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~CreatureHanstran~
Chapter 5: The Story of My Life
Jericho and I headed out to the obstacle course where the others were, "You know guys, I've been thinking about the situation, and yes, I am afraid, but I have been keeping my entire life a secret for a long time. I've kept this whole thing bottled up inside and maybe if I just tell you guys then I can feel relief for once." I said,
"Rose, you don't have to do this, sometimes things are meant to be kept secret, we aren't going to force you to tell us about your family if you don't want to do it." Beast Boy said, "Thanks Beast Boy, but I feel like this is something that has to be done. So, here is how my life went."
Post Mother's death~
Lily and I watched as our house burned to ashes, our mother's dead body burned and carried out to the ambulance, the cops and firefighters long since came to our aid, but they were ten minutes too late. Father was still nowhere to be seen, "Little girl, do you know where your father is?" The woman police officer asked in a kind voice,
"N-no ma'am." I rubbed my eyes, the clock on the police cars dashboard read two a.m., way too late for father to still be out at the lab.
The policewoman put a hand on my shoulder, "Do you know how this fire started?"
I shook my head, "No... B-but, these bad p-people came into our house and mommy came into my room with my sister and t-told me to get out of the house and to protect my sister... I-I left my m-mommy! And the b-bad people h-hurt her..." I wiped my eyes, "Now she won't be coming back." I said the last part quietly.
The policewoman nodded, then hugged my sister and I, "I'm sorry that this had to happen to you two girls." Her voice faltered, like she was about to cry herself, "You did a good thing, getting you and your sister out of there before you two got hurt."
"B-but... I couldn't save mommy..."
Tears started streaming down my face as I heard a car drive up, a door slammed, "No! Angela! Rosalina! Lily!"
I heard my father's voice, "D-daddy?" I climbed out of the back seat of the police car with Lily and ran over to him, "Daddy!" I hugged his legs,
"Thank goodness you two are okay." He knelt down to our level, "Where's your mom?"
"Oh daddy." I buried my my face in his chest, "The bad people hurt her!" I cried.
Lily started crying too, "Shh, it's okay." My father said, his voice strangely calm, "Everything is fine, you'll be safe with daddy."
~Eight months pre-Titans (So about 9 years later)~
Lightning cracked across the dark night sky, Lily and I were at home alone, watching scary movies in the living room as the rain pelted down on the roof, making the movie seem more realistic. I shoved some popcorn in my mouth as Lily clutched onto the pillow for dear life. The girl in the movie ran through the woods, through the mud, on a night much like the one we were experiencing, as the killer ran after her with a chainsaw, "Rosie, I can't look..." Lily said, but she was peeking over the brim of the pillow anyway. Just when it seemed that the girl had escaped the killer and was home free from the woods the killer appeared from nowhere, causing Lily and I to jump. The girl fell to the ground, frightened, and as she tried to crawl away the killer raised his chainsaw and... well... hacked her into bits.
Lily and I screamed, I turned the table lamp on and turned the movie off, even though it was far from over. Lily looked at me, "That was the worst idea we've ever had."
"Yeah it was." I nodded in agreement, I looked to the carpet to notice that resulting from the jumpscare, the popcorn had found it's way to the floor. I knelt down and started picking it up, "
Let me help." Lily knelt down next to me and helped pluck popcorn out of the carpet. When we finished I got up and took the bowl to the kitchen to dispose of the carpet-corn.
The clock on the oven read one-thirty a.m., "We better get to bed, you know how mad dad will be if he comes home and we are still up." I said from the kitchen,
"Rosie, I don't think I can go to bed..." Lily said,
"Why? You scared?" I teased,
"Yes! I am!"
"Lily, it's just a movie, nothing that happens in those type of movies ever happens in real life." I said as I washed the popcorn butter off of my hands,
"You never know that, you know how people are nowadays, they see something on a movie or in a videogame and they have to try it out themselves." She stepped into the hallway,
"Yeah, but those people are usually psychotic."
"So you are saying that those events in the movie can actually happen?!"
"Did you use reverse psychology on me?" I asked, heading to the refrigerator for a bottle of water,
"No, you just contradicted yourself." She smirked, I smirked back.
There was the sound of glass breaking in another room, Lily and I both jumped, "Did you hear that?" Lily asked,
"Yeah..." I looked around, suddenly a loud 'thud' sounded from the basement door, someone was kicking it in, someone was in our house.
Lily looked at me, "Rosie?"
"Run!" I exclaimed as the door literally flew off of it's hinges.
A man was standing in our kitchen, he wore a black shirt and black jeans and he was freaking ripped! As Lily turned to run up the stairs I grabbed a knife off of the kitchen counter, "Come on little girl, put the weapon down, I'm not going to hurt you."
"I really don't believe you." I laughed in disbelief, still having the knife pointed at him,
"Fine, be that way." He hopped over the island to get to me.
Before his feet could hit the ground I stabbed him in the leg, he howled in pain, I ran around and into the hallway, turning to go up the stairs. Lily was standing at the top of the stairs, "What's going on?" She asked,
"You have to run Lily!" I ran up the stairs but tripped. I turned to see someone, a different man, had grabbed me by the ankle,
"I've got you now." He chuckled,
"Rosie! Grab my hand!" Lily reached her hand out to me, I grabbed it. Lily pulled in one direction and the man pulled in the opposite, causing my body to feel like it was about to be split in half,
"Enough!" The man gave a big pull, causing Lily to lose her grip on my arm and me to fall face first on the stairs. I lifted my head up and brushed my dirty blonde hair out of my face,
"Rosie!"
"Go Lily, I'll be right behind you." I wasn't all to sure myself that I would be okay, but this wasn't about me, this was about the promise I made to my mom all those years ago. Lily ran out of sight, I sighed in relief and kicked the guy in the face, he let go of my ankle and stumbled back.
I got up and started to go up the stairs, "Oh no you don't." He grabbed me by the ankle again and pulled me down the stairs, back onto the tiled floor of the entranceway, and also causing me to get minor rug burn on my face, "This time you won't fight back." He rolled me over so my back was lying on the cold tile instead of my stomach. The man pulled out a syringe with clear liquid in it and stabbed it into my neck. My muscles started relaxing, and my vision blurred, I did notice another man, the one I had stabbed, walked up, "She's upstairs, find her." The other man nodded and went upstairs. Thunder sounded outside, "Not so tough now, are ya?" The man asked, but his voice was distant, "Lily..." I muttered as I heard the thunder sound one last time.
I woke up, my brain fuzzy, a bright light shining in my face, and I wasn't at home. I blinked a few times as my vision blurred in and out, I was in a chair, like the kind of chairs that you might find at a dentist office. The walls were made of steel, and to my side was a monitor, I tried to get up but my arms, legs, and torso were strapped down tight, "Lily? Hello!" I struggled to break free,
"Do not worry my little girl, soon you will be perfect." A familiar voice said, the blinding light moved to reveal a face.
I blinked a few times before realizing who it was, "D-dad?"
"Everything is okay Rosalina, you are going to be the perfect child, my experiment, it is complete." He walked over to the monitor and started gathering tubes,
"Dad, what's going on? Where's Lily?"
"She's in the next room, trying my other experiment." He hooked some wires up to the monitor then placed something on the holding rack. He moved out of the way to reveal a pouch of green liquid hanging off the monitor.
I struggled harder against the restraints, "Dad you can't do this, it isn't right!"
"What about experimenting isn't right Rosalina?" He asked as he placed a blood pressure cuff on my arm and connected the cord to the monitor,
"You can't experiment on your own children!" I exclaimed,
"I can, and I will. Who's going to stop me? No one knows about this except us, Lily, and my hired help, who are being payed to keep their mouths shut." He turned the monitor on, it made a beeping noise like the heart rate monitors you see at the hospital, that is actually exactly what it was. I was going to ask him what stops me from telling the police about his actions, but I didn't say anything. He came over with a needle, "Now, this will only pinch a little."
"Daddy, please." I pleaded, giving him the biggest doughy eyes I could conjure up.
He smirked, "Those big pale blue eyes won't change my decision." He said, "Now hold still." He took the needle and put it in my arm. I
t didn't hurt for the first few minutes, then I noticed the green substance flowing through the tube and into my arm, then came the burn. The burning started in my right arm, then it spread through my entire body, I felt like I was going to implode, like my entire body would burst into flames. My heart raced, my head ached, and I screamed in pain. I felt that this was it, I was going to die at the hands of my father, and Lily... I couldn't protect her like I had promised. What would my mom say when I saw her in the afterlife? Would I see Lily there too? Tears streamed down my face as I cried in agony, the pain was way beyond a ten, I was going to die for sure. My father stood there, smirking, watching as his own flesh and blood lay in pain because of his own personal gain. I didn't know what this liquid was or what it did, but it had to have been illegal. Then, as quickly as it had started, the pain subsided, my heart slowed down to a normal rate, and just like that, it was all over.
I gasped for air, "Marvelous! It worked." He smiled and unhooked me from the machine, straps and all. He stepped back from the chair, "My child, you are perfect." He observed me as if I was a piece of artwork.
I stood up, anger filled my body, but I also felt something else, I reached my hand out towards him and a vine came shooting out, wrapping around his neck. He was lifted off of the ground by the vine, "W-What did you do to me?!" I exclaimed, scared and confused,
"I... made you... the perfect tool... for destruction." He choked out.
I threw him to the side, he hit the wall and landed on the ground with a 'thud', "I... I'm a monster!" I said, looking at my hands, my skin tone was now a pale shade of green, "
No, you're perfect." He coughed.
Tears streamed down my face, I ran out of the laboratory into the night, and back home. I ran up the stairs into my room, "I can't stay here. I have to run away." I only grabbed my green hoodie and put it on then left.
The sun was rising over the horizon, I stood at my mother's grave, "I'm sorry mom, I couldn't keep my promise." A tear fell from the tip of my nose onto the grass. A rose grew from the spot, I wiped my face, "I'm a monster now, I can't stay here, I have to leave everything... Even Lily." I pulled my now red hair back into a bun then put my hoodie up to hide my face, "I'm so, so sorry mom... I love you... And I hope you still love me too." I turned and I ran. Ran from everything, my home, my family, my life...
"And that is why I hate my father, and also probably why he's after me." I was facing away from everyone, toward the ocean. I wiped the tears off of my face, because telling that story was probably the hardest thing I've ever done,
"Woah Rose." Beast Boy said,
"That is very sad!" Starfire exclaimed, wrapping me in a hug,
"Can't... breathe!"
"Sorry." She said,
"Rose... I'm sorry, I didn't know-"
"It doesn't matter." I said, cutting Robin off, "Because what's done is done, and I have a better life, with a new family."
Cyborg came running towards us, "Guys!"
"What is it Cyborg?" Robin asked.
Before Cyborg could answer we heard an explosion in the city, a plume of black smoke billowed from the skyline, "We're too late..." I said, "They're already here."