Onision Self Insert (Reaper's Creek)

Chapter 18: Homecoming

I found myself floating, soft clouds touched my skin but I couldn't feel a thing. Julia said "I'm so cold Daniel." as she held my hand, floating thousands of feet above the ground right next to me. I replied "How about now?" she smiled quickly "It's gone, completely." I smiled with her. I asked, "Where do you want to go?" Julia replied "Anywhere really, we should visit my home at some point." My ability to make her comfortable, to change her physical body so she could feel whatever she desired, to make her dreams come true, her happiness was mine.

Without hesitation I flew us toward Julia's house. Initially Julia's body kind of dangled behind mine as she had no ability to keep up as I soared through the air, flying hundreds of miles per hour was not simple, even with the ability I gave her. There were a couple points were Julia's pants fell down but I simply fabricated new ones. At one point she said "If you can just make them with your mind, why not make pants that don't fall when we fly?" I laughed.

Julia's parents weren't too fond of me. I snatched their daughter away without notice or any hint of our destination, the unannounced return couldn't possibly be received well. Landing softly in her driveway, Julia immediately pulled her shoe lace out of her shoe and tied it around her waste. I smirked and asked "How are you going to keep your shoes on when we fly?" she replied quickly "We're not flyi..." Interrupting Julia, an axe flew past my shoulder smacking the ground a number of feet behind me. A scream sounded off from Julia's house. It was her father with his wrinkled up face and angry eyebrows, he yelled "You're a dead man! Where's my daughter!?" he stomped out and immediately lost his footing when Julia yelped "Hello daddy!" The man tripped to his knees right in front of me. He was incredibly choked up and ran over to her, hugging her and saying all the things dad's say when magical boys fly their daughters to far away places and without warning and later randomly return them.

After realizing his daughter was in on running away for a while and that no one was tricked her father into losing and unwilling daughter, he welcomed me into his house. He didn't apologize for throwing an axe at me, but you could see the apology in his forehead wrinkles when he changed his tone.

Julia's mother was equally happy to see her daughter, although fortunately for me, she saw her daughter first before recognizing that I was in the room, I'm sure I would have been maced which I likely would feel for at least a second before reprogramming that aspect of my body as well.

There was cornbread cooking in the oven, a noodle dish in the rack above with a salad and raspberry lemonade to help flush it all down. At dinner Julia'sfather had a lot to say about the changes I made to the world, not knowing I played any part in it. He spouted out "So women have teeth on their crotches now aye Daniel?" In the middle of drinking my lemonade I tried to swallow without a hiccup. Clearing my throat I replied "Yes, I thought that would make sense." Her dad look concerned, "What do you mean?" I replied sincerely "I mean , men have their swords, women should have their blades too right" Julia's father gave me a sarcastic look "Oh, you're one of those." I giggled slightly and said "One of..." and quickly went silent mid sentence. In that moment I saw into his mind, without even inquiring I saw all the women he hurt, he had even attacked Julia's friends when she was younger. He was a serial predator and the moment I realized what he was he dropped dead, face falling in his noodles.

As Julia's mother screamed in horror, I sat there, froze, angry with myself, angry with society, angry with the world that was still broke. I changed the future, but the people from the past, they all remained regardless of the things they had done. Snapping out of my thoughts I saw Julia staring at me, tears running down her face, eyes turning red with a mixture of sadness and anger. She saw everything about her father I had just seen, she invaded my mind as soon as she realized I was not reacting to her father's death whatsoever. She projected her thoughts into my head seconds after I made eye contact with her.

Julia did not want me there. She understood why I did what I did, but she also just lost her father, and couldn't process everything with me around. Upon realizing I was not welcome, using the black rock in my skull, I materialized a dark coffin, one any family would be proud of. Seconds passed and the coffin was complete so I dropped it in the middle of their front room. Inside the coffin I left enough money to more than compensate the household for the lost of it's primary breadwinner.

Her mother screamed again only this time with a coherent command "Call an ambulance! God! I can't find my phone! Call now!" and I replied "They're on their way." however I did not use a phone, I simply sent a signal to the brains of the closest medics, but I knew it would not help. I was simply doing it for the mother, she did not need to know the truth about any of this, such information could cause a person who dedicated their whole life to a fraud to fall into a deep depression, possibly leading to them taking their own life. It was tragic enough already that even his daughter had to know the truth about her father.

Walking out the front door, I spoke to Julia's mind "I'm sorry. I'll return when you call for me." but when my words hit her mind, it was like a car falling in water. First an impact, apparent rejection, followed by a slow sinking and absorption of everything that made contact.

Overwhelmed with emotion I sprinted through the trees, the bushes, even the fences breaking everything in my path. My shoes would fall apart only to be reformed again and again. I would simply design clothing for myself using the universe's code that would result in no deterioration of anything I wore despite the stress I subjected it to, but my clothes helped me keep track of how much damage I would be enduring if I was something even remotely close to human anymore.

The more I ran, the more I realized I didn't know where I even wanted to go. All I could think about was Julia, back at her house, with her mother, locked in sorrow. Without thinking about it I stopped mid step, landing in the middle of a lake. I sank, so distracted in my thoughts that I didn't even bother to fight it. I couldn't see anything underwater, I didn't like that feeling so I made it clear & pure. I could see for hundreds of feet now, so many things cast aside, boots, boats & endless trash.

Thinking about Julia, in the cold depths of the water I felt warmth. I was becoming hopeless, and I knew I could change that in an instant but to do so would be to lose meaning, to become someone who truly has nothing to lose, and no one to love.

Hours past as I thought about where I should go, what the point would even be of me going anywhere & I decided I wanted to return to the life I knew. My curiosity and sense of obligation to my family seemed to be my only remaining ties to my identity. I needed to return to my home.

My sister yelled out "Daniel!" and ran up to hug me. "Hey!" I said as she hugged me. I added "Mom isn't home?" and before she could answer I already had all the info I needed. She replied "She..." but I put up my finger to silence her as I essentially I had already downloaded everything I missed. I said "So mom has been dating around, no luck yet hmm?" Joanna replied "So you're still a freak, cool."

That night my sister and I played video games, or at least tried, she quit shortly after saying she was bored. It was typical among siblings, both wanting to hangout with the idea of their brother or sister, neither wanting to hang out with the actual person who was their brother or sister.

My mom returned late that night. She was partially drunk when she saw me, but sober enough to know who I was and that I was gone for some time. Staring at me for only a moment as she came through the door, without a word she walked off to her room. My mom still hadn't gotten over her eyes and what I did to them, she hadn't gotten over anything I had done.

I left the condo immediately after, I have always hated being where I'm unwanted, if people are better off without me, then I am better off gone. My next destination was where I spent most of my childhood, the creek, the small square house, the abduction site. Landing in the middle of my old yard I could see my mom's house still had not sold. It was a problem I could fix, in an instant the documents signed themselves for the sale of the house, the money transferred itself and just like that, it all belonged to me.

Before walking into the moonlit wood home, I noticed a red glow coming from the creek. The quiet hum of death filled my ears, I could feel the other side calling me, curiosity consumed my mind. In the morning I would begin digging up the bodies but tonight I would lay on my foam mattress, next to the raging furnace, alone in my tiny old room in my tiny old house.