Fractured memories crashed together, a tornado of contrasting moments and all-consuming flames. The same moments, small details jarringly wrong.
The screech of a record. The glitch of a tv screen, dancing pixels of black and white.
Jolie, clinging to Brant as a firestorm explodes around them. The force tosses Brant backward, but Jolie is surrounded, the wild flames strangling tighter and tighter until her face is lost in the smoke and her screams fade to nothing.
It really would have broken Brant- if he didn't know what had happened before.
"I have to keep them safe," she had whispered. "And to do that, they can't know anything. Not even the fact I'm alive."
Jolie's turquoise eyes were glassy as she held back tears, but her spine was ramrod straight, shoulders back. She had to do this. It was the only way.
"I'm sorry we never got to have the wedding we wanted," she said, crying. "It would have been perfect."
"You mean, besides the inevitable objections?"
She choked out a laugh, glancing around Brant's living room one last time. Their gremlin scurried around in the tinted glass boxes they had built on top of the walls, funky ramps, ladders, and tunnels accentuating the space.
"Besides those."
"Will I see you again?"
"Perhaps," she whispered. "For now . . . we burn it all down."
( A series of oneshots detailing Jolie's backstory- with a twist )
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