I loved all the kids at Miss Peregrine's, but Fiona was my favorite, and I wanted to see more of her, so here's my take on her pre-loop life. There will be Fiona/Miss P bonding and some Fiona/Hugh. Tagged to the movie, AU to the books.

Sometimes, Fiona thought things had been easier when the monster was chasing her.

For several days after the crash, the monster had hunted her through the forest. She couldn't see the monster – it was invisible, which made it even scarier – but she knew when it was after her from how it displaced the plants. She heard the leaves and twigs being crushed under its feet, and she saw the bushes and tree branches being shoved suddenly out of its way, and that's how she knew when it was time to run. The plants were her friends, and they always warned her. That was why she had to stay in the forest forever. In an open space, the monster would be able to sneak up on her.

But Fiona was free of the monster now... she hoped. She hadn't heard it since last week. Luckily, it had just rained, and she could see its footprints approaching clearly in the muddy earth, coming closer and closer. She had forced herself to stand and watch them, not to run away, and when its prints appeared beside a tree, she asked a thick branch to burst out of it suddenly. She heard it strike the monster, a thwack of wood against soft flesh that made her cringe, and then the monster fell to the ground with a thud so loud that it echoed through the forest.

Fiona had turned and run away then. She ran and ran, deep into the dark forest, and she asked tall, thick, thorny bushes to spring up like sentinels behind her and guard her way, and she asked roses to grow and bloom and hide her scent. She hadn't heard any of the monster's noises since then.

So she was safe now... but she hadn't expected that to be worse than being hunted. When the monster had been after her, she was always on alert, always busy thinking about how to get away and how to survive. When she didn't have to worry about that, her mind could drift back to the crash. When she didn't have to listen for the monster's footsteps, she could hear again the screeching tires and breaking glass.

Walking back from the creek to her campsite, the brown-green of the forest, Fiona's favorite color, blurred as tears stung her eyes and the memory came back in full.

She and Daddy had been coming back from a Sunday drive. Daddy always liked to go for a drive through the countryside on Sunday afternoons. He and Fiona had been on the road beside the lake, almost back to Trawsfynydd, when something smashed the motor-car off the road and into a deep ditch. They rolled over once, twice, then Fiona lost count. Daddy shouted her name, then the car lurched and he banged his head hard on the ceiling, and there was so much blood that Fiona had to close her eyes.

The monster had made the crash. Fiona understood that now. Dazed and bruised in the smashed remains of their overturned car in the ditch, with Daddy slumped bloody and motionless over the steering wheel, she had heard the monster's angry, animal hissing. It grunted and banged on the car, and something long and slimy, like a tentacle, had slithered in the broken window and tried to wrap itself around Fiona's arm. She tried to pry it off, but then she felt another one grab at her free arm. She screamed for Daddy to help her, but he didn't move, didn't answer her, and Fiona felt like one of those awful tentacles had reached inside her chest and ripped her heart in two.

Fiona still didn't know how she did it, but somehow, she had twisted free of the thing trying to grab her, the thing that she couldn't see, squirmed out of the car, and climbed from the ditch. She didn't run back to Trawsfynydd, but away from it. She didn't want help from people, but from plants. She ran to the place that she loved most in the world, the thick forest that surrounded the village. When she reached the tree-line, the trunks and branches around her felt like an embrace, but still, she didn't slow down. She ran and ran, heartbroken and terrified and confused, and she didn't stop running for a long time.

Please review if you'd like to see more! I've never written for this fandom before, so I would love feedback.