Chapter Three

In the Darkness

Riff Raff heard the scream from his room and bolted out the door and down the hallway.

Elizabeth heard the scream, and rolled over, ignoring her daughter completely.

William struggled out of bed, hardly being able to comprehend the time and decided to check it out, in case there was blood everywhere.

Riff Raff made it there first, throwing open the door and rushing to his sisters side. He pulled a towel from the rack and covered her with it, not caring enough to notice the slight pang of an unknown emotion in his chest at the sight of her. She had smacked into the side of the sink and her head was bleeding slightly, "Oh my God Magenta are you alright?" He ripped a section of toilet paper off of the roll and pressed it gently to her forehead, "What happened?"

Magenta frowned, squinting and sat up against the side of the bathtub, "I slipped," She was groggy; her brother was surprised she hadn't passed out, "Am I bleeding?" She touched her forehead and winced.

Their brother entered the room just then and frowned at what he saw, "What the hell are you two doing?"

"She fell," Riff Raff snarled, "Mind your own business."

Magenta looked at them both as a warning and shifted her feet so that her legs were crossed, "You know what," William snapped, "I've had enough of your bullshit all you do is hang around with each other and act like we're all oblivious to what goes on with you. I'm getting you out of here."

The girls' eyes widened, "What?"

"You heard me you little bitch, you better ge-," Riff's fist made contact with Williams's jaw and it cracked, blood trickled out of his mouth and Magenta screamed again. This time they heard footsteps and their mother was at the door in seconds.

"What is going on?" Elizabeth looked from the siblings, to her eldest son, to the blood on his face and suddenly she was very angry, "That's it you two you're out!"

Magenta stared horror struck at her mother, "What?" She whispered.

"You heard me!" She yelled causing the red head to jump, "I want you both out of here in thirty minutes and I don't want you to come back."

"You can't just turn us out like this!" Riff Raff yelled as their mother attended to William, "Where will we go?"

"You can take that god-forsaken car of yours," She hissed, "Just get out."

He was on the verge of yelling back at her but Magenta stood and shook her head at him, "Let's just go," She whispered.

The siblings had loaded most of their possessions into the back of Riff Raff's Volkswagen van and were about to hit the road when Elizabeth stumbled out of the house with a small cardboard box in her hands. Magenta rolled down her window and let the box be set in her lap, but she didn't say a word, she refused to. Riff Raff stared at the woman for a few minutes before she finally spoke, "Your father kept what he found with you, and he tried to find some things out about your past but there wasn't much. This is all he ever found."

Magenta watched her walk away and looked over at Riff Raff, "Ready?" Her brother nodded and pulled out of the driveway. After an hour or so of gazing out the window at the scenery the red head turned once again to her brother, "Where are we going?"

"Old Creek Campgrounds," He muttered stiffly, his gaze still on the road.

"But we have school on Monday the grounds are hours away!"

"We're not going back to school Magenta. We don't belong there we never have."

She could do nothing but stare at him, "What the hell are you talking about?" Riff Raff pulled over and glared at his sister.

"We're obviously not wanted there!" He snapped, "So why go back when we can just leave!" He was about to yell some more when he realized that his younger sister was crying silently. Riff Raff's face softened and he patted the seat next to him, "Come here."

Magenta shifted closer to her brother and he slipped an arm around her. She cried into his shoulder for a while as he attempted to calm her and tell her everything would be alright, "How could she just kick us out like that?" She whimpered.

"I really don't know."

Upon reaching the campgrounds they found the site deserted except for one other trailer, and it looked to be empty. Riff Raff parked near the river and climbed out of the van. Magenta followed and looked out over the water and then back at the van and her brother, "It looks like it's going to rain."

"We'd better get things set up then, I think we'll be staying for a few days," She nodded in agreement with her brother and turned to help him. They managed to make the back of the van quite comfortable; they made a bed in the very back and hung their clothing around the windows for privacy. The other things they had brought along rested in three boxes against the seat backings, the siblings smiled at their handiwork and climbed inside just as the rain started to trickle down.

Riff Raff locked the doors and turned on the radio, a Bryan Adams song played softly as Magenta pulled a book from a box and settled down to read. She peeked over the top of her book to see her brother peering through the makeshift curtains into the storm, "What are you doing?"

He shrugged and moved back next to Magenta, "What are we going to do for food?"

The red head pulled their mothers wallet from her back pocket and another wad of cash from her pillowcase, "She kicked us out so I took her money. And I've been saving my allowance for a car for the past five months. We can make it for a while on this."

Riff Raff smiled and put the money into his own wallet, "You're brilliant, you know that?"

"Of course."

TBC