Title: Of Prophets, High School, and Attempted Suicide (2 of 4) Author: Shinju Tori

Character(s): The Prophet Chuck (aka God), RoseandThorns666's OC Amelia Rivers, and my OC Emily Dane…

Genre: Angst, hurt/comfort, and friendship

Summary: Side story to RoseandThorn666's story "Of Fangirls, Madness, and Romance". AU of Chuck's teen years…

Spoilers: Supernatural 4.18 The Monster At The End Of This Book

Disclaimer: Don't own it otherwise this week's episode, or even, Chuck Forbid, the whole 7th season wouldn't be happening/have happened…

Rating: M for violence/gore, alcoholism, attempted suicide & strong language …

A/N: I know that this chapter may seem odd and stuff but then again God, as a human, becoming friends with two girls who will end up dating his fourth oldest child and King of the Crossroads, is pretty weird if ya think about it. By the way, the bit at the end that Chuck, Amelia, and Emily recite is the translated version of the song Order Made by RADWIMPS (which is Chuck's unoffical song in my mind) ...

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TWO DAYS LATER

Chuck sighed, sitting on the curb in a secluded part of the high school parking lot behind the school, nursing his head in his hands. This past weekend wasn't as bad as some of the weekends where he was confined to his room because of his migraines in the past but it still was pretty terrible weekend. Vaguely Chuck played with the idea that he should just go home and sleep until he felt better when...

"Aha! So this is where you've been hiding for the past few years! Pretty cozy place to hang out at if you ask me!" A familiar girl's voice said, startling him. Chuck looked up, wincing at the movement, to see Emily grinning at him, a satchel bag with a Jolly Roger wearing a straw-hat on it over her shoulder, from around the bushes that hid where he was sitting from everyone else. As she rounded them, Amelia, a black backpack with red roses sewn onto it on her shoulders, followed her and smiled kindly at him. "Sorry. Emily had oatmeal with so much brown sugar mixed into it that it looked like she was eating mud for breakfast."

Emily stuck her tongue out at Amelia before sitting down on Chuck's left side, Amelia on his right. They both started chatting bout how hard it was to find him and how the only reason they noticed him was because Amelia had spotted his bag through the bushes. He looked at them in surprise and asked, visibly confused, "Why are you guys here?" Now they looked confused as Emily plainly asked "Aren't we friends Chuck?" He looked at them dumbfounded before staring at the ground as if he had found an enormous ruby at his feet.

Once he really thought about it, thought about the fact that they could be "friends" really hard, Chuck found he couldn't remember when he ever had people to call his friends. Even before he started getting the migraines and visions he was…different. He used to see people with ugly black creatures inside of them and other people with pure beings of light trapped inside them. He used to know things about people that no one else knew, he could see things that had happened and would happen to them, both good and bad.

"F-Friends? Really?" He mumbled. "Yup! I'll even get another piercing to prove it!" Emily earnessly said with a face-splitting grin. Amelia rolled her eyes and asked Chuck "Is it really that hard for you to believe that we want to be friends with you, Chuck?" Chuck sarcastically said, bitterness saturating every word he said, "No, I have dozens of people everyday just begging to be my friends…"

Emily stopped grinning, her face suddenly more serious then Chuck could remember, and solemnly said "Have you ever heard of the red thread of fate?" Before Chuck could respond Emily continued, pulling a spool of red string and a pair of scissors out of her bag, "The person you are destined to meet is connected to you," She measured out a length of string; about 5 inches long, and cut it off, "By a red thread. Now this usually applies for soul mates but I like to believe that it counts for friends too…"

She gently grabbed onto his right hand, pulled back his sleeve, and tied the string around his wrist, like a bracelet, before pushing back her own right sleeve revealing an identical string. Amelia also rolled up her right sleeve to show off her own bracelet of red string and explained softly "You see? You have friends now." Chuck gulped, a lump in his throat as his vision blurred. "No! I can't cry! They'll leave if I do!" Chuck thought franticly. "Chuck? If you need to cry or anything like that," Amelia said, gently squeezing his shoulder, "Go right ahead. Me and Em? We won't judge you..."

He let out a strangled cry, knowing that they were okay with him crying. Chuck tipped his head forwards and buried his face in his hands, bursting into tears as Emily softly sang, hugging him tightly as Amelia hugged him from his other side, "Nozomi doori subete ga kanaerareteiru no desho! Dakara namida ni kureru sono kao chanto misete yo! Saa hokorashige ni misete yo!" Chuck raised his head, surprised as his headache faded, to see both Emily and Amelia smiling at him, tears running down their own faces.

He smiled at them through his own tears and told Emily in reply, not quite sure where the words came from, "Hontou ni arigatougozaimashita...Iro iro otekazu wo kakemashita...Saigo ni hitotsu dake ii desu ka?" All three of them asked as one, "Dokkade oai shita koto arimasu ka...?"

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TBC

Here ya go! Sorry it took so long! Next chapter I'll try to post soon! You could think of it as an early X-mas present cuz of two things: 1) The next chapter takes place during Christmas break for the trio and 2) it's almost Christmas now so…yeah…

Oh yeah! The translation to what they say at the end goes like this:

(Emily) Everything was put together just as requested! So wipe those tears away and let me see your face! Come on, show it to me with pride!

(Chuck) Thank you so much for everything...Sorry to have caused you so much trouble... But could I just ask one last thing?

(All Three) Have we met somewhere before...?

Please R&R! Flames will be used to light my torches for the mob of SPN fans against Kripke/Sera Gamble as well as the candles for Emily/Shinjiel's ritual in Here I Come, Sugar!

JA nae~! :D