Harry Potter Isekai - Marauders Era

Chapter 22: Accept Me

A/N: Hi! So it's a really long chapter. I know I could have separated it into different chapters but I was on a roll and I just kept going. Oh wells. haha I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for voting and for adding the story. I appreciate it and it gives me motivation to keep going with the story. If you haven't noticed it yet, I have definitely added elements of MCU since I'm using Elizabeth Olsen as my character's face claim. Don't hate me! 

Enjoy! :)

Chapter 22

Marlene's POV

I open my eyes only to close it quickly due to the brightness around me. Blinking quickly, I try to adjust to the brightness of the room. I look around but all I see is a white room. There's nothing else: no chairs, no tables, no people, just nothingness. Where am I?

I steady myself as I stand, feeling nauseous and dizzy. I gather my thoughts. The only thing I remembered was being in the cave with my friends. I instructed Barty to feed me all of the liquid found in the stone basin before taking the locket. I remember hallucinating about my old life, my parents being disappointed in me. I remember seeing Lily, crying to me how I stole James from her. I remember seeing James, blaming me and telling me I had lied to him and that I manipulated him. I remember denying everything as I cried.

So why am I here now? I looked around again, slowly walking to see if I could find anything. I heard crying in the distance and decided to follow the sound. After a while, I see a redheaded girl curled up into herself as she sobs. "Hello?" I tried calling out but she doesn't seem to hear me. I walked closer and tried again, "Hi, are you ok?"

She stops crying and looks up from her arms. I paused in shock as I stared at her. She looks exactly like me. The only difference is her hair. "You're..."

"Why are you here?" The girl asks me.

"I- I don't know. Who are you?" I'm still in shock from what I'm seeing. I must be dreaming. If this is a dream, I can wake up, right?

"I... I'm you. Or at least I'm supposed to be. I've been here for so long now. Won't you let me out?" Her answer doesn't cease my confusion.

"'Let you out?' What do you mean by that? This is a dream, right?"

"No. I'm you." Tears continue to fall down her cheeks. "I'm trapped in your subconsciousness. Let me out!" She screams and a wave of warm power erupts from her tiny body flinging me away, only to be stopped by hitting my body on a hard wall. I groan in pain. Wait, pain? I feel pain in my dream? "It's not a dream! Let me out!" She cries again, hurting me once more.

"What are you talking about?! I don't know you. You're not me! You might look like me, but you're not me!" I tried to reason.

She curls up even smaller as she cries, "It hurts! What did you do to me?!"

"What are you talking about? YOU hurt ME!" I'm so dumbfounded at her accusations.

"That thing you drank! It hurts! Ahhhh" She cries in agony. That thing I drank? I look back at her in understanding.

"The liquid in the stone basin in the cave..." I mumbled to myself. "You're being affected by it?" She screams more in pain. "What do I do? What do you need me to do?"

"Help me." She whispers desperately.

"H-how?" She reaches her hand out to me, beckoning me to take it. I hesitate but I reach out slowly and as I inch closer to her hand, she grabs onto me and I feel pain spread throughout my body and I scream. It feels like my insides are burning, every inch of my body feels hot and feels as if needles are stabbing every inch of my skin.