Authors Note: Please excuse the heading in the last chapter. I really don't know why I put chapter 3. Anyways, please excuse the mistake and know that it was chapter 5, not 3.
Thank you,
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Chapter 6
Lost and Found
7:23 AM
Bobby walked down the corridor that led to Marie's room on the second floor. It was just before dawn. He was tired. He had slight bags under his eyes and felt weak all around. He didn't care though. He just wanted to see Marie and make sure she was ok.
He quickly turned the corner but stopped when he realized there was no one in the room. He slowly started to walk down the corridor looking in all the rooms with opened doors, but didn't find anyone. He turned back, headed towards the stairs, and walked down the corridor on the first floor. He looked on the walls as he saw the portraits of the people who lived in the house. He stopped in front of Marie's. He raised an eyebrow as he noticed there was something different about it. Her eyes seemed tired and her smile wasn't as bright as it was before. Was it another portrait or was it just his imagination?
Suddenly he started to hear the sound of a piano being played in another room. It was a nice sweet, calming sound that had the ability to mesmerize someone. He walked toward the room where it was coming from and looked in.
There, sitting on the bench in front of the piano was Marie. He quietly entered the room as her fingers gently stroked the keys. She suddenly stopped and looked down at her fingers. She gently rubbed the palm of her left hand. She started to play again only to stop again frustrated.
"Don't stop." said Bobby as he leaned on the wall.
Marie almost jumped out of her seat as she heard him talk.
"Bobby," she said standing up, "you scared me. I didn't know you were here."
"I'm sorry." he said as he looked into her eyes, "I didn't want to interrupt you."
She slightly smiled. "Its fine, I just needed to unwind and since Jean forbade me to ice skate, I thought I'd just play something."
"It was beautiful. Who taught you how to play?"
"No one," she sat on a small couch in the room, "you see, when my parents died I remember ice skating every single day, just forget about the whole situation and pretend that everything was normal. But one day, I pushed myself to hard and sprained my ankle. Jean said I couldn't skate for like a month or two. So I found myself in here, teaching myself."
"Well, you taught yourself beautifully." he said as he sat down on the piano bench facing Marie.
"Thank you." she said. "So," she said after a few moments of silence, "What are you doing roaming around this early?"
"I wanted to see how you were, but you weren't in your room. So I thought that may be you would be down here and you are."
"Thanks."
"For what?"
"For caring, I've never known anyone that's ever cared for me this much."
He smiled as he extended his hand and grabbed hers, softly caressing it with his thumb.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Are you sure you guys are ok now?" asked Warren.
"Yes Warren, we're fine." said John as they all hiked through the snow. They were all headed towards the place where the car broke down.
"Are you sure? We don't want you guys to collapse again." said Kitty.
"We're fine. It's like I told you guys before. We just had a terrible asthma attack." said Marie.
"At the same time?" asked Jubilee.
"It's hard to explain." said Peter.
They arrived at a clearing in the woods. There, in front of them was Scott and Kurt trying to fix the car.
"Hey Mr. Summers, Kurt." said Bobby walking towards them.
"How's the car coming along?" asked Jubilee.
"Well, you guys are going to have to help us take this car to Cain's garage." said Kurt.
"Cant you just drive it there?" asked Warren.
"We could if the brakes were still here." said Scott.
"What do you mean?" asked Bobby.
"Well, it looks like the brakes somehow fell off. Either that or somebody took them."
"Really." said John looking at Peter with a smirk.
Marie gave them a cold stare. John and Peter just rolled their eyes.
"So, you guys just gonna stand around and watch or are you gonna help us?" asked Scott looking at Bobby and Warren.
They both wanted to protest but stopped when John and Peter were volunteered to help by Marie.
"They need the exercise." said Marie as her, Kitty, and Jubilee sat down on some big rocks.
"So, what's going on between you and Bobby?" Kitty asked Marie when the guys started to push the car.
"Nothing."
"Oh, c'mon!" said Jubilee, "We've all seen the way you guys look at each other. You guys obviously like each other."
Marie's cheeks turned pink as she looked at Bobby trying to push the car in the deep snow.
"Well?" asked Kitty.
"Well what?"
"Do you like him?" asked Jubilee.
Marie looked at both of the girls. "Yes." she finally said.
"Aww, Bobby and Marie sitting in the tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage." sang Jubilee and Kitty.
Marie just rolled her eyes as she chuckled.
"Well what about you?" she asked Kitty.
"What about me?"
"Ok, I see how John looks at you. It's obvious that he a thing for you."
"Well, I don't know." said Kitty with a sigh. "I-mean I like him but, I'm not so sure he likes me that much."
Suddenly, Marie heard a voice calling to her. Her eyes widened as she looked back towards the woods. There was nothing there, but she swore she could feel the presence of somebody there watching and calling out to her.
"We're here." she heard the voices whisper.
Marie's hearts started to pound faster. 'No,' she thought, 'not here, not now.'
"Marie…Marie…" she heard whispers in her head.
"Marie!" The sound of Jubilee almost yelling in her ear brought her back to reality.
"W-what?" asked Marie.
"I said why we don't go with the guys to the garage?" said Jubilee.
"Oh, yea, sure." she said getting up.
She led them back in the woods towards Cain's garage.
When they got there, the guys were all leaning on the car while Scott talked to Cain and Kurt about the car.
"Wow," said Jubilee, "I'm surprised to see the car still in one piece."
"Very funny." said Warren.
Marie just smiled at Bobby as he leaned on the car with his arms crossed over his chest.
Cain noticed this and came over.
"So, this is the guy who Marie saved in the woods two nights ago?" said Cain as he walked over to where Bobby was standing. "I'm Cain Marko, another one of Marie's cousins." Cain and Bobby shook hands.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Bobby and this is Warren, Kitty, and Jubilee." The other three shook hands with Cain.
"Well, you guys have a lot of work to do so, we'll just get out of your way." said Marie as they all went outside and started to wander around the woods.
"So, how many more cousins do you guys have?" asked Bobby.
"A lot." said Peter.
Marie looked back and noticed that there was some distance between them and John and Kitty. She slowly smiled to herself
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"So, what's it like?" asked Kitty as she looked ahead at the others walking a few feet in front of them.
"What's what like?"
"Living out here, in the middle of no where."
"It's not that bad."
"You know, I think it's great that you're so close with your family."
"Why? Aren't you?"
Kitty gave a small sigh. "Not really."
"What do you mean?"
"Ok, I'm 17 right; I'm almost an adult that can make my own decisions,"
"But?"
"But, what if the people in your life don't think of you that way. You know, they still see you as that scared little girl that thinks there's a monster in her closet. They don't wanna see you as anything else but that."
"So you're saying people in your family don't take you seriously?"
"That's exactly what I'm saying. I don't have the same support system that you have here."
"I don't get it, if your parents don't take you seriously then why do you go to that prep school?"
"That's another story. You see, they work a lot. Since they work a lot, they think I'm gonna get into trouble and I cant be trusted so they sent me there. Sometimes I feel like they sent me there just so they wouldn't have to put up with me."
"Bummer."
"Not really. It's the only place where I feel I truly belong."
They walked in silence as they heard the others walk ahead of them talking and laughing.
As they walked, all Kitty could think about is yesterday, when John almost kissed her. She wanted it. She wanted it real bad. She wished they were alone so that maybe, just maybe what happened yesterday would somehow happen again.
All of a sudden, she felt a hand gently stroke her own. She looked at her hand through the corner of her eye and saw John nervously tried to take a hold of her hand. She turned to look at him as she slightly blushed. He smiled as he took her hand in his and they both walked in silence.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"You guy's," said Marie, "I think we should be heading back." They all nodded as they turned around.
They started to walk back when they noticed something was wrong.
"Um," said Peter, "Does anyone know which way 'back' is?"
"I thought you did?" said Jubilee.
"Um, of course we do." said John looking around. "Let's go this way."
They walked for about 20 minutes.
"John, are you sure you know where you're going?" asked Bobby.
John looked around the area. "John," said Kitty, "Are we lost?"
"No…" he said un-assuring.
"Oh my God." said Marie rubbing her forehead, "What are we gonna do?"
"Don't worry look," said Bobby pointing to a small clearing ahead, "There's a house over there. Maybe we can ask for help."
They all looked ahead. Sure enough, there was a house nesting on a small hill. It was a bit smaller than the mansion. It looked abandoned with the windows all shut and the paint starting to peel of the house.
"I don't know." said Warren, "Remember what happened last time?"
Marie glared at John and Peter who looked away embarrassed.
"C'mon!" said Bobby as they all started to walk towards the clearing.
They were all about to step on the yard when Marie, John, and Peter suddenly stopped.
The others turned to look at them.
"What's wrong?" asked Jubilee.
The three just looked at each other.
'What was that?' thought Marie.
'I don't know.' she heard John telling her.
'Wait,' she thought looking at John, 'you can hear me?'
'Yeah,' she heard Peter say, 'this is so weird'
"You guys ok?" asked Kitty with a worried look.
They all took a small step forward.
'Did you guys feel that?' asked Marie.
'Yeah, what is it?' asked Peter.
'I don't know. It feels like my mind's trying to get away but my body wants to stay.' said John.
'I feel like I'm being pulled in by a force' said Marie.
'Me too.' said Peter.
'You guys, I have a bad feeling about this.' said Marie looking back and forth at them.
"Hello?" said Jubilee.
"Yeah, lets go." said John as they all walked towards the front door.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Jubilee slowly knocked on the door. A few minutes later the door was opened by a young man and woman.
"Hello." said the young man as he looked at the whole group.
"Hi, um, my name is Jubilation Lee and these are my friends Warren, Kitty, John, Bobby, Marie, and Peter."
"Can we help you in some way Jubilation?" asked the woman.
"Actually, you can call me Jubilee and yes there is something you can help us with. You see, my friends and I were walking around and we kind of got lost. We were wondering if you knew in what direction the interstate freeway is."
"Jubilee, why don't you and your friends come in? You look tired and afterwards we'll help you find your way." said the woman.
The friends all looked at each other and nodded their heads. They followed the couple in the house.
"Come, sit, sit, Ill go get some hot chocolate." said the young woman as she led them to the living room. She returned a few moments later with a kettle and saucers. "My name is Emma Frost and this is my husband Sebastian Shaw."
"I don't get it, didn't you just said you were married?" asked Jubilee.
The couple looked at each other. "Yes." said Sebastian.
"Then how come you guys don't have the same last name?"
"I don't believe in women changing their names when they get married." said Emma
"Oh." said Kitty.
"If you don't mind me asking, what are you guys doing wondering around in this part of the woods?" asked Sebastian.
"Well you see, Jubilee, Warren, Kitty, and I go to a prep school in New York." said Bobby.
"That's very far from here." said Emma.
"Yea, um we came up here for a trip with two teachers and we had car trouble. We found a big house and it turned out that Marie, John, and Peter lived there. So now their whole family's trying to help us. While they're fixing the car, we took a detour and we ended up getting lost."
"That's when we saw your house and thought we'd ask for help." said Warren.
"That's interesting." said Emma as she poured some hot chocolate. "Would you like some?" she asked the teens.
Jubilee, Bobby, Warren, and Kitty all nodded their heads. She poured them each some hot chocolate.
"What about you?" she asked the other three.
"Um, no thanks." said Marie.
"Yea, we had a big breakfast." said Peter.
Emma just smiled at them and put the kettle down.
"So, how did you guys end up living here?" asked Kitty.
"We don't exactly live here." said Sebastian, "you see, being newlyweds Emma's grandparents decided to give us a gift. That gift was a vacation at their vacation house which just happens to be here. Unfortunately, her grandparents forgot to mention the fact that the house was falling apart and it's practically in the middle of no where."
"They meant well." said Emma.
"I'm sure they did." said Sebastian rolling his eyes.
"I'm sorry to interrupt but, we should really be getting back." said John.
"Oh sure, we understand completely." said Sebastian. He got up and walked over to a small desk in the corner of the room. He came back a few seconds later with a paper and pen.
"Ok, here's where it is." he said as he began to draw a map.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Marie started to feel light headed as Sebastian started to give directions. She felt weaker, like something was sucking the strength out of her. She looked over to Peter and John to see if they felt the same way. But they looked fine. Maybe a bit tired and nervous but other than that they looked fine.
She felt herself get hot and sweaty. She tried to speak to John and Peter but found that she couldn't. It felt like somebody put a mental block every time she tried to speak telepathically to them. Her head started to hurt again.
She tried to listen to what Sebastian told them but found it very hard to concentrate when you feel like your head was going to explode.
"Excuse me," she managed to say.
Sebastian and Emma both looked at her.
"Can I please use you bathroom?"
"Sure." said Emma. "There's a working one on the second floor, third door to your right."
Marie nodded and quickly got up and walked up the stairs to the bathroom.
Once she found the bathroom, she quickly shut the door and fell to her knees. The voices were there again. They were telling her things, things that she couldn't understand. She slowly got up and supported herself on the sink. She looked up at her reflection in the mirror in front of her.
Her silver streaks were dangling in front of her eyes as she took in deep breaths. She turned on the faucet and wet her face. Luckily, the voices had stopped but the headache was still there. She felt a stinging pain coming from her left hand. She looked at her palm. It was there again. The mark that had caused so much pain to the people she once knew. But there was something different about it which scared her even more. There, in the middle of the star was a snake that seemed to slither around the star. Her eyes widened as she opened her mouth to scream but found that she had no voice. So she did the only thing she could think of. She made a silent scream in her head. Her head felt like exploding for about ten seconds.
All of a sudden, she heard a knock on the door. She slightly opened the door and saw Bobby standing in front of her.
"Marie, are you feeling well?" he asked her.
She was about to lie when she realized that she didn't have to. She opened the door wide and stepped out. To her surprise, her headache stopped and she slowly felt her strength come back.
"I am now." she said.
He extended his hand and grabbed hers. They both were about to go down the stairs when she suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" he asked
She turned her head and faced the door next to her.
"I don't know."
She slowly grabbed the knob and opened the door.
"Marie!" he exclaimed silently as she entered the room. "We shouldn't be snooping around."
She didn't know what to tell him. For some strange reason, she felt like she needed to see the room. It was almost like a magnet was pulling her body in. Something in her mind told her to see it. She was glad that she did.
Inside, the room was dimly lit. There were a lot of shelves with gothic looking statues and figurines of gargoyles.
"Marie, we're gonna get caught." Bobby said as he entered behind her.
But that's not what she was afraid of. Instead, she was afraid of the image she saw in front of her. There was an image of the mark on her hand with the same snake slithering out of the star.
"You know, it's not very nice to snoop around a house that isn't yours." said a voice from the door.
Marie and Bobby looked towards the door and saw Emma standing with her arms crossed.
"I'm sorry." said Marie.
"It's my fault." said Bobby "I just walked into the wrong room and Marie just happened to see me and she came in with me."
"That's fine." said Emma. "I just came to tell you your friends are waiting downstairs for you."
"Thanks." said Marie.
The three left the room and walked downstairs where they met up with their friends.
"Thanks for the help." said Jubilee as they were leaving.
"Anytime." said Sebastian.
"Do be afraid to visit us again." said Emma.
They all started to walk down driveway. The feeling of nervousness left Marie's body. But she still felt strange because even though she didn't turn around and see it, she could feel Emma's eyes slowly starting to burn her back.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks again for all the reviews!
Logan and Remy fans
Congratulations, you are another step closer to finding out what happened to Logan and Remy.
