Apeirophobia - (Infinity ☆ Runner)

Chapter 3: The dream

Author's note:
Sorry for the chapters being so short. I'll work on it. I have one more chapter to type before I can really edit anything and this is it. I'll try to be actively working on chapters to get them out faster
Thank YOU!

"PEZ! NO!"

She saw the older boy yell, his face full of pain. She saw herself as well with a confused, but pained look on her face. Though she didn't know what was going on, she could feel the feelings of the older boy holding Pez flow through her heart.

She reached her hand out shakily, unsure of what to say or do. Suddenly the memories froze as if time itself, stopped.

"Whoa!!"

She jumped back from the mirror image of herself, startled. She looked down at her hands with wonder, thinking about what had just happened before her eyes, but nothing about her hands seemed out of the ordinary.

Looking forward at her mirror images she stared in awe. This was the first time she had seen herself (that she remembered) but she had this sense of deja vu that she had seen this before. Either way, looking at herself, she saw natural beauty. Even as a mess of someone in pain who had been running for a while, she felt abnormally pretty and looked like someone who would stand out in a crowd. Long wavy hair with normal, but piercing reddish brown eyes. //I'm not that good at descriptions but eh//
Her skin color was (y/n's skin color) naturally beautiful in every way.

She blinked a few times, breaking her gaze from herself, feeling a bit self-centered and guilty. Instead she refocused her gaze on the little boy, Pez.

Sorrow filled her as the realization filled her mind. She had known this boy. And the people that surrounded her, that were trying to kill her. The people that had attacked her. The people that she had once loved.

"I need to remember!"

She shouted, a new feeling taking over her. Reaching out to Pez, to his mind, to his feelings, she was suddenly stopped short by a wall she had created herself, deep down inside her mind.

"NO!!!"

She released the fury she didn't know she had deep down and flung herself at the wall.

"Pez! PEZ!"

She angrily beat the wall with her fists, time still frozen deep inside her subconsciousness.
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Time passed slower than ever, she beat the wall with everything she had but nothing seemed to work.

Huff...huff....huff...

She fell to her knees, tears falling from her eyes as she realized she couldn't do anything. She desprately wanted to help Pez. She wanted to do whatever she could to help. Because she had HOPE.

"Do you really want to save the child Pez, regaining your memories only to lose the again?"

A deep voice chuckled from the shadows behind her. 

"Ah- AHH!!"

She shrieked as she stood up and turned around, falling backwards from the dizziness she had from standing up too fast.

A man stepped out from the shadows who looked just like her... only... male.

"Even though you'll never fit in and be condemned to a fate worse than death?"

She stared at the man curiously and recognized something about him. He knew her life better than anyone and he somehow was close to her. She knew that deep down she trusted him more than anyone else.

"O-Okay."

She said hesitantly. Honestly she didn't care about the consequences, knowing that everything would work out because she had HOPE. Again, hearing the word just felt right in her mouth. Like it belonged to her.

The older boy stepped towards her. He smiled warmly and held out his left hand, offering her help up.

She hesitantly took his hand, admiring how her hand fit perfectly in his, still looking at him cautiously.

"No need to fear me, we are a lot a like."

She looked into his welcoming, yet cold unfeeling eyes. Despite the connection she had with him, the boy was dangerous.

"What do mean?"

She asked, even more confused than she was before.

"We're related. Though by many timelines, you could say I'm a lost long brother with no feelings for anyone but you."

He chuckled and winked, holding the side of her face lovingly.
How did his hand even get there so fast without my noticing?
Her eyes widened.

"W-what do you mean by... no feelings?"

She tried hard not to flinch away from him as a pain in her head started to ache as time started to slowly warm up.

"I've been trapped here for many years... just waiting for you."- "We dont have much time.."

He winced, removing his hand from her face, as he reached to hold his own head tenderly as if he felt the pain too.

"I'll use all my power to help you."

He smiled, obviously pained.

"Why would you do that?!"

She half-yelled as the pain brought ringing inside her head. She clenched her head, feeling as if was going to slowly explode.

"Because... I love... you..."

His eyes filled with pain. She didn't hear him well enough to understand what he fully said.

"C-Could you repeat that?!"

She screamed as loud as she could, the ringing much louder.

"I-"

-The dream had ended.