Anyway, this is a little side story for Becca, from Hero's Core, but it is only pt.1 meaning that it is nowhere near finished. Sorry guys, i have been working on this story for the last three months, it's a lot harder then it looks to work things out and try to create the perfect plot. But this isn't perfect, so yeah.
On with the story!
Becca’s Side Story Pt.1
It was almost too cold for me to get up. I didn’t want to get up to go for my run
through the dark forest that grew outside. It was still dark out, and it was
freezing cold outside thanks to the grey snow. Snow had always seemed so
depressing to me. I always associated it with smoke when the snow was grey.
I was staying at my families ski cabin in the Alps for the
Christmas break before I had to go back to school.
“A nice ski trip will do you some good” were my mother’s
exact words. They barely even knew what I did at night let alone that I had
dyed my hair the way it was. My sister Jenny wouldn’t come out on the ski trip.
She had told our parents that she had too much to do between college and work
for her to go. But I knew better than that. Jenny hated our parents almost as
much as myself.
Maybe hate wasn’t the right word, despise would probably be
better. Either way neither of us two could stand our parents.
Thankfully though I was skiing for the whole day while my
parents did other things around the resort near by. They owned it after all.
So the only time I had to see my mum and dad was during
dinner, of which they ate at the resorts finest table, and then I would leave
to go and join a late night ski class or something.
Anyway, I got out of bed and put on my thermals to go for a
run to the resort and use the gym in there. After which I would come back to
the cabin after a run around the area for a few minutes and have a nice hot
shower.
Exiting the cabin I could tell my parents were still asleep
and in their beds. I could still hear my mother snoring and my father giving
off little huffing sounds in his sleep, it was funny how it was backwards, men
were the ones who were meant to snore.
Opening the cabin’s door I slowly crept out to be met by the
blast of a cold wind. It was, in a way, quite refreshing. My head turned to the
left knowing there would be a person waiting there. There always was, but that
was okay because it was Melanie. Her mum was a part of the Heroes Heart Core. A
magician of sorts, mystical powers derived from the Greek god Circe.
“Morning Mel, coming on the run?” Obvious question if you
had asked me, but hey, you never know with this girl.
“ I was thinking I would. You know, shake things up a
little. Want to have a race? The first one back here after running around the
whole resort wins,” Her voice was light and teasing, as if she knew I would
lose.
“ Your on!” and with that we both started racing around the
place. No one cared about it because we were just two teens, and a few people
recognised me as being a Grange, daughter to the owners.
I had pulled infront a few metres back but I knew that Mel
had something up her sleeve, she always did. As I turned to run around a tree,
one of its branches bent down to cut me off and make me trip.
“ Hey! Mel, you know the deal no powers!” But the younger
girl just giggled as she continued to run past me. She was only thirteen, so
she didn’t always play by the rules when it came to a lot of things. I had a
feeling she would like Scar very much because of that.
Getting up I continued to run, but I took the shortcut
between two of the cabins the Mel didn’t notice. I saw her continue to run in a
straight line further ahead. Diving between them I sprinted through and managed
to pull out infront again, with Mel nowhere to be seen.
“Now whose the one cheating,” I look up and see that Mel is
levitating right above my head.
“ Hey! Come down before someone see’s you!” I jump and grab
a hold of her ankle and yank her from the sky.
A short yelp escaped her lips as she landed in the snow. I took off
running again not waiting to see her get up.
I could see my cabin just a few metres away so I sped up as
much as I could. Only to find that Mel was leaning against the railing on the
porch.
“ Let me guess, I was racing a doppelganger that whole
time,”
“ Well, yeah. Mum has been working with me to make the spell
stronger. Have the doppelganger more life like and more like me,” She passed me
a cup of water and a chocolate bar. “ Guess it worked too. You didn’t know it
wasn’t me that whole time,” The younger girl was smiling ear to ear. I was
happy for her that she had managed such a thing as she had been working on it
for a few months now but never could get it quite right.
“Well, whatever. I still beat your doppelganger. So when are you leaving to go back to Jancoast
City? “
“ This afternoon. Mum said she’s needed back, you know, with
dad gone it’s been harder for her. She’s trying to keep busy,” Melanie’s dad
was killed in action a few weeks ago. Her mum wasn’t taking it so well. She
grieved but she also denied time off from the good fight. Mel could barely keep
it together when she saw her dad was dead, she watched the whole fight on the
news.
“Yeah, how are you handling things, and don’t bother lying
to me,”
“ I’m not to great either but I figure dad would want me
working on my magic and living my life. Not crying in a ball,”
“ Yeah. If you need to talk you know how to reach me,”
“ Of course,” She gave me a hug and then continued with, “ I
have to go and pack, we’re leaving soon and there’s still a lot I have to do,”
“ Ok, but I’ll come and visit you in a few weeks, you know,
for a movie night or something. I could even bring Raven along, she’s dying to
meet you,”
“ Sounds good, I want to meet her too. That girl is all
sorts of powerful,”
“ Yeah, and she’s not bad as a friend either,” we both laugh
at that and wave as she walks down the stairs and towards her cabin.
“ See you soon,” and with that I was alone for the rest of
this week. Which was to say three more days.
* * *
“ How about you come and watch the movie with your father
and I?” I tried so hard not to laugh at
my mother when she said that.
“ Sorry mum, but I said I would help teach all the juniors
how to ski this afternoon. Besides, I’m not that interested in watching an old
peoples film. More into the action ones, you know where there’s fighting and
big explosions,”
“ Please tell me you’ll at least stay with us after dinner
tonight. This is meant to be a family vacation,” Yeah, well we’re not much of a family are we? I ask myself as I
walk to the door holding my skiing gear in one hand.
“I don’t know mum, why don’t you ask Jenny to join us? Oh
wait! You did, and she said no,” rolling my eyes I leave, hearing my mother
call out for me. I close my eyes and try to force back the oncoming tears.
Walking through the snow the cold pierces my coat like shards of glass. I always hated that feeling, but I loved the
cold. It was weird but it was who I was.
Much like my powers. My parents didn’t know I had them. Nor
did my sister, Jenny wasn’t even around enough to know that I was being held
back this year. But that didn’t matter because she choose to leave, and I
respect that.
No one asked why I was always out so late, or why I had
bruises. No one questioned how I seemed to always disappear when there was
trouble, or why I had so many friends from cities I had supposedly never been
to. Especially my parents. It was like they didn’t even notice I existed
anymore. Ever since my baby brother
died, he was only two. I had been fifteen when it happened, Jenny was just
turning eighteen, we had a two year old brother, Caleb. He had gotten sick and
his lungs stopped working in the night. We woke up the next morning to find him
dead in his tiny little bed.
Since then, my parents have been fighting, Jenny and I have
become more invisible to them, and my mum is always trying to have these
‘family’ times. Like when she makes Jenny come and visit, we have to spend the
whole time together. It sucks.
Anyway, I was comfortable how I lived my life now. Fighting
people like the criminals in Tyrene, it always made me calmer. And then I would
go to school, have fun with friends, go home and do homework, then go and find
Raven and train with her until we had to go on patrol. And then there were family vacations and I
had go away, but I still had lots of fun. Like now, I was heading over to the
slopes to go and help all of the juniors get the hang of it.
* * *
“ You all got that? Bend your knees, keep yourself centred
and you will be able to keep control,” Working with the kids was so much fun.
There was this little boy, Jake, he was so cute. He fell down every now and
then and would turn completely red before getting up and trying again. “ Does anyone want me to help them?” I ask
before seeing that a few of the girls did. “ Okay, I’ll be right over, get
started and try your best!”
And with that I spent the next two hours helping little kids
how to ski. Watching them reminded me of how Jenny had taught me a few years
ago. Before Caleb died. She used to teach me new tricks and ways to ski every
time we came here. Now, I taught others to ski.
“ Miss Becca! Help! Jake fell down the slope and we can’t
see him anywhere!” Little Macy called out to me. Shaking me out of my memories
and kick into action. I started down the slope and noticed the disturbance in
the snow . Stopping I run over to find that Jake was knocked out buried under
about two feet of snow.
Making the white noise I made the snow move off the small boy and grabbed him in my
arms. I raced up the slope and pulled the boy into the small shack that was
built for those who got injured.
“Okay, lets get you warm hey?” I pulled out one of the
thermal blankets and an electric blanket to wrap him in. Grabbing the radio
from its spot on the wall I try to get a signal
to come up. “ This is Becca Grange, please send an emergency medical
team up to the slopes shack, we have a small child who was knocked out and
buried under the snow,”
“ Copy that, the team should be up there in a minute, what
is the child’s name? We will contact his parents,”
“ Jake Tomick, eleven years old, staying here with his
mother,”
“ Thank you Miss Grange,” and with that I went to see that
Jake was still getting warmer. His temperature was almost back to normal
temperature, but his head had been hit rather hard. He would have a concussion.
I checked for any bleeding, but I couldn’t find any. Good sign, he will be fine. I tried to reassure myself but it was
my fault as I wasn’t paying enough attention to him.
Not true, you had
another twelve kids to watch as well, you can’t take all the blame for this. Logic
was trying to win and I knew it was right, but I still had trouble not feeling
really guilty.
“ Becca, where is he?” Matt, one of the younger medical
staff, asked me as he was carrying a bag full of medical gear.
“ Right here, he’s almost back to the right temperature, he
is still unconscious but his head isn’t bleeding. He will probably have a
concussion and possible hearing damage, I got him up here pretty quick, though
I can’t be certain how long he was in the snow for,”
“ Well, you sure know how to do my job, but it looks as though what you said is right.
How did he get the hearing damage?”
“ Well, he hit his head, could cause problems with hearing.
I mean we can’t be sure till he wakes up. You should get him to the infirmary
back in the main building,”
“ Right. Your coming to the party tonight right?” Matt was
now helping his partner, an older man Jonathan, get Jake onto a stretcher.
“ Like I’d miss it, now go, Jake needs some medical
attention,” and with that the two medics were gone. I left the little shack to
see all of the little kids waiting outside patiently for me.
“ Is he going to be okay?”
on of his friends asked.
“ Of course he is. Now how about we continue to practice
your stances and balance while skiing hey?” and with that everything was
normal.
* * *
“ Becca, we need to talk,”
“ No, mum, what we need is a functional family,”
“ Don’t talk to your mother that way! Your lucky we even
brought you along on this trip, don’t treat us with no respect,” Daddy dearest
had decided to join us for this little talk.
“ Right, because that was what it was. And I can’t say I
have any respect for you dad, you make weapons for a living. And did you
forget, or something, I’m teaching skiing classes on this vacation. So, you
don’t get to say anything bad about me,”
“ We heard what happened on the slopes today, your lucky you
get to continue to teach that class,”
“ Right because one kid falling down the slope, by accident,
out of the past few years I have been teaching these classes is something to
make me feel bad about. Dad I don’t know where you get this idea I actually
care what you think about me,”
“ Becca, you can’t mean that” my mum gasped as she spoke.
Holding a hand to her heart, I knew I had hit one of her sore points.
“ Why do you think Jenny didn’t come? I hope you understand
that if I had a choice I would leave just like her,” I spoke firmly, I was
bluffing. I couldn’t leave, not yet anyway. But they didn’t know that.
“ Then why don’t you?!” Dad screamed. Now I’m in for it. I held back a smirk as I knew he was going to
explode soon.
“ Because Dad,
there’s this little law stating that all people’s under the age of eighteen
must live with a legal parent or guardian. I may be eighteen but I still won’t
be allowed to leave, I tried to,”
“ Well, whatever. You know that you are just incompetent,”
“ Thanks, but I think you meant smart and charming. Now, I
promised a friend I would go and have dinner with them tonight,” Just as I turn
to leave, my mother grabs my wrist and looks into my eyes, I can see the hurt
in her eyes.
“ Promise me, that you will be safe and won’t do anything
stupid,”
“ Sure mum, I promise,” giving her a quick hug I leave the
cabin and rush round through the forest like area behind the cabins.
* * *
Get your hands off my
hips, ‘fore I punch you in the lips, stop your staring at my HEY! take a hint,
take a hint. No you can’t buy me a drink, let me tell you what I think, I think
you could use a mint, Take a hint, take hint.
The music was thumping as there was yelling everywhere. Me
and a few guys were dancing together and singing along. The song matched us so
well, that we just couldn’t help but muck around to it.
“ You having fun?” Matt asks as we continue to dance.
“The most. I don’t remember the last time I went to a party
like this!” I yell over the music.
“ Good! We wouldn’t want the boss’s daughter having a bad
time,”
“ Right cause that’s totally what this is about,”
“ Well, maybe not. But it couldn’t hurt right?”
“ That’s not happening Matt, but nice try,” I laugh as we
continue to dance together. Matt was a great guy, but I knew that he wanted to
be more than friends with me.
“ Worth a shot. I’m going to get a drink, want to come?”
“Sure,” Following him to the table with the drinks and food,
I notice someone watching everyone in the tree a little way out. Better
not tip him off, let’s just hope its just some random party crasher. I send up a silent plea that I wouldn’t have
to be Whitenoise again tonight. I was really enjoying myself.
That was until a knife was thrown through the air and cut my
cheek…
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