Disclaimer: I do not own the great War of the Worlds, for that was written by the great, late H.G. Wells. I also do not own the movie, that would be the famous Steven Spielberg. I obviously did not write the movie, cuz well, if I did, let's just say I wouldn't be writing any fan fics…I also do not own anything that looks familiar, that means I don't own anything but Crystal Marie Ferrier! Lol…Now, on with the story!
Summary: What if Robbie had a sister, a twin sister. But instead of growing up with Mary Ann, she grew up with Ray...Join Chris, Robbie, Rachel, and Ray as they try to survive an alien attack, but be warned, not all things end nicely...
...War of the Worlds, based on the 2005 Speilberg film.
"I'll see you later John!" A brunette shouted jumping on her skateboard. This brunette's name was Chris, Chris Ferrier. She began to board back to her house, where she and her dad, Ray, lived. She looked down at her watch just as she turned the street corner.
"Crap…" she muttered, it was 7:30, there wasn't enough time to get home and take a shower before Robbie and Rachel came over. She sighed and shrugged her shoulders and continued to board home. By the time she reached there it was 7:48.
"Well, they'll be here any minute, and knowing dad, he won't be here for a while…" She sighed again and looked around, she didn't have the house key, and it was locked, so she was going to be stuck out side for a while. She sat on the porch steps and stared at the ground lost in her thoughts when she heard a car pull up, she looked up and there was Mary Ann, Tim, and her brother and sister, Robbie and Rachel.
"Hey Robbie, hey Rachel." She said getting up to greet her twin brother and little sister. Robbie stayed in the car looking up just long enough for her to know that he acknowledged her, while Rachel jumped out of the car to give her sister a hug.
Chris bent down on one knee and hugged her sister with a fierce intensity.
"Hey Chris, where's dad?" Rachel asked, but Chris knew that Rachel knew the answer.
"I think he thought you were coming at 8:30…" She said frowning. She looked up when she heard her mother step out of the car.
"Where is your father Crystal?" Mary Ann asked, silently scolding Ray, Chris knew that look in her eye; she was annoyed with Ray, for some reason or another.
"Hello Mary Ann, I think he's still at work, he'll be home in a bit though." Chris said a little coldly. She had always resented her parents, Mary Ann more than Ray, for splitting her and Robbie up, they had been the best of friends, and then, when they split up, Ray getting custody over Chris, and Mary Ann getting custody over Rachel and Robbie, her and Robbie had slowly began to drift apart, they still loved each other, sure, but their bond wasn't as strong as that between Robbie and Rachel, or Rachel and Chris, but nevertheless, it existed. Mary Ann looked a bit saddened at her tone, but quickly hid it and said:
"Well, we'll just wait until he gets here then." She said in a sickeningly sweet voice.
Chris mentally sighed, but replied nonetheless, "That's alright Mary Ann, I think they're perfectly capable of waiting here alone, you wouldn't want to be late would you?" Chris replied in a fake sweet voice. Mary Ann then politely replied and Chris, shrugging her shoulders, went to go sit on the porch steps while waiting for her father. Mary Ann picked up Rachel and put her back in the car, and then entered the car herself. And this is how Ray Ferrier found them some 30 minutes later.
"Finally" Chris muttered, little did she know Robbie was murmuring the same thing.
"Mary Ann, I thought you said 8:30." Ray said smiling.
"I said 8:00 Ray."
"I heard 8:30." Ray replied in a child like voice.
"Drop it dad," Chris said looking up from the steps, "She said 8:00." She then jumped off the steps, and opened the door for Robbie to get out.
"Do I get a hug? A confusing handshake maybe? Anything ya know, would be great." Ray said to Robbie. "Well, okay, but the door is locked." Robbie pretended not to hear him and proceeded up the steps. Rachel quickly got out of the car and went to give her father a hug.
"Hello dad." She said monotonously, her voice void of emotion.
"Hello Rachel." Ray replied.
"The door's locked." Came Robbie's voice. Chris just shook her head and grabbed the keys out of her fathers hand, she threw them at Robbie who opened the door and left the keys in the lock.
"Let me get that Mary Ann" Chris said noticing her mothers bulging stomach.
"Oh, no it's fine sweety." Mary Ann said.
"No mom, I got it." Rachel said trying to pick up her suit case. Trying, being the key word.
"Rachel, honey you can't carry it." Mary Ann said kindly.
"Mom, there are wheels, just use those…" Rachel said trailing off.
"Yes, but we can't use the wheels up the steps can we?" Mary Ann said carrying the suitcase up the stairs and into the house.
"Really Mary Ann I can get it." Chris said attempting to get the suit case from her mother.
"Really Mary Ann, you shouldn't be carrying that." Ray said jumping up to close his bedroom door, he really didn't want Mary Ann to see the mess, in truth, he just didn't have time to clean. Mary Ann proceeded to put Rachel's suit case on the ground in her and Robbie's room, when Chris picked up and said:
"Change of plans, me and Rachel are sharing my room, and Robbie gets his own." Chris said at Mary Ann's questioning glance.
"Good, I was beginning to think they were too old to be sharing a room." With that Mary Ann and Ray began down the stairs.
"Come on Rachel, let's go to my room." And with that Rachel and Chris walked across the hall to her room. When they entered Rachel looked around in awe, it had been a while since the last time she had seen her room, and back then it was still painted baby blue and had cat and dog posters all around. Now, it had totally changed though, it was painted a deep midnight blue, and had band and skateboarding posters all over it. There was a Green Day poster, a Simple Plan poster, Fall Out Boy, and Papa Roach all around her room, as well as a couple Tony Hawk and Elissa Streamer posters. There was a fairly nice dell computer on her desk that had a black flat-screen monitor, a black key-board and a black hard drive. Her room, despite what Rachel had expected was neat and tidy and everything in place, save for a pair of Etnies lying next to the door and a skateboard lying against the closet door, but everything else was in order and organized. Looking down she saw a sleeping bag and a pillow lying on the ground.
"I'm sleeping on the floor by the way, I know you have back problems." Chris said, with a slight smile playing on her lips.
"Wanna go downstairs?" Rachel asked.
"Sure…"Chris said walking down the steps, she grinned as her father walked up the steps and heard him tell Robbie that they were going to go play catch…yep, just like normal ole dad…she thought.
While Rachel went into the back yard, Chris went into the kitchen to get something to drink. She grinned as she saw her dad and her brother playing a 'friendly' game of catch. She bent down into the fridge looking for something to drink just as she pulled the lemonade out and got up and closed the fridge a baseball came flying through the window and hit her on the side of the face, she cried out in shock as glass flew everywhere and all Chris could feel was pain. The strength of the throw had knocked her down when she heard a scream and two voices shouting her name. Just as she was about to get up she felt two arms wrap around her and her brothers commanding voice, it took her a couple seconds to sort everything out and here what her brother was saying.
"…get some rubbing alcohol, some cotton balls, a couple of tissues and a pair of tweezers." She looked around and saw her father run up stairs, he stopped in the middle, and she knew that he didn't know where the stuff was.
"The rubbing alcohol is in the medicine cabinet as are the tweezers, and the cotton balls are in the cabinet under the sink." Chris shouted up to him.
"Uhhhh…Rachel, go get some ice, put it in a zip lock bag and bring it here." Robbie said to Rachel while helping Chris into a chair under the light.
Seeing Rachel's face Chris said:
"It's in the deep freezer in the back yard." Chris said while attempting to get away from Robbies scrutinizing.
"Hold still Chris, I need to see if there is anything seriously wrong." Robbie said softly.
"Since when did you become the expert in first aid?" Chris asked in attempt to lighten the mood.
"I had to learn it to become a life guard." He said distractedly.
"Shit…" He muttered thinking Chris couldn't hear him.
"What?" She asked worriedly.
"There's like, glass imbedded into your skin…"He said in a slightly sympathetic voice.
"Huh, isn't that nice." She heard running and looked up to see Rachel running in with ice in a bag and her father running in with the things Robbie had asked for, well more like demanded.
"Okay, Chris I've gotta get the glass out okay…just relax now, nice and easy…" She winced as Robbie put the tweezers down on her cheek.
"Okay, on three…one, two—"
"OWW!" Chris yelled.
"You said three." Chris said scowling.
"Yeah, well it's out, okay, Ray gimme the rubbing alcohol and a couple of cotton balls." Robbie said taking the stuff from Ray and pouring some of it onto the cotton balls and slowly applying it to Chris' face, she whimpered at first, but Robbie did it slowly and softly so it didn't hurt as much.
"Okay, now just leave the ice on it for a bit, so the swelling goes down, but you're going to have one heck of a bruise." Robbie said handing her the ice and getting up.
"Thanks Robbie, who threw that by the way?"
"You're welcome, and Ray did." Robbie said changing his tone of voice at the end.
Chris, seeing the tension, quickly said:
"Oh, well dad, I knew you used to play baseball, but that was one hell of a throw." Chris said grinning in attempt to lighten the mood.
"I'm really, really sorry Chris." Ray said sincerely.
"S'ok dad, no real harm done."
"I'm going to go take a nap." Ray said yawning.
"What are we supposed to eat?" Rachel asked whining.
"Order something." Ray said from the stairs.
Chris looked at Rachel, "I've got to go to work…Robbie is going to be here, if you need anything, and dad is right up stairs, my cell phone number is on the fridge, and umm…hey, do you want to come along? We could order something and have the pizza delivered to the shop, or pick up something on the way." Chris said looking into Rachels eyes. Chris worked at Lenny's Foods down the street, it was just the local grocery store…She had worked there for about 2 years now, she had gotten promoted, and was now the manager, the only person above her was Lenny, as he owned the store, that was how she could buy her Etnies and brand named boards and stuff, and her computer, she had bought it all out of her own pocket, though Mary Ann and Tim had gotten her the cell phone for her birthday.
"No thanks, I'll just stay here and order something." Rachel said.
"Okay, my cell number is on the fridge, along with my stores number, if you need anything just call the store and ask for Chris Ferrier." With that Chris grabbed her black Independent hoodie, slipped on her Etnies and grabbed her skateboard and left.
Just as she exited the door Robbie came into the living room with Ray's keys.
"Where are you going?" Rachel said turning around.
"Out." Robbie said.
"Out where? And with dad's keys?"
"None of your business, and yes." Robbie said hotly.
"Dad's going to kill you."
"Ray can't do anything." With that he left leaving Rachel alone in the house. Sighing she got up and picked up the phone and the menu to the health food store.
There it is Chapter 1! Hope you all liked it, please review, even if it's a flame, I don't mind, I would like to find out what is wrong or right with my story!
Coming in Chapter 2: The lightning comes, and they leave the house. Goes up to about the army part…Oh, and if anyone can remind me, does Rachel see the dead bodies before…or after they go to Mary Ann's house? I can't remember