Bitter/Sweet Lullaby
Welcome to the second chapter! And thanks for all your response (heh 2 of you! Yay!) After all it is reviews that make the world go round ^_^ and in response to Earthworms question: Katherine is merely past the stage of tragedy, she's in shock, and for the sake of my SANITY she will not become an alien lol
Disclaimer: Not mine, if it was I would not be writing fan fics about it, I would be rolling in a bath of money (hopefully with Mr Phoenix!) *sigh*
(Chapter started)
Someone holds me safe and warm/Horses prance through a silver storm. /Figures dancing gracefully/Across my Memory… - Once Upon a December
Katherine's eyes watered, her family lay before her. Before Merrill, her very best friend whom they treated like a son. Katherine watched as Merrill ran to each of the bodies in turn as if he needed to convince himself they were dead, she knew they were of course; with her own eyes she seen the monsters hold them and empty their poison into their lungs, whilst she lay helpless in the corner…
FLASHBACK
"Kathy hurry up will you?" Robert Wallace shouted to his eldest daughter, she lived here from she graduated and they were visiting.
"Sure dad! Gimmie a second!" she shouted back relaxing into her bath, stretching out she heard a knock at the window.
She looked at the window, a dark figure passed over it.
"Hello?" she called at it "Look Jessica there's no point in pretending you're a ghost or something!"
Another knock came from the roof, Kathy got out of the bath and quickly dried off, and putting on some quick clothes she opened the bathroom door
"Mum, dad?" she called "There's someone on the roof! Where are Jessie and Dean?"
"They're down here with their friend" Miranda answered. Kathy's heart grew colder; a gnawing feeling appeared in her stomach.
Another knock
Kathy screamed as the bathroom window was shattered, to her horror a grotesque alien jumped in.
Katherine screamed the hardest she could.
BACK TO REALITY
"Kathy… Kathy come on" Grahams voice pulled her back to reality, he was supporting her. Merrill was weeping loudly on the ground; she closed her eyes for a second and walked towards him
"Merry? Look at me" she pulled his tear stained face to hers "I'm so scared but we have to be strong, we have to get out of here, away from them, ok?"
Merrill nodded and stood beside her, she stumbled slightly and he helped her up. He put his arms around her and pulled her to his chest, where she remained.
As they walked past Graham who was muttering a silent prayer, Merrill nodded to him and pointedly looked at Kathy's blood stained t-shirt, Graham's blue eyes opened in realisation. He hurried behind them
Bo was sitting bored in the car occasionally checking for signs of her brother waking up, she could see her Auntie Kitty's house and was wondering why her daddy and Uncle stopped here so suddenly.
A tiny frown crossed her eyebrows and she woke up Morgan
"Nnuuuggg… Bo! I'm sleeping… what's wrong?" Morgan sleepily replied
"Morgan I'm scared" Bo said quietly looking at her shoes
"What's wrong, where are we? Where's dad?" Morgan blinked awake
"I'm afraid of the aliens and we're at Auntie Kitty's house and dad's there"
"Why are you afraid of the aliens Bo?" Morgan asked looking out the window and watching his dad
"Because I had a dream and they came back and they were scary and they killed us and I don't want you to die Morgan!" Bo cried to her brother
"I'm going to be fine, the aliens are gone Bo… you know this!" Morgan comforted his sister
"They're not!" She shouted at him "I saw them!"
"Aunt Kitty!" Morgan screamed at Katherine who winced, when Bo was younger prouncing Katherine and found it difficult so had decided that Auntie Kitty was a perfect solution. Merrill had found this very amusing and called her Auntie Kitty; her reaction was enough to stop him.
"Hey Morgan, how ya doing mate?" she forced out "and there's Bo! She looks more like an angel everyday!"
"I'm good Kitty!" Morgan replied sincerely, Katherine caught Merrill's eye and smirked, warning him to say it and die.
"That's nice to hear" she smiled at them.
"Merrill you drive, Katherine take front seat and I'll go into the back" Graham's voice wandered over, they all complied.
(End of chapter)
Again guys thanks for the reviews! I need more ;) Stay tuned! Here's a snippet of the next chapter….
"Where to?" Graham asked
"I'm hungry" Bo quirked up, her reply was followed by Morgan's "Me too!"
"Merrill you hungry?" Graham asked his brother
"Absolutely famished" he smiled into the back
"Kathy is sandwiches ok?"
Katherine turned to Graham, her eyes full of seriousness.
"Give me sandwiches… or give me death"
Everyone in the car laughed.
And the above snippet is a true story from my life (only of course Joaquin Phoenix was not beside me inquiring about sandwiches, Mel Gibson was not in the back. If they were… suffice to say *teenage meltdown*)
Coming soon!