Oblivion [winrina au]

2 | present time

avery (w)

"I'm Doctor River Valentine. Your car crashed along with your sister and you've been in a coma for a month now. I've been handling you since then. How can you remember my name but not what happened to you?"

My world stopped when she said those words. I refused to believe it. It all felt real. I was with her.

I loved her— my river.

Tears rolled down my cheeks when realizations hit me. So this is the thing about truth. People don't want to hear it because it destroys their fantasies. It destroys them.

It destroyed me.

"P-please just leave.. I want to be alone."

"Miss Avery," The girl who I thought I knew spoke, and looking at her with those eyes I loved, it hurts so much.

"How do you see love, river?"

"You...I see you."

She's not her not matter how familiar she is to me. She's not the river I knew.

"Please just leave..."

"We have to examine if—"

I couldn't take it anymore. Hearing her voice just makes me feel this stinging pain on my skin like i'm being stabbed over and over again.  The voice I waited for weeks to hear. The voice I adored so much.

Please tell me this is a lie, too.

"Didn't you hear me?? Leave!"

"We can't —"

"I shouldn't have woken up."

"Avery what's going on?" Gianni asked.

"If this is what it feels like to love, will you let me love you everyday?"

If waking up meant leaving everything I believed was real,

I'd rather not wake up at all.