AUTHOR'S NOTE! Hey! I don't know who to use, Ashley and Gavin, Laura Michelle and Gavin, or Julie and Dick, seeing as I had Gavin act one thing out for me that is later on it story, I shall let you know when that is, so I am writing, seeing him and Ashley, but, I am in no way going to focus on anything, so if I write brown eyes, instead of blue, overlook it. And, you can even use Scarlett and Adam (shudder) Enjoy Chapter two!
Mary just stared. She knew it was rude, but, she couldn't believe it. How was he here in front of her now? He had to be well over a hundred years old, but he was there, smiling right at her, with that cheesy grin he always had given her.
Mary's thoughts were snapped back into reality, she had slipped off the bed.
Bert had one hand on his knee and was pointing at her with the other, his head was bowed as he laughed at Mary, which is something he rarely got the chance to do.
"It's not that funny." She spat out as she struggled to herself free, which after about five minutes, she did.
"Yes, is is to!" He said as he fell to the floor still laughing.
"Bert, you are a child, in an adult's body." She said.
Bert then stopped laughing so suddenly, it scared Mary. What had those words done to make him stop so quickly, she hadn't meant to offend him, and she knew she had better apologize.
"I-I'm sorry." She said as she motioned for him to come and sit on the floor next to her.
He did and she hugged him, but, he felt icy cold, and it was summer, was he sick? Mary felt him begin to squirm. Usually, he was excited to get a hug from her, this time, he was different.
"Mary, let me go, now." He said as he squirmed some more. Mary let him go quickly. He pulled his knees close to his chest and draped one hand over one knee and had this other hand on the floor.
What was wrong with him? He never acted this way, had the years, made him not love her anymore? Or was it something else? She brushed it aside and decided she would just talk to him like they used to, friends.
"So, how have you been for the past, um, years?" Mary asked and she wished she could take it back quickly.
Bert was staring a whole into the floor. He was clenching and unclenching the hand draped over his knee and he looked rather angry, or concentrating on something.
"Fine." He mumbled as he continued to stare at the floor.
"Bert, are you all right?" Mary put her hand on his shoulder and he jumped up quickly, almost like he'd never been sitting in the first place.
"I have to go. I'll see you soon Mary, I promise." He kissed her hand, winked at her, and ran out of the room. Mary could hear his footsteps as he walked downstairs and out the door, that was very strange of him.
"Maybe, it's something I did." Mary said to herself as she got up. She didn't like this new Bert, where had her old one gone? And would he ever return?
Mary glanced out the window just in time, to see Bert, running down the street, there wre no cars at all, and then, something strange happened.
Bert was still running, but at such a fast pace, Mary could barely see him anymore, that was really really starnge. Mary decided, it was time to follow him, just to see what he was going to do.
Mary climbed up onto the roof and waited for a cloud to pass by, which didn't take to long, because, everything flocked to Mary.
She thought "Follow Bert" and the cloud, read her thoughts and sped off so quickly, Mary nearly fell.
Mary looked down into a forest part and then she saw something black running quickly through the trees and bushes.
"What is he doing? Mary asked herself as she continued to watch him run. Finally, he stopped and Mary realized, they were in another part of the United Kingdom!
Mary then floated down to the ground slowly and watched from behind a tree as she overheard Bert talking to someone else.
"No, you cannot force me to do that, I will not!" She heard Bert hiss.
"Bert, if you wish to survive, you'll have to do it sometime or another! You know it is true!" The other voice hissed back.
"She's not exactly human! I'm not sure what she is! But human, she is not, and, I will never put her through that, not what I went through." Bert lowered his voice, and Mary strained to hear.
"Well, still, she must either become one of us, or," The other voice stopped there, and sniffed. "Well, well, we have a visitor." He smiled and showed a set of fangs to the tree Mary was hiding behind. She held her breath, and made a quick decision.
The two men walked slowly to the tree, and then they both hurridely looked behind it, no one was there, Mary had escaped, but for how long?
Mary sat at the table in the kitchen of her home now. She had flown all the way back. She was terrified. What had the two been discussing? Whatever it was, it was something she hoped Bert wasn't going to agree to.
Mary felt someone was in the room watching her, she glanced behind her and saw, not Bert, but the man she had seen earlier, she gasped because he looked like he might kill her. She blinked, and he was gone. The man, didn't look horrifying to her, until then. His eyes, were red, not blue, or green, or brown, but red, like blood. He was tall, like Bert, but, he looked like he was stronger, and his hair, was black, like the night sky, and his face, was white as a sheet.
Mary trudged up the stairs slowly, listening to the sound of her heels as they walked on the floor. This had been an eventful day to say in the least, and sadly, it wasn't over yet, even though, it was all ready dark outside.
The truth is hiding in your eyes
And it's hanging on your tongue
Just boiling in my blood
But you think that I can't see
What kind of man that you are
If you're a man at all
I AM SO SORRY THE CHAPTER IS SHORT! I am trying to do two things at once, so please forgive me. The chapters should start getting longer as it goes along, I promise. I am also trying to fit in the lyrics with chapters. And, it may start to get a little Twilight-ish, but, not to much, I like the books, just, ya know, not overly fangirl, OMG EDWARD!, Die Kristen, sort of person. So I hope you like it, and come see Mary Poppins on tour when it comes near you!
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