The Truth and What Remains: An Adrienette story

Chapter 20: The Dream Chronicles: Burning Memories

He felt like his body was burning even though he knew nothing was happening. Even though he knew nothing was happening, he still felt like he was moving towards an end, the climax of his story. Maybe now was just his time for him to go, nothing was stopping him from finally giving into the abyss of sleep. However still, Louis managed to groggily open his eyes to find himself on a white, cold floor as he could make out people walking through him, around him, and over him, but they don't notice that he's there. Louis heaved himself up as he looked around, it looked like the lobby to a hospital of some sort.

"So it's a hospital huh? Is this my challenge?" Louis asked aloud as he noticed that the people that were walking by were a little more faded out as he was. He was the only one that looked like he was actually physically there, even though the hospital itself looked faded out as well, almost like static. However, one thing that freaked him out was that there was one more person that looked just as vibrant as him, and he was extremely familiar. The weirdest thing though was that the other person that was standing directly across from him with a blank yet calculating look  was a young boy with a familiar head of side swept blond hair.

"I suppose you can call a challenge of sorts," The young boy looked around at the hospital and sighed as he walked so he was right in front of Louis and squatted down so they were eye level, "how are you feeling?"

"Alright I guess, but you...... there's no way...." Louis murmured as he looked into the boy's sky blue eyes as the boy smiled that smile that he knew from a mile away. After all, it was his own million dollar smile, "you're me....WHAT THE HELL?!"

"Yeah, that's right, to be precise, I'm you when you were 6 years old," The boy explained as Louis looked at him questioningly and noted his proficiency at speaking.

"Really? Then how are you so good at speaking French?"

"It's a dream Louis, well, older me, there's two biological identical copies of the same person from two different times, are you really that surprised that I can speak fluent French? Would you rather I talk to you like a 6 year old?" The boy rolled his eyes as Louis shook his head slowly.

"Uhhh...No?"

"Then don't question it, do I seriously get that dumb in the future?" Younger Louis asked as Louis frowned and smacked the younger boy over the head, with the younger Louis holding his head with a yelp.

"Well, glad to know I'm such a smart-ass, and that I can still hit you in this dream world matrix thing," Louis sighed as he stood up and Younger Louis looked up at him incredulously.

"I get that tall?" Younger Louis asked with stars in his eyes with Louis smiling proudly at his height.

"Yeah, I'm almost as tall as our dad, you proud yet?" Louis asked as Younger Louis pressed his finger to his chin and nodded.

"Yeah, and I'm kinda surprised we get to meet our dad in the future, but we have to get to your challenge," Younger Louis explained as he walked into the hospital through the lobby doors, gesturing Louis to follow. Louis looked around as nurses and doctors rushed past him without giving the two any mind.

"These people can't see or touch us can they?" Louis concluded as they continued walking as the other Louis nodded.

"Yeah, we're sort of on a plane of existence of our own, we're just observing as the dictator of the events that are going to transpire here today," Younger Louis continued to explain as Louis stopped and processed those words.

"Wait... events that are going to transpire....  younger me, what exactly am I doing here?" Louis asked as Younger Louis turned around and suddenly, the hallway stretched and sped past the pair and they found themselves in the lobby again.