Doppelgänger✔️

Connection

(a/n : some scary gifs/images in this one yall. Fair warning)

Halmi's eyes widen when the reddened orbs locked with hers. In some sort of trance, she allows herself to step out further into the hallway.

The glowing red eyes remained on her as she fought the urge to go closer like a moth to a flame. An ironic grin crawls over the creature's face at the thought before speaking.

"You look surprised to see me. Were you...expecting someone else?"

Wearing the face of Jimin, the demon grinned as it tilted its head and narrows its gaze on her as it stalked forward.

Halmi felt as if a boot was pressing against her chest, the air in her lungs so dangerously scarce that she couldn't form a word. As the demon advanced, she inched forward as well. But not on her own accord.

"Were you not waiting for me? Surely there's no other reason for you to be here. And so alone at that..." it remarks, its tongue running over the flesh of it's lip.

"I......I..." Halmi's throat ached with the effort to utter a word and the demon chuckles.

"I'm afraid I didn't catch that, love. Perhaps you should come closer so that I can hear you.." an unhuman voice trembles the entire floor and Halmi's struggled pace quickened as if she were being dragged forward.

Muffled sounds escaped her as she felt the distance between her and the demon becoming shorter and her feet splashed defiantly against the water.

"Why....why can't I speak?" Halmi screams within the confines of her mind. Her feet scuffed over the puddled floors as she tried to resist the demon's compulsion pulling her towards it. But she was merely a passenger in her own body at the will of her worst enemy.

After pulling her within 10 feet from where it stood, the demon lifts its hand to halt Halmi's resistant feet.

It was nearly impossible to see in the darkness, but Halmi knew from the devilish spark on the demon's red eyes that it was assessing her. Looking her over with intrigue and something else she rather not entertain the thought of.

It exhales with a short elated laugh, its ghastly blue clouds rolling from it's nostrils like an idle dragon.

"My.....Its been so long and yet...It only feels like yesterday when I first laid eyes on you."

The voice of her grandson's best friend melted away with every syllable and the demon's hellish octave prevailed.

If she could scream, she'd try her damndest not to. Halmi had too much pride to give that thing the satisfaction. But she also couldn't deny the terror seizing up her senses.

Something was happening to her that she could not control and she regretted even making eye contact with the beast. In doing that, she granted the monster access to an uncloaked window of her soul.

Granting it control over what she perceived to be real.

Its oldest trick.

"You idiot..." she scolds herself as fresh tears of anger rolled over her cheeks. As if it could hear her thoughts, the demon's grin widened as its red eyes disappeared.

Halmi searched through the darkness feebly with wide and tearful eyes. Her chin trembled and her jaw clenched as she tried to regain control of her limbs.

But she remained frozen as it's voice began to swirl around her.

"As usual...you make everything so easy..."