Paralyzing Devotion

Chapter Two: The Fall

A/N: Ok, I am doing all these new revised chapters cause I will not be able to write for a while until I am better from my bad cold. I am sorry, but I can not write stories while coughing my lungs out and having a sickness blocking any of my ideas for writing. Sorry.

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Two figures danced in the main hall as soft romance music played loudly. Terra watched as her own mother danced with all the grace that the Elves have or at least the Elves she had read about have. Her stepfather was dancing like a man with a very bad limp and looked like the devil in the candlelight.

The girl sighed as she thought of a life outside of her home. She didn't go to school for students and teachers never understood her and she always had to run from most of her stepfamily. Only two of them actually liked her, the oldest daughter and the second oldest son. Cathy and Dylan, who both hated their father, but never showed it.

The girl's mother always wanted the best for her daughter and often taught her math, reading, writing, history, and other subjects that schools would teach. It was her mother, Cathy, and Dylan who had kept her from killing herself in the past and it was always those three that did anything for her. The only problem was that Terra's mother never knew about the things her second husband would do to her only child.

Terra would have kept thinking about the unfairness of her life, but a evil laugh sounded behind her and with a quickly movement, the young girl turned her head and almost sobbed when she saw the oldest son tossing a rock in the air. Behind him was the youngest stepsister, who was still a year older then Terra, and the two younger boys, who were twins only a year younger then their stepsister.

"Hello, my sweet stepsister!" The older boy smiled with a sneer. "It was a nice trick you did on our sister to make her cook the food for father. Now, I will ask you to stay still so I can play the same trick on you while I throw this big, stone rock at you again and again." The calmness in the young man's voice sounded dangerous and cruel as he watched Terra quickly stand up and start to run from his small group of family. "Well, I guess the chase is on then!" He yelled after her as he started to run after her down the halls.

Corridor after corridor passed Terra by in a hurry as she ran as fast as her weak legs could carry her. The sound of the young man's laughter echoed in the halls as she tried to run farther away from him, but the only trouble was that she had run down a hall with a dead end. Quickly Terra turned around with hope that she could run back the way she came, but it was already block by her stepbrother.

"Well, well, well, I guess you're not as smart as many think. Now, I know I would never run down a hall that had a dead end! Oh no, I am not that dumb, unlike those who do not go to school, but now all you have for an escape is a glass window that falls two stories down. You could be easily killed that way or you can let me kill you by throwing this rock at you several times and I will with that I would be happy and father will never have to beat you again."

Fear filled Terra's eyes and was etched on her face as she looked at her stepbrother as he once more threw the rock up and down in his hand. Tears were falling down her face from the fear of death as she slowly backed up towards the closed window. "Please Jason, I never did anything to you. I have never hurt you or your siblings and I don't want to." Terra pleaded with a shaky voice.

"No, you never tried to hurt us, but like I said, you took our father's attention away from us whenever he had to punish you for not being right in the head. And for that, I think that no matter what, I will never forgive you for becoming my stepsister." With those words echoing in the hall, Jason threw the rock as hard as he could at Terra just as she felt her back hit the window.

Pain swept through Terra's body as the rock hit her hard in the chest, breaking an already hurt rib and pushing it into her already damaged lung. From the force of the rock and trying to back up further away from her stepbrother, Terra felt herself break the window behind her and start to fall to her most certain death.

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A/N: Cliffhanger couldn't help myself! No flames or the flamer will be punsihed!