(KotLC human au)
Sophie Foster was a girl everybody loved, but nobody knew that it was her. The person they loved was Moonlark, the world famous singer and songwriter. She's joined on stage by her cousin, Dex Dizznee, as Techno. They're used to thei...
It was one in the afternoon when Grady and Edaline got the call. My mom had been over with the triplets again, my dad was at work, and I was at school with everyone else. We were in the last week of school, and I was in my English final exam when I got pulled out.
It had been two months since Sophie had gone missing. Two months since all of our lives started on a long downwards slope. So, as we were driving to the hospital, as everything was getting explained to me, I tried not to have any hope. It was better that way, low expectations lead to no disappointment.
And besides, there are plenty of short blonde girls in the world. We had Sophie's body. There was no way the girl in the hospital was actually her. My cousin was dead, and that girl was just a fake.
Nothing could bring Sophie back, she was gone for good and it was time that we all accepted that.
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The faker was apparently too injured for us to see her, to identify her, as they had to operate on her immediately and make sure she was stable. I didn't even need to identify her to know it wasn't my cousin. My cousin was dead, why couldn't they realize that?
A few minutes later, Elwin came out to the waiting room to meet with us.
"So, I know you all have some questions-" Grady didn't let him finish.
"My daughter is dead and we buried her body, so yeah, of course we have questions. If that really is my daughter in that room, then who was the girl we buried?" Elwin sighed deeply before answering.
"We ran a DNA test on the girl we have right now, just to make sure it really was her before we told you. And after the DNA confirmed it, we sent people out to go look at the body, and it was somehow fake. It had Sophie's hair and blood and skin, but it didn't have any internal organs. It was just a hollow body. We don't even know how it got through at the morgue, but an investigation is being run right now to figure everything out."
It didn't make any sense to me. It lined up with the cameras and the texts, but what about the fake body? There's no way that it worked, that whoever planted it actually got away with it. And that still raises the question of who took her, and why they took her, and why they went to such great lengths to make us all think she was dead.
She's not dead.
"So we gave up on her?" I asked from my seat beside Edaline. "She was alive all this time, getting hurt and thinking we were going to help her, to save her, but we just let her rot there."
"No, you didn't know any better." Elwin tried to justify it to me. "None of us did, it's not your fault."
I laughed. "I'm not saying it's my fault. I'm saying it's everyone else's fault. All of you told us the body was real, you told us she was dead. That she killed herself. But I knew it! I knew she wouldn't fucking kill herself, but everyone just went with the easy option! They just let my cousin be thought of as suicidal, when she wasn't! She wasn't and I knew, and she wasn't even dead at all and you just let us all believe that! You let us go through all that grief, feel that pain and loss, for two months! We should've been out there looking for her, while who knows what was happening to her! We could've had her back, she could've been safe, if everyone would have just done their jobs right and see that the body was fake! If they would've listened to me when I said she wouldn't have just killed herself, she would've asked us for help first. She would've-"
