Just Your Average Family

Chapter 4

It was dark, Tom looked for a way out of this void he was seemingly trapped in. He felt as if he had no control over his own movements. He looked up and saw strings, that had wrapped themselves around him. He was a puppet. He could see his family through the fog of the void. But they were being injured by some unknown force.
Tom woke up crying, he didn't want to hurt his family. Out of the corner of his eyes he could see his sister enter the room.
"Tom.. Are you alright?" She asked in a worried tone, but he continued to sob. She ran up to him and hugged him. "How bad was it?"
"..bad..." He choked out, she looked at him, there were scratches on her face and arms, as if she had been fighting something. "..are..you okay?.." He asked her, Bella looked at the scratches.
"Oh.. Yeah.. I forgot about those.." She laughed nervously, "well.. You.. See.. I.. Accidentally did something... And it uh.." Tom stopped her.
"You are a terrible lier you know that?" Tom frowned at her, and she put her hands up.
"Hey I came here for you!" She told him defensively, "anyways, would you like to talk about it?" She asked him and he crossed his arms.
"You first." Tom replied with a smirk, she sat down on the bed beside him.
"Fine... You promise you're going to tell me what happened in your dream?" She asked and he nodded making an x over his heart. She sighed, "..'It' did this because someone tore up my sketch book.." She looked at her arms, suddenly she seemed vulnerable, Very vulnerable. "T-Tom... I'm scared ... If.. It can hurt me... What's stopping It from hurting you all?.." She asked as tears dripped off her face, Tom hugged her.
"I'm sorry I asked... I was just worried.." He sighed and she hugged him back. "..Bella.. My dream.. Was that I wasn't in control of my body.. And I think I was hurting you guys.." He said crying into her shoulder, but she seemed stiff. He let her go and looked where she was looking, and saw nothing. "Bella? ...Is .. It... Here?.." He asked, she nodded her head. Suddenly she grabbed Tom and held him in a protective way. "Bella?"
"Stay away from them!" She cried, holding him tighter, "Don't you dare touch them!" She screeched, soon Tord brought down by the ruckus beneath him stood in the door way.
"What the hell is going on?!" He demanded, and Tom looked at him over Bella's shoulder.
"Get help she's freaking out!" Tom hissed at him, Tord looked at him confused.
"Stay away from them you hear me?!" Bella shouted at a corner of Tom's room. Tord ran downstairs and and banged on his parents' door. Pat opened it, and looked at Tord Confused.
"Bella Is freaking out in Tom's room!" Tord told him before he could even ask. Pat nodded and ran upstairs to see the moment Bella and Tom went flying into the wall.
"Holy Shit!" Pat ran into the room, and took Tom from Bella. He set Tom down for Tord to watch, he went back in to see Bella holding her knees. She was scared and crying, he knew how fragile humans could be. But he also knew how strong they can be. "Bella what happened?.." He asked as she looked at him, and looked back at the floor. She didn't answer him, she just kept looking at the floor. "Bella?"
"Ask.. Tord..." She choked out as Tord heard his name, and looked into the room. "...sketch book..." She began mumbling other random things, but that was the one word that stood out to him.
"Wait a second!" He called as he ran into her room and grabbed the sketch book. He brought it back and opened it expecting the torn out pages to fall out, but none did. She looked at him and took it away and throwing it at something. She shaking got up and picked it up, she looked at the empty page and handed it to Pat. He looked confused as he looked at the page.
"What is this?.." He asked Bella looked at him, her brown eyes burning into him.
"I can't tell you..... I'm sorry.." She said as tears ran down her face. "....it.. Is a language... Find it in a book..of.." Her voice trailed away, she nudged Tord. Giving Pat a small unnoticed hint. "But... By then it will be to late.." She whispered quietly, and Pat looked at her.
"What are you not telling me?" He asked and she looked at him panicked.
"...I-I.. Want to... But... I.. C-can't...." She choked out, and Tom looked at her.
"It. Threatened to hurt us if you told.. didn't it?" He asked, and she looked at him with a flinch. She nodded, "and that's why you where protecting me?.." Again she nodded, "It can harm her.. She is scared.." He stated and Pat looked at her.
"Is this true?.." He asked calmly, and she nodded giving him one of her hands. He could see scratches all over her arm. She pulled her arm back, and her sketch book began to smoke. Tord knocked it out of Pat's hand as something appeared to come out of it. What ever it was hit the floor with a thud. Bella looked at it curiously, an walked into the smoke. She picked up the crystal blue sickle, she saw It out of the corner of her eye. Making sure it wasn't one of her family she threw the sickle to a wall in Tom's room. Pat saw something Red flash for a second where the sickle had hit. There was a loud screeching, that shook the house.  Pat took the sickle out of the wall, and looked at it. "Your staying home from school." He said as he looked at Bella,
"But Cat-.." She objected, and he silenced her with a look.
"No buts." He said sternly, she looked down at the floor.
"Fine.." She sighed, and Pat smiled in triumph.
"Good, Tord wake up Matt, Tom wake up Edd you two still need to get ready." Pat commanded, the brothers nodded and ran off.