Dust And Shadows

Let Me See

||Olivia's POV||

I woke up in a strange place. It was strange, and yet normal. It was a room. It looked like a normal room of a teenage girl. I was laying on a comfortable double bed, which by the way, was perfect, and the room had one huge window on the left of the bed. The walls were painted dark blue and white. In my opinion, it was very pretty.
As I looked around myself, I noticed food on the nightstand with a big glass of orange juice.
Even though I was really hungry, I wasn't going to touch any of this, no matter how fresh and sweet the juice looked.
As I was thinking about standing up, my heart nearly stopped when the doors opened.
I watched with widened eyes as a grown, dark woman entered the room. She was dressed very formally, and had an I-can-kick-your-ass-anytime expression on her face. She moved very carefully and softly, as she walked towards the bed.
"Hello, Julia. How are you feeling?" She asked very clearly and I frowned.
Who the hell is Julia?
"This is all a misunderstanding I just wanna go home." I said with my voice shaking and she nodded her head. She moved slowly and sat on the edge of the bed.
"I understand this must be hard for you. If you could just tell me, what happened to you... we can make sure you're safe." She said with worry and I took a deep breath.
"So... I was... I was walking from my best friend's house to the bus stop and these strange men attacked me and I tried to get away from them and run away but this sucker made me fall to the floor and their eyes were glowing and then suddenly those ninjas came and killed the men with some glittery weapons and dragged me to this abandoned hotel which isn't abandoned when you walk inside and when I tried to run form these kidnappers this guy found me and then I woke up here and I just want to go home to my mum and dad and I promise I won't tell anyone about this, please just let me go."
The confused look on her face didn't help at all.
"Do you remember me, Julia?" She asked and I frowned.
"I'm sorry, I don't think I ever saw you in my life. And my name's not Julia or whatever, I'm Olivia Roberts." I said and she looked completely confused and surprised.
She opened her mouth like she was going to say something but she didn't. She, very confused, stood up and left. She took one good look at me and closed the doors.
I sighed and stood up.
I headed for the doors but surprise, surprise! They were locked.
I rolled my eyes and sat on the bed. I looked at the delicious food on the nightstand.
Let's hope it's not poisoned.

||Kayden's POV||
I woke up pretty late. It was about 2pm and I quickly got out of bed. I showered and put on my training clothes and hoped I won't have to go on any mission tonight.
I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked how messy my brown hair were today, and how grey and discolored my eyes looked. I clenched my jaw and headed downstairs.

As I walking through the corridors, people, Fighters and everyone stared at me. Everyone looked at me like they couldn't believe I was walking in front of them. I was confused.
As I reached the training room, I saw Nathan already training.
"Nathan!" I shouted with a grin and he turned around immediately. Nathan is like my brother, we've been friends since we can remember.
Nathan looked at me and frowned. He started walking towards me.
"Kayden? What... are you doing here?" He asked confused. I watched as he brushed his blond hair back with his hand.
"What do you mean? Where else would I be?" I asked.
"Well, I though you were gonna see Julia since they found her yesterday night."
My heart stopped.
It felt like a fucking bullet not going through my heart, but reaping and shredding my chest to pieces. It was too much.
"Wait... Kayden you didn't know?" He asked and I just looked blankly at the floor as my heart bled.
"Kayden, I'm so sorry, I thought you knew. A group of Fighters found her and brought her back. She's apparently taken into her room-"
"NO." I looked at him.
"STOP. She died a long time ago so stop screwing with me." I couldn't believe a single word he said even though I don't trust anyone as much as I trust Nathan.
"This is bullshit. This is all bullshit. This isn't happening." I said under my breath and stormed out of the room. I stormed out of the building. And I ran. I ran down the streets, further and further away until my legs couldn't take a step further.
I have believed that she died. And even though I have never let go of her, it took me everything to finally believe she was dead. Because she is. I looked everywhere for her, under every table, and every bed.
She. Is. Dead.
And when I finally accepted it, they tell me she came back.
No part of me felt good about that, because my heart and every part of me lost hope that this moment would ever come, it all seems like bullshit. And yet, and yet I couldn't help it, but feel curious about who is that girl in her room. And if it really is her, and I see her on my own eyes, only then, I can feel the weight of the world get off my shoulder. But to see her... I don't know if I can do this, I mean... what if it really is her...
I took a deep breath.
I guess I just have to find out myself.

I rushed up the stairs and up the corridor to a place I haven't been in for a long while. I saw a few older people from the Council on the way. Everyone looked very surprised and intrigued by what has happened. As I rushed towards the room, her room, I saw Miss Smith standing before the doors. She noticed me and her eyes widened.
"No, Kayden. I know how you must feel but you can't see her." She said in a sharp voice.
"And why the hell not?" I asked coldly.
"Because I have just been there, and she doesn't know who I am."
"Wait, what? Are you even sure IT'S HER?" I shouted and immediately felt bad since I shouted at our leader.
"Kayden, I need you to calm down. Yes, we are sure. We did blood tests, fingerprints, photos, everything matches. We are sure it's her. She just... she doesn't know... anything."
"Let me see her, I'm pretty sure she'll remember me." I said sternly and she looked me straight in the eyes. No matter what, she knew I would be the person she's most likely to remember.
"Fine. But be calm, and be normal, if she doesn't know who you are, just leave, don't push her-"
"I get it. Let me in." I interrupted as I couldn't help my eagerness to see her.
She slowly and carefully unlocked the doors, and opened them.