Not What She Seems

Flashback-16 Years Ago

  16 years ago, Yavara Cyvaira and Relvin Aurolus didn't exist. But 16 years ago, Verlynn did exist, and she was almost a year old......
Blast in the past—16 years ago
  Yavara's current mother
  "Hey, sis, as much as I'd love to finish up this conversation, can we do it later? I'm doing an experiment and I don't want to hurt you." I I (Avarra) said.
  "No, we can't." Aymara (Verlynn's mother) responded.
  "Then step back, will you?" I asked. Aymara stepped back. The experiment made a huge cloud in the air, and I poured some of it into a vile.
  "Perfect. Hmm...I need something to test this on." I said.
  "What is it?"
  "A neutralizer. It neutralizes your emotions and body to prepare it for the next experiment.
  "It's perfectly harmless isnt it? Why don't you test it on Verlynn?" Aymara suggested as the baby sucked on her (Verlynn's) thumb.
  "She can't drink it straight, it's too acidic, give me milk." I commanded. Aymara grabbed Verlynn's baby bottle out of Verlynn's hands, and to prevent her from crying, replaced it with an elephant. Verlynn reached our her hands for the baby bottle. I poured milk into her clean baby bottle and poured in some of the experiment. After stirring it well, I gave it back to Verlynn. Verlynn began to drink it.
  "Take the baby bottle from her." I said as soon as she finished it halfway. Aymara did as I commanded and took it from her.
  "She appears, fine. I guess it worked!" I exclaimed as Verlynn continued to play with the elephant.

**2 weeks later**

  "Aymara, I really need you to go, I can't risk having you here, in this house, should I hurt you." I said.
  "Why? Don't you think with all these experiments you're distancing yourself from me?" Aymara asks.
  "Yeah, I know it seems that way but this is for your own good, Aymara." I warned.
  "Why can't it be like old times? You're always distancing yourself from me!" she complained.
  "I know, and I'm sorry it's always like—" she cut me off.
  "No! You don't know! You're too caught up in your stupid science experiments to realize!" she exclaimed.
  "Aymara....." I started.
  "Aymara what? You just always say its for my own good! I'd rather get ruined by one of your science experiments than be so distant from you!" she shouted.
  "Aymara! Control yourself!" I shouted.
  "Control yourself because what? Because you know it's true!" she snapped back. I keep quiet.
  "You're so wrapped up in your experiments! Did you even know this happened?" Aymara shouted again. She raised up Verlynn's right hand, in which her thumb and pointing finger merged together, her middle finger was alone, and the last two fingers were merged together. I gasped, I never knew that happened.
"This is the result of your stupid experiment!" Aymara spat at me.
"I'm so sorry..." I whispered..
"I'm so so so so sorry." I whispered again.
"Sorry's aren't going to un-merge her fingers." she screamed at me. Tears rolled down my cheeks.
"....sorry...." I managed to break out through the tears.
"If you're truly sorry, don't talk to me ever again. Hey, who knows? Maybe I'll even forgive you!" Aymara joked.
"Keep your weird experiments away from me and my daughter!" Aymara screamed again. I did nothing but watch as Aymara stormed off and left my house. After a while, I poured the experiment I used on Verlynn down the drain and walked upstairs. When I reached my boyfriend and me's bedroom, my boyfriend asked me what was wrong.
"I messed up. I really, really, really messed up." I responded, only later did I tell him the full details. Ever since then, I've been working hard to find an antidote for what I did, to fix Verlynn's hand. Maybe, I thought, maybe if I could fix it, Aymara won't be made at me anymore. But it goes farther than that, she was completely right, I was slowly distancing myself from her, like the continental drift. Eventually, I found a cure for a disease and other stuff, which made me very rich and famous. That didn't make me happy though, the only thing that could make me happy was being with Aymara, but there's no way I can contact her because she blocked my number from everything. I deserve it though, I ruined her daughter's hand. That's a lot worse than completely cutting yourself off of someone. If I don't find that antidote, I'll feel like the worst person on earth. I will never forgive myself.
I never saw her again after that. Not even after I gave birth to Ravamara, or after I adopted Yavara and Markus, and not even after I gave birth to Allister and Savara, who are twins. She stuck to her word.. She didn't come for thanksgiving or Christmas or any family-related holidays. She left me completely alone.