An Unexpected Connection

Leaving For Pearce

A/N: The following chapter contains slight trauma. Please use discretion and read at your own risk.
Also, internal dialogue between Y/N and Pearce will be out in bold and italics to avoid confusion.
Dedicated to inparanormal

Darkness. Pain. Confusion. Terror. These were the only things that Y/N could make out in a moment where nothing else in the world made sense. It was like her brain had malfunctioned, and was showing her nothing except these four horrible things that threatened to overwhelm her and drag her further into...wait.

What was that?

The girl's interest piqued as a small sound, nothing more than a quiet giggle, tore through the silence that covered her mind. It was small and delicate, but cheerful nonetheless. It was the type of giggle you make when you're surrounded by goodness and drenched in light, and when you know that nothing in the universe could ever bother you in that moment.

Y/N watched as the darkness around her began to fade, and in front of her very eyes who should appear but Lily, adorned with a bright smile and the purest little face, just like she always was when they were little girls.

"Lily?" She asked, tears threatening to stream down her face.

"Y/N?" Lily giggled, playfully mocking her sister's shocked tone.

"H-how are you here? You're meant to be dead!" The girl questioned, uncertainty running through her mind as the situation started to make an impact on her.

"What do you mean I'm meant to be dead? As far as I know, I'm standing right in front of you. Alive, might I add." The smaller girl giggled at how silly her sister was supposedly being, and Y/N had a faint recollection of how her sister was always happy and never took anything seriously. Not even her illness.

"You...you died years ago. W-we went sledding and there was an accident and we were thrown into the snow and you...you suffocated", the girl whispered, memories of that terrible day flooding through her mind.

Lily's playful demeanour suddenly dropped, as if the reality of her sister's words hit her for the first time.

"...what?" She asked, voice dropping to a trembling whisper. "I'm...I'm dead?" Her face contorted into one of confusion, eyebrows furrowing before her face lit up again as she seemed to remember something, but not in a good way.

"O-oh yeah...", She realised, her dazzling E/C eyes now filling up with water, and Y/N saw the events of that day now flashing through those orbs.

"I remember it now. All I saw was white. All I felt was cold. All I could hear was the thumping of feet above my head, searching for me but getting nowhere close, and the rapid pounding of my heart getting slower and slower. I could feel my lungs crying out for air but all I got were mouthfuls of that dreadful, powdery snow. And all I truly remembered...."

Y/N didn't want her to finish. An aching sensation tugged at her heart as waterfalls poured down her face, waiting for those next words of what her sister went through before death.

"All I remembered was you screaming my name, and how it was the last thing I ever knew."

Sobs broke free from the teen's body, racking her up and sending her plunging into an abyss of despair as she gazed at the saddened face of her twin before her, wishing to erase those words from her brain.

However, the horrors weren't finished, as her sister then turned to look Y/N dead in the eyes and whispered,

"It was all your fault."

Numbness engulfed the older girl as she saw Lily's eyes turn black, her face turn white, and suddenly her whole body was plunged into a scene that was etched into her mind forever.