The Sleeping Siren (Jotaro X Reader)

Ch. 27: a Ray of Confusion

Except for one person. One person in the waiting room of the hospital, I have to get them before they get me. Still in my world, I run past people but unlike stand users they don't have the blue fire in them the way Merciful Crow did or how this stand user does. Is it one of the crusaders, is it an enemy, is it just some person?
And there they are. It's the user in all her glory, she speaks to the woman behind the desk, about me, about what? I reach out to grab her flame to ask her in her mind, but it takes only a graze of my finger to revert everything. It doesn't even take a blink to find myself from grazing her flame to being curled into the ball I was crying in.
My gut flexes and my anger bubbles like a pool of lava, popping and rising higher and higher. Damnit! I was so fucking close, that's my range though isn't it? Scientifically speaking can enter a worm hole in between time and conciousness, but less scientific I can stop time to read stand user's thoughts, I guess I do have to have a limit to that, but why does it have to happen when my curiosity is tearing me apart?
I don't realize I'm gasping for air until I stand. God, that took so much out of me, wonder if there's only a certain range where I can grab a stand user's mind and not a range where I can just roam- no that's not to objective, I need to find the stand user and figure out why she's here. My stand is recalled when I put on my mask and I head inside the building.
I follow the path I ran, but now I walk, it'd be strange to see some girl running around or running in to people at that, and I need to keep a low profile, I remember what that woman looks like: blonde hair, white as paper tied tightly back into a tight bun, she has no melanin what so ever, not even in her eyelashes or eyebrows.
I'm walking and staring at my feet as I go, do not look suspicious, it'll be impossible to get close to her personally and use my stand ability to see what her stand ability is or what her motives are, unless her stand is the same as mine she wouldn't know that I'm a stand user so I should be fine, I can only hope that if she is working for Dio he only gave her my name and not a photo or something. I'm stopped in my tracks when I bump into her and she drops all her papers onto the floor, just my fucking luck, "oh my god I'm so sorry!" She says panicked, what should I do here, I mean I meant to see her but... what was I going to do after I met with her? I should've had a more descriptive plan, I need to figure something out, a reason for me to stay in touch with her, I need to know if she's an enemy or not.
I pretend to be just as panicked as she is and help her, "no, no, I'm sorry I wasn't looking where I was going," skiming through her papers I only get glimpses of sentences about a car accident but nothing on me, if she saw me and was an enemy I don't think she'd just carry photos and notes on me without somehow concealing them anyway, or maybe this is a way of concealing it. think, think! I'm hired to bring some girl to a vampire and I just bumped into her, I would want to lour her somewhere isolated... coffee! I'll ask her to coffee! "I'm really sorry, I should've paid more attention to where I was going."
I help her up and she's flustered, "don't worry about it," she says and chuckles.
"Let me make it up to you, please?" I ask her. Say yes.
"Ugh," she thinks to herself nervously, like she's unsure, "um, alright," she says, "I wouldn't mind, a-anywhere in mind?"
Oh my god, she took it. Maybe she's disguising herself as a reporter on that freak car accident on the notes she droped earlier.
"Well," I scratch the back of my neck to put on a show before looking away as part of it, "there's this small coffee place I heard was nice just a little under a mile from here, I'll buy you a drink and breakfast there, when sounds good to you?" Shit! I think that was overkill.
When I look back to her she's flushed pink and doing her best to look like she isn't holding her breath... is she... into me? She looks maybe 20, wouldn't be good to straight up take her to bed and do my worm hole magic from there, "Yeah, that sounds good," she's looking everywhere except at my face and I remember what it was like to have a crush and look at a boy everywhere except at him and have my ribcage feel hollow and my gut filled with butterflies, "what about on tuesday, maybe in the morning at 9 am, the hotel I'm staying at is nearby, I could just pick you up?" It's an act, why would she want to pick me up and where?
"Sure that sounds great, I'll be outside the building by 9," I say, she's a stand user, an enemy, I don't know, I can't give her my room number.
"Yeah, that sounds great! I'll be there."
When I get back to my room for my ointment the nurses and doctor say that I'm healing perfectly and quickly, when I tell them I'm going to meet someone in three days outside the hospital they don't oblige, but as for clothes I could wear the hospital gown or my leggings and sweater I went to the ER in, washed and waiting to be worn, I go with the more obvious choice for my meeting.

Two days until I meet with the stand user, still, no visitors, I'm really on my own huh? After my morning ointment I walk to the garden agian, at 7 Am to train, people aren't typically running around and I don't run into that stand user.
Today, my goal is to go into that worm hole and use as minimal emotion as possible to summon myself into it.
Ten hours. It took me ten full, annoying hours to figure out how to summon that worm hole with close to no irritated will, not including that one hour I went to my room to have my ointment done and set on me. Ten goddamn hours to do it and I was only in there for maybe a minute, but I'm happy with it, anger and sadness I heard literally creates micro tears in the heart, if I can keep this up I'll be able to do it without sacrifice. I'm so proud of myself for making progress so quickly, I don't even realize I'm smiling... proud of myself. When was the last time I was proud of myself?

I shove my legs through my leggings and it's the most foreign thing. This whole time I've been wearing hospital gowns with nothing underneath and now that I am it feels so strange, and I also have some adrenaline pumping, I'm going to meet the stand user from the other day, it kind of would've been better if I was just able to get her number but I dont have a phone at the moment because of a long seris of events of course, it probably would've been easier to set up some sort of relationship, it'd be terrible if this went awkward.
At the front of the building I see her. Focus, focus. Yesterday in the garden I was able to summon the worm hole in four hours and was in there for only three minutes, quite the improvement. Maybe I can finally see what she's thinking, what her stands ability is, and what her motives are. I focus and try to consecrate on that feeling cold dry feeling I had when I summoned myself into that hole, I haven't tried it without my stand out but if I can speak and hear different languages without her I'm sure I can do this without her.
"The other day I forgot to tell you, my name is Regina, but call me Ray?" I'm snapped out of my thoughts, shit I hope my staring wasn't weird.
I chuckle, play it. Off, "Well, nice to formally meet you Ray, I'm Y/n."
My god. I didn't think that trying to access the worm hole and talk to Ray would be this difficult. We are sat down at a table outside and wait for our orders to be taken for breakfast, it's maybe only 65 degrees and I'm already starting to sweat with all this concentration, and my stomach isn't handling it well either.
"So, how old are you?" I ask her, I'm so close, I can't let there be an awkward pause, I can feel the icy feeling starting to settle, yesterday the icy feeling set in seconds before disappearing and putting me into the worm hole, damnit if I could ignore common courtesy and just not talk to her to see what her flame.
She's staring at her coffee when I asked her the question, "I turned 19 recently," she replies before siping her coffee.
Maybe that day when I asked her out here she wasn't crushing on me, maybe it had something to do with her birthday, "oh, well happy birthday," I say before nervously chuckling, why is this so har- a headache jabs me and I hiss reflexively and bring my hands to my forehead hurriedly to put pressure on it, despite it I concentrate more on opening that worm hole, but it's like it's cutting my brain in half.
Ray is saying something but I don't hear it, I'm so close, it's so cold and numbing and in not even a blink I'm there in the worm hole. Like all those times its black and white and there infront of me, Ray and her flame. Thank god it took forever.
When I'm rushed inside her memories my angry boils and I want to just implode Ray's brain right here and now. In her memory is Dr. Osberg, giving her a photo of me.