"Are you screwy? This is going to get you expelled!" Cora Stein hissed as June Freeman smirked, holding one of the professor's ID cards.
"Not if you don't tell anyone!" June sing-songed in reply before scampering off, leaving an irritated Cora in her wake. June and Cora were devoted students at the esteemed Nevaeh University, yet June always erred on the troublemaker side. She was currently having an affair with one of the professors but, despite admonishment from Cora and some of her other peers, June didn't see what was so wrong about that. Expelled? Yeah right! They were just being worrywarts, though Cora was probably doing this all out of envy. June was going to be perfectly fine! Neither she nor the professor in question would be caught! Their affair had lasted this long, what could possibly get them caught now? No, tonight, June was going to go see that professor again and everything would be ok. She wouldn't get expelled.
That night, June was getting expelled. She and her lover had gone to the library because there was a book there that June wanted to read. It was a banned book, but she figured her lover's clout could save her. Nope. Instead, he betrayed her. He let her be dragged off by the NU police force. They were a brutal, nigh-insane couple called the Translators. June tried to cower from them, but the female Translator, Batez, just smirked and yanked her out of her hiding spot, shoving her into the arms of the male Translator, Bentz. Immediately, they began to beat her with their batons. June screamed in pain and begged for mercy as the blows came hard and fast, hitting every vulnerable spot she had. She could feel limbs breaking and bruises being formed as stars danced before her eyes. All the while, her lover had stalked away. He wasn't even going to stay and watch the results of his betrayal.
During the torment, some of June's classmates came running in.
"June!" Cora let out an agonized cry when she saw what had become of her best friend. Regardless of the horror she felt, though, Cora did nothing to stop it, nor did the other young women with her. Instead, they shut their eyes and ears to June's torment. They held each other and their stomachs as the beating carried on, more and more blood splattering across the floor and the bookshelves as June's screams faded away into feeble gasps. At last, the punishment came to an end. Mercifully, the Translators put away their batons, but what they did next wasn't much better. Instead, they grabbed June by the hair and dragged her out of the library, ignoring her last feeble cries for mercy. As they passed, June shot a desperate look to Cora, but Cora could only watch in silent horror.
Then, while Cora and the others were admonished by Librarian, June was being dragged down the hall and the stairs, to inflict maximum pain, and then right through the doors of NU. This was how a student was expelled. Right then and there, they were quite literally kicked out of the building. June was quite acquainted with this fact. The Translators continued to drag her along, across the long grassy fields of the campus and all the way past the school's golden gates. It was then that one of them uttered a high-pitched whistle and, out of nowhere, a big black bus appeared. It came careening around a corner, coming to a shuttering, sputtering stop in front of the university gates. The Translators shoved June roughly to the ground as the bus came to its stop then, without so much as another word or even a passing glance, they left. They left the scene, walking back through Nevaeh's gates and left June to rot behind them without looking back even once. June, meanwhile, wasn't moving at all. She simply laid on the cold, hard pavement, hardly able to hear the hissing and moaning of the black bus as the buzzing in her ears got steadily louder. The very last thing she heard before passing out entirely was the voice of an old man and he sounded almost sympathetic to her plight.
"My poor child," the driver murmured. "What ever happened to you?" and then June finally fainted away.
When June woke up again, she was lying in a dingy old hallway. After looking around and realizing that she was totally alone, the girl got up, hissing in pain as her whole body protested, but she couldn't just stay there, so she ignored the pain and got to her feet. Once she was upright, she slumped against the row of lockers on the wall and clung to them for support as she walked down the filthy and lopsided hallway. June began to sob out of fear, pain, and grief as she continued to limp along. This place smelled like decay and already, she could hear all kinds of maggots and vermin scuttling around the unlit corners. This was her new home now, and whatever evil that lived here was free to do with her what it wished.
The floors were cracked and muddy and the walls were much the same, lined with graffiti. The ceiling had broken, flickering light sources that buzzed and shot stray electric sparks everywhere. June could see stray pipes sticking out of the walls and floor and around their moldy mouths, brackish water was dripping out. There was a water fountain, but it didn't work and what little water did come out looked more like mud. Doors were falling off hinges and papers covered the floor and desks in the rooms behind those doors. She imagined that the bathrooms, if they even existed, would've been the most dirty and disgusting of all. The food was probably all spoiled and doubtless, the cafeteria furniture would be in total disrepair. Oh my God, there were even plants growing in the cracks of the floors and walls! Literally, ivy crept along and consumed patches of the walls. June was even sure she was seeing bloodstains in certain places, along with lots of other fluids that June didn't want to inspect. There was also an overall stench of sulfur and decay that made her even sicker. She could almost taste the sourness and death! This was where she was to spend the rest of her life too… No, it couldn't be! Her sin wasn't that major! She just wanted to read that book! Surely this was a mistake, a nightmare! Oh, but she knew better. Way down deep, she knew she'd never go home again. Instead, on she limped.
Some time later, June finally ran into another living being, but he was hardly human. Instead, there was something wrong with his skin that made it look like he had a snake skin instead of human skin.
"What happened to your face?" June asked as she passed him.
"Aren't we one to talk?" he replied. June shuddered at his hissing voice and looked away but she knew he was right. She could feel how swollen and bloody her face was and she was sure that she would, appearance wise, fit in well here.
"Can I have a drink?" she asked weakly as she turned back to him, noticing a flask in his lap.
"What's in it for me?" he asked. June looked at herself.
"I don't have anything," she admitted.
"That shiny pendant?" he suggested. She looked down to see the pin her lover gave her after their first date. The last gift from home…
"I can't," she whimpered sadly, touching the pin.
"A connection? Then I must have it!" he cried. "Come, come in! Stay a spell, let me lighten your burden…" he hissed, leading the wounded and frightened woman into one of the nearby empty classrooms. This one had a giant red stain on the whiteboard at the front of the class and June wasn't sure if that stain was blood or marker.
The boy shoved June into one of the desks, knocking the textbooks out of the way. As they hit the ground, a few of them tore open and more pages came spilling out. If the boy was put off by this, he didn't show it, choosing instead to drag another desk across the floors, humming as the legs of the desk squealed against the uneven tiles. Once the desk was in front of June, he took his own seat and, for a moment, only inspected the newcomer, then quicker than a snake, he struck. He lunged forward and grabbed the pin right off of June's dress before hiding it under one of three cups he pulled from his old overcoat. June didn't need him to say a word to understand. She really didn't want to play this game but she was beyond calling the shots now so, after inspecting the three cups, she finally pointed at one. Nope. The snake-boy cackled wickedly as he chose the correct cup. She put the pin, and the cups, back into his overcoat and then fled from the classroom without another word. June was still thirsty.
June sat in that abandoned classroom for a good time more, just crying, then a new figure entered in. This time, he had bright red skin and was far calmer and softer than snake-boy. Instinctively, June knew she was looking at the dean and she was terrified. The horns, the claws, the billowing black robe, all of it scared June and he made no move to ease her fears as he and several other professors entered the room with him. For the rest of the day, June found herself surrounded by the staff members of Hlleville College and they were, to say the least, ugly. There was an old man, who had been the driver who picked her up from NU, a squat man, the scaly boy, and the dean himself, of course.
"Welcome home," they hissed, slithering around her and trying to fix her.
As the day went on, June found herself almost comfy. Of course she was still scared, sad, and longing for home, but there had been an unexpected yet powerful friendless shown to her and now she almost felt ok here.
"It's always prettiest after the fall," the dean assured as he left her in an empty office to collect her thoughts. For so long, she imagined this place to be horrid and although it was to some degree, the dean wasn't nearly as evil as the legends had said and his crew were quite kind. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad here after all…
Years later, June (or Doll, as she now called herself), found it hard to believe she had ever once belonged to NU. Sure it was a pretty place, but it was full of cruelty and lies. Here at HC, she was with her own kind and had come to love even the most decrepit of areas in her domain. As for NU and all its inhabitants? Only hatred and bloodlust remained in Doll. She vowed that one day she would make them pay for getting her expelled. Somehow. She would just have to wait…
AN: I know this was pretty much shot-for-shot of June's actual fall, but I needed something to transition her from Heaven school to Hell school, so here we are.