A Peculiar Fanfiction

~Chapter 2~

Note: As you know, this chapter is going to be the memory Miss Peregrine is having and chapter 3 will carry on from chapter 1 from when she was talking to her wards so the memory she's having will only be like 10 minutes (for the characters mind if you know what I mean) since her wards shakes her out of it. This memory isn't going to be about her entire past (In Miss Avocets loop they can age but Alma is 25 in her own loop, but is actually like 100...FYI)

~10 year old alma POV~

It was Alma's second month at Miss Avocets loop when they received news of a new comer.

"Today children, a new peculiar is arriving, but it happens to be a male, a male ymbryne that is an eagle and he could transform into a wolf apparently and is around the age of 12. Make him feel welcome" Miss Avocet said to all the children while I stayed hidden in the corner and I can hear everyone gasping since there was never any male ymbrynes anymore. I decided to go back up to my room to practice turning into my bird form when all of a sudden Miss Avocet called us all downstairs to greet the new comer.

I was at the back of the line and I could see most of the girls all over him. He was really tall and pretty muscular for a 12 year old. But then it was my turn to introduce myself to him "H-hello I'm Alma Bentham" I said while looking down as my raven hair covered my face "Hello Alma, I'm Derek" I looked up and saw a smile forming on his face and before he could say any more I quickly walked away, feeling his green eyes still staring at me while all the girls were crowding him as I turned the corner and ran upstairs.

~Narrator POV~

Alma ran back to her room upstairs as Derek was still watching her and all the girls around him seems to notice. Some of the girls found Alma as a threat because of her beauty, they would never admit it but Alma was the youngest and most beautiful girl in Miss Avocets loop, though she was a quiet girl and didn't seem to like people much, she would never talk to anyone except to Miss Avocet, Alma was her pet. Most people thought she was like that because of her cruel past, they never knew what happened to her but they guessed it was something bad. They tried making conversation with her but she seems to block them out.

~11 year old Alma POV~

I was practising my bird forming that Miss Avocet taught me earlier but I was soon disturbed as a slight knock came to my door. I opened the door a crack to see Derek outside. "Hi Alma" Derek said perhaps to confidentially "H-hi...what are you doing here" that was the most I have ever said to my fellow ymbrynes and it was my second ever time talking to Derek since he got here, I thought to myself. "Oh, everyone has gone to sleep and I had the job to check on everyone" it was clearly a lie. "Okay...well I guess I'm going to bed..." I said while slamming the door.

~14 year old Alma~

Over the years I started to become more open since Derek wouldn't leave me alone but we became friends. "Hey Alma" Derek said walking straight into my room. "Hey Derek, what's the time?" it was somewhere around midnight and I could tell Derek was wanting to sneak out and go flying "12:30am, want to go for a night flight?" I nodded indicating a yes excitedly as we both flew out the window together. 5 hours past and we started to make our way back to the house before anyone woke up which was at 7am and right now it was 6:30am. We both flew into my bedroom window and changed back into human form as Derek quickly rushed down into his bedroom careful not to get caught by Miss Avocet as she was already awake.

"Children! Breakfast!" Miss Avocet shouted. I made my way downstairs and saw Derek. I just noticed he had major bags under his eyes and I probably had some by the way he was looking at me but we both laughed and went into the dining room. As soon as we entered everyone stared at us since we were late and I quickly apologised and sat down. Derek did the same sitting next to me. Everyone was talking, or should I say most of them were trying to get Derek's attention but he was ignoring most of them when he turned to me. "You look extremely tired" he commented "I could say the same about you" I said chuckling a bit and this was the part where the girls saw us talking and went nuts on him but Derek stood up and pushed them saying "Girls! Can you not see I am talking to Alma right now? You guys need to stop crawling on me and what not, I am trying to enjoy Alma's presence right now!" causing me to blush, he sat back down and we carried on talking.

~16 year old Alma~

It was around 4pm and I slammed my door really hard that it shook the house, everyone heard it and I locked it because I was told something I never wanted to hear and I heard everyone knocking at my door, I heard Derek shouting the most but I shut everyone and everything off and I found myself crying to sleep because Miss Avocet told us that Derek had to leave in the morning for some 'unspeakable' reasons she liked to call it.

~Next Morning~

Miss Avocet shouted from below to wake us all up and I was already up hours before and I was sobbing the whole time, since I went to bed way to early and I also missed dinner last night. Though I was the last one to get down there as I never wanted to say goodbye to my best friend you could say. It was the worst day ever.

When I arrived I noticed I hadn't changed but it was okay since I didn't change before I went to sleep yesterday, I was still wearing my dark blue dress but my hair was in a really messy bun, it was everywhere and my cheeks were stained with tears and my eyes were rimmed with redness, everyone knew I must have been crying.

"Alma are you alright dear" Miss Avocet asked me "Of course I am" I replied frowning my eyebrows down with a bit of an attitude. I felt someone grabbing my arm as I was going to sit down with the others. I turned around to see that Derek was standing behind me. It seems like years that we were standing there and I started to feel extremely uncomfortable since all eyes were on us and just before I was to turn away Derek pulled me into a hug, he had to bend down which I found pretty funny since I was to short and he whispered "I'll miss you Alma, please forgive me, it wasn't my choice to leave. If it was my choice I would never leave you" at that moment I was ready to burst into tears but decided not to since millions of eyes were on us. He pulled away from the embrace and went to his suitcase, I was still standing in the centre shocked at what just happened but before he walked out he ran up to me and placed a soft kiss on my cheek and ran away, leaving me to blush while others were staring at me as if they were ready to kill me.

~Memory ended~

~Emma's POV~

I'm shaking Miss Peregrine as hard as I can since I can tell she was daydreaming of some sort "MISS PEREGRINE WAKE UP" I yelled and I saw her snap back to reality.