Running for Her Life
A South Park Fanfiction
A/N- Wow. I have LOTS of time to write this. I could have updated yesterday, but I started watching Soul Eater, and I ended up watching, erm, eight hours of it. *laughs nervously* So sorry 'bout that!
512southpatkrocker135- Thanks so much for the review! Hope you enjoy this next chapter!
~000~
Marie and Kenny entered the lunchroom cautiously. There was no telling when a food-fight could break out. Thankfully, no food was being flung that day at South Park High.
Kyle was waving from a table to the duo's left. Marie smiled and walked over to the table and took a seat across from Wendy. Kenny took a seat on her left, and an empty seat was left at Marie's right. Tweek chose to sit there between her and Craig, who was making out with Kimberly. Marie sighed as Cartman choked on his lunch as he spotted the two and Tweek let out a "Gah!"
"Eh! Go suck face somewhere else!" Cartman coughed, which earned a middle finger up from each person in the pair. Craig broke a kiss for a moment and looked over at Eric.
"Fuck off," the Tucker boy said, impassive. The he turned back to Kimberly and started another game of tonsil hockey. Cartman let out a cry of rage and started yelling at the pair again, who just ignored him. Marie watched as she rolled a bite of her sandwich over her tounge, savoring the taste of peanut-butter. Beside her, Tweek took a sip of coffee from his travel mug.
"Leave them alone, fatass," Kyle snorted, bringing his sandwich to his lips and taking a bite. "They do it every day anyway. You should be used to it by now."
"Well what if I'm not, and I'm sick of them swapping spit while I'm eating, Jew?" Cartman retorted, waiting for Kyle's reaction.
"Well go eat somewhere else then," Kyle said calmly. Everyone laughed and started agreeing with Kyle, all except Cartman. He was boiling, and he looked over at Marie. His lips curved into a smile as something on her cheek caught his eye. He waited for Marie took a bite of her sandwich before speaking.
"Hey Marie, did your Dad give you a nice beating last night or what? You look terrible," he said slowly. Marie choked on her sandwich and started coughing. Craig and Kimberly broke up their game as soon as the words were uttered. Kenny's eyes narrowed. Tweek let out another "Gah!"
"W-what?" Marie spluttered when she stopped coughing.
"Do I need to kick your ass again, Cartman?" Wendy asked sharply.
"Yeah. What the hell, fatass?" Stan asked.
Kyle kicked Cartman out of his seat. "Go sit with someone else, Cartman. No one needed to hear that, so fuck off," he said. Eric grumbled and moved to sit at the end of Pip and Damion's table.
"You guys really didn't need to do that you know," Marie said, laughing quietly. Kyle turned around and grinned.
"I know, but he was pissing me off anyway," he said. Kenny threw an arm around Marie, mussing her hair.
"We won't let the Hitler re-incarnate mess with ya'," he said teasingly. Marie laughed, trying to push Kenny away. Wendy began muttering about how she was gonna kick the shit out of that fatass, and Stan and Kyle laughed, nodding and saying words of encouragement.
"What the hell do think you're doing?" a gruff voice asked behind Marie. Marie squeaked, and froze. Why was he here? She bit her lip, her eyes wide. Tweek let another "Gah!" slip.
Everyone at the table fell silent. Kenny let go of Marie and faced her father and Marie turned slowly, not wanting to face her father so soon.
"D-Dad!" she asked. "What are you doing here?" Marie cringed when her father's eyes narrowed, and suddenly she felt the urge to hit herself. What a stupid question to ask!
"What do you mean?" Her father growled, moving closer to his daughter's face. She shut her eyes, whimpering inwardly, wishing how the horrible nightmare she was experiencing would just end and leave her lying in her bed at home. Unfortunately, no such luck befell the girl.
"I'm here to make sure little sluts like you don't decide to try to make any money here while you were supposedly at school. But here I find you with some boy feeling lucky!"
Marie's eyes shot open, and she let the question word "what" fall from her lips before she was roughly dragged from her seat at the lunch-table.
"We're going home. Now," her father said dangerously. He started dragging Marie out of the cafeteria. Marie struggled against her father's grip. Sh knew she wasn't supposed to go, she still had three periods left today, she couldn't leave, so she said it.
"No." Her father didn't answer. "No!" she repeated, this time louder and more forcefully. Her father stopped walking.
"What did you just say?" he asked, voice brimming with acid.
Marie swallowed as she gathered up her strengths. "I said 'no', Dad" she said hoarsely. Marie blinked and suddenly she was on the ground, her head pounding.
He hit her.
In school.
Marie felt her panic rise, deep in her gut. He never hit her anywhere in public. Ever!
Marie was suddenly being dragged backward by strong hands, and suddenly she was staring at Wendy's face, white with fright. Kimberly was beside her, her curly brown hair bouncing, gray eyes wide. Someone was shouting, a whistle being blown somewhere.
"Marie? Marie! Are you alright?" Wendy was asking. Marie blinked again, half expecting to be seeing ground instead of her friend's faces. She groaned at the pain in her head, and she rubbed it gently. She started seeing black tugging at the sides of her vision, so she gently shook her head, seeing the black retreat.
Green, gloved hands were suddenly helping her up, and now Marie was looking at brown eyes under a hooded cloak. Mysterion. The thing that Marie didn't get though, was that Kenny was at his side, still in his orange parka. And Mysterion had blue eyes, not brown!
"You okay there?" the hooded figure with the brown eyes asked. Marie nodded, but tilted her head to the side. The hair that was showing was black. Suddenly, Marie had an epiphany.
"Craig?" she asked, "Why are you-" she was cut off when a police siren cut through the air.
"Let me go you bastards!" Marie's father's voice rang out, overflowing with anger. He was being held back by the gym teacher and the janitor. He kept staring at Marie and Mysterion.
Marie shook her head. Everything was happening to damn fast!
Police officers came into the school, storming in and pinning Marie's dad to the wall. They handcuffed him and began walking him outside as they were telling him his rights. He struggled against them and yelled out, "Watch yourself, bitch. I'm gonna come and kill you AND that Mystery kid! You just watch!" Then he was gone.
Marie's eyes had widened and she had shrank back farther behind Craig as her father was condemning her to death.
"Great, McCormick. Now I've gotten a death sentence put on me because of you," Craig grumbled.
"No. He won't come. And anyway, I'm the real one so he would have been coming after me anyway. Marie, are you alright?" Kenny asked.
Marie could feel herself slipping. The room was beginning to darken and her head was pounding. She tried to nod, but instead, she slipped into peaceful darkness as the world left her.
~000~
Marie opened her eyes to see her ceiling in the moonlight. She sat up, ignoring the protests of her aching head, and looked at the clock. It said 8:30.
Her door opened and first she feared it was her father, that the whole two days had just been just a dream. Instead, her mother peaked in to door, shyly.
"Oh, Marie," he mother sighed, walking over and pulling her into a hug. "The school nurse said it was a concussion, but I feared something else. But it looks like you're okay to me."
Marie blinked. So it wasn't a dream. She sighed in relief.
"Mom, you're as relieved as I am about Dad, aren't you?" she asked quietly. Her mother paused for a moment, but hen nodded into her shoulder, and pulled back from the embrace.
"Now is there anything you need? Dinner?" she asked Marie, who just shook her head.
"I'm just still tired, Mom," she said.
Her mother smiled and kissed her forehead. "Alright. I'll be downstairs if you need me," she cooed. She left the room and closed the door behind her.
Marie sighed and fell back on her pillow, banging her head on the bed-frame again. She hissed and sat up, rubbing the spot she had hit with her index finger.
"Did it again, huh?" a voice came from the window. Marie jumped and looked over. Mysterion stood there, almost like he had been there the entire time. This time, the eyes under the hood were a cool blue, and the hair was blond.
Marie smiled and nodded. Kenny walked over to her and sat on the end of the bed, his eyes cold and hard, a frown etched on his face. Marie's smile fell.
"What's wrong?" she asked the boy. He muttered something about "idiot police-men", avoiding her gaze. Marie's panic rose slightly and her eyes widened.
"What did you say, Kenny?" she asked, her voice shaking a bit. Kenny looked over at her, his gaze softening just a bit. He took a deep breath before saying,
"Your father broke out of prison an hour ago. He's looking for us."
~000~
DUN DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN! xD
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