Coraline 2: Beldams Revenge

A Reunion

Wybie stared at Mavis with a strange expression on his face. "Are you okay?" Mavis asked getting a little creeped out. Wybie shook his head quickly, coming back to reality. 

"Yeah, sorry, you just look really familiar." He smiled slightly.

"Well," Mavis sighed but smiled. "Maybe you know my mother. I get told I look like her often."

Wybie was sure her mother was Coraline, they were like twins. Seeing her made him think of the day he found Coraline fighting the hand of the Beldam. How he almost fell into the old well until Coraline saved him. "I bet I do know your mother. Who is she?" 

"Coraline. Coraline Jones." Mavis smiled slightly, "I'm Mavis." 

"Ah, yup. I could tell you're her daughter. Your mother and I used to be very close friends. We stopped talking after she left though." Wybie handed Mavis an apple out of a bucket nearby. 

"Thanks." Mavis smiled wide as she took the apple out of his hand. "Well maybe you should come talk to her sometime. She would probably enjoy the company." 

"Sure, where do you live?" 

"The Pink Palace. She said she used to live there?" Mavis looked at Wybie. His eyes went wide,

"She moved back there? After the incident?" He spoke with a great deal of fear and shock. 

"Yeah, she won't tell me what happened." Mavis shrugged her shoulders a little.

"Honestly Mavis, trust me, it's probably for the best you don't know. Just listen to your mother, and be careful. It's probably time you went home now. I have somethings I need to do." Mavis nodded slowly. They both waved goodbye as she ran back home. She wiped her boots off on the rug, then stepped inside. Mavis ran through the home until reaching the kitchen finally, she found her mother sitting at the table sipping a glass of tea. 

"Well hi there." Her mother spoke with a little bit of an annoyed tone. She rolled her eyes. 

"What did I do?"

"First off young lady, you don't roll your eyes at me. Second of all, you're late. The rules of curfew haven't changed. You're to be in for lunch at 12:40. Latest 1:00. It's now 2:00. Where have you been?" Coraline stood and put a plate with a pulled pork sandwich on the table. 

"I met someone is all." Mavis shrugged as her mother turned her back to her, doing dishes at the kitchen sink. 

"Oh you made a friend? That's good." She spoke with her back still turned to her. 

"Well I wouldn't call him a friend. He's like twenty or thirty years old." Coraline's eyes widened as she dropped the dishes into the soapy hot water.

"Mavis Melanie Duncan!" Coraline yelled her daughters full name. She knew she was in good for a good speech once she heard her middle name. Her mother gave her the name Melanie, inspired from her grandmother Mel Jones. She only screams the middle name when she's in a lot of trouble. Mavis chewed up a bite of the pulled pork. 

"What?"

"You talked to a stranger?" Coraline looked at her. "Have you not learned anything? It's one thing if I'm there but there's no telling what whackos might live here now Mavis."

"He said he knew you."  Mavis quickly blurted to attempt to calm her mother. 

"What's his name?" 

"Wyborn?" A smile grew across her mother's face. It worked. Coraline turned around to tend to her dishes, still smiling wide. 

"You might why were you born?" Coraline laughed softly saying the old nickname. 

"Lovely nickname mom."

"I didn't used to like him."

"Ah, well he said he wants to see you." Coraline smiled as her daughter spoke that sentence. 

"Well where does he live?"

"Down the road where the apple trees are." Her mother nodded.

"Okay, you eat your lunch. I'll be back." Coraline smiled and walked out of the house. Mavis grinned as she took another bite of her sandwich. Coraline couldn't help but smile as she knocked on the door. It got even wider when Wybie answered. His eyes widened as he looked at her,

"Coraline?" 

"Hello why-were-you-born." They laughed and pulled each other into a tight hug. 

"You look so different, yet I could recognize you instantly." Wybie spoke, a wide grin still across his face. 

"You know what they say. Some people change, but at the same time they will always be the same." Coraline laughed a little. Wybie stepped to the side and let her in. 

"It's been so long. It's so nice to see you again Wybie." She turned and looked at him. She couldn't believe how different he was. It seemed just like yesterday he was saving her from the Beldam. She sat on his couch and looked at him, "I have so much to tell you." 

A/N: Excuse the crappy chapter but I have to go out of town so I don't know how soon I will get to update.