A/N: Hello, sorry for being gone a while. I had to go on a short hiatus due to life kicking my ass. This is a little short but I enjoyed writing it. Without further a due, the new chapter.
I huff as I chase after her, always too far to see anything but the red ends of her hair disappearing behind foliage.
"Mirri!" I yell with genuine worry. I stop and hear no racing steps ahead. She's stopped somewhere. And then I hear it- muffled crying. I follow it behind a huge oak tree. She looks up at us as she hears a twig snap under my foot. She looks so scared, vulnerable. Something I know the normal Mirri wouldn't ever let show. I hold my hands up and crouch beside her. She scoots away.
"Please don't, I'll hurt you." She says with a cracking voice as she looks away. I sigh, unsure of how to get her to listen while she's like this. I call upon a part of myself I thought died a long time ago, and reach down to hug her. My movements are slow and sure as I pet her hair. A feeling blooms in my chest that hasn't been there in decades. "It's ok, Mirri. It's just a bad dream. Just a bad dream, that's all." I say, shushing her cries. She protests weakly in my arms.
"Nuh-n-no. I did that! I- I am a monster..." She whimpers, but it doesn't sound like she's sure anymore. My impatience wants me to argue with her, and tell her to fucking just wake up, but I know that won't work.
"No Mirri, You aren't. You made a mistake, a bad one." She cries harder at this and I flinch. "But you're just a kid, you didn't know what was going to happen. You lost control, just like anyone can. What's important is that you keep trying. K-keep trying to make it right." I stuttered at the last sentence, hit by a wall of painful memories. I cleared my throat and glared down at her. "Now stop being a pussy and deal with your problems like the rest of us." I say as I press the inceptor in her ear. Her glare is the last thing I see of her as she disappears from the dream. I sigh as the forest around us starts to fade now that the dreamer is gone. I stand and look back at Morty. He's frowning at me. "What," I burp out.
"Why were you so...gentle with her? That's not like you." Morty asks. I blush. "I- I wasn't being gentle, Morty, I was being strategic." I said while walking over to him. His eyes widened.
"Ooooh my god! You care about-" I click the inceptor in his ear and Morty disappears before he can finish that awful sentence. I glance at where Mirri was and scrunch up my brow. So what if I care about her?
I click the inceptor in my ear and everything goes black.
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The Phoenix Burglar
Science FictionMeet Mirri, a girl who has quickly become infamous around the states as the 'Phoenix Burglar.' She leaves a trail of ashes in her wake as she wanders the world. She has no one, and that's all she needs. What happens when a grumpy old man and a dysfu...
