In Other Places…
Chapter 13
Bad boy’s and bad girls of every age, wouldn’t you like to know something strange?
And guess what? You have a new narrator. And guess who it is? It me…
Shock!
That’s right!
But listen up good cause I’m only gonna tell this stupid story once!
This chapter is about me! (That’s the only reason I’m gonna tell it)!
But anyway, um…this little chapter is where I’m gonna tell you all something important. I’m sure my actions towards Annie in the last part of the story were a little unexplained.
It looked like I couldn’t make my mind up whether I wanted to be good or bad.
Well I’ll tell you this…I’m as BAD AS IT GETS, OK!!! I’m am NOT a good kid!
But it doesn’t mean that doing a bad thing is the wrong thing, nether does it mean doing a good thing is the right thing. Good and bad are a matter of opinion.
When I though up a plan to kidnap Annie and set Jack up to be killed, that wasn’t a good thing, but it wasn’t a bad thing either. It was the wrong thing.
But listen, I didn’t even think about that at the time. I was still mad about doing something putting Annie’s heart back and doing something good.
Besides, something strange had been happening to me ever since I put back the heart.
The night I put it back, I heard voices.
I could hear whispering and laughing. It sounded like Annie’s voice.
It continued for about a week or so, every night before. I went to sleep.
It finely stopped when Annie started to get ill, before it was discovered what was really happening to her.
Ever since I put that heart back. I began to know exactly how Annie was feeling.
I knew she was suffering, I could feel it. But I didn’t care. Or at least I tried not to. I was still angry with the fact that I’d done a good thing by putting Annie’s heart back.
But now, she was acting like this. So it seemed like I did a bad thing.
But…it didn’t seem right some how.
But I just tossed that aside. I was going to prove to myself that I was the meanest, baddest kid in town.
I though of my best plan ever. It couldn’t fail.
But it did.
And thanks to me, Oogie Boogie was dead and the town was in trouble and if I didn’t do something then there would be no town for Oogie to ever rule. So, I needed to take back my own plan, (and save Jack’s bony ass)!
Lock and Barrel just couldn’t understand what had gotten into me. But there was something going on that they didn’t and couldn’t know.
It wasn’t just Oogie never being able to rule Halloween Town because it might not be there if I didn’t do something. There was a lot more to it. There was something else going on.
All the while Annie acted like someone else was controlling her and she was talking in this weird voice, I could hear another voice.
It was Annie’s. He real voice. And no-one could hear it but me.
I was hearing Annie’s thoughts.
That must have had something to do with that fact that I put her heart back. I could hear what she was thinking.
And if you thought that was creepy, I’m gonna tell you what she was saying to me.
That’s right. She wasn’t just thinking, she was talking to me.
She told me everything that was happening to her, and more.
She told me that she wasn’t some psycho, she was really possessed. (I knew, I could feel it).
Yes, that’s right, I knew all along. I knew she was possessed from the beginning.
She also told me the same things as her spirit later told Jack. And something else.
You know that this this is after the children
Well…she said that this evil demon or spirit or whatever it was, well…it wasn’t just after the children. It wants something from this world. And these children are the only one’s who can stop it.
But what it wants I don’t know. But that was even more reason to abort getting Jack killed. He was the only one who could stop the thing that was controlling Annie.
After Annie was taken back to the lab and our home was reduced to a wreck, I began to hear her cries of pain.
She was scared. And that made me scared. I was actually starting to care about someone.
Now don’t get me wrong, here!
I’m the meanest, baddest kid in town. You won’t believe how wicked my baddest pranks were. I’ve got into so much trouble. Being bad is having fun!
And caring about someone is something I’ve never felt before. (I hate that stupid heart)!!!
And then, before the Exorcism, Annie talked to me in her mind and told me something very important.
I now knew things about the demon, and the demon didn’t know I knew them. So, I had to keep this a secret.
I thought about being bad and not keeping it a secret. But that would be wrong.
And one more thing Annie told me before the Exorcism. She told me that she was going to die.
The demon wasn’t going to give her up alive. And she knew it.
After she died, I felt that I had something to do with it. I blamed myself for Oogie’s destruction, the obliteration of our home, and…well…I knew what was really going on and I didn’t tell anyone or do anything about it.
I didn’t want to say anything because I didn’t want to be good. But maybe if I did say something then Annie might have got her Exorcism sooner and she might have lived.
That’s why I put the note outside Annie’s crypt. You know, the one that said ‘sorry’.
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So, this chapter was mainly to answer Jack’s question.
What happened to me when I put Annie’s heart back?
I could hear her thoughts.
And this has made me do things I normally would never even think of. Because I thought that they were good things.
But if Jack and Emma and the rest of the Children of Light find a way to bring Annie back. I won’t do a good thing…
…I’ll do the right thing.
I know this doesn’t sound like me, (and don’t get me wrong, I’m still causing trouble with my two best friends), but this whole thing as taught me some very important things about this journey and what awaits us all.
It’s not longer about good and bad…
…It’s about right and wrong.
I last time, I did the wrong thing.
Next time, I’ll do the right thing.
