Cirque du Freak: A Vampire by Accident
By: moonlightbear
Disclaimer: I don't own the books, or the movie… the movie is what made me fall in love with the books, but I do recognize they are extremely different. I like this to be book verse although when it occurs I'm not sure since I have not finished the series. Due time will tell me and then I will be able to tell you when my story and the books collide.
Summary: Hello, my name is Abigail Hunts and I'm a half-vampire by accident…
Chapter Two: It all started at a wedding.
I was in a pretty blue dress; I was never one to wear pink if I could help it. The dress was thick and warm, as were my stockings and gloves. I loved it, but hated the reason I was wearing it.
I looked to my mom; she was the most prettiest woman I'd ever seen in her beautiful, long sleeved, pearl white gown. We were at her wedding and she was marrying Mr. Gabriel Nickels, her prince charming in Armani clothing. I don't know where he gets the money! He sleeps all day and plays with my mom all night. He's weird… I just didn't know how much…
My mom met him on my sixth birthday. We had been getting the regular tasters through the store and this man kept following us. We entered the store shortly after dark. We were in the bakery getting free cookies and picking up a half gallon of ice cream for ice cream sandwiches. I was so excited because we never have ice cream normally! It was my special day! That's when he came over. The lady was telling my mom only one cookie per person. He came up and asked for a cookie for himself and said he had a son at home that wanted one. The lady sweetly gave him two, and then he turned and gave my mom the cookies. "You need them more than I do…" he said kindly before walking away. Mom went after him a moment later, but it was like he disappeared. So we finished our food gathering and paid for the few items we actually bought. When we stepped outside, I had this bad feeling. He stepped out of the shadows startling us. He apologized and then both him and my mom spoke at the same time, then stopped, smiled, and tried again. It was weird. Finally it was my mom that asked him out and he agreed.
Three months later, six o'clock at night, the sun just behind the hills behind us, the sky still orange, and here we are, standing at an altar and they read their vows, on a wonderful winter night. Just as mom said, "I DO" a harsh wind like no other passed by and than there was no wind at all. Gabe looked around, quite madly actually, before focusing on the words being said to him. I should have known it then and dragged my mom away from him, but I was just a little girl…
Things weren't too bad right after the wedding… In fact, they were pretty great! We could afford more pageants than ever, I stopped stealing, and we bought more food than ever before too! Shopping was fun again! Anything we bought extra of we took to the shelter in town. Gabe seemed like a nice guy too. We ate dinner and he'd even help me with my homework once in a while.
I pushed my worries away, thinking the worst I thought was gonna happen, wasn't… And then it happened.
Some thing hit my window and woke me up, but the crash from downstairs is what made me jump. Momma screamed and I ran to my door, opened it, and then ran to the top of the stairs. Looking down, I gasped in horror as Gabe attacked my mom and beat her. He had blood on his face, and at first I hoped he had a bloody nose and my mom had tried to help him, but I knew it wasn't true. I heard about and seen bad men like Gabe before. My friend, Lily, from my pageants, has an uncle who lives next door to her. Once when I was staying the night we saw him beat up his wife… It was scary… I couldn't watch what was happening anymore and I closed my eyes, praying for it to stop. Suddenly I heard my mom gasped so loud, it startled me and I opened my eyes to see what happened only to stumble backwards. I had opened my eyes to see my stepdad right in front of me. As I moved away, he grabbed me and hauled me off to my room. Before he dropped me on my bed, he breathed right in my face… It was so gross, but everything turned black before I hit the bed…
The next morning I was confused when I woke up. I was sleeping in the middle of my bed instead of the top, and I nearly fell off. Everything was hazy too, and I had dry, crusty, red stuff in my hair. Mom came in moments later to help me get dressed. She had big, dark circles under her eyes. I asked her that I felt like something happened last night, but I couldn't remember it, but she didn't know anything. That worry feeling came back, and it wasn't till three nights later that I remembered the truth. 'Cause it happened again… It became a recurring pattern, and I started noticing other things too. Mom had scars on her neck, completely new scars that were completely healed. Soon I realized I had a few too.
As that saying old people say, "The higher you are, the harder and farther you fall." It was the truth!
Before Gabe came into our lives, we struggled with money, lack of food, and just barely enough to keep my pageants going. Now we have food, but I'm not all that hungry anymore. We have all the money in the world, but it's not worth what happens every few nights. We could do every pageant in the country if I wanted to, but I can't win any… The circles under my eyes won't go away even with a ton of make-up, and I'm tired all the time. It sucks now! At least before we were happy… Now I'm scared all the time.
I want to change it, change things. Make them better. The only way to make things better was to get rid of Gabe, so I took matters in to my own hands.
One night while I helped mom in the kitchen for dinner I grabbed a knife she never uses and hid it in my shirt. Before we ate I told my mom I was gonna wash my hand and ran up stairs to hide the knife in my room. The whole family ate dinner together and then I went to my room to sleep. As usual at 1 o'clock in the morning, mom and Gabe were fighting, and I went to help. This time I was prepared! I held the knife high above my head and screamed as I brought it down onto his back, but he turned at the last minute and somehow I instead cut him on the upper, inner, right arm. He was furious, and I was extremely frightened by his horrible red eyes that I froze to the spot. The next thing I knew, I was on the floor and my arm was killing me. He must have hit me and my right arm on the outside had a cut on it, and he was coming after me again. I ran, but I was in a corner and he was chasing me. I put my face in the corner, praying all he would make me do is timeout. With both hands he grabbed me, his already bloody fingernails puncturing my skin, and lifted me off the ground. I struggled against him as he took me upstairs and so he held me close to his chest and wrapped his arms around me, so he wouldn't drop me. Something weird happened though; our cuts on our arms touch for a few moments and I shuttered. I think he noticed too, because he didn't even stick me on the bed. He dropped me on the floor, and barked at me to get into bed. I was barely on the bed when he came up behind me and breathed in my face. Just before the darkness came he did something that made me want to puke… He licked my arm! *shutters*
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