A/N: So, how was the first chapter? I hope you enjoy this one slightly more. :/ I know, I know, it's boring. I'd like for this to just be a first try. I want to try again later after my writing gets better. Please, read this second chapter and review! Then read the third and do the same, please! THANK YOU! Please, TRY your best to enjoy...

Prisoners of War

Two

The Song of Silence

Alex led me up to a door with no handle. He gave it a strange look and stood there for a moment. He grimaced and turned away.

"Ugh, my father's hunting room... I was never allowed in there... When I'd try to go in, he'd grab my head and shake it back and forth... He always gave me a hard time... It's like he hates me for some reason... Treated me like an animal..."

"Alex... Please... That doesn't matter now." I carressed his head, pushing his hair back. "We're together now, and your father's nowhere in sight... Probably nowhere even in town, so cheer up." I smiled at him and led him into the main part of the basement. He took me outside into the back yard through a door that came up from the ground into the yard. I looked at a dog house, but I couldn't quite read the dog's name. I heard barking from somewhere, but there was no dog, so I wrote it off as a Feral. Alex walked over to a swingset and sat down on the one on the right.

"My brother uses this swing all the time," he laughed. "Now, I'm using it whether he likes it or not." He laughed as he joked, his eyes focusing on me as I chuckled back. I walked over and sat on the swing on the left.

"You mind?"

"I prefer it this way." He smiled at me.

"I haven't used a swingset since... Since I lived in Silent Hill... Life was so great there... Whatever happened to the people I used to know?..." I pushed myself gently with my feet, a little tired from wading through water. My wet army uniform pants clinged to my legs as I tried to move. Alex got up and pushed me back and forth, his hand pushing off of the seat of the swing, a little too far down for much comfort. This put me on edge, but I still tried to seem at ease.

"This place... It isn't like I remember it... At all... Taking away the monsters and missing people, it still isn't how it used to be... It's quiet, foggy, and cold... It was never like this... It's almost sad..."

"Don't worry. My hometown's the same way, only I bet it's worse off... If you think about it, the silence is like a song without lyrics... I know it's crazy, but you can hear all the little things... They may not be the most pleasant things to hear, but if you set that aside... You might not feel so... lonely anymore." We sat there listening to the Feral's barking and the wind howling and the trees swaying, and he knew what I meant.

"Yeah, I think I know what you're talking about." He grabbed onto my waist, and I almost flew out of that seat and slapped him in the face, but he was just slowing my swing down. My heart tried so hard to stop racing as he sat back down in the swing next to me. "Tell me something, Alexandra. Do you feel like you're missing something... or maybe forgetting it?" I stared at the ground instead of looking him in the face. Now that he pointed it out, I did. That memory... I wanted to know what the hell that was... I wasn't sure why, but I felt like I had forgotten a lot of things...

"Yeah... I do... In the basement, I had a memory of someone... a woman... hanging from the ceiling after committing suicide... I couldn't see her face, but she was wearing some old faded clothes that made me feel strange when I saw them... Like they went along with some other memory... a good one..." I kicked the dirt around, drawing a dress with an apron. Who was that faceless woman? "Do I even know her?... Was it a movie or something that that mannequin made me think of?... It's so confusing to me..." I sat and listened to the "music" floating on the air as Alex sat in the silence with me. Soon, I remembered something out of the blue.

I reached down inside my shirt and groped around for it. I got it! I pulled out a locket and showed Alex. I turned it over in my fingers, smiling at it.

"I forgot about this! Strange thing is... I don't even remember what it is!" I laughed, bringing it back towards my chest to study it more closely. I tried to open it as Alex watched, but it turns out that it was rusted shut. "I must have had it on for years... It's so old... I only wish I could see what's inside..." I took my knife and tried to pry it open, but it didn't work. I couldn't even scrape the rust off with it. Determined that it was impossible to open that locket, I stuffed it back into my shirt. Alex stood and sighed, so I stood as well, stretching.

"Well, we'd better get going. I have to find Joshua. He could be in danger." I nodded. I almost forgot about Joshua... I hoped that he wasn't hurt because I knew that it would kill Alex if he was. We exited the yard through a gate that led into an alleyway. I looked at my right, and the ground ended right there. I walked over and peered over the edge, and as I did, I remembered something else. In the memory, I was looking over the edge of a table, and I started to fall off.

I felt myself getting dizzy, and I rocked on my heels, unsteady. My heart raced as I struggled not to fall off the edge. Alex sped over, grabbed me from behind, and slammed himself into the ground behind us. I landed up on top of him, bouncing off and cracking my head on the ground. Alex stood up, pulling me off the ground. My forehead bled a little, and Alex wiped it with his sleeve.

"What happened?" He looked into my eyes, worried.

"I... had another memory, and it confused me. One minute I was falling off a kitchen table, and another I was about to actually fall off a cliff... I just got weirded out is all..."

"Wow, you must have a memory like a goldfish." Alex laughed. "Every time we go somewhere, you remember something from before..." I chuckled as we started walking through another alleyway. I listened to the song of the silence as I felt more strange than I ever had in my life... I had been reminded of such strange things, three in one day... What was next for me?... Did I even wanna know?...

A/N: So, please, take your time to tell me how horrible this was. :3 Thanks!