OH. MY. WORD. Thank you to my beautiful review from TeamMarshallLee. You've just got me over my writer's block, so thanks a lot! I'm determined to finish this story now. I also have two chapters that I'd thought I'd already published. So I'll be putting them up (this is the first one).
Chapter 4: Hope
Walking home, Kelly felt numb. Her core was empty, the space that Dean filled becoming a tear in her chest. Her eyes were blurred, her breath short, but she didn't notice.
She kept going over it all, every moment she'd shared with him, every touch, every kiss. It played over and over in her head, a stuck record that couldn't be stopped. And her mind at last fell to the final moment, the moment where she'd watched him leave, on his way to do one of their pointless tasks.
She began to feel the rage, the outrage, build. A voice suddenly called, "Kelly! Kelly!" and her heart leapt. She whirled around. It was Dean. He was fine, fine, alive. But the voice giggled girlishly, and in that brief moment of confusion, Kelly saw her neighbour, Laura. Not Dean.
She tried to push away her grief, long enough to wave and give a weak smile before walking away, her back turned to Laura's smiling face. The world didn't deserve to smile any more, not when it was so cruel.
She walked past the crowds, hearing brief snippets of conversation, talk of Dean. Some talk turned to the Bin, the fate of all deleted people. The tears filled Kelly's eyes again, and she broke into a run, arms shielding her face from view.
People were watching her, murmuring amongst themselves. But she didn't care.
And suddenly she crashed into something, and was knocked on her back, her appendages splayed out from her fall. Her skin smarted painfully as she stopped crying. The pain helped, clearing her thoughts, holding back the sorrow. Kelly saw the little girl that she assumed she had crashed into staring at her in shock. Books that the girl had been carrying were scattered everywhere.
Despite her mental state, Kelly blushed red and bent down to help the girl pick up her books. As she reached for a thick book, she read the title and froze.
Marvel's Guide to the Void. And Kelly knew what to do. She finished cleaning up the mess caused by the fall, mumbled a brief apology and began running again. But this time it had purpose. She knew what she had to do. She knew how to get Dean back.
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