TRIGGER WARNINGS: MENTION OF ATTEMPT OF RAPE IN THIS CHAPTER READ IT AT YOUR OWN ACCORD!
Hello, everyone! How are you? I hope you are well! This chapter is one that I spent hours thinking about how to set it up and I was looking forward to writing it.
With this chapter, I suggest listening to the following songs;
Banners- Empires On Fire
Faith Marie - Antidote
Banners - Holy Ground
I hope you enjoy it!
Be Somebody
Chapter 04: Piece By Piece, The Story Will Be Complete, Or Will It?
Nansia returned to the school grounds at 12 am sharp and she climbed down a stone wall and quietly tiptoed to her room when she opened the door she found Penelope doing her homework on her bed and listening to music while doing them.
Once her roommate detected her with lighting movements jumped up and ran to her hugging her saying how worried she was.
"I'm fine, I just needed some me time." Nansia reassured her roommate before she let the books she bought on her desk and then started undressing.
"I heard what you did to Rafael, pretty badass." Penelope said with amazement and Nansia chuckled.
"When your step-dad is a Chief in the Army you pick up some things along the way especially if you want to survive in school." Nansia said as she put her PJ shirt and then sat on her bed putting her socks on.
"He also said that you broke a guy's hands because they touched you without your consent, what's up with that?" Penelope didn't lose time and asked the burning question.
Nansia froze at that question and look at Penelope.
Debating does she say to her what Theo did to her when they were 12 or not?
"When I was 12 a classmate of mine tried to touch my crotch while he had already touched my breasts while he cornered me outside the girl's bathroom during PE. I managed to run away from him but he caught up with me he pushed me to the ground and got on top of me, he tried to undo my pants but I put up a fight, I kicked him with my kneed at the back of his head and with the force his hand came towards me a buttheaded him and then pushed his unconscious body off me. The next day he put three girls with whom I had a project presentation and during the last sentence Sarah and Velma pulled my pants down in front of the entire class and because my panties were loose they came off too. When I told my mum she complained but things got worse after that so my step-dad taught me how to fight and use a Swiss Knife and a gun and how to use things around me as weapons just in case. A year later, he tried that to a friend of mine and once I learned of it I grabbed him by the shoulder during a school break and punched him then I twisted his left hand just like I did with Rafael but he used his right hand to pull my shirt so I threw us off the stairs. I broke my ribs, he broke his hands, never played football again or touched a woman. Later in life, we met again while I was visiting my boy best friend in his Army base, they were serving in the same Unit under my step-dad, he made a joke about my best friend being gay when I kicked him in the nuts and threatened him not to bully my best friend, he didn't remember me until the moment I threatened him to see the fear in his eyes was satisfying as hell. That is what I meant." Nansia finished her story as she wiped a few tears from her eyes and then went under the duvets completely avoiding Penelope's shocked stare.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know, sorry I asked." Penelope mumbled ashamed of herself as she went back in doing her homework.
The Next Day:
Nansia woke up to the sound of Penelope's alarm and then hers. She sat up on her bed and both girls smiled at each other before Penelope rubbed her face and said;
"You go first this time, so you won't fall asleep again. Also, I will put two notebooks, new ones I haven't used and a few pens to have with you on your official first day in class." Penelope said as she threw her duvet aside and stood up from her bed.
She walked to her bookcase and pulled the notebooks then opened the cabinet under the first shelf and pulled out a fresh pack of pens.
Nansia then stood and went to the bathroom and started her usual routine.
When she walked out Penelope was fixing her bag and once Penelope saw her she extended her hand and gave her a new bag.
Nansia smiled thankfully as she grabbed the bag and piled things inside it. Around 7 am both girls were ready and both walked out of their room.
They walked to the cafeteria when Nansia watched as Penelope turned and smiled to her and said;
"Well, here I am. Have a nice day, see you after classes! We will catch the bus together later in town. Good luck!"
Then she watched Penelope leave as Nansia stood alone in the cafeteria and looked around her lost.
"Hey! Nansia! Over here, come sit with us!" Lizzie Saltzman's voice made her turn around and face the table full of kids.
She walked hesitantly and then sat down as she looked around her confused.
"Hey, I'm MG, Jed and this is Kaleb. You met Rafael, Landon, Josie, and Hope I presume." MG said kindly as he pointed everyone on the table and Josie made space for Nansia to sit.
"So, how do you feel about your first day?" Josie asked her as she took a spoon full of cereal and ate it.
Nansia looked at her empty hands and mentally slapped her head. She forgot breakfast and to buy her medications for her Osteoarthritis and Hashimoto Thyroiditis or whatever equivalent they had in the US and this dimension.
"You don't have food, let me get you some, what do you like? I was about to get some extra coffee." MG suddenly jumped up and Nansia was caught off guard and smiled awkwardly.
"Thank you...MG, right? Sorry, I'm not good with names...or memory for that matter." Nansia apologized as she blushed.
"It's okay everything here is so new for you it's normal." MG waved it off as he walked towards the buffet.
"So, the first day?" Josie asked her again kindly as to revert her attention back to her question and Nansia smiled.
"It's very ironic since I'm back in High School while in my dimension I was about to graduate college and join the job market or as where I grew up we called it "the jobless market of hell."." Nansia said as she played with the napkin folding it to make an airplane trying to hide her frustration and annoyance of her country's jobless state.
"What do you mean?" Landon asked her intrigued.
"Where do I start from? The 2008 global economic crash, my country's decade of economic depression which as far as I lived in even in 2019 was still ongoing so you can say eleven years of economic crisis, global terrorism events along with global economic crisis which caused a chain reaction also known as a huge immigration wave and even more intense job searches from various people from various backgrounds all over the world and lastly the fourth industrial revolution and if that is not enough you can add to the ever changing state of the environment and extreme weather conditions...oh! and the earth goes to hell very soon thanks to my cousins' discovery of a different planet that can withstand life which starts the search for ways to get there and the creation of an AI and cryogenic sleep machines..." Nansia explained the shortest answer she could create which led Landon to scratch his head and look lost.
"Sorry, but where are you from?" Jed asked her with a confused tone and his tone showed that he tried to search with his mind and fit every piece of information Nansia said to actual event that happened and he saw or read about but came up blank. Just when MG returned bringing coffee and Nansia's breakfast sandwich and some cereal and black coffee with sugar and milk on the side.
"I grabbed them before anyone could eat them or else you'd starve." MG cut Nansia's process of answering Jed.
"Thank you, MG, I really appreciate it! As for you Jed, I'm half Greek half Irish, although I grew up in Greece and my mum was born in Sweden by Greek parents...her older sister was born in Belgium. I never met my bio dad. Also, I'm coming from a different dimension and from a decade in the past for you, guys." She thanked MG and then answered to Jed with a kind tone.
"Why not? I'm mean why you never met your dad?" Lizzie asked Nansia with a worried tone like she actually cared for her and Nansia sighed;
"He never wanted the responsibility," Nansia answered with a shrug.
Jed was just quiet since he had nothing else to ask her but he watched her interact. He felt his wolf in some way growing attached to that girl as if a piece was missing from his wolf and she was it.
"So, can I ask how can new students cover everything in comparison to a student who's been a student here since the age of 5 to 6?" Nansia asked anyone who could answer her.
"Well, you have the speed classes. You were the hardest student to enroll so far according to daddy. Thanks to who shall not be named's spell you had legal papers that should have been processed and then legally enroll here. Also, you introduce yourself as Nansia Gilbert and you are Professor Jeremy's new kid who he just adopted, that is a cover story for the townies of course." Lizzie said half excited half annoyed.
"Sorry, I was such a hustle, if it were up to me I wouldn't be here started my life from zero, almost a decade in future in a completely different dimension let alone country having none of my best friends or family with me, Lizzie!" Nansia retorted back with a slight raise of temper.
The table shook for a moment and Jed looked alarmed.
"You're a witch?" Jed exclaimed shocked and Nansia nodded as she stood up and took her food tray away with her.
"Thanks, for the breakfast invite, Josie and the breakfast MG but I prefer to sit alone." Nansia said as she walked away and around the corridors.
Just as she found an empty hallway she sat on the floor and winced as her knees made a cracking noise and she rubbed them while trying to ignore the pain.
Fucking autoimmune diseases!
Just as she found a position where her knees weren't going numb or in pain, she started eating.
Just then Landon, Rafael and Hope appeared as they walked to her and sat next to her.
Nansia raised her eyebrows at them and they just smiled.
"We will never judge you." Hope said reassuringly and Nansia smiled.
"You remind me of my best friend Zorzet. She was always very supportive that at first, it freaked me out. I was never used to having support from someone other than my little sister." Nansia said smiling as she drank her coffee.
"You act as if she is dead." Rafael said confused.
"You have a sister? How old is she? Is she like you?" Landon asked shocked and excited.
"She is not dead. I just miss her and my other friends. It took me years to find friends I liked and trusted." Nansia answered as she took another bite out of her sandwich and then looked at the door behind Hope too shy to look Hope in the eyes.
"And my sister is five and a half years younger than me, I don't know if she's like me, she hasn't shown a sign yet, Landon." Nansia answered to Landon as she tried to shake off the shyness.
She then remembered what Lizzie had said;
"Wait, how fast did Doctor Saltzman process my legal papers? I thought it needed a lot more time and money for someone who doesn't exist in this dimension to appear without sparking any suspicion. So how did he do it?" Nansia asked the three people before she and Hope sighed.
"Well, Professor Tig, used magic to make your papers look authentic a similar spell with Penelope. Also, she used some of the information Penelope put in your papers so they won't clash with the ones you gave to the Mystic Grill when you applied for work." Hope said and Nansia nodded accepting that nothing had thrown her existence off-balance yet.
She ate in silence while Hope, Landon and Rafael chit-chatted amongst themselves and once Nansia was done she stood up, took her tray and attempted to tiptoe away from the trio so she can be alone but failed when Hope called after her saying to wait and that they will walk together to class since their classes were right across from one another.
Couple Hours Later: During Lunch:
Nansia walked out of the last class only to pump into Rafael who was waiting for her.
"Ready for lunch?" Rafael asked her with a smile and she nodded she was told from some kids in the class that it was lasagna day.
She loved lasagna.
She sat there with Hope, Landon, Rafael when Josie, Kaleb, Jed and MG with Penelope joined them a few minutes later.
"Where is Lizzie? Why aren't you sitting down with her?" Nansia asked Josie who shrugged.
"I can understand how Lizzie must feel I don't want to be the bad guy, invite her over." Nansia said serious and Josie stood up and went to get Lizzie who was sitting by herself and glaring their way.
Suddenly, she felt a very small but very serious jab in her mind like something was repeating itself again.
But she shook it off.
Lizzie and Josie walked up to the table and Nansia smiled towards Lizzie who smiled at her thankful.
Talk float very easily but the jab in her head became harder and harder to ignore and Nansia groaned in pain as she held her head.
She was having a migraine again.
Penelope and Rafael were the first by her side asking if she was okay but she didn't answer she just bit her lip then her eyes fluttered open and raised her head like nothing had happened scaring Josie and Lizzie. Seconds later, MG and Kaleb sniffed the air and smelled blood.
"Someone is bleeding or has her period." Kaleb said in a half-joking way but his smiley face died down when he saw Nansia's nose bleeding.
"Nansia! Your nose!" Kaleb exclaimed in horror.
Nansia collapsed face down on her food if the group of people around her wasn't worried for her they would have laughed.
Hope, Rafael and Penelope were the first who jumped in action and grabbed Nansia and carried her towards Alaric's office while Josie and Lizzie made way for them. Kaleb and MG run to get Emma and Dorian while Landon rushes to get water, towels, painkillers and orange juice for when Nansia wake up...if she wakes up and was still with them.
In Nansia's Head:
Nansia found herself in her old room in her parents' house and she is sleeping...at least the body in the bed did, it was hers.
Nansia realized where she was...she couldn't recall how she did but that was before she appeared in the Salvatore Academy.
Nansia's body on the bed tossed and turned but what drew the attention was her phone. She walked towards it like she was hypnotized and she attempted to touch it.
Then flashes of two girls, her best friends, a boy, and another girl also one her friends. They were in a football court and Nansia saw herself seeing the girl with the brown hair marching away from her while the red-headed one stayed behind with the black-headed boy in an awkward manner.
She felt her hands growing cold and her heartbeat became faster.
Something bad was about to happen she could sense it.
The other Nansia yelled encouraging the brunette to kick the ball before turning to the other short-haired brunette and they walked away.
She watched as other Nansia checked the messages on her phone and felt a stab in her chest as Nansia walked over her other self's shoulder and read them.
They were talking shit about the girl, the short-haired brunette she had left with from the football court. She had apologized for the evening but they kept talking shit about the poor girl.
As she blinked she was in the living room aka her room when she was staying with her parents, standing over her phone where it charged and another message wrote how the brunette (not the short-haired one) was pissed at her for what had happened.
Confusion and anxiety were the feelings that Nansia felt the most.
The history was repeating itself...
Then suddenly it was morning and Nansia was reading the messages and felt outright hurt and alone. The two girls were talking in the group chat calling each other best friends but not including her.
Again the time changed in lighting speed and it was night again and Nansia saw herself typing angrily in her phone how she had tried to act as politely as she could given the situation. She put her phone down and went to bed where she cried herself to sleep wishing that she could wake up in a different universe or go back to 2149 where she knew that people were there for her and they had gone similar shit together and understood each other on a fundamental level and no words were needed to explain how the depression and PTSD was choking you.
Suddenly the scenes stopped flashing in Nansia's mind and turned to the sleeping Nansia and as sleeping Nansia turned towards the door and she was facing her she saw the blood dripping from her nose.
Sleeping Nansia suddenly jolted awake groaning in pain as she held her head and rush to the bathroom. Nansia saw herself collapsing behind the closed door of the bathroom.
End of Nansia's mind:
Nansia jolted awake in Alaric's office and she hysterically cried as she felt her heart break.
Penelope and Hope rushed towards her along with Lizzie and Josie as she cried felt her chest closing as a panic attack was taking over.
"I lost them!" She cried in Penelope's arms.
Alaric saw the girls hugging Nansia and waited patiently for an explanation.
"Breath Nansia!" Lizzie instructed her as she pushed the other girls off Nansia as she started hyperventilating.
Nansia couldn't see a way out of her situation until she felt the hugs given to her and then she realized that these people thought of her as their friend and how she would repeat the same mistakes as she had done to other three friendships she had.
She is made to be alone in a semi-civil world or fighting for her life in a war-torn future, there was no in between for her in her eyes.
And she was so tired of hurting people and being hurt, she wanted everything to end.
To stop.
She would hurt those girls too with time.
She just knew it.
She must leave.
Or better yet die.
End it all. She doesn't deserve the life she was given if in that life all she would do is to hurt people and hurt because she is alone.
And those thoughts made her unable to breathe.
Suddenly she felt a sting in her cheek which made her look up as tears clouded her eyes.
Hope had slapped her.
"Sorry for that but you need to snap out of it! You are safe here and we understand you! We stand with you no matter, okay?" Hope said with a determinate voice as she kneeled before Nansia and squeezed her hand.
Nansia looked around her like she had just woke up. All these people...they didn't know what she had done or gone through and they spoke of standing with her.
Who in their right mind would side with someone who killed her own great great grand-nephew because he raped and got a girl pregnant? Someone who was an accessory to genocide? Someone who had killed people? Someone, who hurt people?
"You don't know what I've done. How come and you say that you'll stand with me?" Nansia asked confused and a lot of suspicion of the people around her.
"Because we are sure what you have done, you've done them because they was no way out of it or you didn't know better. We've all done some shit that we think it was messed up." Penelope said serious and everyone nodded showing Nansia that she might have found the place she belongs at last.
"Don't you want to know what I did?" Nansia asked shocked and then Alaric finally found his footing to talk.
"Not at the moment if you are not comfortable. But we are here if you want to share it. But for now, I want you to tell me what happened right now." Alaric said with a comforting tone and Nansia sat straighter and started.
"Well, I remembered what caused me to appear here in this dimension. I have had a fight with two girls that I thought were my best friends but we fought because I went out with a girl they didn't like...I don't really know what else might have caused it but it wasn't a secret that I was hanging out with her for years. But that day their reaction showed me similar signs that my other ex-best friend Rikki used to do until I broke off our friendship. I felt this anxious feeling of history repeating itself because it took me years to trust anyone and I'm not including the years I spent in 2149. The entire abuse I suffered as a kid and as a teen, the bullying I tolerated in school and almost getting raped during PE. I already had trust issues before appearing in the Ark and then on the ground...this lifestyle is what made me a good sniper and a diplomat and even better assassin. I was too kind and honest in their face all the time that they couldn't realize when I was lying through my teeth when they were realizing I was already pointing a gun in their forehead. I murdered my own great great grand-nephew, my half-sister's descended because along with other prisoners some time after my half-sister great-granddaughter had died her son committed a lot of crimes and was labeled a terrorist and he was put in cryogenic sleep until he and his inmates reached this unnamed planet to start mining the planet paving the way for us. Something happened to the ship and was overrun by the criminals killing every guard on it expect one who sided with them. But because they were too far from Earth they put auto-pilot and cryogenically everyone fell asleep until they reached earth around seven years after we landed."
"I remember how he reacted seeing me. It was through him that I learned that I had gone missing in 2019 and presumed dead a year later, he was named after me but of course the Americanized version of Vasilis which is Bill. There I met this other girl named Susan who was pregnant, she was the second after Dyioza but she wasn't showing that much so she was hiding but I always had this gift where I could tell if a woman was pregnant and I instantly knew. I asked her who was the father and she broke down crying telling me everything and how she didn't want to submit to him but Bill forced her. When I learned that I promised her she was under my protection along with her unborn child who ended up being a girl and we named Athanasia after me and took her mum's last name, she was named Athanasia Coem. Anyways, as I said before being informed of such behavior I talked to Dioyza and I asked permission to kill him and she allowed me to do that. So, I fooled Bill into thinking I wanted him to tell me about our family's history and of course he did once he was done I kindly thanked him and said goodbye. I walked a few steps away before turning and shooting him eleven times with 45 clog gun I always kept hidden under my shirt."
"One month later Fiona Coem went into early labor and I with Abby delivered the baby girl. The moment I touched her I felt this vibration through her and I knew it was magic in her veins and then I turned to Fiona whose eyes were glowing golden. She was a Wolfblood meaning a descended of a werewolf who they hadn't triggered their curse in years yet they had the positive, like strength, agility, sight and hearing. The baby would be the first hybrid and I knew she should be kept safe no matter what but we were forced to go under cryogenic sleep and when I woke up I didn't have time to ask for her and Fiona."
Nansia finished her story and waited for the disapproving looks but got none as she watched them. They were shocked but not disapproving.
"How did you find a werewolf in your dimension?" Hope asked excited and Nansia shrugged since she didn't have time to ask Fiona with everything going on around them.
"Your guess is as good as mine, Hope. But as I said I'm not a good person, I have killed people and I'll understand if I'm excluded from this school and your good graces." Nansia said as she lowered her head and waited.
"Well, I killed a girl because I went out of control while feeding on her."
"I killed my girlfriend."
"I killed a bunch of people just so I can drink their blood."
"I caused my parents' deaths, my uncle Elijah's too and I killed a bunch of Neo-Nazis, a killed an innocent man who was a pastor and he was there the wrong time and almost my mum's boyfriend. And a dragon."
Suddenly answers were heard as Nansia slowly and shyly raised her head and looked at MG, Kaleb, Hope and Rafael in shock.
She felt Penelope's and Lizzie's hands resting on her shoulders showing their support.
"And I've killed a lot more than anyone in this room." Alaric's voice was heard and Nansia looked at him in shock.
"What everyone is trying to say is that all of us have done something wrong but it doesn't defy us. Yes, killing your own descended was a little too far but all the rest, you were put in a situation that murdering someone was the only option. We won't condemn you for it. This school doesn't act like that." Alaric said seriously as he walked up to her and kneeled before her and smiled kindly.
Nansia felt overwhelmed that she started crying again and she jumped up and hugged Alaric and Hope.
A few hours later Nansia's eyes and nose were dry and she was healthy again and lighter in a sense.
She felt like she belonged at last.
She was sitting in her bed when Lizzie and Josie run in her room holding home design magazines and a couple of seconds later Penelope showed up with a tray of hot cocos and Hope with a tray full of snacks.
"The guys are finishing up their homework and they'll bring a laptop to watch a movie. Now, allow us to entertain you to this dimension's pop culture, Nansia." Hope said smiling as she laid the tray on the floor as she climbed up the bed.
"But now we have to put some identity to your side of your room." Penelope said as she opened the first catalog and her phone at the same time.
They spent a good three hours going through them and talking about it when the boys came in.
They watched the movie Glass.
Looking around her she realized that today it was a day full of emotional up and downs and classes and she felt exhausted but she didn't want to fall asleep in fear of the day's conclusion was just a dream and she was still in that weird sleep state.
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