Daughter of Darkness Vol. 2

Chapter 2: Terrified, Then Safe

I woke up early, but I didn't get up I just stared at the ceiling, thinking. What am I gonna do? I wondered, how are we going to beat her? Can we beat her? Is she going to go after John? those thoughts kept going through my head, I thought so hard I gave myself a headache.

I got up and walked to the bathroom, I looked in the mirror and saw dark circles underneath my eyes. I sighed and splashed cold water on my face, and looked back up into the mirror, but to my horror, Instead of my reflection, I saw my mother covered in blood. I let out a Small scream and stumbled back into the wall behind me, but to my surprise, the reflection copy my movements. my hand, still shaking, reached out and touched the mirror, and as I did that words started to appear on the glass, it read.....

Run!

In my line of work I don't scare easily, but right then......I was scared out of my wits!!! I ran out of the bathroom, down the hall, and stopped at John's door, and barged in. It was around 4 am so he wasn't awake, he was lying in bed snoring. "Dad," I whispered, but he didn't wake up, "Dad!" I said a bit louder, but he still wouldn't wake up. I started shaking him, and yelled, "Dad!!!" this time he jumped into a sitting position, with a scared look on his face.

"What's wrong! Are you hurt!," he asked in a terrified voice, I shook my head, then grabbed his hand and dragged him out of bed down the hall, into my room, then into the bathroom. But when I looked at the mirror, the message was gone, and I just stared at the mirror. John looked around the bathroom, then he looked at me and asked, "Coraline have you gone daft!?!" I looked at John, he looked a bit mad, and I felt bad for dragging him out of bed for nothing, I was probably just sleep deprived.

I hung my head low and said, "sorry, I just... I just got scared." I looked at my hand and it was still shaking a bit.

John's face softened, he sighed and said, "it's ok." He put his arm around my shoulders. "I've been in situations where I've near to peed myself, Cuz I was scared." I still felt bad so I only smiled and didn't laugh, "oh so we're down in the bumps I see," he said. John gave me a smirk, then he started tickling me!

"Dad!" I laughed, "Stop! I'm being serious! Uncle! Uncle!" John stopped when he was out of breath from laughing. He and I were sitting on the floor laughing, when I caught my breath I slapped him on the arm and said, "that was not funny, Dad!" he stopped laughing and gave me a weird, happy look, "what's the look for?" I asked.

"Nothing, it's just nice to hear someone call me that," he said.

I smiled, and pulled him into a big hug and said, "it's nice to be saying it."

He and I just stayed like that for a while, until lack of sleep got the better of me and I started to doze off in John's arms. He noticed this, so he picked me up gently and carried me to my bed, tucked me in, and said, "Sweet dreams luv."

He started to walk to the door but I stopped him, "Dad, can you stay with me for a little bit?" I asked he smiled and nodded. John sat down on the floor next to the bed, and for the first time in a few days I felt safe, and at peace. I closed my eyes and I was soon asleep.