OCTOBER 2003
It had been a long day for the Snells. They were worn out after their third day of traveling from the north tip of Virginia to the southern half of Maine. The family drove about on the highway trying and struggling to look for a place to stay for the night. But there was no sign of a motel or Marriott in sight. Robert and Ann switched back and forth throughout the day while the other looked through the maps of the different states; and little Susie kept quiet in the backseat watching her Disney princess movies. This was the third time they have moved in the past 7 years. The reason this time was the same as last time. Susie had used her "Special Gifts" during school when one of her fellow second graders fell down from the monkey bars and scraped his knees. The little blonde believed that she was born from witches and that they gave her "Special Gifts" to protect others. "They're called Solars," she would tell her parents, "just like the moon in the sky like Ms. Hoffman said. They heal people, bring sunshine, and they also see into the future! They're like those witches from Hocus Pocus, but a lot kinder!" And although the little girl was right, her parents could not believe her. They thought that it was just some "silly little dream" she had. But she wouldn't stop talking about it and they began to worry. The other kids called her a freak and the teachers grew concerned. That was when they had to move for their safety; for Sue's safety. If anyone had found out that Sue was birthed by witches, they would take her and kill her. That was why Robert made her promise not to use her powers unless she really had to.
It was 11:47 at night when they found her. She was lying on the highway and from head to toe covered in blood. Robert Snell didn't see the young girl until Ann pointed her out and screamed. Robert jammed the brakes and forced the car to stop which woke up little Susie in the back seat. The car doors opened and the two parents ran out with flashlights in their hands. Little Susie shifted over to her right and propped herself up so she could see. When she looked out the window she saw her parents kneeling down beside a little girl. The girl had looked about her age, but she couldn't tell anything else because the little girl was covered in blood. She also happened to be knocked out unconscious. She noticed her mother pacing with tears in her eyes, and her father was violently shaking his hands in the air. He then place a hand over the little girl's forehead, then placed two fingers against her neck. She looks like she needs help, thought Susie. I'm gonna help her.
Without making a sound, the tiny blonde opened up her car door slowly and stepped out. Both of her feet landed with a thud. She quietly shut the door. She could see her mother trying to find cell phone reception in a ditch by the side of the road. Her father was still bent over the little girl.
"Daddy? Who is she?" Susie said attracting her father's attention. Robert looked up at her. His hands were covered with the same stuff the little girl was covered with.
"Susie, get back in the car. This isn't safe." He pointed at the car. Susie looked back at their minivan, then turned back and shook her hand.
"No Dad! I can help her."
"No you can't. Just please go back."
"I can't get any reception out here." Ann came up and said to Robert. She noticed little Susie next to her and placed her hands around the little girl's shoulders.
"Susie, please go back in the car. Honey…."
"NO! LET ME HELP HER!" She broke free from her mother's grip and ran towards her father and the little girl.
"Susie!"
"Daddy, please! Let me use my thing." The little girl began to speed up. "IknowIpromisednottounlessIreallyreallyreallyhadtoAndIthinkthisisoneofthosesituationsinwhich—"
"Okay! Fine!" Robert said as he stood up and walked towards his wife. Ann grabbed his hand and placed her head on his shoulder.
"Thank you!" Susie replied out of breath.
She ran over and bent down behind the little girl. She placed the girl's head on her lap and positioned each of her hands on the side of the girl's head. She waited for a moment before a white glow appeared from the sides of the girl's head. There was a small eruption in the surface from underneath. A blue mist emerged from the trees on the sides of the highway. The mist surrounded Sue and the little girl as the bright white light grew stronger inside Susie's hands. Susie closed her eyes and looked into the girl's mind. Inside, she saw a woman laying down on the floor of a house. However, it was not a clear vision because it was blurry. From what she could see, the woman was bleeding very badly, and she had knife wounds all around her arms, legs, and her tummy. There was a lot of blood everywhere. The woman held her arm out with her palm open. She held a silver cross in it. She saw the little girl in a night gown kneeling down in the pool of blood next to the woman. She could hear the little girl's voice and the woman's, but she could not hear exact words. She guessed that it was something on the lines of going out into the woods and staying away from anyone in sight. The woman died, and the little girl lied down next to her crying. Then a bunch of people with torches and guns started to arrive outside a door, and the little girl got frightened. She stood up and held out her hands. The group of people were lifted and tossed away, and the door flew shut. (She must have a power too, Susie thought to herself. She's just like me!) The little girl grabbed the cross from the corpse and fled out the back door. She looked back at the mob grabbing the woman and tying her up. The little girl ran into the woods. She kept running and running and running until she reached the side of the highway and collapsed.
Susie opened her eyes. The circle of blue mist was gone and the white glow went out. The little girl on her lap woke up and struggled to breathe. Susie fell on her back while the little girl fell on her side crying.
"Mama! Mama!"
Robert and Ann ran over to the girl while Susie crawled to her side.
"Sweetie, are you alright? Where are you parents? Do they know you're out here? What happened?" the older Snells asked her. The girl replied very softly to them, so Susie wasn't able to hear her. Ann grabbed her phone and tried to call for the police, but still no service. Robert picked up the little girl and carried her to the car with Susie following behind.
"Susie, I need you to do me a HUGE favor, that big girls do, okay?" Robert asked her. He placed the girl in the back seat next to Susie.
"Yeah. I'm a big girl."
"Okay." He knelt down outside the car as he help his daughter in.
"Listen. Mommy and I are gonna call 911 or whoever we can to help this girl. So while we are doing that, can you watch over her, and make sure no one comes by and takes her?"
Susie nodded her head.
"That's my good girl." He hugged her. Then he shut the car door and joined his wife.
Susie looked over at the girl, who had already fallen asleep in a sitting up fetal position. She decided to examine the girl. Underneath the coat of blood, the girl had strawberry blonde hair and a heart shape/oval face. She had tiny hands. The moon light reached the inside of the car, and in that moment, a figure of the girl stood out to Susie. On the girl's eye lid was a mark, almost like a drawing. It was in the shape of a circle, well really more like a half circle with a curve, with one side completely shaded in brown. Susie repositioned herself closer to the girl and examined the mark. After a moment, she grabbed her notebook from her backpack below her and opened up to a blank page. She began to sketch out the girl's eyelids with the marks.
See, Dad?, She thought to herself, I knew I wasn't the only one. She has powers, and a mark, just like me. Except my mark only-
"What are you doing?" Susie let out a yelp and dropped her pencil. She looked up to find the blood-covered girl staring at her. She began to shut her notebook when the girl reached out her hand.
"It's okay. You can show me."
Susie hesitated. Then she slowly opened it up and found the page she was drawing on.
"What is that?" she asked, pointing to the sketch. Susie couldn't help but stare at her.
"Your mark." she finally said.
"My…..my what?"
"The marks you have on your eyes. It's a funny looking half circle on top of your eyes. But it only showed when the light from the moon came." Susie pointed to the window and found the not so bright moon sitting behind the trees. She continued, "I have something like it too. But mine only shows in the sunlight for a little while. Mine's just a weird line around my eyes. It distinguishes Solars." The little girl stared at her with terrified eyes.
"S-Solars? Aren't those…."
"Good witches? Yes! I'm one of them, but I've never met one in my life. All that I know is that they're the good witches that help people and heal them, and they see into the future! How cool is that!" The little girl didn't respond. She place the notebook down on the car floor and focused her attention back on the girl.
"Well, anyway," she continued, "I found this little book in my attic. I think it's in with the other books in one of the boxes back there, but it's like this really cool history book about how the Solars won this war against these bad witches called the Black Holes, and…Are you okay?"
"Those people….they…..they….."
"Whose they?"
"The people who took my mama and killed her. I think they mitabeen those people like you said, the Black…..Black…"
"Black Holes?"
"Yeah. She said she wanted to protect me from them, because of what I am."
"What you are? So if you're not a Black Hole or a Solar, then how come you have different marks from me?"
"I don't know. Mama wouldn't tell me. But she knew I had something special."
"Like….special gifts?"
"Yeah! Like special gifts. But I don't know if I can do them anymore."
"Why not?"
"I don't know."
"Well, what could you do?"
"I had this one really cool one, that if I concentrated hard enough, I could make things move with my mind!"
"Wow!"
"Do you have any powers?"
"Not any of the powers you had, but I can heal people, and see into people's minds!"
"Is that how you were able to wake me up?"
"Yeah."
"Did…did you see her? My mama?"
"Yes."
"I miss her so much." The girl moved closer to Susie and hugged her; she could feel the girl crying. Susie responded and wrapped her arms around the girl, no matter how much blood would stain her shirt. The girl spoke again, "I'm never gonna have a family. I'll never see my family again."
Susie thought for a moment. Then an idea came to her head. She leaned down and whispered to the girl, "I'll be your family."
Robert and Ann Snell came back to the car.
"Hey girls, we can't reach 911 at the moment, so we're gonna go to the police station, okay?"
"Okay mom." She stayed nestled into the girl as her parents started the car and began on the road again.
The little girl broke the embrace (which felt like a lifetime for Susie) and repositioned herself so she was laying down in the backseat with the back of her head on Susie's lap. She held out her hand for Susie, which she held.
"It's going to be okay. We'll make sure you're okay."
"Okay." the girl smiled.
Then another thought came to Susie. Oh how rude of me! I didn't even introduce myself to the girl.
"By the way, I'm Sue. Sue Snell, but you can call me Susie." She squeezed the girl's hand tighter as the Snells arrived into town. The moonlight found the car again and the girl's mysterious mark came back as she closed her eyes. Then she spoke.
"I'm Carrie. Carrie White."
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Author's Note:
Ello lovelies (NOT BRITISH, I SWEAR). So what do you all think of this one? I kinda got the idea whilst in my room one night (or was it in the shower, NEVERMIND) and it came to me. So yeah, I needed to get this plot bunny out of the "green light rabbit hole". Hehe….get it? Okay….
So I hope to update this soon, and yal should check out my other story, The Athlete and the Red Queen (otherwise known as the story of The Seven) – (NOT APART OF THE TITLE, JUST LITERALLY MADE THAT UP). It's pretty cool and there's gonna be a lot of plot twists and characters that I'm going to include from the original book, the 1976 and 2013 film, and maybe even The Rage: Carrie 2, so that should be fun!
So enjoy your summer vacation and hope to update soon!
Love you!