I'm back! I'M SO SORRY! IF I UPDATED TOMORROW, IT WOULD BE A MONTH! I SUCK AT UPDATING!
Welp, since everybody's asking, yes, Daphne's blind. Sorry for any confusion!
*Sniffs* Do you know how many reviews I got? I got 7 reviews! THAT'S ALMOST TEN! THAT'S CRAZY! I feel so loved…
Now, since I'm so very happy, I am going to say… Thanks to SweetShireen, SaphireDragon15, asdfghjklblah, As White As Snow, PenguinLoverGurl, emowriter, and Archer Princess for reviewing and being so very sweet.
Holy crap that's a lot.
Now… With longer chapters… I give to you… THE SECOND CHAPTER!
Bananas:
As she was going home, she slipped in and out of consciousness. In and out of flashbacks. Well, they weren't flashbacks really. They were bits and pieces from the past nightmarish five months.
She would fall asleep, and think of how dark it was in that warehouse. She would shiver from the harsh February winds, and think about how cold that water was.
She shuddered.
Her stomach would growl, and she'd think of bananas. Never would she ever eat a banana again. She remembered a… conversation… between her and Hook.
Flashback:
"H-hook? I-is that you?" She prayed that she had luck on her side.
She did.
"Yes, honey. It's me, "Scratch that, luck was not on her side. He sounded cold and sadistic, like a feral wild cat, waiting to pounce, "Now, remember our deal?"
"Yes," She nodded her head, "If I listen to you, nothing especially bad will happen to me," She recited this faithfully. She still had her innocence. She hadn't lost it. Yet.
"Good, good. Now, I want you to take this," He slid a clear plastic disk out of his pocket, "and put it on this." He held out a banana.
Daphne crinkled her eyebrows in confusion. "What IS that?" She shrugged. She poked one end of the banana through the middle of the disk.
"Yes, yes. But, darling, you put it on inside out." Daphne eyed him warily and did it again.
"Like this?" She asked. Hook nodded. Daphne saw his eyes brighten, as if he was very excited about what was going to happen next.
"Now, let's try this on something… More real" His hands found the waistband of his pants…
End Flashback
She whimpered. That was a bad day. That was the day before her eyesight started to get blurry.
She felt gentle fingers work their way through her tangled mat of hair. She lifted her head. "S-Sabrina," She heard her beloved sister hum in response, "Are we on… a train?" She felt a slow rocking movement, but she felt a breeze. She was getting nervous.
"No, monkey, we're on the carpet. Are you alright?"
Daphne buried her face in what felt like Sabrina's coat. Sabrina sighed. "I guess not. What hurts, Daffy?"
She took her hands and ran them along her body, but when she got to her head, her hands lingering above her eyes, Sabrina gasped. When Daphne had touched her face, her temples started glowing. Sabrina bit her lip.
When the light died down, in its place were two scarlet hands.
HOLY:*:BEJIZZLES:*:IT'S:*:MY:*:FIRST:*:LINE:*:BREAK!
Daphne was sleeping.
Sabrina was crying.
Well, she wasn't crying exactly. She hasn't cried for a long time. Three years, to be exact.
But she feels like crying.
It isn't just that her sister was missing. No, it couldn't be just that her baby sister was missing. It had to be that when Sabrina found her, in Akron, Ohio, of all places! But no, it got better. Daphne was tortured for the five months she was missing.
And to top it all off, they marked her and left her blind. Sabrina glanced down at Daphne, just to make sure she was there. She was there.
She saw those red hands. She grit her teeth.
"I hope he rots where he's going," she said aloud, "Even though that would be merciful." She grimaced.
She had changed a lot in the past few years. She wasn't the girl she had once been even a year ago. She had hardened, and did what she had to do so it would benefit her family not her.
She didn't think that was so wrong.
Sabrina knew she would be in trouble when she got home. She had snuck out of the infirmary even when she was ordered by Snow White herself to stay in bed. She shouldn't be out with seven cracked ribs. Puck wouldn't be happy either.
She smiled softly. Puck.
He was her best friend, and her almostkindanotreally big brother. He was too protective for his own good, and he had even grown a year older to be in the army and to be stronger than Sabrina when he needed to be.
He had changed too.
Sabrina sighed. Why couldn't this happen to her and not Daphne? Daphne was an innocent!
Daphne shivered in Sabrina's arms.
Sabrina grabbed a blanket she had bought and wrapped it around the both of them. She frowned at the way her little sister's eyebrows were drawn together. She was in pain. The makeshift splint for her foot wasn't really helping anything.
Sabrina realized with a start that the disinfecting cream has been on too long. She hurriedly swiped it off.
Sabrina rolled her sister on her back to see if she had missed anything. She slowly lifted up the little girl's shirt, afraid of what she would see. And with good reason.
On Daphne's back were multiple scars, all shaped into letters. Multiple sayings were scrawled there. Horrible things like 'scum' and 'devil spawn'. But one word stood out to her, against her. It was a wall. It said one word. One word that she now realized was used as an insult. It spelled out G-R-I-M-M.
Grimm.
Grimm.
Now Sabrina was really seeing red. She clenched and unclenched her hands and dug her fingernails in until she was bleeding. That stupid, worthless, good-for-nothing slime bag took a knife to my SISTER?
Now her un-human thoughts were coming back again, and she didn't regret killing anyone. They hurt Daphne.
Sabrina was still thinking this as Daphne whimpered in her sleep.
Her gaze was riveted on the horizon as she stroked her fingers through Daphne's hair.
She checked the sun, the first stars, and the map she had packed. They had about four hours to kill before they hit Ferryport Landing.
"Four hours 'till home, Daph," she whispered.
She would keep them both safe.
She winced as she shifted. She was still sore.
A wave of sleepiness passed over her. She would keep them safe after a nap.
She laid down next to her sister, or whatever was left of her.
"Carpet, keep us safe," She murmured, "Safe and sound."
And she slept.
HOLY BEJIZZLES THIS IS FOUR PAGES!*pants* I've never written that much before!
Ugh. I liked the last chapter better than this one. Even though it was shorter. This chapter seemed kinda all over the place to me, but seriously. What would you be thinking if you had just rescued someone close to you from a crazy person? That's my excuse. I'll have to go over this later when my brain is not half asleep.
I HOPE THIS WASN'T CONFUSING!
QotD: Well, it's my first one, so I can only ask; What are you going to be on Halloween? I'm going to be a hobo!:D
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