Hurting Or Healing? (Season 2 of Long Lost Love)

Stranger's advice

"Want to talk about it?"

I've never heard those words apart from Will and Dream. Ever since I was young I never had anyone to tell how I feel to. So this question caught me by surprise.

She feels pity for you

"I know we aren't very good friends or anything, but you seem like you need someone to talk to" she offered. Without warning I burst into tears and clung on their shoulder.

"Woah, a lot happened didn't it" she comforted me. I cried into her shoulder and just silently sobbed for a few minutes while she rubbed circles on my back.

*sniff*"Sorry, so fuckin much happened lately" I mustered up. She nodded.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone else what was said in this room" he reassured me. I sobbed harder at the thought of someone actually wanting to hear my pain.

She's lying

"W-Well it started with Schlatt kidnapping me... twice. Then Dream broke up with me and just..." my voice broke at the end.

"Holy shit, didn't expect that" she was surprised. I sniffed and continued.

"...Schlatt fucking played... with my trauma from needles... and Wilbur is acting weird... Tommy and Tubbo are too young to be dealing with the shit they're dealing with, Sapnap stopped being best friends with Dream because of me, Dream is suffering because of me" I poured everything out. She shushed me while hugging me.

"Hey, hey, it's going to be okay, come on" she whispered into my ear.

"It's all my fault... Dream did everything he could... I fucked up..." I cried out.

Your fault

"Nothing is 100% your fault, Elaine" she comforted me. It was a mismatch of words from then on. About an hour passed until we heard a knock on the door. At that point I had been silently letting out cries on her shoulder.

"You s-should get the door.." I barely mumbled. She hesitantly nodded and quickly made her way to the massive doors, while I laid on the couch.  I heard a conversation between Eret and someone else, but I didn't have the care to decipher who it was.

"You know it's my job"

"I'll consider it"

I was slowly recovering enough to listen in on their words. Though I didn't want to think what it could be connected to.

"Sorry about that" she apologized when she entered the room. I sat upright and hugged my knees, now just contemplating on what to do.

"What do I do now..?" I asked noone in particular. Eret gave me another hug.

"Whatever you think is for the best" he advised me. For the first time in a long time, I was stuck. What am I going to do?

Kill him

"I don't know anymore... I don't know what's for the best. I don't know what to do.." my voice was just as shattered as my heart. I know I'm going to move on, and I knew in the back of my mind that something like this would actually happen. Back then I never considered it a possibility. But the literal meaning of 'expect the unexpected' happened.

"You'll know soon enough. Especially with the festival coming" my attention immediately diverted to what she just said.

"W-wait what festival?" I asked, clearing my throat.

"Manburg is holding a festival to celebrate freedom and democracy or something" they answered. I cringed at the name. I'm guessing Schlatt changed it. As much as I don't want to be involved with L'Man-Manburg, I wanted to focus on something else.

"Thank you, for putting up with my sorrow" I thanked her. She gave me a warm smile.

You were always a burden to others

"It's alright. Sometimes you just need someone to listen and be there for you, you know?" She replied. I nodded and sniffled. It was already midday. I doubt Schlatt would stake out this place for this long.

"I should leave now. I don't want to be more of a burden than I already am" I excused myself and got up. She waved, which I returned and left.

I quickly scanned the area for any threat. There doesn't seem to be one. I headed for L'manburg, or Manburg as they call it. That's a stupid name. It was fine just the way it was.

I heard a twig snap from behind me, which made me immediately go to defense mode. Pulling out my sword. It came from the woods and I was prepared to fight. But then a certain blonde haired boy peeked his head out.

"Tommy!?" I sheathed my sword and approached him. He fully came out of the bushes.

"Big E! Where the fuck were you!?" He exclaimed, I shushed him afterwards.

"Quiet, I was... you know what it doesn't matter" my mind flashed to Dream but I tried to bury it as much as possible.

"Whatever, Will's gone batshit crazy" he twirled his finger at the side of his head. Crazy? As if I hadn't been dealing with enough things already.

"What happened?" I sighed and rubbed my eyelids. He dragged me into the woods.

"He keeps talking about blowing up L'manburg and shit!" He ran through the woods, with me closely behind him.

"What!? Wasn't he the one who was so determined to get it back?" I asked him. We reached a clearance in the forest, where he and I caught our breaths. Haven't ran this much in a while.

"I don't know he just started talking about us being the 'bad guys' and that we could be the villain of the story. Fucking crazy" he explained, panting in the middle of it. I remembered hearing him say he was going to bring in Techno for the fight.

Why aren't you strong enough for them?

"What happened to getting T-Techno on our side" I asked again. He clutched his stomach and smiled.

"Big E" he started off dramatically and smirked.

"We've got the Blade on our side"