Unanticipated Transformation
"For all of us damned souls, for us
stars stuck in the vacuum of space,
there is no out.
You put us there, trapped us in this spiral,
in your gallery surrounded by bright lights.
You molded all of us,
carved, sawed, chipped away
the important stuff
and forced us to become
your perfect replications."
"I helped them become
who they should have been.
I fixed what was broken."
"Did someone fix you?"
"…that was a long time ago.
A past life. That was a different time and I
was a different girl."
"You can't find her anymore?"
"I see her still sometimes,
in my mind's eye—
the girl I was.
I see that girl but
know her not."
"You're just another victim."
"No. I was. That girl was.
But not anymore."
"You can still be that
girl!
I can still save you!"
"Not everyone can be saved….
But I saved you."
"I didn't want
to be saved! I didn't
need to! You're the one who
put me in that wreck, who
ruined my former life!
You're the one who held
the reins too tight,
who suffocated her."
"Do you even remember
your former life? Before
now?"
"I remember a shadow."
"Exactly. I rescued you. I helped you
put your past behind you. I gave you
a second chance at redemption."
"No, Nikita did all that
You just took something broken
and made it into something worse.
I didn't want this. I wanted
a life outside of these walls.
I don't want to be like you!
Because you're not living. You're just
waiting, waiting for your next
project, your next fabrication, another version,
the better version
of you."
"I liberated you."
"From what? My nightmares?
Dreams? My past?
No, you liberated me from the chance
at having a normal life,
a second life. One where I
get to take control, and
hold the reins.
To be happy and trust
My memories.
That's what you took from me.
The chance to be free."
"That was Nikita! She's the one
who forced you to
infiltrate Division, who made you crave
revenge for your family."
"A desire that was already
present. Nikita just stirred the embers,
before adding fuel to the flame."
"You sound just like her."
"She taught me well."
"No…I'm not going to hold onto you
the way I tried
to hold onto Nikita. I won't let you
become her."
"I already am."