InFAMOUS Second Son - Your Snowflake

Chapter 23

Bella's P.O.V.

Darkness....That was all that surrounded me as I fell down what felt like an endless pit. There were screams, voices that I couldn't make out as I descended deeper and deeper into the unknown.

'Those voices....I've heard them before, haven't I?........Mom? Dad?'

The voices grew louder as I called for my parents, as if they were answering my inquiries. Tears of both joy and fear clouded my vision as I frantically searched all around me for my beloved parents.

'Mom, Dad? Where are you? Please, answer me!' I cried out, only for my ears to be met with a new voice, one that I had both hated and feared. Like before, the sounds were muffled and distorted in ways that made it impossible for the speaker's words to be comprehended. Then, like a clash of thunder, a single word rung throughout the darkness as I heard Augustine's voice shout out the one word that had haunted me for years.

'FIRE!!!!'

Immediately, I bolted upright on my bed, frantically searching around me for any signs of Augustine or my parents.

'My parents....'

Reality sank in as I began to recognize the room as that of my own.

'Well, ALMOST my own.' Heaving a depressed sign I plopped back down on my bed, dismissing my previous state of mind for being the results of a fiendish nightmare; something that has definitely occurred more than once since I had escaped.

With closed eyes I decided against getting up, favoring sleep over reality. Pulling the blankets closer to my body, I snuggled into my warm pillow before releasing a contented sign.

"Hmmm...." I hummed. God, if there was one thing that I missed in Curdun Cay it was sleeping in a bed. A comfy, warm bed covered with soft, cotton sheets and lined with fluffy pillows. Yeah, sweet, sweet pillows....so soft....so nice.....so....warm? And.....fleshy?

'.......................OH GOD!!!!'

At the sudden realization my eyes shot open to see that what I had been snuggling up to was definitely NOT a pillow. Wrapped around my waist was an arm, a MAN'S arm. Never having been in such a situation before, I kicked the strange male out of my bed and released a frightened shriek. The familiar sounds of ice shards piercing through the ground sounded behind me, creating a chorus of scrapes and cracking.

'WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!' All rational thought had left me as my mind was plunged into a whirlwind of panic.

Fetch's P.O.V.

"Why the fuck should I?!" I shouted into my cell phone. I could practically feel Reggie roll his eyes from the other end of the line as he released an irritated sigh.

"Because it's the right thing to do? Not that you would know...."

"Hey, listen here asshole! While you've been off playin' super cop, I've been bustin' my ass to keep these streets clean from those damned dealers!"

"Killing people isn't helping, Abigale-"

"I told you, don't call me that!"

I could hear Reggie release another sigh in an attempt to calm himself down.

'I don't see what he's so upset about,' I thought to myself. 'I'm the one being attacked here.'

"....listen," Reggie responded in a calmer tone. "I just want you to go and check on Delsin and Isabella. He's not answering his phone and since you're practically right there I thought that maybe, for once, you would do this one thing for me."