably call it that. It was a place she had never been, she was in a room, a very BIG room, it was extremely sunny and filled with expensive antique furniture. The floor was polished oak and there were a few throw rugs here and there and a huge red Persian rug in the middle of the room.
"Melissa? Melissa!" someone was calling her, a soft, sweet voice, warm, welcoming, and…familiar. That's strange, everything here was familiar but she was sure she'd never been here before.
"Lissa honey, oh there you are!" said the slim, tall and very beautiful woman who just stepped into the room.
The room looked funny, as if everything was bigger than it's supposed to be, and the woman was so tall……… *Oh,* Melissa thought,* I get it now, I'm seeing everything from a child's point of view. And this little girl has the same name as me.*.
" Come on Lissa, let's go and get some ice-cream okay?" the woman smiled down at her with big, soft, warm brown eyes filled with love.
"Okay mommy!!!" replied the little girl who Melissa was in. she could feel this strange emotion that she was sure was not hers.
"Come along then, daddy's going to be home very soon. We'd better hurry up so we can be home when he comes back okay?"
"Okay!" Excitement, that was it. That's what the little girl is feeling right now, excitement and happiness, she was thinking about the cool sweet treat she'd been waiting for all day.
The woman stretched out her hand and the little girl grabbed it instantly and followed behind her. They went down a flight of stairs and into a very big room, well space more like it, which looked like a foyer. Together they walked out the door into the bright summer sun. The woman's wavy brown hair cascaded down her back like a waterfall and shone brightly under the scorching sun. She looked down and smiled a warm smile that lit up every inch of her face. * She must really love this little girl * thought Melissa, a little jealous.
They reached the ice cream parlour and the little girl chose the biggest and most expensive thing on the menu. * Man! She must really love ice cream!* thought Melissa amazed,* that's one thing we have in common, actually, two including the name. *
The woman paid for it and smiled down at the little girl again. *She's so lucky!!!!!!! I wish my mom was like that to me when she was still alive, no actually, I wish my mom WAS still alive! *
" Lets go home now okay?" the woman said.
" Okay mommy!" the little girl said while slurping her ice cream and getting it all over her face. When you think about it all, it's actually quite cute.
They re-entered the afternoon sun and walked happily down the street. There was a soft, cool breeze which made the branches on the trees sway in rhythm.
"Mommy?" said the little girl looking up with a big smile on her face.
" Yes sweetheart?" the woman replied with yet another one of those smiles.
" I love you!" said the little girl happily.
" I love you too sweetheart, and I always will." She bent down and lifted the little girl into her arms.
* Okay, so what's all this meant to mean? Is there a message anywhere? * thought Melissa, puzzled.
They reached the house again and now from the outside Melissa could see that it was a proud Victorian mansion that looked well kept and very welcoming. * This must be the perfect neighbourhood * Melissa thought wistfully * why didn't I have the perfect childhood? * She really wished she could be this little girl, living the perfect life, having the perfect family.
The little girl was put down on the floor gently and the woman headed into a room on the right, which looked like a kitchen.
Just then, Melissa heard the soft purr of a car engine pulling up the driveway of the little girl's home.
"Daddy!!!!!!!!" The little girl shouted and ran towards the tall man getting out of the car.
He crouched down and gathered the little girl in his arms.
"Hi pumpkin! How was your day!" he said with a smile to match his wife's
* This little girl has go to be the luckiest girl in the world!!! * Melissa was REALLY filled with envy now.
The man carried the little girl back into the house and set her down. The little girl ran down a long, dark hallway into what must have been a playroom. It was lined with shelves full of the most beautiful china dolls, nice bright dress-up costumes, colourful books, stuffed animals and so many other things Melissa couldn't recognise. * I never knew a little girl could be so spoiled.*
The little girl sat down and started playing with some soft toys when there was suddenly shouting coming from the front of the house. She put down her toys, ran down the hallway again and went into the living room.
What greeted Melissa there was the very last thing she had expected, * not in this perfect world, not in this perfect family, no, it couldn't happen, not here! *
But it happened, the little girl crawled under a corner table and peeked out at the things that were going on from the tiny gap where the table cloth just missed the floor.
Melissa watched in horror as six masked ninjas fought, hurt, and eventually killed the little girl's mother and father. There was so much blood, so much violence, so much pain! Melissa could feel the little girl's pain, fear and horror, she was really surprised by the strength the little girl had inside her frail small body. The girl didn't scream, she didn't cry, she just kept her cool, she kept quiet and very still.
Finally, after what seemed like forever, the ninjas were done with the little girl's parents and just walked out like nothing had happened. * How could they?! * Melissa thought angrily and was going to do something about it when she remembered that she was just a spectator. * Damn those stupid morons! Damn you! Why did you have to come along and destroy this totally happy family! Curse you bastards! AAAAAARRGGGGHHH!!!!! If I could get my hands on you! Oh if only I could, you would find bathing in boiling water a hundred times more pleasurable than what I would do to you! *
The little girl quickly ran over to the nearest phone and dialled 911. * Smart girl! Really smart girl! * Melissa was surprised again at how calm the little girl was when speaking to the operator. And in between all the emotions Melissa was feeling, she only caught snippets of the conversation.…………. 91 sunrise cres……….. black masked men………… name of victims…… Vanessa and Rod Sorciere. At that, Melissa's heart skipped a beat. Vanessa and Rod Sorciere… That had been the name of her parents.
The little girl hung up the phone and ran to her parents.
"Mommy! Daddy! Don't die! Please! Hang on! I did what you taught me!!! Please!!!" the little girl pleaded desperately and for the first time during this whole event shed tears. And they just flowed and flowed down onto the bodies of her parents.
"I love you mommy! Daddy! Please don't leave me! Please!!!" the little girl blinked rapidly in attempt to clear her vision from all the tears.
Slowly, the eyes of the little girl's mother opened a crack and she smiled warmly at her daughter. "Honey….." she whispered in a voice that was barely audible, "Melissa…….. I…………..love………you………" she said very slowly and softly with all the strength she had left "I………….love………you…………and…………….I………always……always………will,……………never………ever……… forget………………that." and with that she closed her eyes and went limp.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NONONONONNONONONONONONONO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed the little girl. "DON'T GO!!!!!!!!! PLEASE DON'T GO MOMMY!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!! COME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!……………." The little girl just kept shouting and pleading, while Melissa watched and felt numb. Lying in front of her was Vanessa and Rod Sociere, the little girl was her, Melissa Harman. * this is ^me^, this is ^my^ life * and strangely, Melissa didn't want to be this little girl anymore.
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comments and criticisms will be greatly appreciated!!! Thanx for taking ur time to read this!
This is my first fanfic so I donno if putting it up was a good idea or not. Please r/r to tell me whether I should bother to keep writing or not. Sorry about any spelling mistakes and I think they're mostly comprehendible anyway. Hope u like it.
Note: text between *'s are thoughts, text between ~'s are telepathy and text between ^'s are meant to be italic.
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Chapter one
Burt Redfern stood on the edged of the cliff, his new favourite spot. He came here nearly every night after he discovered it two weeks ago when his family moved here from the enclave on the sunny west coast. *Huh, now I'm stuck with stupid vermin* he thought as he stared out towards the ocean to the place where the sky and sea merged as if it had never been apart. The strong wind teased and tossed his blood red hair. * It will be quieter here than the enclave but I'll find my fun, if I'm stuck with vermin, I might as well use them for my amusement. * And that thought made him smile.
Lurking in the dark, unnoticed, someone watched with piercing golden hawk like eyes watched that dark silhouette against the blood red sunset. An unseen smile crept over his lips; it was a smile of evil, loathing, and, was that pain? "I'll get you little brother, don't think I've forgotten, because I never will, no, I'll never forget what you did to me. And now I'm back little brother, and you'll have to pay for what you did, oh yes, actions have consequences, it's time you learnt that."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*********************~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screeched my little sister, well, actually, my foster sister, my parents were murdered when I was four. I don't really remember them, I only know that my parents were Vanessa and Rod Sorciere and I had inherited my mother's maiden name - Harman, for some strange reason. But that was all in the past so now, I like to think of my foster family as my real family.
"MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she screamed, this time even louder.
Man! I still can't believe that this little ^Monster^ was once a nice, normal little girl. Exactly ^how^ she can scream like that is just beyond me.
Melissa Harman sighed and flopped herself carelessly on her unmade bed. * Ever since we moved here, everything's just been flat out strange,* she thought to herself *my cat had suddenly grown ridiculously fat, so fat that he can't even walk properly anymore. My disc man went all bezzerk so I had to get a new one, which turned out to be five (and, painfully, cost me a fortune) because they all kept doing the same thing. And my angel of a little sister turned into a hellish little devil. What's more? This all happened in less than^ two^ weeks!!!!!!!!!!!! Goddess, when will I be able to live a normal life again?*
Melissa surveyed the bombsite that was also known as her room and sighed again. Reluctantly, she dragged herself up from her bed and started sorting out the nearest box which was labelled photos. She took out a stack of photo albums and stacked them neatly on the bottom of her bookshelf, but as she stood up to get more, a photo slid out from the hand-bound leather photo album that sat at the top of the pile. She bent down to put it back in place but when she looked at it, a flood of memories came back to her, memories that she never knew she had before. They were so painful, she tried to stop them but they just kept coming, until finally, she was engulfed by them.
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*Where am I?* was the first thing that popped into Melissa's head as soon as she stepped into what seemed like another world, well, actually, you could probably call it that. It was a place she had never been, she was in a room, a very BIG room, it was extremely sunny and filled with expensive antique furniture. The floor was polished oak and there were a few throw rugs here and there and a huge red Persian rug in the middle of the room.
"Melissa? Melissa!" someone was calling her, a soft, sweet voice, warm, welcoming, and…familiar. That's strange, everything here was familiar but she was sure she'd never been here before.
"Lissa honey, oh there you are!" said the slim, tall and very beautiful woman who just stepped into the room.
The room looked funny, as if everything was bigger than it's supposed to be, and the woman was so tall……… *Oh,* Melissa thought,* I get it now, I'm seeing everything from a child's point of view. And this little girl has the same name as me.*.
" Come on Lissa, let's go and get some ice-cream okay?" the woman smiled down at her with big, soft, warm brown eyes filled with love.
"Okay mommy!!!" replied the little girl who Melissa was in. she could feel this strange emotion that she was sure was not hers.
"Come along then, daddy's going to be home very soon. We'd better hurry up so we can be home when he comes back okay?"
"Okay!" Excitement, that was it. That's what the little girl is feeling right now, excitement and happiness, she was thinking about the cool sweet treat she'd been waiting for all day.
The woman stretched out her hand and the little girl grabbed it instantly and followed behind her. They went down a flight of stairs and into a very big room, well space more like it, which looked like a foyer. Together they walked out the door into the bright summer sun. The woman's wavy brown hair cascaded down her back like a waterfall and shone brightly under the scorching sun. She looked down and smiled a warm smile that lit up every inch of her face. * She must really love this little girl * thought Melissa, a little jealous.
They reached the ice cream parlour and the little girl chose the biggest and most expensive thing on the menu. * Man! She must really love ice cream!* thought Melissa amazed,* that's one thing we have in common, actually, two including the name. *
The woman paid for it and smiled down at the little girl again. *She's so lucky!!!!!!! I wish my mom was like that to me when she was still alive, no actually, I wish my mom WAS still alive! *
" Lets go home now okay?" the woman said.
" Okay mommy!" the little girl said while slurping her ice cream and getting it all over her face. When you think about it all, it's actually quite cute.
They re-entered the afternoon sun and walked happily down the street. There was a soft, cool breeze which made the branches on the trees sway in rhythm.
"Mommy?" said the little girl looking up with a big smile on her face.
" Yes sweetheart?" the woman replied with yet another one of those smiles.
" I love you!" said the little girl happily.
" I love you too sweetheart, and I always will." She bent down and lifted the little girl into her arms.
* Okay, so what's all this meant to mean? Is there a message anywhere? * thought Melissa, puzzled.
They reached the house again and now from the outside Melissa could see that it was a proud Victorian mansion that looked well kept and very welcoming. * This must be the perfect neighbourhood * Melissa thought wistfully * why didn't I have the perfect childhood? * She really wished she could be this little girl, living the perfect life, having the perfect family.
The little girl was put down on the floor gently and the woman headed into a room on the right, which looked like a kitchen.
Just then, Melissa heard the soft purr of a car engine pulling up the driveway of the little girl's home.
"Daddy!!!!!!!!" The little girl shouted and ran towards the tall man getting out of the car.
He crouched down and gathered the little girl in his arms.
"Hi pumpkin! How was your day!" he said with a smile to match his wife's
* This little girl has go to be the luckiest girl in the world!!! * Melissa was REALLY filled with envy now.
The man carried the little girl back into the house and set her down. The little girl ran down a long, dark hallway into what must have been a playroom. It was lined with shelves full of the most beautiful china dolls, nice bright dress-up costumes, colourful books, stuffed animals and so many other things Melissa couldn't recognise. * I never knew a little girl could be so spoiled.*
The little girl sat down and started playing with some soft toys when there was suddenly shouting coming from the front of the house. She put down her toys, ran down the hallway again and went into the living room.
What greeted Melissa there was the very last thing she had expected, * not in this perfect world, not in this perfect family, no, it couldn't happen, not here! *
But it happened, the little girl crawled under a corner table and peeked out at the things that were going on from the tiny gap where the table cloth just missed the floor.
Melissa watched in horror as six masked ninjas fought, hurt, and eventually killed the little girl's mother and father. There was so much blood, so much violence, so much pain! Melissa could feel the little girl's pain, fear and horror, she was really surprised by the strength the little girl had inside her frail small body. The girl didn't scream, she didn't cry, she just kept her cool, she kept quiet and very still.
Finally, after what seemed like forever, the ninjas were done with the little girl's parents and just walked out like nothing had happened. * How could they?! * Melissa thought angrily and was going to do something about it when she remembered that she was just a spectator. * Damn those stupid morons! Damn you! Why did you have to come along and destroy this totally happy family! Curse you bastards! AAAAAARRGGGGHHH!!!!! If I could get my hands on you! Oh if only I could, you would find bathing in boiling water a hundred times more pleasurable than what I would do to you! *
The little girl quickly ran over to the nearest phone and dialled 911. * Smart girl! Really smart girl! * Melissa was surprised again at how calm the little girl was when speaking to the operator. And in between all the emotions Melissa was feeling, she only caught snippets of the conversation.…………. 91 sunrise cres……….. black masked men………… name of victims…… Vanessa and Rod Sorciere. At that, Melissa's heart skipped a beat. Vanessa and Rod Sorciere… That had been the name of her parents.
The little girl hung up the phone and ran to her parents.
"Mommy! Daddy! Don't die! Please! Hang on! I did what you taught me!!! Please!!!" the little girl pleaded desperately and for the first time during this whole event shed tears. And they just flowed and flowed down onto the bodies of her parents.
"I love you mommy! Daddy! Please don't leave me! Please!!!" the little girl blinked rapidly in attempt to clear her vision from all the tears.
Slowly, the eyes of the little girl's mother opened a crack and she smiled warmly at her daughter. "Honey….." she whispered in a voice that was barely audible, "Melissa…….. I…………..love………you………" she said very slowly and softly with all the strength she had left "I………….love………you…………and…………….I………always……always………will,……………never………ever……… forget………………that." and with that she closed her eyes and went limp.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NONONONONNONONONONONONONO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed the little girl. "DON'T GO!!!!!!!!! PLEASE DON'T GO MOMMY!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!! COME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!……………." The little girl just kept shouting and pleading, while Melissa watched and felt numb. Lying in front of her was Vanessa and Rod Sociere, the little girl was her, Melissa Harman. * this is ^me^, this is ^my^ life * and strangely, Melissa didn't want to be this little girl anymore.
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comments and criticisms will be greatly appreciated!!! Thanx for taking ur time to read this!