No Closer to Heaven{Sequel to Cardinals}

Three

Song: Go to Hell for Heavens Sake by Bring me the Horizon🖤

*all credit for this chapter goes to the horror game, "dead mans journey." i just changed it a little just to fit the plot. if you're a horror game fan or love horror in general like me, definitely check it out*

~Theo

"NO!"

"Scott, help me!"

"Scott please!"

"No, no! Scott please help him!"

"Theo, no!"

"Scott!"

"Ryder, I love you."

"Theo!"

I fall into what seems like...a pit, and I can't see anything.

"Hello?" I call out, standing up and dusting myself off. I try to change, so I can see better in the dark, but I can't.

I start walking, and there's a light at the end of the...walkway? I don't know, but I  start running towards it.

When I get yo the light, there's a little girl standing there...about 5. You know the little girl from The Ring? Well, imagine that the little girl looks like her, and she's holding her hand out to me; her eyes are also all black.

"So the urban legends are true...you guys are real.." I've read about these-"children." I know the stories, and I didn't actually think they were real.

Anyways, I take her hand, and we start walking. Out of nowhere, a voice starts talking. "You've created a major sin, and to that, you stand between heaven and hell. Up ahead you'll be reminded of your worst memories, thoughts, losts, and experiences."

Confused, I stop. I'm in purgatory?! "Who said that?" I call out. I don't get a reply from the voice, but the little girl speaks up.

Pointing ahead, she says in the creepiest little girl voice ever, "Only between life and death, and heaven and hell, one can only do but remind himself over...and over..."

Somehow, we end up in back in Beacon Hills. From 3rd person, I see Ryder after I fall into the pit, go into a huge fit, yelling at Scott's pack. It breaks my heart to see her cry and beg for them to bring me back. She looks completely devastated. I wanna go over to her, but I can't.

Next, we watch her find her gift in my truck I left to her, to her yelling all the guys in the library. Then, we watch her crying herself to sleep at night, clutching my favorite sweater. Each time her brother comes in and hugs her, my heart breaks even more. That should be me..

"She stopped going to school. She fell into a terrible depression. She stopped talking to what little friends she had left because of your sins. You did this to her." The little girl says.

She's completely right.

I promised I wouldn't hurt her, and I still did.

"I didn't..." I say, tears filling my eyes.

"That doesn't matter anymore, does it?" The little girl says. I sense some hostility.

Next, they make me watch myself, still from 3rd person, killing off my pack the demonic voice from before speaks again. "Any sane...being could obviously tell right from wrong..you obviously lacked this. You were never human."

"I did what I had to do to survive." I say, defending myself. "The Dread Doctors made me like this. I didn't ask for this! I didn't ask to become a Chimera."

"Neither did your sister!" The little girl yells., her voice changing, making it more creepy. I probably shouldn't make her angry.

Now they're making me watch everything I did to Scott pack, my torturing Lydia to insanity...and even when I took Ryder to the Dread Doctors so they can change her. I know I can't physically do anything, but I still walk a little closer to Ryder. She looks so angry. I shouldn't of agreed to help her...

"You realized that was the love of your life's humanity you took away, right?"
The little girl says, taking my hand again. "We have to go now."

We start walking again, and it's back to being pitch black.

"Am I-am I still a Chimera?" I ask her.

"No."

She seems agitated. I honestly didn't even know these..."children" could talk like this. If you know the urban legend, you'll know what I mean. I'm not Deaton or an Argent...I'm not gonna give a history lesson.

Anyways, we get to the end of the walkway, and there's another light. The demonic voice speaks again, saying, "Now you're here, on the bride between life and hell...still trying to figure out where you belong..so to this I ask you, which do you deserve: stay here or bring you back?"

Is this-is this for real?

"Bring me back. Bring me back, I need to see her. Please, I love her! She's the only thing that makes me feel remotely human."

"You don't deserve peace and freedom. The Kitsune who sent you here, did it for a reason. Where you're going, you won't ever see Ryder ever again..she wouldn't want to see you in the first place. No one in Beacon Hills does. You ruined all their lives, so now it's your turn. You'll spend all eternity in this loop, reminding yourself, over and over again, what you've done... a wonderful place to those who deserve it, don't you agree?"

"No, please!"

"This'll be the last time you'll hear from me again, goodbye Theo Raeken." There's a flash of light, and Im knocked it instantly.

I eventually wake up, confused because I can barely move. My eyes adjust to my surroundings, and I finally realize where the hell I am.

A morgue.