My Sweet Flame

Chapter 28. Clearly I missed something...

My eyes fluttered open as I coughed and sputtered, gasping for breath. I brought my hand up to my head as I slowly propped myself up onto my elbows. I fell off of them, clearly I knocked my head pretty hard after that blow; I thought I heard a voice inside my head that definitely wasn't mine.

Hey. Hey, You Okay? Can you try to stand? Sit up again, maybe?

I brought mine hand away from my head, golden blood. No red blood, just gold. Ugh, but what was that voice? I said the first thing to come to mind.

"Hello?" I said.

Hi. I'm only in your head, just so you know. You took a pretty hard fall from the data I just collected, and apparently you created me???

Oh, Okay I guess. Um.....What's your name? And could you please explain, because umm...Data? What?

Oh, yeah, sorry. I'm Alex, or Anti, I guess. Like Ant-e, not Ant-I. Technically I'm all of the evil inside of you, and-

Like alternate-reality?

Yeah, I like that. That's why I'm Anti.

So like the whole thing? Think like me, talk like me, look like me, and so on?

Pretty sure so. I have all of your memories too, and I know your fears, because I have the same ones, and favorite things.The only thing is that my "alternate reality gig thing" makes me technically evil. Or gross, or both just kind of whatever.

Okay so like killing puppies evil or....?

Oh my god no. That's terrible! More like knock down homeless children and steal the only pennies they've ever had or wiping out an entire race or ripping someone's heart out of their chest and enchanting it like in that one show Once Upon A Time.

Wait, wait, wait, I can do that?

Duh. You just have to focus on it.

Ooh! So using that later!

Just a second though, can you try and sit up again? I'm trying to stabilize you, but I don't really know what needs to get stabilized.

I made an attempt to sit up again, this time bringing my knees up and resting my elbows on them. I felt my head rush, and I wanted to lie back down.

Okay, You need to get to the Healers on Asgard and patch up that nick on your head. Nothing's broken.....

But?

I don't know yet, Let me push a few more buttons.

I waited, then felt something kick in down in my legs that made the soreness from the fall deplete.

I don't know what you just did, but it felt better.

I kicked in your immune system and threw some stuff that way. I can go for your head next, go ahead and try to stand maybe?

I tried to stand, but had to sit back down.

I'm sorry, I don't think I can.

Don't tell me sorry, I'm you, remember? We'll get through this together.

Okay.

I waited a moment, and tried again. It felt a little better, but my head rushed again, so I sat back down.

Try just going onto your knee. I'm sending stuff up to your head.

I brought myself up to one knee. My head rushed for a second, but I stayed there and waited for Anti's okay.