Not What She Seems

I Fixed Her

****Avarra
"Avarra, why are you always running from me? Why are you trying to escape me?" she asks, moving towards me.
"Why are you trying to escape yourself? I will always be with you." she asks again
"Get away." I say, backing up. I could only go so far in a closet. Eventually, I hit the closet wall. She grabs my shoulders and hugs me. I need to get away from her, but how? I struggle away and by the time I manage to get her off me, but because I pulled so much, when I released her she left claw marks on my neck. She looks at me, upset. Then, father bursts open the lock on the door with a bat. He sees me and snatches me away from her before she can hurt me. Her eyes appear to soften, to change. She gets up and runs towards father, hugging him before he pulls away, looking at her surprised. Did he see her? Is this why he's so surprised?
"Avarra, sweetie, aren't you hungry? You haven't eaten all day!" she says, bending down to hug me. I back away from her, scared and hide behind father as tears stream down my face.
"Avarra, get in the car." Father commands. I run into his car with tears streaming down my face.
"Avarra, what's wrong? What happened? Why are you crying?" Aymara asks me. I shake my head no.
"No? No what? What happened?" she asks.
"Nothing happened. You don't need to know, Aymara. Some people are better off knowing nothing than something at all." I answer, wiping the tears from my face.

*****

"Avarra, why are you scared of me?" she asks when father left the room. I don't respond. I'm too scared to respond. She reaches out to hug me, but I back away.
"What did I do? Can you tell me what I did?" she asks, curious. I still don't respond, but continue backing away. Father finally comes back and sees what's going on, he sends me out to go play with Aymara.
"OOOH! Avarra! Come! We're playing pilots! You can pilot the camo plane! Here! A pilot hat!" Aymara says excitedly, putting a pilot hat on my head. I keep quiet.
"Here's your controller!" Aymara exclaims, handing me the controller. Aymara explains the controls and how to play. After a while, she realizes I never spoke the whole time.
"Avarra, why are you so quiet?" Aymara asks.
"No reason." I respond. I never speak again as we play pilot with Frayke (FUR•AY•K), our brother. I was still to scared too. If it was just that alone, maybe I would've talked here and there, but it wasn't. It was what she said that kept me quiet. "I will always be with you" she said. I look at the necklace she gave me, the moon necklace. Then, I look at the three claw marks she gave me on accident when I tried to pull away from her hug. Father doesn't know I have this. Nor do I plan to tell him.
"I will always be with you Avarra, don't you realize your potential? You will soon." she says as everything goes black.
Soon, I see people in front of me. One of them I immediately recognize.
"Are you okay? Mother, mother get up." I say while shaking her awake.
"She won't." a voice says. I turn around and see who it is. It's the woman. The woman with the reversed eye colors as my mother's.
"What did you do to her?! Why won't she wake up!" I ask, attempting to shake her awake.
"She's awake. Sort of. Right now, your mother is half awake, meaning she has 50% control of her body, while I have the other 50%. Only you can wake the other half." the woman says.
"What do you mean?"
"What I mean," she answers, "is you're special. Only you can wake the other half of her. Once you wake that half, she'll have full control of her mind and body. I will no longer have control, but, she will be able to use me as an ability and be able to switch me on and off. I will be an ally.".
"How do I wake the other half?"
"You either unlock your full potential or survive something people usually wouldn't with the help of something." she answers.
"What is that something?"
"I can't tell you." she responds.
"Why not?"
"Because that is for you to figure out. It is a specific something, not just anything." she replies.
"How will I know when she gains full control?"
"You will know when she gains full control when you feel like your eyes have been opened. Like a huge gust of realization came over you. You'll feel refreshed, full of energy. There'll be something extra if you manage to unlock both your full potential and survive something people usually wouldn't with the help of something else." she informs me.
"Well, it looks like it's time." she states.
"Time for what?"
"You'll see." she says. Everything goes black again, then I wake up.

  As soon as I'm awake, the freezing cold hits me. What is the temperature in here? When I check the thermostat, the temperature reads 30°. I shiver. It's usually on 75°. From where I'm standing, I see my husband shiver too. Soon, he'd wake up. I take some of the blanket I had over me and wrap it around him, then I take an extra blanket to wrap him in. I look around to see if I could go outside, but the handle was frozen, so we're the windows, the bathroom door, and the vents. I could take the blanket off of him, but there's no point for two of us to freeze. Besides, all that matters is that he's alright. I try to go to sleep, but the temperature drops down to 5° and it is too cold to sleep. I was freezing. I turned on my phone to try and call someone to get me out, but the temperature in the room is too low for it to function. Eventually, I start hallucinating (I don't even think the cold can do that to you, but it happened) after an hour. My teeth keep on chattering. Two hours later, my body is a block of ice. My feet have gone numb and so has my hands. I keep rubbing my hands together to produce heat. I check the time on a clock, and the time reads 5:10. Good, the kids'll start to wake up in the next two or three hours. Within the next hour and a half, my eyes start to close halfway but I slap myself awake several times. My eyes close halfway again and I slap myself awake for what is like the thirtieth time. No Avarra, stay alive not for yourself, but for him. I think.
Some time later, I look at the clock and it reads 7:59. As soon as the clock struck 8:00, the room temperature rose from 35° to 75°. I was shivering. The ice on the handles melted (even though it wasn't warm enough for the right amount of time for it to melt) and so did everything else that was frozen. I brush my teeth, change, and then head downstairs to make breakfast. In the middle of me making pancakes, I suddenly feel a burst of energy, I feel like my eyes were just opened. Did I do it? Was that it? I think. That's what it was, the thing that was supposed to help me was not just one thing, but two. Love and determination. Is she fixed? Is mother herself now? That dream...was it real? Was what the woman said true? Then, I stop and realize something else. Rinold, why are you always helping me? Why can't I do something to help you instead? I think. He's helped me feel other emotions besides being scared and distrust. How will I ever repay him. Besides that, I did it. I fixed what was scaring me all this time. I fixed my mother.