I own nothing except my own OC
Austin, TX 2012
Cassandra, turn off the TV. Daddy's on a call, Mallory Harker told her daughter in sign language as she picked up some dirty clothes off the armrest of the couch.
Three-year-old Cassandra Harker obeyed and turned off the TV, watching the face of Scooby-Doo disappear as the screen turned dark. She adjusted her hearing aid and hopped off the large green couch before quietly moving into the kitchen where her father was.
Roy Harker turned off the stove and took the skillet off as he talked into his Bluetooth frantically. She was barely able to make it all out:
"No, sir…but I…wait, if you'll just hear me out…I have no idea how that could have happened, sir…wait, no, you can't...fired? No, no, sir, no, please, wait, I…hello? Hello?"
The phone clicked and Cassandra knew they were disconnected. Roy suddenly hurled the phone at the wall and screamed in frustration and anger. Cassandra turned down her hearing aid until she could no longer hear her father's angry outburst. However, it didn't enable her ability to see. She saw everything that happened next: her father ripping out drawers and flinging them across the room, then kicking and throwing the contents until Mallory came into the picture and tried to stop her husband.
Even at the age of three, Cassandra had learned to block out all the bad things in life by simply turning down her hearing aid. She was too young to understand her father's sudden rages, or why her mother was always so stressed, and it made her cry seeing them like this.
Cassandra began to cry, the tears coming down rapidly and falling onto her long light brown hair. It wasn't the fights that scared her, or the angry, hateful expressions her parents wore most of the time, but the quiet.
It was the quiet.
The quiet scared her. No, it terrified her. Seeing and not hearing terrified her. Seeing such hate and not being able to hear or listen or give into sounds scared her. She was born deaf and had never heard her own voice before. Actually, she had never spoken a word in her life. She learned sign language at an early age and used that as her way of communicating.
Her thoughts were interrupted when the kitchen lights began to flicker on and off. The lamp in the den and the lights upstairs all flashed too, and then…nothing.
Nothing. The world became suddenly still and dark just then. All the lights turned off. She couldn't see or hear now. And terror raced back to her and latched onto her heart. She screamed just then, but she couldn't hear it. No matter how loud she screamed, or how hard she cried, she couldn't hear it.
But little did Cassandra Harker know, something happened in the world just then. Something amazing. Something terrifying. Something extraordinary.
But she would never be able to hear it.
And that's what truly frightened her.
How'd I do for chapter 1? Next chapter takes place 15 years later at the start of the show and things start to get interesting