Poisoning a drink Bleeding in a sink
Choking with a link
Killing with a stink
Just your mother's
HO
Bleeding in a sink
Poisoning a drink
Burning up
My sweet Clementine
Trampling a shrink
Bleeding in a sink
Halleluiah wink
Getting on the brink
Just your mother's
HO
Halleluiah wink
Murdering a shrink
Burning up
On my sweet revenge
Will be yours for the taking
It's in the making baby
My sweet revenge
Will be yours for the taking
It's in the making baby
Killing with a stink
Bleeding in a sink
Poisoning a drink
Getting on the brink
Just your mother's
HO
Bleeding in a sink
Trampling a shrink
Burning up
My sweet Clementine
Poisoning a drink
Bleeding in a sink
Choking with a link
Killing with a stink
Just your mother's
HO
Poisoning a drink
Bleeding in a sink
Burning up
My sweet revenge
Will be yours for the taking
It's in the making baby
My sweet revenge
Will be yours for the taking
It's in the making baby
I saw her laugh
Then she said, "Go away"
I saw her laugh
Then she said, then she said,
"Go away, away"
My sweet revenge
Will be yours for the taking
It's in the making baby
My sweet revenge
Will be yours it's in the making
It's in the taking, making, baking, taking, faking
HO, My sweet Clementine
HO
Shoulda been coulda been
Woulda been woulda been you," System of A Down
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I stood laughing at the amateurs I was watching from on top of a building across the street from the nice house. Caught in my laughter I suddenly felt a shiver in my arms. I had forgotten to let the boy go, and for that I mentally slapped myself. But I wondered, was Ithe shiver from the effect of the cold, or was he scared of me? Lost in my reverie I felt a sudden burn on my arm, a burn worse then that of the iron burns I had got from the orphanage. The orphanage? I had long forgotten the orphanage. Suddenly a flashback of my life came back.
(Flashback in Younger Mercy's POV)
I sat up in my so called bed, and smiled at the small watch I stole from the boy that had been standing outside of the orphanage today. I felt bad for stealing from him, but to do Poe's plan I really needed it. Just to make it up to him I will rename Poe. The 'Poe' book I have been reading has gotten too hard for me to read, so I wanted to rename my friend, plus the boy looked a lot like Poe. Now Poe would be named Danny. And Danny would help me stop Lady Josephine from hurting me again. I took the small sparkly bottle Forrest said he got from his neighbor. He said she was a witch and that she said if you were to drink it, you would go to sleep and never wake up.
And if Lady Josephine never wakes up she hurt me agian can she?
I got up from my small bed and checked the watch again, "12:00, the time Lady Josephine said not to wake her from her 'beauty sleep'. Shall we Danny?" I smiled at my old friend that only I could see. I never knew what the big people's problems were they always said I was 'crazy and if I ever got up and made any noises that would wake Lady Josephine I would be punished'. I walked down the hall to the biggest and prettiest room in the orphanage and opened the door a little to see inside. I saw Lady Josephine with her silk mask on, the one I had tried to take. When she found out I took it she took the iron and burned me, leaving a mark that looked like a rose. I looked at the burn one more time before walking in the room. I walked up to Lady Josephine's bed and whimpered softly before walking to the tall nightstand and stood on my toes to pour the red into her water. Then walking away I closed the door and looked at the beautiful bottle Forest said he begged the lady for, just for me. Forest was my only real friend, and he wasn't from the orphanage. Forest said he was a young thief and would teach me. The floor creaked and I ran to my room down the hall and jumped on the bed to fall into a deep sleep, of course saying goodnight to Danny first.
The next day I was not woken up at three or four like I was usually to do, but I woke myself up at noon to run outside and find cop cars surrounding the place. They said she died of poisoning, and they were right. But they went wrong when they said that she was murdered by her boyfriend, and he was sent to jail for a crime a little five year old did.
And he deserved it……..
(!-!Poisoning A Drink!-!)
(End Flashback)
I looked down to see the boy's hand on my arm and some kind of green glow coming from it. His hand…his hand covered the burn that was now covered by a more apt rose tattoo. Forest had given me the idea when he first saw it. When I killed the 'witch' that gave me and Forest a place to stay, but nothing comes without a price…..
TBC
(Flashback from Younger Mercy's POV)
Dawn, the perfect time to finish the plan Forest and I thought out. The perfect time to make Dusk pay. She had tried to kill us last night and we've decided that we can't live like this anymore; we can't live being tested on like some lab rats. I was poisoned this morning; she had me try a new 'experiment' of hers, and when I chugged it down it burned, it burned in the most horrible way possible. Now I can't speak, for my voice is a gasp of air. I walked out of the basement of the cabin, the sunlight burning my already watery eyes. I laughed, trying to keep myself from crying. I promised Forest and myself that I would never cry, never cry or show emotion. Forest ran up the old broken stairs, trying to catch up and remembering to dodge the weak plank.
"Hold on!" he whispered while he caught up, "How did you manage to wake up before me?"
I glared at him, I hated when he teased me about that. I couldn't get up in the morning if my life depended on it. "I don't know, maybe when you fell off the bed cursing in your sleep I somehow managed to laugh at you for an hour and just couldn't stop to go back to sleep!" I snapped back a little too loudly, for Dusk's black cat jolted up and stared at us.
Forest shot one of his famous death rays, "Anyways, is our plan still on?"
"Do you want to be the world's first teenage human lab rat?" I used my unbeatable taunts and banters.
"No," he said quietly, sounding offended and scared, "I just want to get out of here."
I paused, "Where will we go once we get out of here Forest?"
"I don't know. I think…." He paused, looked at me, and blushed, "I was thinking we go somewhere together. I mean I don't want to leave you…you…y-you're…I have always thought of you as my guardian angel. I mean, you stuck up for me when Sabbath tried to threaten me with that switch that day he caught me picking him."
I blushed too. I had always been one of the boys and was usually more cold and harder then them. I pulled my ebony switch on him when he threatened Forest. No one threatens the people I care about. And at that time, Forest was the only one I did care about.
"Really?"
"Yeah."
That felt good, I never had any friends at the orphanage and I always had liked Forest. So when that hit I froze….and then I did something unthinkable…..I leaned forward and kissed him. Taken by surprise he kissed back and we stood there for a few minutes before Dusk's cat slithered by our legs.
"Shit!" I mumbled. Then looked at a still shocked Forest that was sitting there in a little perverted reverie, probably wishing we would have gone farther. I rolled my eyes and pulled him along, grabbing my famous switch from my pocket. As we walked toward Dusk's room we found our 'element of surprise' tactic was already ruined, Dusk stood in the 'bathroom' next to her room, playing with the old rusted sink.
"Hello children." She greeted with her heavy accent. I gulped and glanced at Forest, he had the same expression. But when he saw me looking at him he smiled and traced his finger down my spine. I guess as a sign of encouragement, but by the lust in his eyes and the sincerity in his smile it was more of a turn on sign.
"Save it for the bed." I whispered and rolled my eyes, and his face erased all traces of the smile.
I stepped forward, "Dusk, we're leaving."
"No you aren't." she said smiling.
"And why is that?" Forest joined in.
"Because you don't have any other place to stay and I need you for my testing."
"Well your testing is killing us. You're a witch Dusk, we all know it." I said, raising my voice.
"I'm not a witch," she said quietly, "and you are not leaving. I bet Forest wants to stay, and I'll let him. You know, I never wanted you to stay anyways. I wanted to have just Forest, but he insisted in having you here. I thought it was cute, I mean he has a little crush on someone. But when I finally met you I realized all he wanted was a bitch." Then she turned around to face us with a raven in her hands. "Forest will you-" She was cut off by me lunging at her with my switch, but I didn't slit her throat like I wanted to, I just slit her shirt and left a swift cut on her forearm. The kind of 'take the pain away' cuts people give themselves, the kind one girl at the orphanage used to always have on her arm, like the one I saw her give herself. Trying to catch my breath I watched the blood slowly trickled into the sink.
After she dodged my hit she kicked me to the ground and had me cornered, gripping my beautiful weapon, ready to use it against me.
She shook her head slowly, "I knew you were trouble. I knew I should have never let you stay. But I let Forest convince me. And now I'm going to help myself." She moved my switch closer, she didn't exactly know how to use it properly, but she could use it to fulfill her intentions. I closed my eyes, and waited for the end of my life, but it never came. As I opened my eyes once more I saw Forest holding her arms and making a successful effort to save my life.
"Forest what are you doing?" I screamed.
"Saving your life!"
"But why? Forest you can have the life you want just let her kill me, then you can-"
"Fuck the life! If I had all that what would be the purpose of it if I couldn't share it with you?"
"But that's what you wanted! You deserve it with all the crazy shit you've been through!"
"None of that was what I wanted, it was what my father wanted!"
"Your father loved you before he died, my parents thought I was a disgrace, I mean spawn of Satan kind of disgrace!"
"He never loved me, he wanted to use me! You on the other hand have been with me through everything!"
I finally saw how much Forest cared about me. But wow, God knows the perfect times to give a person an epiphany.
As tears filled my eyes I whispered something I never thought I'd say, "Thank you Forest." He smiled a bit when I said that but then focused back on Dusk.
"Dusk just let us go and we won't turn you in."
"If you turn me in you'll be turning yourself in too." She grinned evilly, like the serial killers in those late night horror movies with really bad special effects.
I looked down at myself for something, anything that could help me.
Nothing.
Why didn't I bring a gun?
I thought, and thought, and thought until my head hurt so much it gave my hair nerves. Until God (with his perfect timing and all) gave me yet another epiphany.
"My belt…" I whispered to myself while unbuckling it and proceeding to manage to get it around her neck as best as I could while she tried to squirm her way out and her bondage looked at me as if I had grown a tail and Bugs Bunny's ears in the past minute or so.
"What are you dong?" he kept the look on his face.
"Saving us both," I smiled, "And making sure you don't end up in juvie."
"Whatever you say," he laughed. And I tightened the grip on her neck making her gasp for air.
"Are you going to kill me like you killed Josie?" I froze, she wasn't supposed to know about that.
"Her name was Josephine, Lady Josephine."
"What's the difference, you killed her didn't you?" she taunted.
I tightened my belt around her neck, "Shuttup! Lady Josephine deserved to die! She tortured me and the orphans!"
"So you leave the rest of them alone? Run away from your problems? You were selfish, you saved yourself no one else!"
"I couldn't save them, I did what I could, I got rid of Lady Josephine for them!"
"Or did you just get your revenge, then make an excuse up?"
"That's not true! You're lying!"
"Or am I?" As tears rolled down my face like an avalanche, I never noticed she was dead until Forest put his hand on my shoulder and led me away….
(!Bleeding in a sink, Choking with a link!)