"Please don't make me go to school today." Hallie pleaded from the seat of the car. Mari looked down at her daughter with a confused expression on her face. She parked the car in the Salem Elementary School parking lot and looked down at Hallie.
"Honey, I thought you liked school? Your my little book worm, remember?" Seeing her daughter from she knew this was not a good time to joke around. "Hallie what's wrong?" Mari asked suddenly worried. Her daughter had never wanted to miss school, even when she was sick she still wanted to go to school. Hallie looked out the window at the kids walking in with their fathers. Today she should have been one of those kids. Mari followed her gaze, and suddenly it became clear. Today was one of those Bring-Your-dad -to-school day. Mari suddenly got very angry, she knew she told Haldir, she sent the message to Galadriel through the pool and she knew Galadriel told him. I can't believe he forgot! She screamed at herself. Oh, poor Hallie, she was so excited. She went through all that work to clean up her room, decorate the house just to have her heart broken. Mari reached over and hugged ,Hallie tightly, smoothing her hair and listening to her crying. "It's alright, it's okay ,honey." She said calmly, though inside she was furious at Haldir and knew it would never be okay.
"It's my fault isn't it? He doesn't like me because I'm weird." Hallie sobbed. "I tried to keep it hidden the best I can, but sometimes it just burns so bad and i have to get the fire out mommy. I'm sorry, just please tell daddy to come back!" She begged. Mari looked down fiercely at her child.
"Don't you dare say that Hallie Ramono! It is not your fault, and it was never your fault, it will never be your fault. You should not try to hide the fact that your different to please him." Mari hugged her daughter tightly, then wiped her tears. She sighed, trying to figure out a right way to say it without making her feel worse. "Your father well he's just doesn't like differences, he... He's... Well he's scared, but Hallie he loves you so much. He might not be here to show it but he does."
Even as she said that Mari doubted it herself, she wished that Haldir would let Hallie know he loved her. Maybe that's what went wrong with us? I just never knew he loved me. Mari reached down and grabbed her daughters hands which were warm, hitting at the fire that resided within them. "I wish I had something meaningful, or great to say to make you feel better, you know? Some words of wisdom. But really honey all I can say is this, I love you. And that's all that matters." Hallie nodded, hugged her mom one last time and closed the car door. Hallie looked at her mom who was wiping tears from her own eyes, holding her head up high and driving away. Her mother was strong, the way she pretended to ignore it when people called her names because she wasn't married. Hallie heard it, and she knew her mother could to but yet she held her head up high. She held her head high when she didn't have enough money for some things she would like, and she knew people were saying she was poor, and she held her head up high when her family stuck up their noses, and turned away. Her mother was strong, and Hallie was too. So she too, wiped her eyes, lifted her head up high and walked into the school building, ignoring the questioning glances at where her father was. She held her head up , just like her mom.
Hallie stared out the window, holding the tears that threatened to spill over. All day she heard the kids ask where her dad was, and all day she had to tell him that her dad was on a business trip, because that's what her mom said. But she held her head up high, even when she overheard the other fathers were saying "He must be some workaholic dad who never their for his kids." And now she was tired of being brave, she didn't know how her mom did it. As soon as the bus pulled in front of her house and she saw her mom standing there she ran off the bus and into her mothers arms were she finally let go and cried.
"That bad huh?" Mari asked after awhile.
"Worse." Hallie cried.
"I'll tell you what." She suggested "How about we go get some movies, and pig out on ice cream, with tons of sprinkles and nuts, and fudge, just the way you like it." Hallie seemed interested in this.
"Will it be mint chocolate chip ice cream?" Hallie asked.
"Of course!" Mari said and they to the car.
An hour later Mari and Hallie were happily sitting in front of the television with a huge bowl of mint chocolate chip ice cream, nuts ,fudge and a bag of sprinkles each, watching George of the Jungle. Just then someone knocked on the door. Mari sat down her ice cream and looked out their window.
"Hallie, honey go up stairs for a minute, would you?" She asked calmly.
"But I haven't finished my ice cream." Hallie whined. "And the movie's not over."
"I'll pause the movie, and you can bring your ice cream with you." Mari said hastily, as the visitor impatiently knocked on the door once more.
"You mean I can eat in my room!" Hallie asked disbelievingly, that was her lifelong dream.
"Yes, now go." She said. Once Hallie was safely in her room she opened the door. "What do you want?" Mari asked coldly. Not letting Haldir pass into their house.
"I came to see our daughter." Haldir said warily, wondering why she was so upset.
"My daughter." Mari said through gritted teeth. "Hallie doesn't have a father, if she did he would have gone to school with her today." Reorganization flashed through his eyes as he suddenly remembered.
"Oh I forgot, We were late returning to Lothlorien , and then we were patrolling around the borders and I just forgot." Mari snorted.
Hallie gasped excitedly as she saw her father in the door way. She ran into her room and pulled out her fanciest dress, and took her hair out of the pony tail , which she never did, and ran down the stairs, ready to fully forgive him as soon as he hugged her. Suddenly she stopped, she heard her name. Why were they talking about her?
"Don't make me look like the bad guy here, okay we're talking about you not being there for Hallie! Your daughter! Or did you forget about her?"
"I didn't forget about her, I just... I just think that given her certain ability that it would be best if I not be around her."
"IT'S BEST THAT YOU NOT BE AROUND HER! What in the world are you thinking!" Suddenly it dawned on her. "Oh my God, you haven't told anyone about Hallie have you? Oh now I get it. You don't want your stuck up elfy friends to know that you had a kid out of wed lock. Your ashamed of Hallie, your own daughter? Wow that's a new low for you, I mean I can understand you being ashamed of me I mean of course, I'm not perfect and we can't have that smudging your record, but when it's your own daughter... Wow."
"Stop saying she's my daughter, she's not my daughter and never will be my daughter. She's just a child that I so happened to help conceive, but she's is not normal! She shouldn't have these powers, she's crazy!"
"Just in case it didn't dawn on you elf boy down here you aren't normal either! And just because she can do things like that doesn't make her crazy it makes her special!" Mari screamed. Suddenly Haldir lashed out!
"Look at you, you baby here, saying she's special when all the while you know that she's strange. She will never be fit for me to call her my daughter." Hallie cried out as Mari turned around.
"Oh Hallie, honey-" Mari said trying to keep her daughter away from him.
"Daddy, please. I'm sorry, don't leave take me with you please, daddy." Hallie begged as she tried hugging him. Haldir just stood there, stiff as a board and just as responsive as one. Mari gently pulled the 7 year old away from him and picked her up.
"Leave." Mari said, with such anger that Hallie had never heard her use, even when she threw her credit cards down the window and someone used up the money that was on it.
"Mari I-"
"Leave now, or I'll cal the police."
"But, I didn't mean-"
"I SAID LEAVE!" Haldir almost looked sorry as he walked out the door, which he would never enter again. Suddenly Hallie flung open the door and ran out into the rain.
"Daddy! Come back!" She cried, ignoring her mothers calls as she ran hard.
Soon Hallie had forgotten about him and was just running. The rain fell so hard all around her that it hurt when it hit her.
"Hey is that Hallie?" Someone called who recognized the usually happy child running down the street. They tried to stop her as she ran, wondering where her mother was but she wouldn't let them, and she kept running as the stared. She stopped when she couldn't run anymore and sat under a tree letting the rain hit her, as she cried.
We stand to fight for nothing
Shows how stupid we've become
As fortune favors only
Those who care to much to see.
It will never be ok,
Some will say
I can't stay here Hallie thought. I can't stay were everyone thinks I'm a freak, including my own dad.
We stand to fight for nothing
So close your eyes and stay away
Don't believe their headlines
They poison our minds everyday
It will never be okay
It will never be okay
As some will say
The purpose buried everyday
With lies that lead you to the grave.
Oh it will never be okay
Some will say
It will never be okay
Some will say
The purpose buried everyday
With lies that lead you to the grave
It will never be okay.
Your revolution is a joke
as I will say.
And this last time, Hallie didn't want to be strong, she wanted to be loved, so she hung her head down.
A/N: Wow I can't believe I did that to my character. :Tear: Oh the song was, Your Revolution is A Joke, by Funeral For A Friend. So yeah, review please.