Treasure Planet: Katherine Journey through the Past
Summary: Join Jim and Kate on a journey through their past as they look back at all that's happened in the past ten years. Rated T for mild language and certain shenanigans the characters get into. Chapters are going to be in no set order due to being flashbacks so there is no set plot.
SPH: Hey everyone! How you guys doing? Here's chapter 3 of Treasure Planet: Katherine Journey through the Past! Alright, so I do not own Treasure Planet or any of its content, they belong to Disney. I also do not own the song It's the Hard Knock Life from the musical Annie, it was written by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, but I have no clue who owns the song. I only own Kate, all other OC's, the story, and the plot. On with the story!
Kate shivered as she entered her old room at the Palace.
"I don't remember it ever being this cold." She said as Jim followed her in. "Don't say it." She said as Jim opened his mouth, "I know I couldn't feel temperature as a spirit, it's still shocking it's this cold though."
"Here," Jim said pulling her coat out of her duffle bag, "it's your coat."
"Thanks." Kate said putting it on.
"It's so weird being back here after all we went through just to get away." Jim said walking around.
"We?" Kate asked raising an eyebrow.
"Okay, I was the one trying to get away, you were trying to both find your grandmother and remember your past." Jim said laughing.
Kate closed her eyes and laid down on the carpet and took a deep breath.
"Yup still smells like peppermint after all these years." She said giggling.
"Couldn't you smell it before?" Jim asked.
"I could," Kate said wrapping her arms around her, "but it was hard to tell if it was just a memory since I didn't have a physical body last time I was in this room."
Jim chuckled and sat down on the bed sending up a large could of dust that made him cough.
Kate laughed as she sat up.
"Should have seen that coming." Jim said still coughing.
Kate's smiled turned bittersweet.
"What's wrong?" Jim asked waving away the last of the dust.
"Just," Kate started. She sighed. "it's become so dreary, so gloomy, and so cold here." She said, "It reminds me of the Lucky Child Orphanage, the place I'd spent the past ten years in physically."
"Lucky Child?" Jim asked raising an eyebrow.
"Ironic, I know." Kate said trying not to laugh, "The only lucky thing about the place was it kept us off the streets and gave us food and clothes." She sighed again. "Even if we had to make the food ourselves and could only have one serving, had to do all the work, came close to catching hypothermia a few times, were beaten or given unfair treatment while there, were forced to reply with 'we love you, Miss Peterson, thank you for your kindness' every time the matron, Miss Peterson finished talking to us, were practically starved, and were straight out miserable all the time." Kate continued counting on her fingers.
"Yikes." Jim said.
"Yeah, what's worse is if one of us stepped out of line, usually me, we all got punished." Kate continued, "I'm still amazed that the kids didn't hate me, but looked up to me, probably because I didn't cause trouble on purpose and when I got in trouble it was because I was either bored and had nothing to do or made something to try and do my work for me and I was never able to properly finish so when Miss Peterson would try to use, or get rid of whatever I'd been building it backfired and gave us a good laugh as it gave her a hard time and sometimes made her look super stupid or silly."
A seventeen-year-old Kate sat at a table working on a new project, a robot that could do the dishes for her when the matron of Lucky Child Orphanage, Miss Peterson walked in.
"Kate!" she shrieked snatching the robot's arm Kate was currently working on. Suddenly the arm shot out and pulled the scarf off her head and rubbed it over her face as if scrubbing a dish with it. Miss Peterson gave muffled cries and probably curses as she tried to get the arm to let go.
Kate wasn't sure if she should laugh or wince at the sight in front of her. Instead, she wrestled the arm off.
"Sorry Miss Peterson." She said quickly, "I was trying to make a robot that could…"
"Cause trouble like always." Miss Peterson growled before yanking her by the hair and dragging her up the stairs.
"No! Do the dishes!" Kate cried trying to yank herself free.
"Hah!" Miss Peterson cried, "Nice try but lying won't get you out of trouble!"
"I'm not lying!" Kate protested as they reached the doors to the room where the kids slept.
Miss Peterson opened the door before shoving Kate through it. She turned on the lights and blew a whistle to get everyone up.
"Rise and shine everyone! Rise and shine!" she cried as the kids groaned and sat up.
"It's the middle of the night!" one of the boys, Ethen whined.
"You think I don't know that?" Miss Peterson asked. She walked back over to Kate and got behind her. "Kate here," she said shoving Kate forward and making her walk over to her bed, "created another gadget to make life harder on me-us!" she corrected herself. "So," she continued, "as a thank you you're going to clean this dump until it shines like the palace once did!"
All of the orphans groaned.
"What do you say?" Miss Peterson asked making Kate roll her eyes.
"We love you, Miss Peterson, thank you for your kindness." The kids chorused, most glaring, including Kate who looked ready to kill Miss Peterson in her sleep.
"And I love you." Miss Peterson growled. She turned around and started walking away. "Now, scrub these floors! Strip those beds for the laundry man! Sort out the recycling and the trash!" she paused and turned around. "NOW!" she yelled before exiting the room.
The kids groaned as they started gathering supplies.
"It's the hard knock life." Kate said filling up a bucket.
"It's the hard knock life." Ethen agreed grabbing rags and towels.
As the kids started grabbing rags, brooms, and sponges while filling buckets with soapy water the way they did it and stomped their feet made a musical rhythm.
"Hard knock life." One of the boys said.
"Hard knock life." A girl said.
"Wait," a young five-year-old girl with pascal blue eyes and curly chestnut brown hair named Molly said as a kid brought in the laundry cart, "what does hard knock life mean?"
Kate picked Molly up off her bed and set her on the floor beside a bucket filled with soapy water, a rag, and a sponge.
"It means our life sucks." Kate said going over to her bucket.
"Oh, then yeah." Molly said.
All of the kids picked up their buckets and slammed them on the ground in front of them.
"It's the hard knock life for us!" they sang. They grabbed the sponges and started scrubbing the floors.
"It's the hard know life for us!" they sang as they put the sponges back in the water and continued scrubbing.
"Sted'a treated!" Kate sang throwing her sponge on the ground.
"We get tricked!" the kids sang looking at Kate.
"Sted'a kisses!" Kate sang throwing her sponge in the bucket.
"We get kicked!" the kids sang doing the same.
"It's the hard knock life!" Kate and the kids sang picking up the buckets and slamming them on the floor beside them.
"Got no folks to speak of so" they sang taking the rags and scrubbing the floors with them.
"it's the hard knock row we hoe!" they sang stretching out to scrub farther in front of them.
"Cotton blankets!" Kate sang throwing the rag in the bucket.
"Sted'a wool!" the other kids sang doing the same.
"Empty bellies!" Kate sang picking up her bucket.
"Sted'a full!" the kids sang picking theirs up before slamming them on the ground.
"It's the hard knock life!" they sang sliding the buckets at each other.
"Don't it seem like the wind is always howling?" Kate sang picking up her bucket as she and Molly went over to a window.
"Don't it seem like there's never any light?" the orphan girls sang.
"Once a day don't you wanna put the towel in?" the orphan guys sang.
"It's easier than putting up a fight." Everyone sang.
"No one's there when your dreams at night get creepy," Kate sang as she and Molly washed the window.
"No one cares if you grow or if you shrink." She continued scowling.
"No one dries when your eyes get wet and weepy." Molly sang.
"From the crying, you would think this place would sink!" everyone sang.
"Oh!" they sang as some ran outside while others stayed in.
Kate and a few other kids ran outside of the orphanage and down the stairs while Molly opened a window right above the trash and recycling bins. One girl went to throw the dirty scrub water on the path to the gate but instead ended up soaking Kate and it didn't help it was December and snowy either.
"Oh my gosh Kate I am so sorry!" she cried.
Kate frowned as she wrapped her arms around herself and shivered. Luckily Molly tossed down some dry clothes and a hat which Kate quickly went inside and changed into before heading over to the bins and picking up one of the lids.
"Plastic!" Molly cried tossing down a milk jug.
Kate used the lid to try and hit it into the plastics bin but got it in cardboard instead.
"Paper!" Molly cried tossing down a paper product which Kate managed to get in the right bin.
"Sand!" Molly cried.
"Sand?" Kate asked confused. She looked up and quickly raised the lid over her and used it to shield herself from the rotten produce Molly was throwing down.
The kids dumped the rest of the water on the floor and got on their hands and knees as the scrubbed down the path between the rows of beds.
"Empty belly life!" they sang.
"Rotten smelly life!
Full of sorrow life!
No tomorrow life!"
"Santa Clause we never see." Molly sang leaning against her bed.
"Santa Clause?
What's that?
Who's he?" Ethen said shoving a sponge in her hand before pointing to the floor.
"No one cares for you
a smidge
When you're in an
Orphanage!" the kids sang ganging up on her.
"It's the hard knock life!" they sang as Kate pulled or shoved them away.
Molly climbed up onto her bed and stuffed a pillow in her dress making her look fat.
"You're gonna clean this dump til it shines like the palace once did!" she cried imitating Miss Peterson.
The other kids, Kate included grinned making Molly run.
"Yank the whiskers from her chin!" they sang chasing her.
"Jab her with a safety pin!" they sang as Molly got on a bed and rolled over it.
"Make her drink a mickey fin!" they sang chasing her over to the door.
"I love you Miss Peterson!" they cried some throwing laundry at her.
"Get to work! Now!" Molly cried continuing to imitate Miss Peterson as the kids went and started stripping down the beds as Molly picked up the laundry thrown at her and put it in the laundry basket before pushing it around the room. "Strip those beds!" she cried as everyone put their sheets in the cart, "I said get to work!"
"It's the hard knock life for us!" the girls sang picking up their pillows and folding up the mattresses' while Molly stood and glared still impersonating Miss Peterson.
"It's the hard knock life for us!" the guys sang doing the same.
"No one cares for you
A smidge!" the kids sang ganging up on Molly.
"When you're in an
orphanage!" they sang picking Molly up and tossing her in the cart.
Molly grunted as she landed.
"It's the hard knock life!
It's the hard knock life!" they sang burying Molly in their pillows.
"It's!
The!
Hard!
Knock!
Life!" they sang turning and spinning the cart.
Miss Peterson stormed in blowing her whistle just as Kate pulled Molly out of the cart.
"Wow, life there must have really sucked, huh?" Jim asked looking at Kate who looked slightly heartbroken.
"You don't know the half of it." Kate said softly.
Jim walked over to her and held out his hand.
Kate raised an eyebrow and looked at him.
"Care to dance?" he asked, "If I remember correctly you said that it helped lift your spirits when you were two separate beings and we can't exactly go solar surfing."
Kate laughed and took his hand.
SPH: Whew, this one took days to write! Alright, so the next to are going to include another song from Annie and it's going to be the same song and I really hope you'll enjoy it! Okay so please review and tell me what you guys thought. I love hearing from you guys and it helps me become a better writer. Also two things, one, who caught the Skyrim reference in this and two, this is the last chapter you're going to get for a few weeks because I've used up the 50 documents at a time limit on here. Alright, well this is Samantha Peace HeartStar signing off for now. Peace out and keep spreading the Treasure Planet love! See ya!
