Corrupted Timelines

Her Past

For the second time, Gawr Gura woke up restrained to a chair in the Hololive English HQ. She didn't struggle against the chains. It was already lucky that they hadn't killed her. Maybe her good track record had kept her alive for now.

"Damn it..." she mumbled out. Her entire body felt heavy from all of the struggling that had occurred the night before. She looked around at the all too familiar room and saw no one. They had just left her here alone.

"Do they hate me...?" she asked herself. Her relationships had been going so well, but now they were gone. She'd just tried to kill one of her friends and had proved that she wasn't in control of Primal after all.

And worst of all, she remembered her past.

The previous memories she had were gone, replaced by new ones she knew to be true. How far had she repressed these? Did her mind do that to protect her, or was she afraid of remembering? Gura felt tears run down her cheeks. Quiet sobs racked her body and she curled up into as small of a figure as the restraints would allow.

An indeterminate amount of time passed before, "Gura?!" the voice of Amelia, the girl she had just tried to kill, floated into the room. The Atlantean only raised her head far enough to see that there was no one else in the room. Her voice was coming from the speaker system.

"Gura, I'm sorry, but they won't let me in there to talk to you. I've tried to explain what happened-" Amelia began to explain, but she was interrupted.

"Just fucking leave!" Gura shouted at the one-way glass. "I almost killed you! All of this is my fault! Don't fucking pity me before I get thrown out!" She shrank back into herself and continued to cry lightly. A few seconds of silence followed.

"Gura, I did this to you." Amelia's voice sounded regretful.

"None of this was your fault, Ame..." Gura responded quietly.

"I Destabilized you!" Amelia got her point through, "I brought out a different version of you. That thing tried to kill me, not you." Gura thought back on her dream just before her rampage.

'God you're pathetic. I can't believe that this is who I turned into.' The words of Primal Gura were clear. This was some other version of her.

"I-I had a dream," Gura mumbled just loud enough to hear, "I was in dark waters and another version of myself swam up to me. She said she wanted my body and that's when I saw myself attacking you..." Her explanation was good enough that the door to the room buzzed and opened. Amelia, Ina, and Emersyn all walked in.

"You're lucky to have such amazing friends around you, Ms. Gawr," Emersyn stated before unlocking all of the restraints.

"We had to talk them out of putting a shock collar on you," Ina said quietly. Gura's eyes went wide and she recoiled a little.

"Talk about humane and equal treatment..." Amelia mocked. Emersyn sighed.

"That was very extreme of them. I am the one who is supposed to keep Ms. Gawr in check. I don't understand why they would try to go behind my back like that." Gura didn't know what to do. She continued to sit in the chair she'd just been freed of.

"What's wrong, Gura?" Amelia asked innocently.

"T-There's something I need to tell all of you." All three other girls stared at her, waiting for her to continue. Gura took a deep breath, "I remember a lot more about my past."

"I thought you already did?" Ina asked, confused at what Gura was saying. Gura shook her head.

"That was all a lie. Some fucked up replacement memories to hide what really happened back then." Amelia tilted her head to the side.