Queen Of Disaster
Chapter 6: Supernatural
The next morning Maddie was stood in her bathroom clad in her pyjamas, glaring down at the two small orange bottles of pills. It was quarter past seven and she was the only one awake, she'd didn't take her medication the night before because somehow she wanted to listen to the creepy shadow thing that had visited her the night before and the outcome of that seemed to be a mash-up of different nightmares all haunting her at the same time, it was like somebody had opened the floodgates to what frightens her and it all came crashing down on her like that sign did to the boy in Final Destination. That left her here this morning; wondering if not taking the pills prescribed to her was a good idea.
When she came home last night her mother was sat at the dining room table with two new bottles of pills both oranges, one holding grey and the other blue. At first Maddie was confused as to why she her mother had a bottle of blue pills and not long after she came to the conclusion that they were Viagra her mother turned to her and handed Maddie the bottles saying "The grey are for the nightmares and the blue are anti-depressants." Then walking away leaving a very angry daughter behind. Turns out Dr Hopper had not only put her on anti-depressants but had also upped the dosage of her original medication.
So this morning she scowled down at the damn things and shoved them angrily back in the bathroom cabinet before storming into her room and getting dressed. She stormed out the house while shrugging on her coat and went to the only place that ever calmed her down. The park.
She smiled at the swans and ducks waddling and quacking around the pond and looked at the large swan sitting next to her. She loved this swan it was always pure white no matter what and was beautifully large, it often sat next to her or when other people were in the park (Which was rare) in front of her acting almost as if it was protecting her. She even named it Odila which was inspired by Swan Lake, she loved that film.
"Do you think I should take my pills, Odila?" She asked the swan quietly.
The was did a jerking movement with it's head which looked like a 'no'.
Maddie sighed slightly "I don't think so either but I'm starting to get withdrawal symptoms." She looked down at her hand which was shaking.
The bird let out a small squawk.
"Ok, ok I won't take them, jeez." Maddie smiled lightly and reached out and stroked the swans feathered back. "It must be nice to be a swan Odila."
The swan moved its neck and feet to make it look like it was shrugging. Maddie laughed quietly "C'mon you can go anywhere. Leave any place you don't like and set up somewhere new."
Odila looked at Maddie as if saying 'It's not that easy.'
Maddie looked at the bird sadly and back to the morning skyline "It never it easy." a chime brought her out of her trance and she stopped petting Odila to look around to see what made it, even Odila seemed confused by the chime. Maddie looked up and saw that the clock tower was working again. She looked down at Odila who was watching her "Marco must have fixed it yesterday." She said, it was the only reasonable answer but then again yesterday she had an almost-full conversation with a shadow and she's bffs with a swan. Noticing that the time was almost 8 she decided to go back home and get ready for her shift at Granny`s.
She turned back to the swans "I gotta go, I'll see you guys later!" She said waving and walking away, the birds sqwarked a goodbye to their human friend.
When Maddie returned home she herd arguing coming from Henry's room, quickly she went in her room, threw her Granny's uniform on and pulled her hair up in a ponytail before creeping outside Henry's room, Regina had left the door open when she stormed in to rage at Henry.
"Well, then who is?" Her mother fumed holding Henry's storybook in her hands "That woman you brought here? I don t like what she and this book are doing to you. Thankfully, both are no longer an issue. What?" Regina looked up, distracted when she herd the clock chime and Madison decided this was the right time to save her brother from the doom that was Regina's wrath. She waved him over from the door and her quickly slipped past their mother and took Maddie's hand as she quietly led them downstairs and out the door.
"What was that all about?" Maddie asked Henry when they were halfway down the street.
"There's missing pages in the book and she want's to know where they are." He said.
Maddie spoke up a few seconds later "And where are they?"
He stayed silent. "Henry?" Maddie asked.
"You're part of Operation Cobra, right?" He asked hopefully while looking up at her with those Bambi eye's that makes her get him anything.
"Of course." And that was true, if that's what he believed in then she'd fully support him and believe with him, she knew what it was like when people told you to get you're head out of the clouds and come down to the real world.
Henry reached inside his coat and pulled out some papers before handing them to Maddie.
Madison let go of his hand to look thought the pieces of paper and realized it was the ending to his book "Did you pull these out?" Maddie asked looking at him.
He nodded and looked down "Yeah, I couldn't let her find out the truth." Henry said.
Maddie stopped and put a hand on her brothers shoulder to make him stop walking before she pulled him into a hug "I know how much you love that book Henry." She mumbled to him and kissed the top on his head.
Henry looked up at her when she stood up and ended the loving sister-brother embrace "It was for Operation Cobra Maddie. It'll pay out in the end."
She smiled at him "Okay, c'mon you can have some hot chocolate before school." She said making him grin and she handed the papers back to him.
When they got to Granny's Henry headed to one of the booths and settled himself down.
Maddie shrugged off her coat and hung it up on the coat rack by the door "Hey Granny, Ruby, Chef." Chef was the cook at Granny's and had earned the nickname 'Chef' while working their, mornings were herd around the diner.
"Hey Granny can we get a hot chocolate with cinnamon for the kid." I asked and she nodded, turning away to make Henry's hot chocolate.
About 20 minuets later Maddie was lounging in Henry's booth across from Emma.
"Hey Emster. We've not really been properly introduced. I'm Madison Mills, Henry's amazing sister, everyone calls me Maddie." Maddie said stealing a swig from Henry's hot chocolate.
"I'm Emma Swan." Emma smiled at the girl, she seemed nice enough, bubbly personality.
"I like swans..." Madison mumbled almost to herself.
Emma smiled slightly at Maddie while Henry grinned at his sister's antics. Emma turned to Henry "Don t you have school?"
Maddie snorted and looked at Emma playfully "Duh, he's ten."
Henry smiled at Emma "Walk me." He said before poking Maddie to move so he could get out. Maddie stood up but once Henry was out of the booth he was poked in the head by a manicured french tipped finger. "Try that again kiddie."
Emma smiled and followed Henry out, amused by the sister and brother.
Maddie spun to face Graham who was reading a newspaper "You fancy her." She sing-songed.
Graham looked up startled "No I don't." He defended.
Maddie laughed "You totally fancy her."
Graham looked down again trying to cover his blush "You fancy her." He mumbled childishly.
"I would if I was you."
"I don't fancy her Maddie. Shouldn't you be doing you're job?" He asked still blushing and trying to hide it behind the newspaper.
Maddie glanced around only to see that the few people in the diner had already been served and there was nothing else to do beside annoy the towns sheriff. "Nope." She said popping the P.
Graham sighed "Maddie I don't fancy Emma Swan." He tried.
Maddie grinned at him "It's okay Graham, I won't tell her." She turned and walked in to the back to get some of the Key Lime Pie that was supposed to be today's special, but she was hungry. She started cutting a piece when the voice from yesterday made her jump and cut her thumb. "Ahh shit!" She cried and pressed a towel on the battle wound.
"You...Stopped...Good." It croaked.
"Why the hell don't you give a warning!?" Maddie growled at it, it was starting to piss her off now.
"Pills...bad...stop..."
She sighed "I have."
"...Good..."
She frowned and wet the towel under the tap "Look did you come here just so you could make me hurt myself. Do you get some kind of sick pleasure out of it?" Maddie asked it.
The shadow ignored her and carried on trying to talk "He...Misses...you..."
She looked at it confused "Who misses me?"
"P...Pet...Pans..."
She raised an eyebrow at it "What?"
"...Peter...Pan..." And again the thing fuzzed out.
The stood a looked at the space where it was just standing, forgetting about the wet towel around her thumb. "what the fudge?" She asked quietly to herself.
"Maddie? Who are you talking too?" Ruby asked walking threw the door, into the kitchen.
"Nobody."
"But it- Oh my god Maddie! You're hand!" Ruby gasped and I looked down at my hand, Ruby had only seen the white (Now red) dish towel not the actual cut.
"Oh, Red it's okay! Look just a small cut." Maddie held her hand out to show Ruby the small cut.
She sighed in relief then froze "Wait, what did you call me?" She asked.
Maddie looked at her in confusion "I called you Ruby."
Ruby shook her head "No you called me Red."
"No I didn't." Maddie said trying to remember what she had said.
Ruby looked at her friend "It's okay, I kind of like it."
Maddie smiled at her slightly. Ruby frowned at Madison "Maybe you should go home, you don't look so well."
Maddie nodded agreeing with her "Yeah..." On the way home Maddie stopped by the DVD rental place and picked up all the Peter Pan films she could find.
The store clerk raised an eyebrow at her "Movie night?"
Maddie thought of an answer quickly, of course it looked odd that a teenage girl was renting a bunch of Peter Pan DVDs "Yeah, with Henry." She smiled back at the nosey store clerk and grabbed the bag before hurrying out the door to get home and to her research on Peter flipping Pan.
Come, take me in the night
I feel it in my blood, want the darker side
Baby when we touch, look me in the eyes
Poison me with love,
I'll bring you back to life
NeW chAptEr AleRt!
Whoop whoop, I updated a chapter and I'm back home in England. I actually started this story I Disneyland. I was inspired when I was on the Peter Pan ride. Seriously though I loved it in LA it was fucking gorgeous! The heat kind of took me and my family by surprise though, we're from England and we've never experienced that heat before and on the first day their we almost shrivelled up and died like Spongebob and Patrick did in that Spongebob film. ANYWAY! Review and tell me if you like this chapter also I'm still waiting for more answers to who Maddie is, some people are along the correct lines. Others, not so much. xxx REVIEW REVIEW
(Supernatural by Ke$ha and outfit on profile, not uniform.)