I woke up in a cold sweat, in a bed, curtain around as a boy with tan skin, dark blue hair, and green eyes just as bright as Emma. Who's Emma?...
"I'm glad you're awake (Y/N)! Everyone was worried sick, Mama Clementine let me stay with you. Are you okay? You look like you saw a ghost!" He laughed, caressing my cheek as I sat up, looking around irregularly, my heartbeat rapid.
"Hikaru! Where- where's Ray? Emma, Skunk, Lucas, Violet, Adam? They need me!" I whimpered out, trying to stand up from the bed, but my legs gave out, as Hikaru caught me.
"Sis! You're acting all crazy! Is the fever that Bad? Who's Skunk? Were those people in your fever dream?" He asked me, as he sat me down on the edge of the bed, holding onto my shoulders as he looked me straight in the eyes, confused as to what was going on. It was fuzzy, but those people, they needed me, I needed them.
"I- I don't know. I'm scared. Was that really all a dream? There's no demons? You're alive?" I held his face in my hands, my hands no longer severely calloused, or cut up to the point that they looked almost mauled.
"You're okay. It was just a dream. There's no demons out here to get you. You should have never played out in the snow without proper clothing, especially sneaking out at night. What fun is there to go out there alone, hm?" Hikaru questioned, as he let go of me, grabbing a cup and pitcher full of water, passing it to me as I drank slowly, my hands shaking so bad that he had to help me.
"Was it that scary of a dream? You seemed to be fine while I was here. But then again I was reading a book." He put the cup down for me, as I still didn't find the courage in me to speak.
"It felt so real Hikaru. I thought I wasn't home, for months." I started to wail loudly, as I pulled him into a hug, trembling and hyperventilating, my body going into overdrive. The pain I had felt, the torture, the migraines, it was all too much for me, I didn't know what to do with myself, was it really all just a dream?
"Shh, you're okay. Your big brother is here now, you're safe with me.. now tell me everything about that crazy dream why don't you?"
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It's been almost four weeks since I woke up from my dream, I was unsure of what day it was, I was often forgetful. Mama Clementine said it should get better as I was a slow healer, my immune system especially weak, not to mention an infection, which I got a good scolding from her. Luckily my cookie rights weren't revoked, but nothing tasted good here. It was all plain, plain like water. The warm cookies were cold and dull. The food that I onced loved, was cold and mushy.
No one was getting adopted, Hikaru didn't seem skeptical about the demons I told him about, or how he died when he got adopted. He only looked at me funny, and that he would never get adopted without me, that we were a two-in-one combo, that we'd experience the outside world together. Still my heart yearned for the so called people from my dream. It was like my heart was missing something, a piece of myself, that only they could fulfill.
I still retained the memory of Isabella's lullaby, where I often hid in the trees, taking the guitar with me, playing in solitude until the bells rung that it was time for dinner, or until the babies were in need in aid, though Hikaru and my older siblings usually handled that. Hikaru would be in the trees with me, listening to me play, wondering where I heard that from.
"It was from my dream, Ray, he showed it to me. So did the mom at the orphanage." In this world, I no longer had a tattoo on my neck, but only the one on my abdomen, no migraines, no nightmares, only a dreamless sleep. Hikaru only applauded me for having such a detailed dream, even making up a song there that I could play from start to end with no mistakes, humming along just as Ray did.
One night, me and Hikaru spent our time in the library, as I talked more about my dream, as I did at least once a day to him, how I couldn't shake off the feeling that I needed to be there, they still needed me. Maybe I had died there, and this world was me living in peace, where nothing bad ever happened.
"Maybe they do need you, (Y/N). I need you too." Hikaru told me that night, as I strummed the guitar softly, as I looked at him, the lantern illuminating our faces.
"Does this place really exist?" I asked him, as the light flickered, and his appearance changed into something identical to Ray, but his voice remained as Hikaru.
"I thought you wouldn't find out. I thought you would have liked to stay here. Your body hasn't given up. They need you back, now." Hikaru revealed, as I looked down at my hands, no more guitar, but the same black cargos, white shirt heavy and wet with crimson blood, and the green jacket with patches on them that Gillian made. My destroyed hands, the same, brown, beat up boots I had at Grace Field, The same searing pain in my stomach.
"Will you be okay without me, Hikaru?" I asked, as I blinked, and suddenly we were back in the infirmary, myself tucked into bed with the same clothes on, Hikaru, my mind tricking me into his appearance changing through everyone: Ray, Emma, Gillian, Lucas, Violet, Adam, Nigel, Pepe...
"I'll always be with you. You don't have to worry about me." Hikaru held my hand, as he kissed the top of my head, as my eyes started to flutter, his words murmuring to me just as if he were talking through a wall.
"I'm sorry I can't be there with you. Be strong, search for the Seven Walls."
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"Everyone! (Y/N)'s awake!"
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(A/N): the fanfic author curse is real.. kinda im not that so bad off unlike others. Your girl is failing a class and finding herself in love with a guy so im gonna try to post as much as I can, but that might mean shorter chapters down to 2k words 😞😞 im so sorry and i hope you enjoyed this chapter as much as I did.
(Context this is basically just a long fever/coma dream she had while healing)
Word Count: 1051
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Fanfic"You're crazy, you know that?" "I wouldn't be me if I wasn't." Y/N, young and naive, finding out the secret of the world she lived in. She never wanted to leave her past family, but that was out of her hands to decide. Moved into the house of Grace...
