Hiya everyone! Here is the real chapter 1. And now please yell at me or something to get the next chapter of Through Death to You up, it's mostly written, I just need to get off my lazy butt and work on it instead of other stories. But anyway, read and review.
The Giver is property of Lois Lowry
Chapter 1
Jonas
Jonas drifted in and out of sleep. His surroundings seemed to change every time he awoke. At first he is surrounded by faces full of worry. A man's bass voice asks why to children are all alone in the snow? A higher pitched female voice tells every one to stop staring and to contact an ambulance and to get these poor children someplace warm! Then darkness claims his mind. When Jonas comes to he is on a bed in a very cramp room. He can here voices around him, muffled sirens blaring. A man and women are talking about his condition. Jonas calls out for Gabriel who he can sense in gone, but sleep overwhelms him again...
When Jonas finally truly shakes sleep off, he is in a small cream colored room that is packed with all sorts of odd looking equipment. A door has been placed in one wall and while two windows have conquered another. Out of those windows Jonas can see a community. Tall buildings cover the horizon all capped with snow. Behind them is a sky that is impossibly blue. The door opens and through it Jonas catches a glimpse of a hallway lined with steel panels, and a smell of antiseptic that reminds him of the rehabilitation center sneaks in. A young female walks in. She is wearing a white coat and a darker uniform underneath. Her fiery hair –just like Fiona's- is pulled into a ponytail that ends just before her shoulders. Her eyes are the same color of leaves as the sun shines through them a deep emerald green. The woman seems pleased he is awake.
"Good Morning. I'm Doctor Amber, and I specialize in helping children. Please could you tell me your name?" She – Amber- Asks. Jonas wants to tell her everything, who he is why he is there, and all about the community he had lived his whole life in. But all he can say is
"Do you know where Gabriel is? I remember he was with me when we were found..." Jonas trails off but, Dr. Amber smiles
"Gabriel? Is that his name?" When Jonas nods she continues "Well he is perfectly fine. My daughter Estarile is taking care of him right now."
Just as she finishes the door opens again and another woman about Jonas's age skips in. Her hair is just as red as Dr. Ambers, but her eyes are a strange golden color. She is wearing a short sleeved tunic that comes to just above her waist and pants that end just below her waist. Her tunic is dark blue with white characters on it and the word Tokyo. Her pants are black. The girl's hair ends at her shoulders and is not pulled back. In her arms however she is carrying Gabriel who seems to have recently stopped crying.
"Sorry to interrupt Mum," She starts "But this little gut woke up and started crying for someone called Jonas. I guessed that Jonas was the kid he was found with. So I brought him over." She paused, and then grinned. Dr. Amber sighed sounding slightly irritated.
"Ok Estarile, give Gabriel to Jonas and sit down," Looking up Dr. Amber scowled. "And take that evil grin of your face. You look like a cat!"