A/N- Hey I've got a title now!
-stands back and admires her new title for her fan fiction "Harry Potter and the Something of Something"-
Very nice, don't you think : )
Sevvy101- I owe you sooooo much for reviewing!! You have my total gratitude (or the half of it that is left anyway)
Also I changed some things from in the promo…
Okaydokey! Here we go!!
-Flashback-
"Missing" by Evanescence
I stared at the bodies; at their unblinking eyes, almost staring at me accusingly. The eyes were sending me two messages: I should have been there, that I should have stopped this. However, deep down I knew that it would've happened if I was there, I knew that the only difference if I was there when it happened was that I would have been forced to watch.
They wanted me to suffer, to want to kill myself, to actually KILL myself so I would have to play their game by THEIR rules on THEIR territory. Even after this they would have to try harder. I would NOT give in.
I CANT give in.
That was when the truth sunk in. that was the moment I knew he was gone. That was the moment I knew that I didn't love him anymore. It was just gone, the fire that had burned just for him inside me extinguished. It was a sensation that wasn't pleasant nor unpleasant, for then I knew that I could kill him and feel no remorse of it. My heart, that had been harboring that secret flame, went out and I felt my heart go cold… frozen. I knew then, that I would never fall in love again. I gave my heart to him and he repaid me by killing them. My only love and the only person I would find hard to kill, he was now my enemy and I knew I would kill him, today, tomorrow, it really didn't matter anymore. Ever since he turned I knew would have to kill him. I had just been too hopeful that my love would return tome... to afraid to actually face the fact that I would have to actually DO it.
Seeing them like that… it was supposed to turn me into something frail and fragile, something that was easy to defeat. It wouldn't work though: it made me stronger.
I stared as the police came. Had I called them? No, I don't think so… who did? It didn't matter.
I stared as the medics put the bodies into black bags and felt anger toward them… had they already known they were dead? How dare them! "Suze," a voice said in my head, "they WERE dead." I told the voice to shut up, but it just kept going… "Suze," it said, it was taunting me. "They ARE dead" it said teasingly.
I ran my hands forcefully through my hair, and then started grabbing strands of it, pulling. It wasn't enough; the pain I felt inside was to strong.
I punched the window, shards of glass flew everywhere… my hand was now bloody, but I still couldn't feel it…I picked up a shared of shattered glass, it gleamed, I didn't know what I was doing, I guess I
should have known the being in a room of medics and police and doing this wan't the best thing to do, but they didn't even see me, it was like I was gone, invisible to them… I realize now what had happened
… everyone was gone… the police had gone after the ambulance that left with the bags, which left with them inside. No one else knew; I would have to pick up David from school and tell him, he already lost someone close to him and now this…now is father too…
I placed the sparkling piece of glass on my wrist and tore at it…there… I could feel it. But it still wasn't enough…
Jake would have to know too. He was away from here he went away to college after he dropped out if the one here, leaving me to deal with this…
Another cut with the glass, more blood. Finally I could feel it, the pain was oozing out of me with the blood, and it was calming.
I would also have to tell Brad, he left me alone today too, he went out with Debbie. Did he really hate me that much to leave me alone here? Did they all just PLAN this? Did the all plan to leave ME here? Alone, to deal with the police?
"Suze." The voice said, now calming, like the blood, like the cuts. "They didn't know, and they won't if you don't tell them."
"MOM, DAD, SUZE, DAVID, BRAD! I'M HO-ME" said the voice, what the-?
No, it was Jake's voice. I heard footsteps come toward the kitchen, but I made no move to clean the blood, or to drop the glass in my hand.
"Oh my go- SUZE!!" Jake was in front of me now, he was waving his hand around my eyes, I looked up.
"Jake." I said, my voice shaking, "I can't feel anything… I hava new shifter power I think… Paul once told me-"
"Suze!" Jake interrupted me. "It's great you have a new power, but you're bleeding, what's going on? Why are you holding that piece of broken glass? Did you cut yourself? Did a ghost do that?"
I remembered when I first told Jake I was a shifter. I told the whole family, together. Jesse backed me up. Otherwise I don't think anyone would have believed me.
The new power was strange… it was the act of BEING a ghost. Your invisible to normal people, you have the ghost frequency when it came to if someone was calling you.
I was in shock I knew, but I needed to be without sensation…
I needed to be unemotional. I couldn't handle being human… and for that moment I wasn't.
"SUZE!! WHERE ARE MOM AND DAD?" he was crying now, and I knew that he knew. Logic and intent maybe, humans were so strange…
"They're dead." I answered. "I need to tell David and Brad; Can I borrow your phone?"
He handed it to me. "Suze."
"Humans are strange; they can't take a certain amount of emotion they shut down or combust… I just lose emotion." I looked at Jake, "Isn't that what you wanted to know? Why I was acting this way?"
"What?" he asked. I stood… I was going deeper into nothing. I was desperately trying to find my way back… nearly there… I was regaining my sense of self, I threw my arms around Jake and whispered, for I still wasn't fully there, "Emotion, term frequently and familiarly used as synonymous with feeling. In psychology it signifies a reaction involving certain physiological..." I started crying too.
After around Two minuets I pulled away from the hug and relayed softly the other message. The one that THEY wanted me to get by killing Mom and Andy, "No one is safe now…
David looked down at Suze ever since that night three weeks ago when both of their parents died it always took her a bit longer to get out of the Shadowland. After that she normally just slept. That was the only time she ever got any rest these days.
He normally would have dragged her to the couch, but he had THIS person here to deal with, David turned toward the… teenager I guess you would call him, with untidy jet black hair and… oh my god… those eyes… those were Suze's eyes! "No," he thought to himself, "those weren't Suze's eyes they were just the same green…"
"Look," said David, "As you can see, Suze has a boyfriend who-"
"I'm not trying to ask her out." The stranger said calmly, in a British accent. "I need to speak with her."
Someone once told Suze that nightmares last too long and dreams never last enough. That even though they may be the same time length it really isn't "time, " he once told her, "is an illusion, and time is what killed me… don't let that happen to you." Then he disappeared. She never knew who he was, he was just a ghost who materialized in front of her, said his bit, and moved on. But time never existed to Suze again really. Sure she would have to get up an hour later, or she would have to wait twenty-five minutes until lunch, but it was all an illusion…
She opened her eyes… she new someone was here… someone uninvited by any of the occupants in the house. A client maybe? "Well then," she thought getting up off of the floor and toward the kitchen where David and the unfamiliar person were discussing something she couldn't yet hear, as she wasn't close enough, "better go take his money."
Yeah… I know I know TOTALLY different than the promo, but I like it…
So just a recap:
1) Jesse is now evil and wants to kill Suze… WHY? and HOW? You'll find out later chapters.
2) Andy and Helen Ackerman are dead. They were murdered by Jesse.
3) Suze has a new shifter power that lets her become a ghost… this will become important because of :cough: dementor :cough:
4) Everyone knows Suze is a mediator/shifter
5) What David was trying to say BOTH timed was: "Suze already has a boyfriend who wants to kill everyone she cares about. Do you think she's in the dating mood?"
I would write more, but I felt I owed you another chapter after that long wait.
