Before I begin…
If you cannot handle: OC's, Language, Blood, Violence, Alcohol, Clinical Insanity, and Death.
LEAVE NOW.
This is probably my darkest story yet and I do take this one very seriously. This is focused mainly on my OC who is very much based on me. In fact, this character is pretty much exactly me with a few things changed about the back story and mental stability. I would appreciate you taking this one seriously as well but if you've got comments or questions then by all means ask them. I'm willing to answer questions and comments but if I see something I don't like in my comment section I claim all rights to remove it.
This story takes place in my personal AU world where nobody has died but all of the humans and trolls have met each other and are helping each other through the game. Everyone will be aged by about 2 years so that they can be a little older so that it's much easier for me to write.
This is not a story for the younger audience. If you are under the age of 13 please don't read this and if you're above the age of 13 please read with caution.
Fight scenes are going to be somewhat (depending on your definition of the word) graphic so if you cannot handle it, please leave.
If you cannot handle things such as thoughts of suicide or mentions of attempting it, please leave.
If you cannot handle mentions of mental instability and fits of clinical insanity, please leave.
If you cannot handle the deaths of characters you love of any kind, please leave.
If you cannot handle strong language used by some characters, please leave.
If you cannot handle mentions of liquor or drinking, please leave.
If you cannot handle certain pairings or pairings with my OC, please leave.
I do not claim to own any of the characters other than Caitlin and Chris because everyone, besides the previously mentioned, belongs to Andrew Hussie. I do not claim to own any of the worlds, besides The Land of Mirrors and Memories, because they also belong to Andrew Hussie. I do not claim to own any of the TV shows, animes, songs, or products mentioned, watched, sung, or used during this story because they all belong to their rightful owners.
This story will stay rated at T unless I decide that it needs to be moved to M.
Thank you for taking the time to read my notice and I hope you enjoy.
~~The Girl with Glass Wings :D
Update: This was the only way I could figure out how to do this so here it is! There is a link to Soundcloud that has the demo on it in my profile. Just copy and paste it into a new tab. Make sure to comment about what you think!
I Remember...
John's POV:
We found her there. Crying, no she was bawling her eyes out. A girl sat in front of a large mirror that appeared to be imbedded into the base of a large tree with strange yellow colored bark. Her small hunched over figure shook with heart wrenching sobs. Her medium shoulder length hair fell over her shoulders, and what looked like a hair piece was thrown precariously next to her left leg. Her small ivory colored hands covered most of her face that was buried in her lap as she sat there. I could make out soft pink lips pulled back as she cried out revealing a few snow white teeth. Her white shirt was a little baggy on her which revealed that she hadn't eaten in a very long time. Her lemon yellow knee length skirt had flared out from, when I could only assume, she fell to her knees. Her black converse shoes had a rose pattern on them but appeared dusty, as if she'd been exploring all sorts of places. Her wrist had a strange looking bracelet with Dave's Time Gear Symbol as its charm. It looked like the gear could be turned if she twisted it. I took note of the rapier that rested on the ground in front of her. The blade was stained with almost every color of blood you'd find in both the trolls and the humans. A rainbow of fresh and dried blood seemed to have spooked Dave just slightly when I see him notice as well.
Dave and I shared a look and slowly started walking towards the young girl. I accidently kicked a small rock which made a loud rustling noise as it brushed past the tall blades of grass. The girl gasped out loudly at the sound and looked at us quickly. Her silver eyes were drenched in tears that were paired with a small nose and a few freckles dotting her nose. Her dark dirty blonde hair swayed over her shoulders as she whipped her head towards us. She gave a horrified look, and began to crawl backwards on her hands, dragging her body with her so that she wouldn't break eye contact with me.
"Well now you've gone and done it, John. You scared her," Dave said to me with an annoyed sounding voice. The girl still would break her eye contact with me as she listened to Dave speak.
"Not the time, Dave," I snapped back quickly before addressing the girl, "Uh… sorry about that. I'm John and this is Dave. Who are you and why were you crying?"
She stiffened at my questions but seemed to realize that she was still crying. She hesitated to answer but did eventually.
"I….I'm Caitlin… and it's not… not important…" She responded with a cracking voice. Due to her crying it seemed to mess with her voice that seemed like she would have had a voice as sweet as sugar. I slowly walked up to her, avoiding a few roots from the tree, and accidently tripping over one of them, but eventually was able to reach out my hand out to her.
"Here! I'll help you up," I said nonchalantly. Her bright pink cheeks stained with tears were visible to me along with the most beautiful pair of silver eyes I think I've ever seen. They glistened in the light with her tears and were surrounded by red puffy skin but even so this girl was absolutely beautiful. I hoped she had a personality to match it. She visibly relaxed and reached her small dainty hand towards my larger one. As I got a better look at her hands, there were calluses like Dave's. Her hand was soft like silk in my rough hands which also had calluses from my hammer. That thing's heavy you know! I quietly wonder to myself where she got those calluses on her hands as I pull her up onto her feet. She was roughly 5'1" or 152cm for the metric users like Jake. I can see Dave walk up to us with his usual 'I'm cooler than you' thing when he meets someone new. He started dropping that for me since he's known me for so long.
"So now that you're done panicking, I think, I'm Dave," He says a little rudely. What's his problem? He pushes his shades up a bit on his face, "John I think we should take her back to everyone. Something isn't right here. This girl shouldn't be here."
Caitlin looks down at the ground and a few more tears escape her eyes and she drops my hand, "I don't mean to… I don't mean to be problem, Dave. I wouldn't want to cause trouble. I…I…"
Caitlin backs away from me a few steps and starts to shake. She puts her hands onto each side of her head over her ears. Her fingers tangle into her already messy hair and she starts to breath rather heavily. Then something weird happened… she glitched. Her body disappeared and reappeared within seconds with her sobbing sounding distorted and ranging between volumes. She releases her head and looks at her hands as they glitch around then look to Dave and I. Dave takes a step towards her and she freezes up. Her eyes snap to Dave before she bolts into the other direction, grabbing her bloody rapier as she ran.
She pushes herself through the brush until I can't see her anymore screaming out, "Stay away from me! I'll only hurt you!"
"What the hell," Dave breathes out, clearly shocked by the girl's reaction, "We should go after her. Something isn't right."
Right at the moment I got a Pester from Karkat.
"Shit. You deal with him while I chase after Caitlin. It's probably best we don't lose her. Catch up when you're done," Dave called as her took off running after the small girl.
-carcinoGeneticist [CG] began trolling ectoBiologist [EB]—
[CG]: HEY FUCKASS. SOLLUX SAYS THAT SOMEONE NEW JOINED OUR SESSION SOMEHOW. YOU SEEN THEM?
[EB]: yeah actually just now Dave and I saw her. She's so small but she has to around our age. She seemed pretty freaked out by us.
[CG]: SHE? IT'S A GIRL? OK I'LL GO TELL SOL. IS SHE WITH YOU TWO BULGDE LICKERS?
[EB]: no she just ran away from us. Ask Sollux if there are any glitches in the system.
[CG]: GLITCHES? WHY THE FUCK SHOULD I ASK HIM THAT?
[EB]: Dave and I think she might be one. She just glitched out just now and then ran away. Dave and I are going to go chase after her.
[EB]: speaking of which I really need to chase after her so I've gotta let ya go.
[CG]: HUH. RIGHT. JUST KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THE GIRL.
[EB]: yeah yeah :B
-ectoBiologist [EB] ceased being trolled by carcinoGeneticist [CG]-
I slid my phone back into my pocket and ran through the ruined shrubbery after Dave and Caitlin. She couldn't have gotten that far right?