Tempted Fate |18+ (Ménage)✔

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Standing in the darkest depths of my mind, I can't feel anything.

The one thing I know...

...the feeling of isolation once again, though not from what I expected.

She left me, that's what I remember.

"I didn't leave you," Hel's words manifest themselves around me while I stare around blankly, looking until I see her form appear like mist.

My voice is coarse, arguing back, "Then why did you-"

"I forced her away," Thea's light suddenly illuminates, flashing brightly as her form becomes physical to me. She looks at me, her voice strong when she states, "Regardless of what you know from events that led to your present, the life of a child should never be yours to take...that's cruel."

My temper flares, growling angrily at her until I retort, "Then why didn't you stop me!"

Mercury's death, I will forever believe I've done the right thing.

"I did," the threads of Thea's cloth encasing her body like air move without a single breeze, looking to Hel before returning her attention to me, "you ignore me and forced me away. Caught up in your blind anger and hatred for someone you never met...for someone whose life had been spared...was that really your decision to make?"

"Yes," I reply firmly.

Thea's voice is silent for a moment, before she tells me, "Just because you have the power and the means to eliminate another, doesn't always mean violence is the answer. You spared Cypher, despite his involvement with your mother...so why didn't you see fit-"

"Mercury was manipulative of those he came in contact with," I'm already firing off at her, defending my actions, "he wasn't abused or forced to believe something that wasn't true...he participated in what his father enjoyed, and the love he had for the code wouldn't have changed. Nothing about him would have changed."

Thea asks me, "And...you can see the future?"

My heart stops in my chest, silence falling on me as weight drops on my shoulders.

"Even oracles have glimpses of the future...some given brand new visions, ones that we aren't currently living in," Thea speaks when my silence has gone on long enough, "though, that image that's seen, isn't always about us or the end...it's the journey to it that helps us understand those we accept along the way or those we cut ties with...for you..." as her voice trails off, a wave of uncertainty washes over me.

I did what was right...

...I did what had to be done, the tough choice no one wanted to do.

Am I to be punished for that?

"We will split sooner than you think, but longer than you'll understand," Thea begins again, Hel crossing her arms as she looks to me, "your soul is already plagued...it will be a wonder if I end with you...the darkness in you much greater...perhaps Aeon wasn't wrong."

My eyes grow wide, shaking my head as I state, "I'm nothing like him!"

The caverns of my mind begin to crumble, the cracks revealing bright lights that almost match Thea's greatness. Her voice is distant as she reminds me, "We write our fate according to the unknown...though, you don't have the luxury of bliss."

My heart rate increases, feeling and hearing the sound pound on the walls of my mind all around me. Grasping my head, I scream, the pain overwhelming as I don't think I'll ever be able to hear again...