n00b4life and Koauthura, thanks for reviewing the last chappie.
Yes, Koauthara, I did receive your last comment on My Love Will Never Die, but I'm still working on the sequel to it which is on hiatus for now.
In my old story of this remake, I called the butterfly trail and the nurse scene, The Butterfly Nurse, but I like this name better for the chapter.
Chapter Nine~Butterfly Dreams
Harumi was standing outside of her father's hospital room. She was nervous of seeing him again, but this time he was awake. Grace and Shaun were already in there, keeping him company, but she was out here in the hallway. There she stood in front of his hospital door. This time she was ready to see him once again. She looked at herself with her camera application on her phone to see if her clothes were alright.
Her long brown hair was the 'I just got out of bed' look. Her blue eyes had dark eyeliner and mascara. Her clothes were all in black. She had on a band t-shirt on with black skinny pants and her favorite black high tops with lime green laces on them.
She opens the door slowly to hear both Ethan and Grace having a conversation, while Shaun was on the couch playing with his Nintendo DS. She walked in slowly as her mother cease their conversation and look at the corner Harumi appears around the corner to see her father, just laying down in the bed, under the covers with a black hat covering his shaved head.
"Dad?" Harumi said quietly, hoping no one heard her. She hid behind the corner after when she accidentally said his name.
"Harumi?" His voice sounded dry and sore. He needed some water after being asleep for six months. Grace reached over and grabbed the small cup of water and the architect father sucked the water through the straw.
Harumi slowly appear from the corner as she waved at him. Ethan smiled after seeing his daughter after so long.
She changed.
She truly changed.
Harumi walked towards her father's bed as he held out his arms for her to hug her for the first time in forever. But she didn't want to be hug for the way he smelled to her. And yet, she had to since her mother made her. Once he wrapped his arms around his daughter, he had a question to asked her.
"Yeah?"
"Where is my little girl? This one hugging me can't be her," Ethan let go of his daughter as Harumi looked confused, until she get it.
"She's here, Dad," Harumi replied. "This is her. This is me. She grown up now,"
"I missed six months of your life and now… everything changed,"
"Yeah, everything has changed," Harumi said embarrassingly.
"Harumi… Harumi… Mimi, wake up,"
Harumi began to slowly wake as she realised that she was in her father's car in the front seat. Once she regained her eyesight, she turned to her left to see her father looking at her sleepy form, before she started stretching her arms while still in her seat belt.
"What's up," Harumi finished stretching as she lay back in the front seat.
"We're here,"
"Where at," Harumi looked out the window to see that they were parked near an old power plant.
She was wide-eyed at the place as she remembered it. This place was used in the past for Seiko High students to thrown the best underground parties, until the police came in and break it up.
"This is where the next trail is," Harumi asked her father as she turned to face him. "This was abandoned a long time ago. It was used for underground parties at my school,"
"I heard about it. The police was supposed to have it torn down," Ethan started to get out of the car. "But what does the killer want us to do here,"
Harumi slowly got out of the car as she walked towards her father and stood next to him on his right. The raindrops were still tapping against their heads and torn bodies as they looked around in silence.
Then they looked at the metal gate of the powerplant as the emo teenager walking towards it and started holding onto it. The architect father joined in as he helped his daughter pulled open the gate. They were having a hard time pulling it open, until Harumi was the first one to give up once she felt her fingers started hurting.
Harumi shaked her fingers before walking away from the gate. Ethan let go as he looked at his daughter walking back towards him.
"That gate is hella strong,"
"There must be another way around, Harumi," Ethan walked passed his daughter as she turned around to face his back. "Start looking around. Let me know if you found another way,"
Harumi went into the left side of the building as she watched her father go onto the right side of the building. She found a way on the left side by climbing through a metal fence. As she went through it without climbing it, she suddenly received a large cut in the palm of her right hand.
The large cut had really hurt the emo teenager as blood was coming out slowly from her palm. It was stinging and it hurt so much, like when she cut herself on her wrists. She pulled out a red and black bandana from her black jacket and wrapped it around her palm, before calming down.
As she continued looking for a way into the building, she noticed her father on the other side of the electrical condensers. She ran towards him as he turned around and noticed her.
"Hi, Mr. Mars,"
"Hello," He greeted back at her before still having his index finger in his mouth, trying to numb the pain. He noticed her palm as he decided to ask a question to her.
"What's wrong with your hand?"
"While you were playing Tarzan, I found a path on the other side, which cause a large cut to appear on the palm of my hand," she showed him the cut as it was still bleeding heavily, but the bandana was still holding the bleeding.
"It doesn't look infected," Ethan stated while hold her right hand to look at her bleeding bandana. "But, I'll see what can I do when we get back to the motel,"
After Ethan inspected her hand, he walked towards the end of the building while Harumi was catching up with him, still looking at her bleeding palm. It was nice idea of her to stop the bleeding. Ethan noticed the door to the inside of the building as he walked in. Harumi follow him inside as she closed the door behind her.
Once they were inside, Ethan noticed a door that leads to the pipes of the building. As he opened it, the pipe were too dark and smelly once he stick his head into it. Harumi stood next to him as she noticed a small box of matches.
It immediately reminded her of her cigarettes, which she needed now. But not right now. Not in pain. Once she forgotten about it, Ethan taken them into his own hands, to make sure Harumi wasn't going to do anything with them.
He light a match and used it to look inside of the pipe. It was still dark inside so he got rid of the match and climbed into the pipe.
Harumi looked confused.
"What are you doing," She asked her father.
"To see where this pipe leads," Ethan replied before turning his head to look at his daughter. "Are you coming?"
"Uh…"
"Do this for Shaun!" She heard that in her mind.
"Alright,"
She watched her father climbed closing into the pipe as Harumi finally climbed into it. Once she was finally in it, she climbed through the pipe, until she wasn't looking and the pipe door closes behind her feet.
Ethan and Harumi looked back at the closed pipe door shocked, before the emo teenager received the look from her father.
"Uh… I can explain,"
As Ethan ignore his daughter's explanation, he started climbing through the pipe. Harumi was slowly following her father as she tried to move with a bleeding hand. It was slowly hurting and bleeding more in the process. So, she put her hand into a fist to make it stop hurting, until a moment…
Her father screamed as he moved back. His left foot kicked his daughter's face as it hit her nose the most.
"Aahh! What in the fuck, Ethan!" Harumi cried while holding onto her nose. She was bleeding out of her nose nostrils as she let her hand go. "You kicked me in the nose and now I'm bleeding,"
Ethan turned around to see his daughter's bleeding but sore nose, before he looked back to pulled out out a match and light it up. There was glass everywhere. They were sharp as a razor.
"Harumi, there's glass in our path,"
"So, what?" Harumi complained. "I still can't believe that you kick my nose. Oooo, I think it's broken!"
Ethan crawled slowly until the sharp razor glass shards as he can feel them against his body and going through his clothing as they pierce his skin. He was going through the same thing that Harumi went through. Just like she was cutting herself, but this was quick and sharp than a pair of scissors or a kitchen knife.
Harumi looked at the sharp glass as well. She slowly crawled while still holding onto her bleeding nose. Once Ethan stopped crawling, Harumi had to stop as well or else she might get kicked in the face again. Harumi watched as her father pulled out another match and light it up. He can notice the wind flying by when the match flame was lite.
"What are you doing?" Harumi asked.
"Harumi, I'm trying to find us a way out of here,"
"By what?"
"The match flame showed where the fresh air is coming from. So all we had to do is follow the wind," Ethan explained as he turned right to find out that he was still going through the pipe. Harumi was soon following him as she kept her distance.
After so many turns and wrong ways, they have finally found the way out of the pipe. Ethan crawled out as he fallen first on his back, before Harumi fallen on top of Ethan, as she felt more pain than ever. Ethan felt a bone crush inside of him. It could be another rib thanks to his daughter who couldn't wait.
"Oww," Ethan groaned in pain. "I think you broken a rib, girl,"
"No thanks to you," Harumi complained as she slide off her father's body. "I still have a broken nose,"
Harumi touched her nose as it fell like it was swelling up to her. She groaned in pain as she touch it, until she stood up along with her father, before Ethan place his hands around it.
"What are you doing?!"
A quick snap.
"Oowww!" Harumi yelled. "What the fuck, man!"
Harumi felt like she can breathe easily again. But she was still bleeding out of her nose as she looked up at her father, before stomping on his left foot for revenge.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Ethan asked lifting up his foot.
"That's for kicking me in the nose," Harumi replied. "But thanks for that,"
Harumi walked closer to another pipe, which looked like it can fit both her and her father. It looked more like a slide. Harumi got on her knees slowly before placing her legs into the pipe. Ethan turned around to see her daughter going down the pipe slide, hearing her saying a unsatisfying 'weee'.
"Harumi!" Ethan called out her name, until he didn't hear her on the other side not sliding down the pipe.
"Well, I guess I really don't have any choice," Ethan said to himself, before placing his legs into the pipe before holding onto the rim of it. He let go as he moaned in more pain while sliding down the pipe slide. Once he reached to the end of it, his daughter was nowhere to be seen as he slowly stop up to see more electric condensers that look like a maze. There was a painted butterfly on the wall which means they reach to the next part of the trial. That means that Ethan has to get across to reach to the other side.
Once he looked down, he noticed his daughter slowly putting one foot at a time to get through the electric wires that can shock her.
"Harumi, no!"
"Gaaahh!"
Harumi got shocked on her left forearm as she made it into the maze. She was laying on the ground, rubbing her arm gently as she pulled up her black sleeve to her jacket to see the red burn on her arm. Her black jacket was burning with small smoke too as the electric shock went through it.
"Mom! Daddy!" She cried with tears.
Ethan decided to follow the same way but this time he taken his time to get to her, without receiving an electric shock.
"Harumi, how could do something this dangerous?" Ethan asked, hugging his daughter into his arms. "You could have been killed,"
"I smell something burning," Harumi cried as she ignored her father's question. "And it smelled like fried chicken!"
Ethan place his daugher back down as he tried to find a way out of this dangerous maze of death. But he had no choice but to get to the other side and leave her behind.
Once he reaches hallway, he immediately got shocked in the chest as his body jumped back and onto the ground. He cried softly before looking at his daughter slowly getting up from off of the ground. She looked at him, before she turned to her left to see a door that was marked 'coward' in white paint, just like the butterfly on the wall.
She was still at the beginning of the maze. So, the emo teenager had no choice but to give up.
She was a coward.
There was no way that she can do it. Just like what she did in the past which almost cost her freedom of being a normal teen growing up with a normal family. As she held onto the door handle, she turned around to see her father Ethan still going through the maze, before she turned the handle and left him alone to complete it.
She made it to the electrical condensers from outside of the powerplant as she slow down and landed on her knees. She grabbed onto the wet grass and pulled it out of the ground as she was angry but sad at the same time. She wasn't strong enough to do this.
Her life has been a living hell for her in the past two years. She drinked. She smoked. She even changed her happy personality and cut herself to ignore the pain. But what's worse about it, Lieutenant Carter Blake threatened her to get herself arrested by the police once more and she'll go back to jail without bail or nothing. Ethan and her friend, James the son of Carter Blake who she had a secret crush on was the only people who don't know about her arrest.
But what was her true crime...
"God, if you can hear my cry," Harumi said softly. "Please forgive me for my sins. I tried so hard… but nothing will ever change…"
She stayed there and waited for her father to find her, so they can return back to the motel and continue this pain of horror from the Origami Killer.
So, this was another hard chapter for me to do since I have to think how can I put her into this chapter. Harumi tried her best and she gave up, but her father continued the rest of the trial by himself.
What crime did she do in the past, I wonder?
I named this chapter after a anime song called Butterfly Dreams from Wizards Barristers.
