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Displacement ~ by Amariƫ
~part one~
"reflections of a shattered life"
Alice shook the rain out of her hair and placed her umbrella against the wall. There had been so much rain lately... She flopped down on her couch and closed her eyes, fighting off the dizziness. One switch had been wired to turn on all the appliances; she flipped it and found some relief in the light and noise.
It's happening again...
Thought I heard you talking softly
I turned on the lights, the TV and the radio
Still I can't escape the ghost of you
"Where? Where is that music coming from?"
She had these spells... voices in her head, yet outside it... strange music... strange memories... and worst of all, feelings, emotions that rose unbidden in her heart. I'm not schizophrenic, I'm not. It must just be something to do with repressed memories. Like my amnesia.
Her amnesia was something she tried never to think about, much less talk of. Up until about six months ago, her memory was a blank... but she was sure she'd been living here for a long time. Everyone said so. Not that she'd ever told anyone -- she had, although she wasn't sure how she knew it, a horror of doctor's offices, and had made up her mind never to tell anyone in case they insisted on her going for treatment. She was fine, really she was...
Crazy some say
Where is the life that I recognize?
Gone away...
With a sudden quick movement she jumped up and opened the window. She leaned out into the rain, cold and refreshing.
There's an ordinary world
somehow I have to find
There was nothing to stop her if she fell; the faint instinctive prickle of danger exhilarated her. She wanted to jump out and fly away into the wind and rain, (for she knew she could fly; this at least was something she knew for certain.) but an unseen force held her within the room. Somewhere, somehow, there was a goal she must get to...
to the ordinary world
I will learn to survive...
But for now, her goal was to find out who she was.
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author's notes: This is an experiment of mine -- get used to the short chapters, because that's what it'll be most of the time. It's a AU -- kind of. You'll see what I mean very soon. It's not really a songfic, because the song -- "Ordinary World" by Aurora -- is just for this chapter.
