I have tried to try to put a song to each chapter. I think it'll make things more interesting. I'll introduce you to new music and if you want, you can put a favorite artist or song in your review and I'll look it up. Who knows? It could give me a chapter inspiration.
Theme: Black-eyed - Placebo.
Chapter II
"You're sleeping on the couch or on the floor. You pick." Linn said to me. Brutally honest, she would say whatever you needed to hear. Whether you wanted to or not. "You're being the most ungrateful person in the world and if you keep it up, you'll sleep in the backyard."
"Ja Linn Najun, stop it right now. I swear, he may be ungrateful but at least he has more self control that you." A head peeked down the stairs. Linn's brother, Reen.
I just got out of the hospital. Nurse Joy had left my care in Linn's hands. Unfortunately Linn wasn't the nicest person.
(Flashback)
"What's your name?" A girl my age said. She had long, fine black hair that was tied a bun. She had striking blue and grey eyes that seemed to see straight into me.
"Draco… Draco Malfoy." I said trying to sit up to see her better.
She pushed me pack onto the bed. "I'm checking your stitches, idiot. Stay still." She lifted the white hospital shirt the hospital had given me and looked at the… stitches? She had sewn me together like it was nothing!
"Where am I? What were those dog things? Ugh, I am so confused." In a moment of weakness, I had let my panic take hold. I was supposed to be dead! Now I was here? Why was I sent-?
"Those eyes, you look guilty of something." Those piercing eyes. How does she know? "Whatever God or whatever controls our lives sent you here from wherever you're from. Joy thinks you just have amnesia, but I know she's wrong. It seems to me like you've been given a second chance. Don't disappoint Him."
"I'm not psychic, but I'm not stupid." She picked up a book off of a shelf and tossed it lightly in my lap. She leaned against the wall with her arms crossed, her eyes boring into mine. "You know nothing of this world. You can't spot a common Herdier. Even people with amnesia I've dealt with can pick one out of that children's picture book." She sighed, "read that book and as many on the shelf as you can for now. They'll tell you everything you need to know about this world. I don't know if you had Pokémon before, but they're here in this world. That book will show you some of the ones around here and introduce you to Pokémon if you don't know about them."
Why was she so accepting? I was from a whole different world and she was acting like it's nothing! She was so… weird.
"Look, while you stare off into space, I'm going to do the other stuff I have to do. You're mostly healed, so you'll be staying with me for a little white. I'll be back later to check you out." She got off the wall and walked to the door. She paused for a moment before her hand fell on the knob.
She walked back to my side. "Here. You need this more than I do. It was in your pocket earlier." She reached in her pocket and handed me the only remnant I held of my past: a piece of the Vanishing Cabinet. My walnut. "It's important to you. It's the reason you're here. Wherever you came from, it's probably your last bit. Don't forget it."
Without waiting for a reply, she walked out of the room and closed the door.
(Flashback End)
The house was simple. Two bedrooms, two bathrooms. Much tinier than my own house. My house…. No, I…. I don't have one anymore.
"She's not a total bitch, you know." A voice said from behind me, bringing me from my thoughts. Reen. He shared Linn's dark, black hair, but the eyes were completely different. Where Linn's eyes were blue and gray, Reen's orbs were green with a gold center. His eyes were also much kinder and easily betrayed his emotions, not that he seemed to try to hide them.
"She doesn't act like it," I said as I sat on the couch. "I feel like she's going to bite my head off any second now."
Reen suddenly burst into laughter.
"What the hell is so funny?" I said she definitely played the part. Her eyes alone seemed to pierce through everything they saw. I was waiting for fangs to come out and pierce my flesh as well.
"She wouldn't bite your head off unless she had something to gain from it." Reen said as he calmed down. "It sounds selfish, I know. But think about it, we humans are entirely selfish creatures. People are never nice just because. Whether it's that they think that somewhere in the future you'll pay them back or because they just want that good, warm feeling inside. Even because you love to see someone's smile, you do it for a reason."
"Sounds like you're repeating the same excuse she gives you." I said staring blankly at the box at the end of the room. Somehow, it was showing the weather.
"Yeah," he laughed again. "She has. So, anyways, unless you tasted good or something, your head is safe."
"So then, why's she helping me?" I thought aloud. There's not much to gain from a homeless guy who just failed to commit suicide from another freaking dimension.
I saw Reen shrug as he stood and attempted to fix his hair, it seemed to have a habit of falling in his face. "She probably wants you to go on her Pokémon journey with her. I hated going on my own." He walked to the kitchen and began collecting stuff for dinner on the counter.
"Pokémon journey…. The thing where you go and collect badges from different towns to see how good you are?" I asked, I remembered from one of the books I read earlier. I stood from the couch and sat myself at the kitchen table.
"Yup. She's old enough to go on her own, you know. She keeps delaying to help me around the house, but… Someday she'll be too old. She won't enjoy it when she's thirty. She needs to take you and go. Going alone really sucks, especially when you're stuck in the woods for three days. If you go, she'll have company and a much better time. You're welcome to stay here while she's gone but…"
But he wants to be alone. "I get it," I said. "It's alright." I wasn't going to learn much about where I was if I stayed here cleaning house all day. "I'm going to go outside for a while." I stood and looked for the back door.
"That's cool. I'll get you when dinner's ready," Reen pointed to the back door and went to chop up some vegetables.
I had to say, the back yard was quite lovely. My house may have had the best rooms, the best view, the best living room, away from everyone… I could go on and on. But, it was always gloomy. Even the rainbows looked depressing.
This place…. IT was bright and cheery. The sun itself seemed to be smiling like when you're coloring as a child. Still, I felt like my old house. Everything here was so strange so… Muggle. Yet not. Everything I knew was gone. No more teasing Potter, no more Quidditch, no more Hogwarts, no Potions class, no…. no nothing. There was nothing I was familiar with. Still, no Voldemort. That's always a plus.
I wondered what everyone from Hogwarts would think if they saw me now. The Great Draco Malfoy not being rude. Not trying to raise Hell on Earth. I just, I didn't feel like it. I didn't feel like being a total jackass anymore. It had brought me nothing but pain. I could have been friends with Potter. I wouldn't be stuck here. I could have gotten a nice girlfriend. Not some crazy bitch would had piercing psychic eyes.
God, Ja Linn seemed to see though everything! It was crazy! She never seemed to smile, never put her guard down. She just analyzed everything and seemed to think one step ahead of everyone else. Good thing she'd never meet Granger. God, it would be a disaster. With her chess-mind and Granger's brains…. Forget Voldemort, it'd be a feminist's world.
After a good meal by Reen, consisting of spaghetti and garlic bread, I found myself on the couch. I stared at the ceiling and prayed that sleep would come soon. This couch was DEFINETLY not my bed. At home OR at Hogwarts.
I need to know something from you guys: short chapters but much faster to update or long chapter and forever to update? I actually finished the first half of this chapter two days after chapter one, so I could have updated sooner, but I wanted to make it longer. Opinions as you review?
