Our Ice Queen

Chapter 27: The Other Side

I flutter my eyes open, only to find myself trapped in a white, articulate space of time all around me. I gape my eyes down, to see my body covered in taupe bandages on my chest area, lower waist area and all throughout my arms and neck.

What the hell? What's going on here? Why am I practically naked? I glide my hands across my body, making sure nothing is out of the ordinary. Everything, from the hair attached to my head, my skin, and my reproductive parts. Standing up on my own, I look around, even walk in what seemed to be an endless whirlpool of nothingness.

But as I pull these strands of curls, I gasp as I realize that the color is much whiter, with glimmers of silver. "What...?" It is no longer platinum, and I've been beginning to wonder how did I end up here, and if I am even me at all. Then that's when the memories came flooding back.

Damián. In the last moments of consciousness he pinned me on my back and overflowed my veins with his plasma powers, for reasons I knew once I saw the flashes of every horrid thing he'd been through these last five years.

He had one last interaction with his brother, and in Donovan's dying moment he passed on his powers to Damián, right after I fled the scene like the coward I was. He attempted to kill himself to stop the insanity, and he'd been forced into killing by Brooke Augustine. Killings more gruesome than mine could ever be.

I walk around this space, trying to make sense of how I am here, and why I can feel my body only so minimally; it's as if I'm a ghost.

"Hey, glacier." I halt my feet, vetoing my body in the opposite direction. "Don't worry... I'm making sure you get through this. I'm just helping the plasma in you stabilize with my neon... Margaret says that it should work... god and I hope it does."

"Fetch." I say in this white space. "Fetch!" I pushed myself to follow her voice, even if I heard it all around me.

"She says you can hear me... glacier... no matter what happens when you wake up, I hope you know just how much I consider you my own family... I thought I lost everyone I ever loved and I thought I could never get it back, until you."

A vivid memory flashed through this space so strong that it took the form of a frame-like screen right in front of me; a saddening memory Fetch still held onto about her brother:

[[First Light Game Scene]]

In a drug-induced incapability, Abigail became conscious once she realized she pierced her brother's chest with a neon-infused attack.

Her mouth bares open in shock as the sudden bleakness of what she'd done bring her brother's body down. "S-Sis?" He gasps out as his body no longer produces strength.

"No, no, no, oh god..." she keeps her hand on his chest where she punctured him, bringing his body down slowly on his back as the trauma slowly kicks in her eyes. "I'm so sorry," her voice begins to fracture in heartbreaking pieces as it grew louder in mental turmoil. "I was — confused, I was seeing things. Shane, he-he made me—!"

Brent's hands falls on top of her own, Abigail's regretful sobs making me cover my mouth in sorrow. "It's okay. It's not your fault..." He manages to tell her as her hand shakes towards the back of his head to hold it up.

"No, no.... No..! I need you! I can't do this alone!" She cries out in between breaths from how deep her immediate grief affected her.

"S-Sis..." His last words choke out to her as he's desperately clinging for air.