[I thought it would be best to extend the story and have you look deeper into my character as well as others. It's only fair]
[07.11.23]
It never ended, the abuse from that day I was four continued over the next couple of years. I was eight now, currently locked in the basement with the citrine crystal necklace my father gave me around my neck. I knew at this time of the day, she wasn't home. She was off currently for a date, she's been looking for a man to fill the void in her heart ever since my father vanished.
I took my chance to go up and feed myself since she wasn't here. It's not like she cared what I did, she took joy in mistreating me and majority of the time she acted like I didn't exist.... Like she didn't have a daughter. It was fine enough for me, as of four years ago I didn't have a mother. The only one who was truly protecting me, even though he wasn't physically here, was my father.
The necklace he gave me couldn't be removed from me by anyonebit myself, I figured that out when she went and tired to ya k the neckless off of me in a fit of jealousy, only for her palm to get severely burned because of it. This neckless kept me from most situations that I would've died from.... Like one that was very bad....
FLASH BACK
It was one of those days, and being drunk, she was was more unhinged that usual. I was currently in my room reading the entire completed collection of Hunter x Hunter and every maga had a card of the characters in the cover, though all of them were nice... I gravitated to Hisoka Morow and Illumi Zoldyck.
Hisoka Morow... A man who smiled on the outside but was hurting, or hiding the pain he didnt want to feel; he showed me that his attachments were elastic... And my attachment to my mother was ripped away in an in an instant. He was an eccentric tricky man, and the moments in the manga made him very questionable.... Like the fact that he asked Illumi to fuck Killua if he caught him...👀
He got me through a lot, he got me through my fear of my mom, but I knew I would have a reason to be even more afraid of her. Today I was currently reading a section of the story that involved The eldest Zoldyck. He was a beautiful sadistic man and I couldn't tell who he got is looks from because I couldn't really see what Kikyo looked like. Seeing her once made me dislike her instantly; she reminded me too much of my unhinged mother...
"Feind!!! Where are you?!!!" I could hear everything door open and slam shut as she slurred her words angrily while looking for me. I hid beneath my bed, clutching the manga tightly to my chest, wishing desperately like a silly little girl for either one of them or both of them to save me.
"Hisoka.. I'm scared.... Illumi.... I don't want to die... If I do I'll never see you two again." I whispered frantically as the light from my Chrystal illuminated the dark and the page of my manga. It was weird but much like when I watched my father's hand glow when he touched the crystal, I watched as the manga version of Hioka seemed to shift his head and stared right at me. I was too scared to question it at all when I watched him blink. I watched the picture shift again before something flew out the page and slice my cheek, embedded in the wooden spine holding my bed up. I slowly turned my head to look at what it was and saw that it was his signature pink back playing card with the Ace of Hearts on it. Touching it I watched the sharp edges slice my finger only to watch it heal.
'How is that even possible....?!!'
I looked back to the page only to see it was shifted to another page, this one where Illumi was staring right at me with a pin in hand. "Don't die." Both of their voices seemed to whisper before the pin flew past my head and embedding the wooden spine of me bed next to the card.
I grabbed them both, staring down at my manga again only to see there was nothing out of the ordinary, the panels returning to normal. It was also the same moment my mother came in by slaming my door open, charging over and dragging me out from under the bed.
"Don't you hear me calling you, you little imp!?!" In her hands was a glowing red hot blade, and i watched it come down and stab me right in the leg, my scream of pain tearing from me as I gripped Hisoka's card in my hand so hard that it cut my palms.
Even as I thrashed and twisted, she stabbed me over and over, this time right in the back, blood gushing out of my mouth.
"DON'T DIE!!" their voices filled the air a little louder than a whisper. It was loud enough for my mom to hear, but it didn't seem that she could.... Maybe because I grew an attachment to them I wasn't sure. When she flippd me over with the hot knife still glowing red poised for my heart, I used the long needle Illumi gave me and stabed me her right in the leg, and then I stabbed her in her side kicking her away from me while I grabbed my mangas and ran to the basement.
Her cry of pain trailed after me, yet I was the one running away from her bleeding out all over the beautiful stories my father gave me.
"Take me away!! Please! I don't want to be here be here anymore!!" I pleaded as I slammed the door shut and put a chair under that handle to keep it from opening. I locked myself down there until she all but went quiet, and while eveything seemed still, my crystal glowed brightly to heal the life threatening wounds and I watched sadly as they healed over into scars...
FLASH BACK END
i found myself staring at the card and needle in my hand as I thought about the events that happened four years ago. When all else calmed down and I wasn't bleeding out I remember seeing the card it was and found it insane that he would give me it. Wile staring at it, I watched as it Went from being the Ace of Hearts to the Ace Of Spades, the strongest card in the deck and it made me wonder....
These objects were the only indicator that what happened while reading was real ...they helped me stay alive, and I'd treasure the totem's for the rest of my time alive.
I'm currently rewriting the original story on Wattpad as well as AO3.