Nefarious

12.

Natasha's P.O.V.

I looked down to my hands and saw the ring on my index finger.

Eris.

Wow. My mom knew I was going to be chaotic as before I even became it.

The cold metal band rested on my finger as I twisted it around staring into nothingness.

The engraved letters swam in my mind with images and memories of my mom. Her laugh, her jokes, her tickles.

Going to the falls made me realise how much I actually missed her and how much I would do anything to have her back.

I just want to tell her I love her one last time. That she means the world to me.

I slipped under my covers and closed my eyes shut to stop thinking about her. It was getting too much.

With thoughts of my mom in my head, and deep regret, I slowly drifted off to sleep.

It must have been past midnight when I finally woke up.

I rubbed my eyes and turned my head over to see that my clock read 5 pm.

Guess it's not midnight yet.

I shoved my sheets away and got out of bed feeling drained and tired. Just as I was making my way to the bathroom, I heard noises coming from a distance.

"What the fuck?" I thought to myself grabbing the gun from my bedside table.

The voices seemed to be coming from outside my room and they weren't of any men or anybody I knew.

They were females .

I tried peering out of the peep hole but couldn't see what was happening outside.

Slowly but cautiously, I opened the door of my bedroom not to see the hallway but a room I thought I'd never see again.

"Nope. Not doing this shit again. Wake the fuck up Natasha." I murmur to myself as I go to close the door.

Before I can do that however, I heard a very familiar voice.

"Eris?" I hear a female say.

I couldn't believe what I heard.

She was here.

I turn back slowly to face her only to see her back facing towards me.

At that moment I hear coos of a baby as well. She was holding a baby in her hands.

I looked at the baby and saw those brown eyes looked just like mine. The pink frock she wore looked just like the one I had when I was young.

She was me.

I was her.

I didn't dare enter the room partly out of fear and out of suspicion. Suspicion, that my mind was playing tricks on me. And fear, that I'd never get to see her again.

"Oh Eris, my beautiful girl." My mom said as she held me and kissed my nose.

The baby me's small fingers gripped her slender ones and I could see my brown eyes stare into hers.

I watched my mom hold me in her arms and play with me for what felt like forever.

She tossed me into the air gently as I giggled and laughed. I was her daughter.

Her Eris.

I walked in to the room very slowly still keeping my eyes on both of them.

"I love you Natasha. I always will, and I'm proud of you no matter what." Mom said to baby me.