Psycho Celeste (Re-written)

Psycho Celeste

Police Report:

  A 19 year old female college student was reported missing, a possible runaway, six days after her family home had burned down, taking the lives of her mother{Destiny}, brothers{Jared[26] and Len[15]}, and sisters{Alice[22] and Mia[13]}. She and her father are suspects in the investigation of how/why the fire was started. The young female goes by the name of Celestial "Celeste" Rose Dove. The father goes by Marcus "Mark" Dove.

  There have been police reports to the Dove residence of alleged domestic and child abuse involving the father being drunk and belligerent. Mark had been from job to job for years prior to the fire. It is suspect to believe this was a result of his excessive drinking.

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  A short redheaded young woman around 4'11" had been traveling through the woods for the past day. She was planning on leaving what was once her home behind, if you could even call it that. Celeste, the redhead, no longer had a reason to go back to the small town. The only family she had left was that drunk, Mark. He had always punished her and the rest of the family for his own shortcomings.

  But this time Mark had gone too far. All she was gonna do was put the fire in the fireplace out since he had fallen asleep with it still going. She thought about what had happened.

~~~~~START~FLASHBACK~~~~~

  Mark had freaked out the second he woke up. He had started yelling at Celeste, blaming her for various things she hadn't done, and wasn't there to do since she had been staying at the college she had been going to for that past year. She came home to visit her family that weekend. The abuse became physical, like always, with him hitting her.

   The man that was still noticeably drunk had started swinging the glass bottle of alcohol he had been drinking around, it eventually slipping from his hand, breaking at the edge of the fireplace. The glass and liquid went everywhere. The alcohol Mark had been drinking that night was also pretty flammable, which allowed the fire to move from it's controlled environment. Instead of coming to his senses and helping his daughter put out the flames, the drunk pulled Celeste away from her attempt at putting it out on her own to continue beating her.

  The fire had spread from the front of the fireplace to the carpet and curtains and continued to spread to the rest of the house from the den.

~~~~~END~FLASHBACK~~~~~

  Celeste soon came to a clearing that was deep enough in the woods that you couldn't see it directly from the stretch of road she had been following to the next town. Seeing that it was getting dark, the redhead figured it'd be best to set up camp there and started gathering sticks and twigs to create a small fire. Celeste had the small fire going. She sat there, watching the flames dance around a bit, thinking. She started hearing noises in the woods surrounding the clearing. Celeste looks around.

". . . ."

Nothing there.

  Celeste returns back to the campfire, thinking it was either small wildlife or just her mind playing tricks on her. There had been times after the fire Celeste heard an occasional voice suggesting that she should kill her father for what he did to their family. For the lack of remorse he had for their deaths. She started to hear whispers from behind the trees on the far side of the clearing.

  She was starting to feel a little unnerved. A transparent spirit appeared next to her. "Ace, keep an eye out," she spoke to the spirit before looking around again. Ace, nodding, looked around.

  The whispers were becoming easier to understand, yet still quiet. "Why were they were always so mean. . .? I never did anything to them. . ."