Let's Play Anna [Original] Chap 14

Chapter 14.

 

Grief. Pain. Heartache. Whatever you want to call it. I feel it.

 

I wish he would have killed me. I wish I would have died that day. I wish I could drop dead right here, right now. Just fall off this tree branch I’m perched on and die. Have something come alone and crush my wings. Have whatever eats butterflies eat me.

 

I can’t die. Cendres made sure I’d suffer alone. I can’t meet people or animals either. I don’t think I’ve had something to eat in…weeks? Who cares. It won’t kill me.

 

Nothing will kill me. Except maybe heartache. There’s no hope, is there? I’m on earth, and I can’t get back to Darclainia no matter how hard I try. I’m perched on some billboard for a Broadway musical coming soon to New York in Times Square. Why here? I don’t know.

 

I tried to kill myself. I flew up to the top of the Empire State Building at night. The lights were everywhere, and I guess they looked pretty, but that didn’t change anything. I perched on the top, a little tired from having to fly all the way up here, and looked down. If I had had a normal stomach, it would’ve been doing flips at that moment. It was such a long drop… I folded my wings and fell.

 

It took a long time.

 

When I landed, I didn’t even feel it. That was when I realized I couldn’t die. I got run over by a taxi that night, too.

 

Let’s just say that after that I spent a long time trying to kill myself.

 

So here I am now, still not dead. If I could talk, I would be screaming. I miss everyone, but I miss… I can’t even say their names. Think their names. If I could just hug her one more time… Kiss him one more time…

 

Wait, where am I? I must have been flying this whole time… Oh, I know where I am. I’m at the lab where I was created.

 

There’s a new scientist in there… I find the window that leads to his office. Dr. Colress. Hey, I think. I’m still psychic like this. I can’t glitch, though. Or…find them… Colress? It’s me, Anna. I’ve… I need help… He glances out the window and sees me.

 

“What happened to you?” he asks. I would be biting my lip if I could. But I can’t. So I recall what happened in as little detail as possible. “I didn’t know butterflies could cry,” he says softly when I finish. Neither did I. I ride on his shoulder over to my computer, and he hooks me up. “Are you sure you want me to do this? It could do nothing…”

 

Please… It’s my only hope. I can’t die, so it won’t kill me…

 

“If you say so…”

 

Nothing happens… I keep my eyes shut. Maybe Colress will find a way to kill me…

 

“Anna,” he says, “open your eyes.”

 

I don’t want to…

 

“Why not? It worked.”

 

“WHAT.”

 

I open my eyes. My vision is normal! Like a human’s vision! The feeling slowly comes back to the rest of myself. The rest of my human self! “Colress!” I shout, hugging him. “Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you-“ I start crying and laughing, then sit down and try to figure out what I’m thinking. I’m not thinking. Blumiere. Chy. “Colress, I need to go back to my home. Right now.”

 

I’m on a private jet again. I need to calm down. Use my mind. Contact someone. I find Dimmy’s mind first. Dimentio! I scream, not caring if I make him go deaf.

 

“What-“ He stops for a moment, then realizes what he heard. “ANNA?!”

 

Yeah! It’s me! I’m back and don’t have time to tell you why. I need you to find-

 

“I know where they are. Where are you?”

 

Hold on. I get up and find the pilot and copilot. “Thanks for taking me this far,” I say, “but I won’t be needing this plane anymore. You can turn back now.” Teleport us to them.

 

I’m teleported to Dimmy, and he…hugs me? “Anna, do you have any idea how worried my sister is? You’ve been gone for almost three months!”

 

“It’s… It’s been that long?”

 

“We’ll talk later. You need to go help Blumiere.”

 

“Help him? What’s wrong?” Don’t you dare lay a finger on my Blumiere…

 

Dimmy teleports me to Blumiere’s castle. Blumiere and Cendres both have their staffs pointed at each other. “Listen to me, my son,” Cendres starts angrily. Both of their eyes are red…

 

“Blumiere!” I exclaim. His head turns to mine, and his eyes instantaneously warp back to the blue I fell for. His mouth falls open, and he drops his staff.

 

His arms are around me in the next moment, holding me with so much need that I start crying again. “Is it really you?”

 

“It’s me,” I cry. He says my name over and over again, each time bringing a new tear to my eye. But he pulls away.

 

“Anna, go find Chy, okay?” He pushes me outside the room his father is in and closes the door. I stare at it as the shouts resume, but Blumiere has a newly found inspiration. I’m afraid of what he’ll do with it…

 

“Anna!” I turn just in time to be attacked by Chy. She hugs me and curses and almost starts to cry. “Anna! Why would you leave me like that! Do you know how worried Blumiere was? Do you know how worried I was?!”

 

She hugs me again, completely crushing me with her arms. “Uh,” I gasp, “Chy? I…need air…”

 

She pulls away, and I smile at her. “Anna, how can you just smile? You…” She blinks quickly, trying to hide her tears.

 

“It’s okay. I’m here now, right?”

 

“Blumiere!!”

 

“Was that Cendres?” she asks.

 

Both of us rush back to where they were to find Blumiere standing over Cendres. I don’t get a read on Cendres’ mind at all… “Blumiere…?” I whisper. When he looks at me, his eyes are red again, but they turn back to blue.

 

He looks back down at his father in silence. “He deserved it.”