Hey-O!
Angel: Really?
Me: Really what?
Angel: Hey-O?
Me: Yes.
Angel: This chapter scares me.
Me: That doesn't surprise me.
'I can hear what you're thinking you know. I hear how much you hate what we are, and how much you wanna leave. I can hear how you think you're perfect and I'm the flawed version. The freak version! The version who'll never have a chance. But you're the unloved one! The one who killed so many people! All for nothing! You didn't even wanna keep your friends safe! You might hate me, but I hate you more!'
Angel screamed at me. I saw Snow, eating an apple, slowly lying down, her eyes slowly going duller.
I saw Jasmine clinging to Ariel, each displaying long feathered wings, Ariel's of an overly-large cardinal and Jasmines of some kind of giant raven, while they plummeted hundreds of feet.
I tried to scream for them, to try to alert others, but what I was thinking didn't make my body respond. The entire place I was in had mirror walls, so I could watch myself.
I looked more beautiful than ever. My hair had been neatly combed and my skin didn't even have a single scrape.
But my eyes….
My eyes had a sparkle I'd never seen. A demented, evil twinkle that could've killed an onlooker.
And my lips were curled into a sly grin, only emphasizing the look in my eyes.
I stood there like that as my friends died, Snow quietly, Ariel and Jasmine screaming.
In my head I was panicking, trying to do anything to stop these horrific deaths.
But my body did nothing.
While I mourned quietly in my head, my body laughed, and Angel looked at me frightened and hateful.
Her words floated back to me. Unloved, freak, flawed, hate, killed.
And with those words in my head, my body whipped out wings and flew off, Angel not even bothering to follow.
I sat up. Why? Why was it those words and those deaths in my dream?
These things haunted me, all of the key components in my dream. The deaths, Angel's words, my body's odd reactions. It should mean something.
"Angel told me." Said a voice, a male voice, by the foot of the couch. "It woke her up. It's 2 in the morning you know."
I looked up to see Fang standing there.
"Hello Fang," I said as pleasantly as I could muster. "You don't need to worry about anything. I'm fine." I laid back down and waited for sleep.
"No you're not." Fang said gently. "That was some nightmare, and you shouldn't be okay."
No, I shouldn't. I wasn't, really. But I didn't want to cry again. To cry anymore. Never again.
"I have nightmares too, you know." Fang was talking more than he had the whole week I'd known him. "I lay awake for hours, waiting until morning, wishing I had someone to tell that wouldn't look down on me. Sometimes I wish I had a mom or a dad, to put up with the nightmares the very reason I don't have those parents gave me. That place still terrifies me, even though it never did for you. You don't need to know any of this, Alice, but I want you to trust me. Because even with wings on my back, you can trust me."
He sat by the edge of the couch on the floor, right next to my stomach. Fang looked over at me, and I saw his eyes, lighter than I'd ever seen them, even in the dark. He smiled a bit, then closed his eyes lightly.
I did the same, sleep taking me far before I wanted it to.
I held onto Jasmine, trying to make myself smaller in this tiny space. Metal bars surrounded us, and we could see misshapen creatures next to us.
Across the room we heard something. Singing. An older girl, and a young boy, perhaps my age.
The words they sang were eerie and sad. I sat and listened to the words, holding Jaz ever tighter as the phrases bored into my mind.
There dear, don't you cry
Sing with me, our lullaby,
Rest your head now and let your fears go
For if you'll rise even I don't know
Each days a gift but it brings more pain,
I don't know if we'll see sunshine again
But don't cry, dear of mine
The pain will pass, soon with time
Forget all the monsters outside of your door
For they cannot worry you anymore
I'll be with you as the dawns light starts to fade
As they're unaware of the price that was paid
Don't mind, my tears now
Don't ask, why or how
Just know that you'll be in your dreams
Where there's no pain, no monsters or screams
Forget all the pain that you've been through
For now, right now there's nothing they will do
I'll hold onto you until you go to sleep
And this memory of you I forever will keep
For if you go you will soon be forgot
That's the sad truth of this nightmarish plot
But have peace now, as you die
And hum with me, the damned's lullaby…
The song at the end, the beautiful, marvelous, amazing song at the end, is not mine. Actually, I tampered with it a bit.
Angel: It's from the fic Damned Lullaby by Bookworm0492.
Me: The whole version is in her story, even though this is most of it.
BTW, those characters singing at the end? Boy and girl? Suggest names please! Y'know, the names they would have, probably children's book names considering the other ones. If you want to suggest looks to that'd be fine.
Flying out.
