Title: Phoenixfire and SoulShriek
Author: Mrs. Shinigami
Archive: fanfiction.net
Pairings: Read and find out
Warnings: My first original character/sel insertion fic, please be gentle.

Chapter One : Planning and Escaping

"Fortune! Fortune Kincaid! Where is that girl!"
It was lights out/curfew time at the St. Mary's Group Home for Girls. We all had to be in at 12 midnight. Fortune Kincaid, one of the regular late ones was fifteen minutes late. The fat greasy woman who ran the home pointed a grubby finger at me.
"Hey! You! Do you know where that girl is?"
I gave her a cold glare. "No."
"Are ya sure? Yer her pal, you shoulda known."
"Yes, I am her friend, but I am not her mother, If I were, we would not be here."
I have no tolerance for half drunken den mothers who demanded information from people who have none.
"Smartass! Why I oughta-"
At that moment, the door opened, and Fortune stepped in, and idiotic grin on her face. Her brown eyes shone with a crazy light. Her normally shiny, perfect curly hair was wet and disheveled. She look as if she ran all the way from where she was to get here. She looked at me, and the lights in her eyes danced and danced.
"Where the hell have You been!"
The light faded, she hung her head and mumbled some kind of apology.
The fat woman, who seemed to hate Fortune, grabbed her by the arm and slapped her across the face. This was not common. Fortune's face was red and had the clear imprint of a hand on the left cheek. It was time to step in.
I swung my feet around the side of the bed, grabbed the lamp of the table that stood between each girls' bed. I ran up to the woman who was now whaling on Fortune, got behind her, and hit her in the back of the head as hard as I could. She fell like a sack of potatoes, out cold. Fortune clambered out from under her. A cut by her mouth was bleeding, and she was developing on hell of a bruise on her temple, but the lights in her eyes shone again. We had been planning this night for the past 3 hellish years we have lived here. The time had come. I turned to the other girls in the room, all of them stunned and pale.
"We are leaving this place now, never to return. It would be better than living here at the whims of a woman who beats you and feeds you once a day. If anyone ones asks of us, we were never here, from now on, you no longer know us."
All of the girls nodded. The woman on the floor shifted. It was time to go. I grabbed the knapsack of supplies I had packed last week from under my bed. Fortune stood with her bag over her shoulder, impatient by the door. She was grinning ear to ear.
"Let's go!"
I turned to the girls for one last time. "Turn off the lights, go to sleep. I will miss you all."
I joined Fortune at the doorway. I turned to her. She looked at me. Silently, we walked out. After we shut the door behind us, we stood for a second. It was beautiful night, the stars shone over the colony in a dazzling array of shining sparks in the sky. The moon was full and pristine. We both looked up in the sky, then looked at each other. There was fire dancing and spinning in Fortune's eyes, I think she saw the same in mine. We grabbed each other's hands, and ran laughing into the night.