Shadows of Fate: A Little Nightmares AU (Book 1)

(8) You're not bad

(DogInATuxedo that good?)

2 days have passed since Runaway and Six became official friends. Six was busy playing around with the nomes and since Runaway cannot touch any living being without them burning from his touch, he decided to stay in the lady's room and clean.

It took him at least 6 hours to clean the room up, it was easier to do in the dark as well. The lady's room was now dust free! If only the entire maw was like this. Sadly he can't do everything on his own. The maw was too big.

The good thing about being a shadow is that you cannot feel fatigue so he did not take any breaks while cleaning.

Since he was done cleaning, he decided to sit in front of the lady's broken mirror. The mirror was bigger than him so he can use the big shards to see his reflection.

He's planning to see if he actually has a face and since Six was busy, he can do it without her watching him. Just in case he had no face to begin with.

He brings his hands to the sides of his mask, carefully grasping the important item in his grip. He slowly pull it forward a bit, feeling it seperate from his face then he moves his hands down to stare at the mirror.

He is greeted with the reflection of his face, which surprised him but he was actually glad he had one. Runaway moved his right hand and raised it to examine his own face (refer to art above cause I cannot describe faces).

He looked pretty normal, other than his grey skin and his dark eyes.

"So you DO have a face," Runaway jolts before spinning around to look at whoever was talking. It sounded familiar though---

Ocean blue eyes meet with wisteria colored ones. "GAH!" he jumps and made his back rest in the shattered mirror. "Why so shocked to see me?" the shadow tilts her head at him curiously, smiling slyly at the other shadow. "You're look pretty cute," she blurted out with a smile, causing Runaway's face to be covered in a blue blush. "Hah?" he touches his face as he stared at the shadow girl with a shocked expression. The shadow girl laughed "Holy shit your face is amusing!"

Runaway shook his head before crossing his arms and huffing. "I'm not falling for your wicked tricks again," he growled, causing the other shadow to frown. "Its not a wicked trick though," she sounded hurt by his comment. What? The shadow that ignored her counterpart's pain actually felt hurt by his words? Thats a first, even for him. He'd never seen her get...well...emotional before. Other than staring at Six angrily when she got hungry. He still cannot trust her though.

"You can't fool me! I won't let you,"  Okay now the shadow girl's expression seemed annoyed.  "Is that what you portray me as?" she hissed, shocking Runaway.

"W-what--"

"I saw the way you look at me whenever I'm around, you look at me like I'm sort of a villain! A bad guy!"

Runaway scratched the back of his neck nervoulsy, unsure of what to say. "I mean...Six has her faults but she's pretty nice and you well," he motions his towards her "....you're pretty mean so I just thought---"

The shadow cuts him off  "So you just assumed I was in the wrong? You should've seen Six when she was outside the maw! She wasn't 'nice' or 'kind' or anything like that!" She gave him an angry look  "The only reason why she's so 'nice' now is because of the lady's powers. It kept her emotions stable. She was worse even before she lost me . The embodiment of her humanity, her compassion, her moral compass. I am a part of her,"

Runaway stared at her, getting nervous by how close she was getting. She was at least 3 feet from him. "That's...shocking to hear...I mean you being a part of her seems pretty possible but yoy being the embodiment of her humanity...?" he squeaked when she glared.

"Just because I used to be apart of her doesn't mean I don't have my own emotions and personality, after seperating from her I became a seperate being. Different from her,"

Runaway winced before looking down "I'm sorry..." he apologized quietly. Feeling guilty for assuming that she was some sort of villain in Six's life.

"After I was seperated from her, she became more ruthless, merciless. She didn't care about anyone or anything! She became dangerous . You've seen her hunger pains!" she spoke, trying to reason with him "I'm only trying to keep her in check. I can't let her stay here for long or else she'll hurt more people!"

Runaway stared at her with a frown "But she gets lonely too doesn't she?" The shadow's gaze darkens, causing Runaway to flinch more.

"Lonely? lonely? You have no idea what she did before she came here," the shadow hissed "Thats why its important that you stay away from her! You can get hurt again,"

Runaway shook his head, a determined look was visible on his face. "I can't do that," he spoke firmly, causing the other shadow to bite her lip in annoyance. "Why? If you knew what she was really like you would've--"  her words gets cut off   "Thats the problem! I don't. The Six you are describing right now isn't the Six I know. We both have different views on her,"

"Just because she used to be a not so kind person before doesn't mean she can't change now. I know she's trying to change, can't you see that?" the shadow girl stayed quiet  "Six still has the right to change, she has the right to a second chance and I'll be there with her every step of the way because thats what I promised her," Runaway became confident with his words, which surprised Shadow Six. "I'll help her whenever she has trouble because I am her friend..and nothing can change that," he stood firm on his words as he stared at the other shadow.

The shadow sighed before sitting down at the edge of the make-up table (Pls I cannot describe) "....I guess you're right..." she mumbled quietly. Well that was a quick mood change. "Look I'm just trying to keep the people around her safe...she's already hurt enough...I'm sure Six doesn't want to hurt anyone else again too,"

Runaway walked over to her and sat next to her. He gives her a reasuring smile "Then I'll help her with it. You and me can help keep her and the people around her safe. I mean its better than doing it alone, right?" he asked her. His words caused the shadow to chuckle before shaking her head "...I guess you're right about that..again,"

Runaway smiles widely, pretty happy that he managed to convince her. "Also after hearing what you had to say...you're not so bad after all!" he complimented her...well he thinks its a compliment anyways. "And you're not such a spineless shadow after all," she snickered, causing Runaway to dramatically gasp at her. Which in turn caused her to erupt in fits of laughter. Seeing the other shadow smile was nice. It suits her. Better than seeing her scowl and glare at Six thats for sure.

"So...whats your name?" Runaway asked her "I...don't really have one," the shadow answered. "Mind if I give you one then? I mean, I need to call you something right?" the girl shrugged at him "Go ahead," after getting the all clear, he began thinking of names.

"...How about Kyra?" he suggested "Kyra?.." the shadow girl tilts her head at him "It has a nice ring to it," Runaway suggested.

The shadow girl pondered before smiling "I like the name. You can call me Kyra," she held his hand out for him to shake. Runaway grabbed her hand and greatfully shook it "And you can call me, Runaway!"

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Total words for this chapter: 1344

Another chapter done! Also sorry for the lack of art. Wattpad isn't letting me post art within the words now for some reason, they can only let me post a cover photo for the chapter >:(

Edit:

Holy shit I found our at least 1k words were repeated so thank you to the comment that told me!