Title: May Queen
Author: Carlykinz
Pairing: Megan/ Tommy
Rating: K
Summary: Mayday a small town steeped in pagan traditions where the crowning of the May Queen is the highlight-until she suddenly goes missing.
Beneath the picture-postcard town lies a sinister "otherworldliness" and the dark woods teem with myth. This is a town facing the reality that somebody has committed the worst crime imaginable.
A killer is among them, one of them.
Community is a myth.
There is no one you can trust!
Disclaimer: All television shows, books, movies, songs, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work and the characters, events, and settings thereof are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context and are not intended to be libellous, defamatory, or in any way factual.
AN: This is my fourth Megan and Tommy fan fiction so please be kind. I got the idea after watching the show from season 1 -3 and the most important thing is that you will like it and I apologise for any spelling errors and incorrect grammar, which I shall sort out as soon as possible oh and in this story I know back the old days they didn't really have cell phone but in this story they did Ok lol., well enjoy!
I have put my other Tommy and Megan Fan fiction "why, Why Not" on hold for now as I am not sure what I want to do next with it.
Chapter TWO – Six hours
Joan and Megan arrived home and checked in every room in the house to make sure Melissa was not just really in doors. Once they checked all the rooms, they went outside where they caught the attention of their neighbours and asked them if they had seen Melissa.
Most of them were already at the festival so they never saw Melissa leave which made Joan panic. The other neighbours said they saw Melissa leave on her bike and they told Joan the route Melissa took. One of the next door neighbours who was close friend whose children were very close friends of Melissa's and Megan decided to head to the route Melissa took to the festival. 10 minutes later they came back with Melissa's famous red bike that she loved and rode everywhere she could but still sign of Melissa's crown she won a few days before the celebration and wore that day very same day which she hung on the handle of the bike a few hours ago.
Megan watched from her bedroom window as the close friends and neighbours took the route through the little alley way and came back moments later with Melissa's red bike but still no sign of her elder sister and Megan knew at that moment Melissa was really gone. Megan watched as her mother started screaming at the sight of Melissa's famous red bike, which the neighbours dumped in the front yard.
Joan screamed seeing Melissa's red bike with the basket in the front and at that moment Joan just lost it. She screamed and sobbed on her friends shoulder as she watched them walk with the bike that they dumped in the front yard.
"Joan, don't worry everything will be alright and the police will find her" Jackie the good neighbour and friend said trying to calm her good friend down as she rubbed Joan's back.
Megan could not take anymore so she walked out the front door and watched her mother crying on her Jackie's shoulder.
"Don't you know where your sister is?" Joan demanded letting go of Jackie to grab hold of 12-year-old Megan and held Megan's arms by her side and shook her.
"I don't know mom, please stop you're hurting me," Megan said trying to break herself free from her mother's tight grasp with tears forming in her eyes.
"TELL ME WHERE SHE IS" Joan screamed shaking Megan who now began to sob pleading for her mother to let go of her.
"Please Mom, I don't know anything please let me go" Megan pleaded through her tears everyone could see the pain in the young girls eyes as she said those words to her distraught mother.
"Joan, let go your hurting Megan" Catherine another good friend and Joan's tennis partner from the country club walked over to Joan and pulled her away from Megan only to hear Megan scream as Joan's hand struck the side of her face as she slapped her hard. Megan grabbed hold of her cheek, which was now on fire and quite red and ran off to her place she like to go when she found things hard or when she just wanted to be alone. Megan sobbed as she climbed on the roof of the garages just around the corner from the houses and sat down bringing her knees under her and just cried her heart out. It was a years after her own fathers suicide and now with Melissa missing it was bring it all back but this time Melissa wasn't there to comfort her like she did on the day of their fathers death.
Flash back
Megan walked the long route home by herself as she had done so many times before but on this particular day she remembered walking a long when several police cars went rushing past her and turned into her street Megan was intrigued what was going on so she walked a bit faster finally taking the corner father quickly she saw the police cars by her house and a crowd of people standing outside the police barrier tape looking at each other with horrid looks on their faces.
Megan looked at all her neighbours as she walked by seeing their sad faces she reached her house only to see that police were in her house, the coroners white van was parked in her drive, and that is when she knew something horrible had happened and a feeling deep in her gut was telling her something unimaginable had happened to her mother or even her father.
Megan ducked under the police tape and walked up to the front of her house only to be stopped by a police officer blocking the doorway.
"What's going on? Why are you in my house?" Megan asked
"I don't know how to tell you this kid but, we don't know where your mother or sisters is but your father is dead" Megan stood in shock letting her school bag and books crashing to the ground, as she stood motionless and paralyzed with fear. Megan looked up past the police officer and up the steps towards her father's study seeing the forensics in their white uniforms as they finger printed everything.
Megan turned and walked outside and sat down on the front steps and stayed there waiting and waiting but still no sign of her mother. Then when Megan was sure it could get any worse, the coroner's office came down the steps carrying her father in a black body bag. Megan could not take her eyes off the black bag that now carried her father's dead body. Megan felt a cold hand on her shoulder "Hang in there kid your mother will her home soon" Megan nodded but watched as they took her father away never to be seen again.
Megan just could not take anymore she took off and just rushed towards her father's shed taking her own key he had given her not so long ago and climbed in closing the door behind her. Megan sobbed as she looked round at her father's things around and it still smelt like him. Megan grabbed a blanket wrapped it round her tight and curled up in to a ball and cried herself to sleep feeling alone wanting her father to come back.
Melissa arrived home to see police caution tape round the entrance to the house with neighbours watching and whispering amongst themselves clearly enjoying this because something as big as this would score them major gossip points amongst the cal-du-sac. Melissa eyed all the neighbours ducking under the police tape seeing a police officer guarding the house only to be told her father was dead and that Megan had ran off upset. Melissa knew where her sister would be so she carefully opened the door to the shed seeing Megan curled up on the floor wrapped in their fathers picnic blanket sound asleep with tears stained cheeks. Melissa carefully shook Megan awake and they wrapped their arms round each other and held on to each other tight and sobbed.
Joan arrived home an hour later only to find Megan and Melissa gone and no sign of them both so she alerted the police who were now on the hunt for Mega and Melissa but 4 hours later, they found them both sound asleep in their father's shed. Joan rushed into the shed shook the girls a wake until they opened their eyes and then wrapped their arms round Joan tight. The girls vowed never to let one another feel alone or hurt like that again.
End of Flash back
Megan wiped away the tears that slowly slipped down her cheeks "I'm sorry Melissa, I wasn't there when you needed me and I broke our promise because I clearly let you feel alone when you took your last breath and you needed me and I wasn't there... I'm sorr-" Megan said bursting into tears as she looked up at the sky.
Catherine and Jackie could not believe that Joan had just hit Megan because she never believed Megan when she told her she did not know where Melissa was.
"Joan, Megan doesn't know where Melissa is and if she did then she would have told you or us" Jackie said walking over to her friend who nodded weakly.
Melissa had now been missing for 6 hours ad there was no sign of her returning. Catherine called the police to have Melissa down as an officially missing person. Catherine told them about the bike and where she found it and the officer who spoke to Catherine informed her that there would be an official investigation when Melissa had been missing for 24 hours which was state law and that there will be police outside Joan's door day and night watching everyone who entered and left the house. Everyone knew Melissa and so it was important they found her alive and well.
It seemed as soon a Catherine hung up after the call with the police they arrived at Joan's door as promised with guards at the door.
Joan was in shock and she just couldn't stop crying at the mention of Melissa's name and every time she thought about the last time she saw Melissa and if only she had stayed behind to walk with Melissa rather than to leave her to make her own way because this happened. Joan just kept beating herself up over leaving Melissa.
Megan watched as the police arrived and guarded her house and all the neighbours spreading rumours about Melissa's disappearance as they stood over their fences gossiping they would every once in a while glance over at the her house with sad looks on their faces.
"I'm sorry Melissa, I didn't answer your call" Megan said weakly as she looked up at the sky which was now getting dark and the stars making their appearance lighting up the dark sky. Megan had a feeling deep down that Melissa was no longer alive and where ever she was she was scared. Megan heard a noise down below the garages only to see a hand grip the roof to help them climb up.
"Sorry did I scare you?" Grace Megan's friend from next door said as she sat next to Megan.
"No, it's alright. I just needed to get away" Megan said wiping her eyes.
"I saw your mom hit you, I'm sorry she did that" Grace placed her arm round her shoulders as she shivered.
"My mom thinks' I know where Melissa is but I don't" Megan lowered her head as she looked at her feet.
"She's just thinks that you and Melissa being sisters that you knew everything about Melissa when really no one knows anything about her. Most people thought she was just a sweet quiet girl but it's always the quiet ones you have to look out for"
"What do you mean?" Megan frowned
"I'm just saying that your mom and the rest of this stupid town think Melissa was just perfect but she wasn't as perfect as they thought she was that's all" Megan sniffed and nodded her head.
"If someone we knew was going to kill one of us it would have been me, no would have picked her she was clearly beauty queen royalty to them and what was I?," Megan said looking at her good friend.
"What makes you think she's dead?"
"I'm her sister we were so close until...I felt her leave me..." Megan looked down at her shoes.
"If someone really loves you, they never completely leave" Grace said placing her arm round Megan.
Half an hour later Megan decided to come home where she was met with Police asking who she was and what she wanted to with this house in particular. The police let her in her own house where she saw her mother talking to a detective who raised his head seeing Megan walk into the house. Joan turned round and introduced her to the detective who was handling Melissa's case.
Once the detective left, it was round 9pm, which meant that Melissa was now missing for 8 hours. May Day was meant to be a day of celebration but for the Hunt family it was the worst May Day of their lives. There was a knock at the door around half 9 and an officer answered the door to see everyone from the neighbourhood at her doorstep.
"Hi came we come in?" Jackie asked seeing Joan sitting in the corner with another officer Joan turned round and smiled seeing Jackie and a large crowd.
Joan excused herself walked to the front door and opened it to let them in only to see Catherine and other s from the country club shoving their way to the front door only to be stopped by the police guarding the house.
"It's alright, I know them," Joan said smiling
"What are you all doing here?" Joan said sounding puzzled.
"We are here to start a search for Melissa," Jackie said
"Come on, let's start looking" Catherine said eagerly
"I would come with you but I am just so just exhausted plus I need to be here if Melissa decides to return home" Joan told her close friends who understood.
Joan felt like people cared at last about Melissa's disappearance. The police have been very helpful but help wasn't really going to bring Melissa back home was it?
I hope chapter 2 was alright for you all and makes you want to read more :-). please review pretty please. xxx
