Viking's Mate (Twilight OC X OC)

Chapter 20: 2nd Resurrection

"JASON! Jason! No!" I wake up screaming from the nightmare.

"Aria! Calm down, you're not there! You're safe! Aria! You're here, you're home, you're with me." Ivar says, holding me by my shoulders and looking terrified.

"Ivar!" I sob turning into his chest, relief flooding through me as my reality returns to the present.

"It's ok, my love, I'm here, I've got you. No one can hurt you." He says fiercely, rubbing my back with his hands.

I cry softly against him for several minutes before I start to calm down.

"Can I get you anything?" Ivar asks in a whisper.

"Cocoa... spiced cocoa please." I ask in a quiet voice. Yet another comfort.

"Of course, I'll be right back my love." He says with a kiss on my head. He returns quickly with my drink and hands it to me. "Would you like to talk about it?" He asks, hope and love in his eyes.

"I probably should..." I say with a sigh. "I should have told you months ago."

"Who is Jason?" He asks curiously after I go quiet for a few minutes.

"Jason... was my twin brother." I tell him slowly.

"I thought Neji was your twin?" He asks in confusion.

"Jason was my twin from my third life." I say softly. "In fact, since I'm not going to be able to sleep again tonight, want to learn about my 2nd resurrection? It'll shed some light on what happened today." I ask him, getting into a comfortable sitting position. "And it's been long enough, you need to learn this one, it's one of my most important lives."

"Please tell me. Today scared me, my love, and I want to know why." He says seriously to me.

"For my second resurrection, Death didn't give me any clues about what lesson I would be learning before sending me on my way." I start to say, breathing evenly to keep myself calm. "When I was reborn, I was once again in an all-new world. It was darker, and animated again, only in a different style than the Naruto world. Everything looked a little more lifelike than the last realm, more detailed, despite having a near constant darkness around it." 

"I was a twin again, this time the older one." I continue, finding the rhythm of the my story. "Our mother, who I noticed was American and speaking English, holds us in our arms and tells me my name is Anastasia Todd, and that my new brother is Jason Todd. I couldn't believe the odds, I was in the DC comics realm, in Batman's city, and I was the twin to one the future Robin's." I say fondly.

"I know about Batman. Emmett talks about him, he's some type of superhero right?" Ivar asks me.

"Yeah, sort of." I confirm for him even though Bruce didn't have powers. "Anyway, I went home with my new mother and brother into a tiny, awful apartment. We lived in the Crime Alley neighborhood in Gotham City. We had a dad too, he was a thug working for Two-Face, who is a crazy bad guy. Our mother... she was a junkie, and not very connected to us at all, and not a good mother." I say with disgust. 

"Jason and I, we were all each other had, and he was my whole world." I say with love. "We stuck to each other like glue. I tried to protect him as much I could, and he did the same for me. We didn't live in a good area, our father was a dead-beat thug who was in and out of prison, and our mother would bring her dealers into the house who would beat us for fun until she eventually overdosed when we were 8. We became orphans and lived on the streets." 

"We spent so much of our time just trying to survive after that. I thought for a long time I was there in that world as a punishment. All I cared about was Jason, and he was the only one who cared about me. I knew I had to wait until we met up with Batman before I had to worry about the lesson of the world, so I expended all my effort into keeping us alive and waiting."