In the wooden house of the fortune teller Aurelia...
"YOU DUMBASS BITCH!!" Nana cursed as she was shaking the red haired woman by the shoulders, her nails digging into the fabric of her clothes. "WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST TELL HIM?!"
Mariyam then managed to pull Nana off Aurelia before any hands could be thrown, while Tamari was sitting on the couch watching the scene unfold.
Aurelia sat up in her own sofa and straightened her skirt. "As I was saying... before this clown pounced on me..."
The clown huffed as she was forced onto the other couch opposite Aurelia's, squeezed in right between Tamari and Mariyam to keep her under control.
"...Yes, while it is true that I've kept this a secret from Christopher," she murmured, "it was, unfortunately, a canon event." She sighed. "You won't understand."
"WAAAAOOOWOOAAOOO," Tamari imitated the Miguel O'Hara soundtrack.
"Damn right we don't understand!" Nana spoke up. "Why wouldn't you just tell Shatterman—"
"Mister Pierre," Mariyam corrected calmly.
"...why not tell Mister Pierre, 'Hey, I'm sorry, you're, like, seventy years late! Kill yourself!'"
Mariyam side-eyed Nana. "Oh that's not..."
Aurelia shook her head. "That's not how it works. If I did that, there would've been even more chaos than there already is."
"So you're saying that you're sacrificing CAKEY FOR THIS SHIT?!" Nana yelled, about to get back up, but was still trapped by the two androids who were keeping her in place. "SHE DOESN'T DESERVE THIS!"
The fortune teller glared at the clown. "Why are you getting mad only now?" she asked in a calm tone, getting up from her seat as she stared down at Nana with those yellow cat eyes of hers. Her eyelids didn't even move once to blink. "Should've worried about her earlier."
Nana's brows furrowed. "What... What are you talking about?"
The fortune teller's delicate hands reached out towards the crystal ball, touching the smooth surface of it with her fingertips. She swept right, as if rewinding a video.
An audio played, one with Nana's words. "It's not like tha— Okay it is like that, but I did this for all of us," a recording of some sort echoed the words of Nana.
Her eyes widened as she remembered her and Flower's last encounter. "I—"
"For the sake of the mirror dimension," the recording continued.
"Can't you see how much impact this had on me!?" Flower's voice spoke, sounding more distressed than ever.
It didn't sound like Flower. At least, that didn't seem like the gentle and kind Flower Tamari knew.
"I've been having nightmares about this stupid dimension and never stopped worrying about you guys. Oh but me? You lie to me and keep secrets for your own benefits!"
Nana felt the guilt grabbing right into her ribcage and scratching her heart with its sharp claws. "Turn that off...!"
"Screw you and this stupid dimension!"
Aurelia laid her palm on the crystal ball to shut it up, and she smiled at the frowning clown before her. "Does this ring a bell, Nana?" She leaned forward, her freckled face getting closer to Nana's. "You and I have the same goals, we only want the best for our dimension, our home. And for now, Flower has to play the sacrificial lamb."
"That was something else...!" Nana defended herself. "She's with that psycho, and god knows what he's gonna do to her!"
"Shhhh..." Aurelia shushed. "Take a deep breath, in and out."
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Reflections of the Past | Ghost and Pals fanfic
FanfictionTHE COVER IS MINE!!! As metal breaks and bends, as mirrors crack and shatter, as cakes bake and rise... In the world full of chaos, nobody expected it to be saved, until Cakey entered it by accident through a mirror. With her friend Tamari she meets...
