~Brooklyn
It was smelling like garbage. Everything was and there was no doubt about it. I left myself in an alleyway before I passed out last night after being shot at and getting hit a few times in the arms and legs and getting scraped on my neck, and surprisingly, I wasn’t dead, like so many other times I thought I would be after being chased by the police. What a disgusting place this world was now.
Nothing was like it was. We were branded outcasts so that all would know what we were and what we were. We all had a specific mark, either combined or single Halfers, our disgusting name that we had, or the many other names such as “trash” or “filthy, disgusting half breeds.” There were many other names but they weren’t worth repeating.
My ears perked up to listen for any sounds, for mostly humans that were walking around drunk at this time at night and thankfully, I heard nothing. Drunk guys were not the best people to hang out around at this time of night… It was even more disgusting than the alleyways, which was covered in my blood, as usual.
I stretched out my legs, they yelping in my pain from the remaining bullets in my ripped muscles and morphed back into my human form and figured I would grab some food before going back to my usual place where I normally slept besides alleyways. The Farm.
Most of all Halfers knew of the Farm. Those who didn’t were dead on the streets. It was run by Calamari and German, my personal nicknames for them. I’ve been knowing them for long enough that I trusteed them, but it was hard getting used to German. I still didn’t trust that man… Stinkin’ human but Calamari trusted him and everything else of that jazz so I was slowly getting used to him.
And then there was Benign.
She was such a sweetheart, exactly how I used to be, but I knew underneath her, she was upset with her fathers, even though she knew that she shouldn’t be. They were sweethearts too and all they wanted to do was protect her from this world I was in and they were living in also. It was an ugly world. Its something a halfer couldn’t live.
I stood up and walked to the end of the alleyway near the street, which was empty as usual with beer bottles and empty cans of soda, but the lights that were broken or actually still working were the ones that were lined with cameras for the police stations for Halfers without collars. I had a fake one, only for getting across here, but otherwise, I didn’t wear it. I hated being branded like that, since I was already branded on my hand for being a mixed breed.
I quickly crossed the streets while putting on my collar and ran across the parks over to the forest. Yes, they were lined with the Halfers that bore no resemblance to their human forms and only were the animals themselves. They weren’t humans, no matter how much other Halfers that still had a sense in mind tried to convince them they were Halfers. It was sad, really.
Hurrying through the forest because I didn’t really want to deal with Lynxes tonight, I hurried through the forest until I found the Farm. All the lights were out but I could see a glint of eye in their room, coming from a small mouse. Benign. She was still awake.
I quickly jumped the fence and moved through the sleeping Halfers, who some woke up to me talking and nodded to me, noticing my arrival back here once again. I really need to stop coming here… Too much of an influence on me…
Once I got to my window, unlocked like always, I quietly opened them and slipped inside the building, onto my bed, and then onto the carpet floor, and sat on my bed with the common medical kit on the nightstand that Calamari always left me… And it sucked that he was asleep because I had bullets in both arms and obviously, I write with my right one, so duh.
“Great…” I muttered under my breath and took the tweezers from the kit and started to prod at the bullet in my left shoulder until I was finally getting into the skin and a small voice made me jump.
“You need help?” I jumped at the voice and scratched myself with the tweezers and cursed under my breath, regretting I did so as I looked up and noticed that it was Benign, back in her human form. I wonder if she’s finally learning how to transform back into her human form… Or she didn’t know that she wasn’t in her animal form anymore? She always made me think…
“Benign, you don’t like this stuff, you need to go back to bed,” I sighed quietly and she walked over to me and sat next to me in her pajamas.
“I’m getting used to you around here, Brooke. I think I can get used to seeing… blood,” and that’s when Benign’s eyes went wide and she was staring at my legs and my arms, which were just slightly dripping of blood. I sighed and saw fear in her eyes as I looked in them.
“It seems you’re learning to change from your mouse form to your human form easier,” I stated flatly and she blushed brightly, embarrassed like she always did, but it went away fast.
“I’m not that great at it… Dad’s still as iffy as he was before when you left about teaching me how to change back and forth… They’re just…” She exclaimed in frustration quietly and I just looked at her as she crossed her arms and pouted like a child and I couldn’t help but smirk as I took out the bullet slowly and put it in the small container that was beside the medical kit.
“You know they love you, Benign. It’s just hard for them to tell you about stuff. You should know that by now. You’re old enough,” I sighed as I bent down to my knees and my lower left shin and slowly prodded that bullet it out and it didn’t even seem Benign was noticing. She just had her mind on her fathers.
“I know! They should tell me more, but they won’t. That’s why I like it when you come back here… That way, you can tell me about the smells and the foods out there in the town since Pop and Dad never really let me try anything,” Benign shrugged and that’s when I remembered that I forgot to get something to eat before leaving the alleyway. Great. There goes dinner.
“I can’t say a lot either, Benign. A lot of it you would be uncomfortable with anyways,” I sighed as I got the bullet from my shin and put it in the container and went to my right leg and started to prod the bullet out of my thigh, which surprisingly didn’t hurt that much.
“Alright…. Well, are you going to be staying for the next day or two, Brooke?” Benign smiled and I took out the bullet quickly and put it in the container. I looked at her and thought for a second. I guess there wouldn’t be any harm in it… Just as long as those cameras didn’t catch me earlier and the new Wanted posters weren’t up yet…
“I might. Why?” I asked and she moved to my other side and winced when she saw the wound but took the tweezers from my hand and closed her eyes slightly while she helped me get the last bullet. I knew that took a lot of courage for her to do. She quickly put it in the container and closed it so that the bullets could be contained.
“I was hoping you could show me your animal form,” She smiled and my small smile dropped. I still wouldn’t show anybody that. Not even Calamari or German.
“I don’t know about that, but I’ll see what I can do about telling you more about the town, alright?” She nodded with a smile. “Go to bed, and don’t worry about your fathers. They’ll open up slowly, you know that,” I told her with a small smile again and she just nodded and helped me with the wrappings for my wounds and then left me be. She was a sweet girl but she needed to learn how to forgive her fathers for not telling her about everything.
I slowly slipped into bed as the sun slowly started to rise and I could hear Benign asleep again. Hopefully, I wouldn’t bleed out in the middle of the morning like usual…
And it was just like that when I started to hear murmuring voices coming from outside since the morning was slowly coming and the sunrise was appearing, I fell asleep under the covers. There goes my plan for the next few days…
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Welp, hope this was okay with you, Chiyuki! :DD And here is the first post for Brooklyn~ She's very mysterious~~~ xD And just how does she know Kai and Ennis??? Oh and I hope I got Benign right :D
Featured in post: Benign, Kai (Calamari), Ennis (German), and Brooklyn
~Anime-chan
