Danger

a funny concept

⚠️ mention of blood and abuse

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"Eri? Eri you awake yet?"

It was a familiar voice. Not aizawa or mirio. Not Kota or any of the girls. But someone else.

Eri slowly started to open her eyes and sit up, looking for the voice. Sure enough she saw a girl around her age sitting at the foot of her bed.

The girl had pale white, flowy hair tied up in a ponytail. The girl's back was turned to eri, so she couldn't make out any comparable features about the girl. Yet she felt like she's known this girl her whole life.

Suddenly, the girl at the end of the bed straightened her back slightly, like she was surprised. That's when the girl turned around and looked at eri.

Her eyes were a soft red. Her skin white like ivory. Like she'd been inside her whole life. She wore a bird mask around her neck and a light jacket over a blood-stained white shirt. As sad as it was, the shirt stains matched the girls eyes and created an almost beautiful scene. Almost poetic.

The girl started to smile when she saw eri.

"Hey!"

There was that familiar voice again. Soft and almost too sweet. Like honey or sugar.

"Hey, eri!"

Eri snapped back to whatever reality she was in and answered the girl.

"Yeah? Who are you?"

"I'm you, silly." She laughed lighhtly and just looked at eri.

"No, I'm me."

"Oh, sweetheart, I'm not you you! I'm what you would've been. I'm the 'almost you' I guess."

"That's crazy. Absolutely insane! I-"

"I'm not lying."

"But it doesn't make sense!"

"And anything in your life did?"

"I- well- not really?"

"Then let's figure some stuff out. We only have a few minutes. You're not exactly alive right now."

"I'm dead?!"

"No. Yes? Almost. Hypothetically you come back to life. And you haven't exactly 'crossed over' yet, so I'd say we work with this time quick."

"Yeah. Okay? So what we figuring out?"

"Your new power. Seeing things. Your dreams."

"I don't have a new power."

'Almost Eri' stood up and started walking around the room while she talked.

"You don't remember? That night before school? The dream you had?"

"No, not really. I remember waking up panicking. But that's it."

"Okay, well you met a boy. Kota. The next day you actually met him," she faced eri, " it happened again when you were kidnapped. You passed out while bad guy was being the, well, bad guy! You started dreaming about the blue hou-"

"I don't want to talk about that place!"

"I know. But it's important."

'Almost Eri' put her hand on top of eri's and looked at her.

"I grew up in the blue house. I gave up and let the man do whatever he wanted. He hurt me alot and no one would save me. Everything you where scared of happening in that house happened to me. I'm everything you were going to be. But you rewrote the future. You don't have to be scared anymore."

Eri looked up and met the other girls eyes. After a minute she realized that she did, in fact, rewrite her future and smiled.

"So... The dreams?"

"Oh, yeah! So you had a dream that you met a boy, and then the-"

"Further, we went over the whole Kota thing already. We're at the house."

"Right! So anyway, the house? Yeah! You had a dream about going to the house and hearing a shot. Did it happen? Yep!"

"So I can see the future?"

"More or less. Freaked ya out a bit, didn't it?"

"Yeah- I'm kinda cold now...."

'Almost Eri's' smile vanished.

"You're dying. Really dying, now."

"Wait! I dont- I don't wanna die now!"

"I don't want you to die either, but at this point it's whether your body can keep fighting.."

She stared walking towards the door when eri called for her.

"Wait, I'm scared. I don't want to be alone. Can you stay?"

'Almost Eri' took her hand off the door handle and walked back over to eri. Eri slid over a little, making room for the other girl to sit with her.

And they sat there. The girl who had nothing to lose and the same girl with everything to lose. A funny concept in some eyes.