The Forced Villain

AWAKENING.

Xavier woke up somewhere..strange.

It was a dark place. There was a few shines of light, but he couldn't understand.

He got up and wandered around the place.

The objects in it were things he used to know, yet forgot.

He looked behind.

It was Father.

"I'm not going for your silly games again." Xavier said.

"Aline must've told you her little story. Your body's covered in bruises. Seems like you're new."

"New..?"

Xavier walked backwards, his voice shaking in confusion.

"This is somewhere the average person shouldn't be able to enter.

When you lose yourself for somebody else, deceased or alive, you wake up here.

This is the Exsor's Urn. The day the Exsor was removed by you, you entered this place.

Aline entered it too, but well, she did not survive.

Aline lost herself just because of Hailey. You lost yourself just because of Aline.

You mere mortals do not come to my power.

Your emotions bore me, and your organs aren't as complicated as I thought they would be.

Your life itself is just child's play. Do you understand my outstanding speech?"

"If you called this speech outstanding, you must be joking. No multidimensional being explains us as a mere mortal."

"You know nothing."

Father said in a voice that shook the ground.

He took off his mask.

It was a void that emitted energy.

"W-what is this..?"

"Something far out of your grasp, young child."

He disappeared, and left a book behind him.

Xavier was back in the real world.

He saved the gift for Aline when she comes back. She's just taking a nap.

He stood in the dark, deep forest, reading the book.

“Once, there was a little girl who brought five apples to the park everyday.

One day, a boy wanted to take three, and she allowed him.

She brought him eight apples the day after.

The boy refused, and took her apples instead.

He kept the apples in a barrel, and after that, he baked her a wonderful apple pie.

Then, he asked her to go at the back of a building to give her a gift she would never forget.

It wasn't the apple pie."

Xavier flipped through the book's pages, however it was just a kids book.

He chucked it into the forest far from the girl's body so his mother did not see it.

The last line worried him, but he had to go back home.

He had deep consequences back there.

At the hospital, it was still busy with Edward.

He walked home instead.

Before he knew it, his mom welcomed him at home.

But, like every other day, it was passive aggressive.

There was no food for him on the table. She did not talk about his father's disappearance nor his leaving.

He entered his bed and fell into a deep slumber.

He promised himself that Aline will just come back. Her casket isn't fully closed. Her coffin isn't made.