Apathy and Uncertainty-- Pandemonium and it's Kin

Apathy and Uncertainty

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Chapter 2

"Pandemonium and it's Kin"

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Fae hit her alarm clock repeatedly until it stopped it's incessant chirping. Mental note, she thought. Add alarm clocks to your Destroy list

Rolling over until she fell out of her bed and hit the floor, Fae remained motionless on her rug several minutes before mustering up the willpower needed to get up and dressed.

After throwing on the cleanest clothes she could find and brushing her hair hastily, she grabbed her bag and went out the apartment door, not bothering to check up on her alcoholic mother. She was probably sleeping with some other asshole guy. As always.

"Shit!" Fae yelled, running down the stairs instead of taking the elevator. She couldn't take the chance that someone else was on there. "I'm late, I'm late, I am SO late!"

After nearly breaking the door open at the bottom of the stairwell, she ran past several people and out onto the sidewalk, hoping that nobody would pull out a gun and shoot her or something.

"I'm so getting a detention for this!!" Fae ran down familiar streets and finally skidded to a stop in front of her school. Kids were still loitering around outside and Fae breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank God…" She said to herself, walking through to doors and into the dreaded school.

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Giggle, giggle! Hee hee, Fae! Come on! Try to find me!

Antaremon! Don't run away! What would happen if you got caught? I would cry!

*giggle*! Fae, just try to find me! Play the game, please, for me?

No, no, I can't, what if we get lost! Antaremon, please get down from there! I can't reach up there, and you might fall! I wouldn't know what to do if you got hurt, 'cuz the vet'narian wouldn't take you, 'cuz you aren't an animal!

Oh, you spoil all of my fun!

Mommy's going to worry if we don't get home pretty soon! It's getting dark.

You'll have to catch me first!! *giggle*

Antaremon, no, come back!

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"FAE! SIT UP AND PAY ATTENTION!!" Her teacher, Miss Danelle, slapped a ruler on her desk. Sitting up with a start, Fae mentally gave her the one finger salute.

"Sorry, ma'am," Fae mumbled at the grumpy history teacher.

"Now as you all know…" Fae tuned out the rest of her teacher's rant, and turned her mind back to the dream that she had.

That entire situation with "Antaremon" as the scorpion thing called itself was just a dream, right? It was all a dream…it was just an imaginary friend, and Fae needed a friend…

Fae needed a friend oh-so-badly.

Kids used to tease her at school all of the time. She never had any friends.

But Antaremon…

No! Antaremon wasn't real! Fae shook her head. It was all a fucking dream. I was a deluded kid, it wasn't real. It wasn't real…it did not happen, Antaremon was not real.

But Fae…

NOT REAL!! She screamed inwardly.

"…and thus ends class. Dismissed!!"

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"I can't believe I still remember where it happened," Fae said to herself, looking down an allyway she remembered as a child.

"I was running, trying to catch up to Antaremon…and…it was just a dream. All a dream. None of that actually happened. It was just a psychological problem, and it DID NOT HAPPEN…

Giggle!!

"IT DIDN'T HAPPEN, GODDAMN YOU!! QUIT PLAGUING ME!!" Fae screamed and ran out of the ally, and didn't stop…

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The only sound that filled her ears after an uncountable period of time was the sound of her boots hitting the concrete sidewalk in rhythm.

It…*pound*…didn't…*pound*…HAPPEN!! *pound*…

She repeated her mantra over and over in her head until she felt her side cramp up with the pain of running too long.

"God…damn you, Antaremon!!" Fae screamed to no one and began to cry. "WHY MUST YOU HAUNT ME?! GODDAMN YOU!!"

Fae fell to her knees and pounded the ground, oblivious to the stares of onlookers.

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Author's Notes: I can't write serious fics when I'm not in a serious mood! Damnit!

Anyway…I like this fic, and if you don't, then, in the words of Fae: Piss off, scag!

Chapter 3 coming whenever I get off my lazy ass and write it…And it will be longer, I guarantee.