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✧*̥˚ CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE *̥˚✧

"Wasn't sure if it's someone or there's not only one guardian there

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"Wasn't sure if it's someone or there's not only one guardian there."

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Iris was sitting in a couch while closing her eyes. Ben on the other hand, who was sitting on the bed facing her, wondering what she was doing.

"What are you doing?" He decided to finally asked.

"Trying to communicate with Nyx." She answered.

"Your demon? I thought you killed it."

"I did but it never leaves me. The darkness were still there. For her if she kill me she lives, but for me if I killed her she didn't die. That's why it's only accurate to me the word 'If I die, you die.'." Iris explained as Ben nodded.

"And why are you trying to communicate with her. I thought you hate her." He asked again, quite not understand why she tried to communicate with the cause of her suffering for all those years and the cause of his another timeline self died.

"Maybe, it time for me to finally accept the darkness in me. I been rejecting and hating it for almost 3 decades. I don't want to be scare of myself anymore. I want to finally accept my power. I want to accept my demon. For the first time in a very long time." She stand up and walk towards him.

"I thought you not scared of yourself anymore." Ben said as he grab her hand and pulled her closer to him ad he still sitting on the bed. He intertwined their hand making a small smile appeared on her lips.

"It will be a lie if I don't. I'm just scared that someday, I'm going to hurt someone I love so dearly again."

Ben was now holding both of her hands with his as he look up. He was about to say something but Iris continued.

"I know people always say it's not my fault. It's the demon. But it is my fault. For hating her. If I accept my darkness since I was kid, maybe I could control my demon without any struggle. Imagine someone hating you since you were kids without any reason, don't you think they would hate you too?"

She looked down for a moment. Ben who couldn't help but worried everytime he sees her eyes filled with sadness. He rubbed his thumb while holding her hands to comfort her.

"It is my fault but what happened is already happened. You can't just go back in time and try to fix it. Fix one problem, there will be another problem. I been there, it's horrible." She chuckled at the last sentence.

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