Stitches | Twisted Wonderland

Ⅳ | 𝐀 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞

"Cannot be found."

Those words were like poison. Y/n felt as if a dizzy spell had been cast on her. Her throat became dry as she spoke, "what?" The mirror stared at the girl as it repeated itself. "The place you imagine as home cannot be found."

"Prosperous! Never in all my years have I ever heard of such a thing. Young Stein, where is the name of your home?" Crowley asked the girl. "Death City." She replied a bit dazed. "I've never heard of such a place and I have a pretty good at remembering the places that The students have come from." The bird man muttered under his breath. "Come along, maybe we can find something about your home in one of the books or the records."

With a nod, y/n followed wordlessly.

Time skip

Several.hours.

For several.hours, they had been looking through books, records, and maps, but nothing. Not a single piece of information of Death City. Y/n slammed the book she was reading shut was a frustrated sigh and added it to the pile before going to the next. Crowley seemed to have the same frustration. "Nothing. Nothing nothing nothing!" He yelled like a child. "There's not a single map, history book, or shred of evidence containing any clue or mentioning of your home's name. Say, child. You wouldn't happen to be lying to me?"

Y/n went ridged at his words. Did he really just accuses her of lying about her home? The only place she's known since birth. The place that taught her how to be stronger. The place she made her first friends. How dare he. Y/n didn't have to say anything but the glare she gave was enough to scare the shit out of the crow man.

"W-well the only other explanation would be that you s-somehow came from a distant planet or a different world entirely." He said quickly. Y/n sighed. She knew that wherever she was was different and probably to the point of another word. Seeing as the moon didn't grin back, and the number of witch souls in one area would become a bloodbath quickly of ever found.

"What did you have on you when you arrived? Magical driver's license, name inside your shoe, anything?" He asked. After giving him a confused look, Y/n stood up and patted herself down. There was nothing she had earlier except for her mirror (which was broken), her phone (that was also broken), and her bolo tie. She hesitantly handed him her bolo tie.
"Would this work?" Crowley took the object and examined it and shook his head. 
"I sense no magical properties from this so it wouldn't work."

Y/n sighed dejectedly before their eyes widened and they shot up from their seat effectively scaring Crowley again. "Sir Crowley, do you have a regular mirror?" She asked Crowley blinked and then nodded. Crowley lead her to a rather large mirror and was about to ask her why she wanted to see it when she stepped up to it and fogged it up. With her gloved finger, she wrote as she muttered a few words. 

"42...42...564. Whenever you need him," she knocked on the mirror with the back of her gloved hand. "just knock on death's door."

Then the surface of the mirror seemed to ripple like disturbed water and rang as a phone would. Then a voice very statically spoke out. "H....o...? He...o? An....here?" It sounded like Lord Death! 

"Hello? Lord Death? Can you hear me?" Y/n asked. Then the static cleared up and a clear view of Lord Death appeared.
"Young Stein? Is that you?" He asked. Crowley was a bit taken back at how or what type of magic was used to be able to see and hear someone from somewhere else. 
"Lord Death? Yes, it's me. Y/n Stein." 
The cartoonish reaper jumped back happily. "Oh thank the stars you're ok. Stein would have killed me if you had even the tiniest scratch on you."

Y/n went quiet for a bit, debating if she should tell him about her current situation. On one hand, if she didn't, she would worry her father. friends, and be expected to come home by the next to days. On the other hand, if she does they could work on a way to get her home from there but someone might die. Because of Stein. 

"Actually Lord Death.." The reaper stopped his little happy dance and gave his full attention to the girl. "I'm not in the best of spots here. You see I don't think I'm even in our world anymore," she said sheepishly. Lord Death went silent and unmoving for a handful of seconds. The e/c eyed girl was sure if he had eyes he would be blinking in confusion. The girl started to mentally count down from 5. Once she reached zero,
"WHAT?!" 

There it is. 

"We have to figure out a way to get you home quickly! Oh Stein is going to kill me." Lord Death muttered quietly and shivered as he felt his death incoming.
"Yes sir." Then the line started to get glitchy and static again.
"It seems...time...up...bye...luck...ng..ein!"
"Goodbye Lord Death... Fuck what do I do now? Where do I go now?" 

After a very sad moment, Crowley cleared his throat. Honestly, y/n had completely forgotten he was there. Was he just standing there the whole time? "I can't exactly let a magicless student enroll but I can't toss a penniless one to the streets with no form of communication or guardian. No, that would go not only against my moral compass but my duty as an educator. After all, I am a very gracious man." He thought for a bit before a broken lightbulb appeared in his head. "I got it! There is an unused facility on campus. It use to be an old dormitory but now stands abandoned. However, I'm certain that with a bit of work, it can look rather nice! You can reside there for the time being until I find a way to return you to your rightful home. Truly my graciousness knows no bounds! Come along! The building may be a bit weathered but I'm sure you'll find a certain homey charm it has." 

Y/n basically tuned him out only grasping the words, facility on campus, your can reside, my graciousness, come along, a bit weathered, and homey charm. But y/n was too tired to care and followed along wordlessly. God she just wanted to sleep and wake up at home.

The author of this fanfic has decided to try and make an ending section inspired by the Taisho-era secrets from Kimetsu no Yaiba aka. Demon Slayer! Introducing:

Secrets Between The Seams

-Stein was this 🤏 close to killing Lord Death

once he found out the news 

-All of the first years friends are worried 

about Y/n

-Y/n was so close to fucking up the Dark Mirror 

(aka. shattering it) because she's stuck here

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