Okay, so I had this really uber depressing sad idea for my OC Ami, which is not canon in 'The Painter' (not to mention some mild spoilers), but I'm uber excited for this and want to share it with you. I want to give you readers more time to know Ami in The Painter', but this story is alive already :3
Rebirth
Hiro looked weird. What happened to make him come over so quickly? Did something happen in the lab?
Beads of sweat were on his skin, panting rapidly like a dog.
"Hiro, what's wrong?" Ami walked over to her late boyfriend's brother, placing a hand on his shoulder.
Tadashi's lost made Ami a reck. She couldn't sleep and the days dragged on, day after day. Despite the turbulent ordeal, her eyes seemed serene through the dark marks on her face.
"Tadashi," another pant left him. "He… he's back."
The silence pierced through the air.
Ami blinked. "What?"
"Baymax… I. I was experimenting with this chip I found and then… Baymax was gone. When he rebooted, talked… it wasn't him."
What Hiro said made no sense. "Hiro, what are you saying? Tadashi's gone. Whatever you heard, you probably want him back. It's been months, I know, but you got to accept the fact he's not here."
"You got to see this, Ami, when he talked to me, he told me he wanted to see you again."
Hiro was a little old to be playing this game.
"Okay, I don't know what's gotten over you, but this is a sick joke. You're his brother, Hiro. You'd do this to your own brother? I loved him! I was in as much pain as you were!"
"Ami?"
Teardrop rolling down her face, every inch of herself froze. That familiar voice rang through her head. Despite it's robotic chirp, it had the same warmth she always knew. The same warmth of his skin, his face, his lips.
Instead of his tan skin, Baymax's white frame was there. The way he moved was imprecise. Almost as if it were more… human.
She almost couldn't hear herself. "This is a joke."
"Ami, it's me…" Baymax's hands reached out. "Tadashi."
"Hiro, did you change Baymax's voice, this better be a sick joke!" she was beyond hysterics.
"Ami…! Ami, it's me." Baymax's hands reached for her frame, breaking her away from Hiro.
"Remember? I knew you ever since Kame Elementary School. You hate macaroni and cheese. Your favourite colour is red. You told me that when you're with me, you didn't have to prove anything to me. And you didn't. Remember that night when we talked on the fire escape at Sakura University? You told me that you were afraid. Afraid that if I saw you differently, I'd think less of you and leave. But I told you that I wasn't going anywhere. That nothing you did could ever do that."
Every detail he mentioned made the tears flow out. It was Tadashi. He knew all her secrets. This wasn't a joke at all.
"Before you moved to New Yorea, I gave you a nut bolt to remember me by. You and your mother made it into a necklace, and I was so happy to see that you kept it."
Ami breathed. She remembered placing the nut bolt necklace on Tadashi's shrine. It was at that time she let go of the part of Tadashi she kept for years.
She already let go of him a long time ago. "I mourned for you."
"Ami, no, please. It is me, Tadashi."
"I mourned for you and couldn't sleep for days. I mourned for you, accepted the fact you were gone. Now you do this to me?!"
"Ami…!"
"No, you are not him." She backed away from the possessed machine.
"Ami, please…!" The white robot collapsed down on his knees, a grainy sob left his voice box. "I'd never give up on you. Ever. I love you."
Tadashi's faith in people made him admirable. I was how she fell in love with him from the start, all those years ago when they were children on the playground.
She dashed out of the door into the dark night, the cold wind against her shins.
Baymax may have his voice. His memories. But it would never truly be Tadashi.
While thinking of the idea, it made me thought of Adele's Rolling In The Deep. (And I'm not a hardcore Adele fan, but the Adele fad was like… years ago. haha)
I have made myself sad… ahh. QQ
You may commence the hating on my person c': ;;