Disclaimer: Since this is the first story in a long time that I'm using a script for a story, I feel the need to put this in here. All of the dialogue, scenes, etc. belong to the creators of American Horror Story. I'm only utilizing anything I find for the story for purely fanfictional purposes and I own nothing but my character Sunflower Dawn Harmon. The rest go to Evan Peters who I blame for this.
Author's Note: I hate my internet, no seriously - I fucking hate it. This is mostly a Filler Chapter with the school scene, but towards the end, is where we get our first glimpse of Tate and what Sunny is already seeing him as. And, before the school scene, we see how Sunny treats Violet a lot more child-like as opposed to how she treats everyone else, because she really wants Violet to beat her depression rather than let it consume her.
Also, thank you to VampWolf92 for being the first to review on my story and I'm also extremely grateful to the 4 Faves and 7 Follows that have decided to give this story a try because, without you guys, it this story wouldn't have gotten a second chapter that you'll, hopefully, like.
Pilot: Part 2
The next day, Sunny woke up bright and early in hopes of starting the day off right which, as per her routine, started with picking out her yellow sundress, her light blue ballet flats, and a light blue headband to keep her flowing dirty blonde locks out of her face before turning her attention to taking a shower, brushing her teeth, and then putting her chosen outfit on that made her smile brightly in the mirror where she opted to just put a touch of mascara on to complete her look.
At 7am sharp, she went across the hall to her sister's room in order to knock on her door and wake her up while her parents started getting ready themselves; Sunny always rose at 6am in order to take a shower before waking her sister up to take the load off her parents shoulders of having to deal with a teenager that insisted the sun rose at noon instead of 5:30am each morning.
"Vi, time to get ready for school" Sunny said opening her sister's door a crack ensuring she wasn't walking in on her sister already getting dressed which, surprise surprise, she was still huddled into her bed sound asleep.
Knowing the exact thing that would wake her sister up, she went over to her IPod and turned the IHome that it was resting in on and started the song True Friends by Bring Me The Horizon on her IPod and set it to where it wouldn't be too loud to disturb her parents, but loud enough that it'd cut through Violet's subconsciousness and start rousing her from her dreams.
Within the next five minutes her sister started stirring as the song changed to The Black by Asking Alexandria which had a more heavier tone as opposed to her sister's more listened to Morrissey that Sunny didn't really like, but dealt with listening to as her sister loved the band. She'd do nearly anything for her sister short of killing her, causing her physical harm, or killing someone for her.
Sunny didn't have a violent bone in her body and her parents were all to happy to find that out about her as well as her soft spoken nature that can become boisterous around the right kind of people.
By the time the bassist of the band got to his solo singing part, Violet was blinking her eyes awake and grumbling about how Sunny should stop waking her up with screamo music instead of the punk or grunge that populated much of her IPod. "Get up my favorite flower, today is our first day back to school" Sunny said walking up to her sister and kissing the side of her forehead tenderly knowing that her sister would only, truly, get up if she coddled and said sweet things to her just to usher her into true wakefulness.
"Alright, alright I'm up" Violet grumbled as she sat up in her bed and started getting out of the comfortable blankets that she'd thrown over herself when she went to bed last night. Sunny backed away from her sister before heading towards her door before walking out and shutting it knowing her sister would want a cup of coffee before they walked to school together.
Getting to the kitchen, she immediately started making the morning coffee for her family while her Mom worked on a simple breakfast of pancakes which was received well by her husband and rebellious daughter who both enjoyed themselves much to the contentment of Sunny who happily ate her breakfast with a glass of milk having not liked coffee all that much after having spent her sophomore year making it for the entire summer just to save up enough money to buy two tickets to see Morrissey in concert that September and her sister had been overjoyed.
It's small moments like that, that keeps the small smile permanently implanted on Sunny's face as she remembered that night she had been the "best sister in the world" even though her parents could have easily provided the money for them to go, but, it was Sunny's idea so Sunny wanted to fund it for them herself.
As they walked into the front of the school that morning, Violet was smoking and, even though Sunny wanted to tell her it wasn't good for her (again) she kept her mouth shut knowing that it was a small comfort to her sister to have the nicotine in her system so she could deal with the day in whatever peace that she was offered, but, as it seemed, Violet's day was doomed from the start for, as they passed by three girls, it seemed the one in the front had it out for Violet.
"Hey! Student council passed a rule against smoking in public places" the one in the front spat at Violet angrily. "Secondhand smoke kills" the girl on Violet's left said backing her friend up on what she just told Violet while Sunny tried to take in the situation and try to resolve it without violence.
"Please, we're new and didn't know any better. How about Violet walks back out, puts the cigarette out on the ground outside, and then she'll walk back in? It'll cause no more secondhand smoke and it'll keep the quad clean" Sunny suggested to the four that looked ready to have it out with each other and that's all Sunny wanted to prevent from happened.
The brunette in the front went to snarl at her, but the dark skinned girl on her right cut her off, "That'll be fine, but, only, if she puts her cigarette out on the sidewalk" she stated making sure Violet knew very clearly what she had to do by looking into her eyes. "Fine" Violet acquiesced as she walked back towards the front of the school smoking what she wanted of her cigarette before putting it out still in Sunny's line of sight.
Violet then walked back up to Sunny's side, "Thank you for letting us know, and we'll make sure we don't do that again" Sunny told them letting her ever present smile grow a little wider before she and Violet made their way towards the office of Westfield High School.
Later that afternoon, when school was officially over for the day, Sunny told her sister all about the library that was filled to near bursting with books, but, that had a plaque in it that memorialized all of the students that had died in there in 1994. When she'd asked the Librarian about it, he didn't tell her anything other than it was a fellow student that had seemed like a nice kid shot up the school killing fifteen kids as well as targeting those that the Librarian was trying to protect.
That was the first time that day her small smile dropped into a look of sadness for the children lost in the Library that fateful school day, and she had wanted to ask him who the kid was that turned the high school into a war zone, but decided not to make him relive anymore of what happened, so, she thanked him and left him to his work.
Now, as she was doing her homework in her room, she heard a startled sound come from close to her room so she decided to go check it out. When she came to where the attic led, like Meerkats, her family looked to see what the danger was only to cause herself to start snickering as she saw a latex S&M suit hanging by a hook in the rafters, well, that was the last thing she was suspecting to find in her own home.
"These guys were into the kinky stuff, huh?" Vivien asked looking like she was trying to hold in her laughter, but was nearly failing as much as Ben and her children were. "Holy shit" Violet said snickering after her Dad offered to try it on himself which grossed one of his daughters out while the other was perfectly fine with knowing her parents could try it to see if it'd work to their sexual benefit.
"Let's get rid of it" Vivien said before directing her family back down the stairs, but not before Sunny saw a ball roll out from the shadows which made her head tilt to the left this time before, curiously, walking up the last few steps in order to sit right cross-legged in front of them and, hesitantly, rolled the ball back into the shadows from whence it came.
For a minute she thought the wind must have just made the ball roll in her direction, but, her theory was proven wrong as the ball came rolling back to her making her suspect that more was at play with the house than she originally thought as she, once more, took the ball in hand in order to roll it back to whatever was rolling it to her.
This went on for a good ten minutes where he hesitation to play with whatever was up there ebbed away into her usual contentment. She would have liked to keep playing with whoever she was playing with longer, but, she had to get back to her studies so, softly, she said, "I must return to my studies, but I'll come play again tomorrow" she said rolling the ball back in the direction it come from for the last little bit before she stood up, dusted off the back of her dress, and descended the stairs like her family had done before shutting her new...friend...back into the darkness they were held in.
It kind of hurt her heart that her new friend was closed up in such a place, but, it seemed they were too shy to come towards her just yet and, she supposed, that her new friend could be a spirit that was trapped in the house which hurt her heart to even think about when all she wanted was to be able to release them from such a terrible fate.
As she headed towards the kitchen, she was caught by something one of her father's new patients was saying which intrigued her that he he found the world in such a way, "It's a filthy world we live in. A filthy, goddamn, helpless world and, honestly, I feel like I'm helping to take them away from the shit and the piss and the vomit that run in the streets. I'm helping to take them somewhere clean and kind." She couldn't stop herself from wanting to hear more about about what this boy that, she bet, was her age talk about how differently he saw the world as compared to her belief of how the world looked.
"There's something about all that blood, man. I drown in it. The Indians believed that blood holds all the bad spirits. Once a month they'd hold ceremonies, they would cut themselves to let the spirits go free. There's something smart about that, very smart. I like that" he said sounding like he believed every word that he had just flown from his mouth like a flutter of crows being sent into a spiraling flight. Then, uncharacteristically, his tone changed when he asked her Dad, "You think I'm crazy?" as if he was afraid of her Dad's answer to the question just because of all that he'd said.
Sunny knew her father would carefully lie to him, because, she knew, he couldn't really help the type of boy that this patient was. She could help him on some small level, but, it wouldn't be enough to help him deal with the rampages he was. He was a psychopath, and psychopaths usually can't be helped nor stopped unless they were killed themselves.
Before she could eavesdrop in on more of their private session, she walked quickly by making her yellow sundress ruffle in her hurry, no doubt, catching her father and the boys attention in her rush to get to the kitchen.
