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"Who was that girl in the corner of the classroom?" You may be asking, "The one who stays silent, no matter what?"

Well, my dearest friends, that is Panacea Hammer. Daughter of Thalia Bishop-Hammer and Lee Hammer. An introvert who prefers to hide from confronting others. A girl who would rather stay alone in her silence than be with people. A bullied, lonely, eager to learn(despite her silence) girl.

Her peers didn't know much about her, giving the girl the nickname of "The Silence", but sticking as far away from her as possible, unless you were Andrew Andrews or Leo Smith and their gang of fellow bullies who took to relentlessly bully the silent girl every day.

Why was she silent? No one knew. Not even her lovely parents.

Little did everyone know, the girl of silence had a small secret.

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Pᴀɴᴀᴄᴇᴀ Hᴀᴍᴍᴇʀ

Panacea, or as she called herself for short: Pan, peeked up from her school book to look out the window to see if her bullies were waiting for her.

And just her luck, she could see them getting prepared for her daily bullying session behind the school cafeteria.

Pan winced before going back to her classwork quickly. Her teacher's eyes glazing right over the silent girl. A small plus to be so quiet and focused; the teachers didn't really care much about her.

Pan jumped in her seat when the bell finally rang. She very slowly packed her books into her black bag, taking her time organizing them alphabetically by subject, even if she knew that it would be useless to even try to make her bag tidy.

Pan watched the rest of her peers leave, the transfer student, Miko Nakadai glanced curiously at her before departing from the classroom eagerly to get away from the hellfire known as school.

She watched as several students glanced at her. She knew the whole of the school population was curious about the silent bullied girl, but too afraid that Pan's bullies would target them if they even attempted to speak to her.

A sad smile crossed Pan's face as she closed her eyes with an almost silent sigh. Perhaps being silent wasn't to the best path for her, but to be fair, if you had social anxiety as bad as hers, wouldn't you cut yourself off from everyone? Even your own parents, who terrified you by just the thought of speaking to them?

"Ms. Hammer, leaving the classroom today would be nice," Her teacher said, with a slight sarcastic note in her voice, snapping Pan out of her slightly depressing thoughts.

Pan nodded her head, ducking her head down sheepishly, quickly grabbing her bag and rushing to make it out the door. She gave her teacher a faint smile before walking off to the front of the school.

Pan glanced around for any of the boys, not seeing anyone she quickly darted forward down the steps of the school.

She hurriedly walked the roadside path in an attempt to get away from any of the boys.

It worked until she noticed a boy heading towards her and she ducked into an alleyway to avoid him.

But of course, the one boy she avoided wasn't apart of the bullies gang and as soon as she stepped foot into the alley several hands grabbed her, with one shoving her back until her head hit a hall.

Pan instantly fell into darkness.

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Jᴀᴄᴋ Dᴀʀʙʏ

Jack had been walking home when he noticed her.

"The Silence" or Panacea Hammer, walking as fast as she could to get away from the school building behind her.

Jack had slowed down, his curious eyes glancing at her as he pretended to be in his phone as he walked.

Panacea darted into a dead end alleyway when she neared him. Jack paused slightly in confusion at least until he heard laughter and a thump.

A second later a group of bullies came laughing out of the alley and walked back to school chatting between themselves, dark glee in their eyes as satisfaction ruled their expressions.

Jack was immediately put on high alert when he noted that Panacea hadn't come back out.

He quietly slipped into the alley, blinking his eyes as they adjusted to the dim light. He gasped when he saw Panacea's limp form on the ground of the alley.

Jack rushed to her side and placed his fingers on her neck where he knew he'd find her pulse. He breathed a faint sigh of relief when he felt it faintly.

He quickly grabbed his phone and dialed his mother. Tapping his foot as he waited for her to pick up.

"Mom? I need an ambulance. As soon as you can."

Chapter One.

Jack's just too kind to leave anyone behind.
Bless the pure boy.