Don't Forget Me

Chapter Sixteen

"You know what you did. You know. So why fight it? Why fight what you did? Why not tell them? Why ignore it? Why-" Clicking. The sound of clicking filled the air, and the voice stopped. Everything stopped.

Tom sat up abruptly, breathing heavily. What was that? What did that mean? What did he do? Fifty thoughts swarmed his head, as he turned to look at the time.

3:42 AM.

Looking to the floor, Tom noticed the other God sleeping. He didn't look as uncomfortable as Tom thought he would be. He still felt bad for taking his bed, though. When Tord said he was sleeping in his bed, Tom really thought he meant both of them would. He might have preferred that, though.

Because, all of a sudden, he was overwhelmed with the strange feeling of loneliness. Everything surrounding him seemed to fade to black, and the silence was deafening. He tried looking around, but, he couldn't see anything. Nothing at all.

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"He hasn't come back," Ringo muttered. Susan looked over at her, a bit worried.

"You could go check on him..?" She suggested. Ringo looked up at her, and tilted her head.

"And leave you here? Nah. I'm sure he's fine," she smiled. Susan smiled back before that smile faded a few seconds later.

"What's wrong?"

"I am worried. Not about Tom not coming back, but about something else." Susan looked away. She looked almost guilty. Of what?

"Then, what are you worried about?"

"I told you that he used everything he had left to make me, because he was lonely, remember?" Ringo stood and stared at her, confused.

"Yes..."

"I didn't completely lie..." Ringo squinted her eyes as Susan turned herself to face away from the small dragon.

"Susan, why are you here?" Ringo asked, plainly.

"How long have you been around?" she asked, quietly.

"Not too long...Why?"

"What is Tom capable of?" It was an odd question. Very odd.

"Susan, you should know this..." Ringo backed away a bit, confused, and scared.

"Ringo!" Susan jumped up, and Ringo flinched Back. She took a deep breath, before sitting back down, and asking again, "What is Tom capable off?"

Something was wrong. Very wrong. Susan has never snapped at her before, and it worried her, a lot. What did she mean? 'What is Tom capable of?' She should know what Tom is capable of, right?

"Not much? You told me-"

"Forget everything I told you." Ringo nodded.

"Well, He uh...He can travel through shadows, and turn into a monster form. He can navigate these caves, and his night vision helps with that too. His monster form can be very violent, giving him many scars...Other than that...there's not actually much else." Technically, there was more, but that was including Susan's information, and she had been told to leave that out.

Susan sighed and shook her head, "Wrong."

"Wrong?" What did she mean, wrong?

"Ringo, I wasn't created to give Tom company. I was created for a whole different purpose. To help him ignore. Forget. Erase." She shook her head, before continuing, "Tom can do so much more than you know. Than he knows." Ringo tried to process the information that had just been given to her. There wasn't much, but she already could piece some things together.

"You were created to help him forget things he's done..." Susan nodded sadly.

"That is correct. He didn't use the rest of his abilities on me, he gave them all to me. Not to use, but to hide. Hide them somewhere he would never find them." She paused to make sure Ringo was listening before saying, "Inside his mind."

Ringo tilted her head, "His head?"

"Yep. I was created to help build a wall in his mind. The wall separates what he can do and what he's done, from the rest of him. He doesn't remember it at all."

"And, that's a good thing! Right?"

"That's What I thought at first. But, because he sealed all of that away, it left him with nothing. It's the reason he started this experiment in the first place. It gave him that feeling of worthlessness, and depression." Susan frowned, "And, I cant help but feel like I did this."

"No. You just did what he wanted..." Ringo tried reassuring her, but she didn't know how. She was still overwhelmed by what she had just been told.

Susan sighed, "Part of this, was to erase the others memories of what he had done as well. It was rather simple to do. I didn't have to do as much as I had to Tom. But there were always complications."

"Wait...You keep mentioning 'What he'd done. Susan, what did he do?"

"I don't know if I should tell you, yet." Her voice trembled, in fear, almost as if she had sworn to tell no one the information she just had anyway.

Ringo asked again, but she just shook her head. By now, the small dragon was getting fed up and wanted to know what was being held from her. From them all.

"Susan. I don't know what he did to you to scare you this much, but I'm begging you. Tell me. What the Hell is going on? What did Tom do?"

[AHHH Sorry! So sorry it came out nearly 5 days late! I've been busy, but I'm trying to get back to a normal schedule. But. Either way. Look at this beautiful art! That I have to share because, why not!?

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