A little Christmas gift though it's one day late, I had to do an extra check to see if it was okay. There is a flashback in this chapter and it's through Catie's view.
Mitch isn't my character, I borrowed him from Baywatch.
I'm sorry if there is any misspellings but I did write the flashback some time ago, even before I wrote this chapter actually.
Note: the flashback is a kind of flashback to the future, if that makes any sense.
Well, here's the chapter. Hope you like it.
Catie's secret
"Why did you have to go? I need you. I want you back" Catie sobbed. Hercules found her at the spot he had showed her two days ago. "You're not supposed to be with them, I am because it was my fault. It's all my fault. I shouldn't have let you go. I need you so much. I want you back. I want you back." Catie sobbed even more, Hercules put his arms around her, "Let me go, Let me go" Catie said punshing him in the chest, Hercules didn't let go, "Let me go" Catie's punch was barely a punch at all, she gave up and dropped herself in his arms crying. "It was my fault, it was my fault" she repeated over and over again, "I promised her, but I broke it. I shouldn't have let her go. She's supposed to be here...with me, not with them. It hurts, it hurts so much." Catie went quiet for a while and just cried.
"What happened?" Hercules asked in a soft voice. Catie sobbed a bit more before answering.
****** Flashback through Catie's view
It was a bright sunny day, birds was singing everything was perfect. The phone rang and Mitch picked it up then he gave it to me.
"It's Julie"
I smiled in happiness remembering that we had made plans for that day.
"You remember that we had plans for today, right?" I heard a fermilliar voice say.
"Of course I do. It will be great."
"Yeah I know just the warm beach, the ocean and us." She said in a dreamy voice and I giggled at that.
"You will meet me at headquarters, right? I'm just gonna eat breakfast then I'm going over there with Mitch."
"Yeah. Well, I see you then."
"See ya" at this I hung up the phone and sat down by the table.
"What are you two going to do today?" Mitch asked.
"We're gonna go to the beach and hang out." I answered.
"Remember not to go out in the water alone and..."
"Mitch, I know the rules. I'm not gonna go in the water unless if Julie is with me." Mitch opened his mouth to say something more but I continued, "and I'm gonna say hello to Jana, and ask her about the water and so on. Mitch I know this, you've said it at least a million times to both me and Hobie."
"Good." Mitch said and took a bite of his breakfast, "Hobie's gonna get you around three and then you're..."
"Gonna go to headquarters and help cleaning the cars and stuff. I know, I know."
At headquarters when Julie came we changed in the locker room to our bathing suits put a t-shirt and shorts over it and went to tell Mitch that we were gonna go to venice beach. Mitch gave us more of 'don't go in the water alone' and so on before we left.
Well at Venice beach we said hello to Jana.
"Hi girls, how are you today?"
"We're great." Julie answered. "Just gonna relax on the beach."
"But first, we need to know the usual. You know Mitch."
Jana laughed a little, "yeah, the water is fine, nothing to worry about."
"Okay"
"Have fun girls."
"We will." Julie said beaming before dragging me to an empty spot. We had fun playing cards, reading books, talking, cracking jokes, looking at the surfers and a lot of other things.
After about an hour Julie wanted to go swimming, I was unsure about it but she convinced me and we went into the water after waving to Jana to tell her we were going into the water. Julie splashed some water at me to loosen up a bit and it had worked. Then she started jumping up and down and by each jump she landed further out, she thought it was fun so I copied her and it was fun. We kept jumping but jumped one too many times, an undercurrent grabbed us and dragged us under water. We managed to get up to surface and signal for help but then got dragged under again. Julie grabbed my hand, and somehow I was able to turn to her and face her. She looked scared, terrified, not knowing what to do except to struggle the current.
I was able to get up to surface again still holding her hand but just long enough to take another breath. I squeezed her hand in a promise not to let her go, no matter what and she did the same. Julie stopped struggling she didn't have any air left in her lungs and swallowed water instead. Her grip on my hand started slipping but I grabbed it harder, I wasn't gonna break the promise. Soon I didn't have any air left and started swallowing water, her hand slipped out of my hand. She looked at me scared as she disappeared in the water, someone had grabbed my waist and dragged me out of the water. My world went black and then next thing I knew I was lying in a boat coughing, when I had stopped coughing I asked after Julie, they wondered who Julie was and I started screaming her name and demanded them to turn the boat around but they didn't. So I attempted to jump into the water but one of the lifeguards grabbed me and pulled me back down, I cried her name. They had been oblivious about Julie and didn't bother to look for her, they thought I was halucinating that someone had been with me and tried to tell me otherwise.
****** End flashback
"They went back to search for Julie but didn't found her, they never found the body." Catie finished her story and cried even more. Hercules didn't understand some parts of the story like what a phone was.
"How long ago?" Hercules asked.
"Two years" Catie answered.
"Does anybody else know?" Catie shook her head.
"It's my fault."
"No, it's not yourfault. How could you have known about the undercurrent? It's not your fault."
"It's my fault." Catie repeated.
"It's not your fault, if it's someones fault it's the undercurrent not you." Hercules tried to convince her that it wasn't her fault.
"It's my fault my sister died." Catie said before she fell asleep from all the crying.
"By the gods, your sister?" Hercules didn't get an answer, he looked down and saw that Catie had fallen asleep. He picked he up and carried her back to the house.
Lilith, Iolaus, Jason and Alcmene sat by the table when Lilith saw Hercules.
"Hercules' back." She said and they went outside.
"Hercules what happened?" Lilith asked when she saw Catie in his arms.
"She's just exsausted." He told them and Alcmene helped him inside. Hercules put her down gently on his bed and put the blanket over her. He sat on the floor beside Catie looking worried.
"What happened, Hercules?" Alcmene asked softly.
"Her sister died" he told them "she drowned, Catie was with her but survived."
"Poor Catie" Lilith said and tried to stifle a cry of shock.
"Her name was Julie, just like she called you, Lilith, before she almost drowned." Hercules said looking up at his friends and mother. Lilith gasped and looked away, Jason hugged her trying to comfort her. Hercules looked back at Catie. Alcmene sat down beside him.
"There's something else." She said.
"She blames herelf"
"Why don't we go out to the kitchen and talk" Alcmene suggested and they all went outside and sat down by the table.
"This can take a long time. And she really needs friends now, she has just started the grieving process but she can't do it alone." Alcmene said to Iolaus, Jason, Lilith and Hercules.
"JULIE!" Catie called from inside the room. Hercules rushed into the room. Catie sat up in the bed crying again. Hercules sat down and hugged her, she hugged him back and held on to him as if he was the only thing keeping her alive.
"It's okay, it's okay" he said softly whispering to her. After about a minute Catie let go as she fell asleep. Hercules put her down, tucked her in the blanket and kissed her forhead.
"I'm not leaving her alone." Hercules said as he came back out into the kitchen.
"Why don't you sleep in there tonight then." Alcmene said.
"You can take my bed" Lilith offered.
"It's okay, I can sleep next to her on the floor."
"Are you sure?" Hercules nodded.
Catie woke up the next morning without having more nightmares that night. She swung her feet over the bed edge and just before she put them down she noticed Hercules sleeping on the floor where she would have put down her feet. Not to wake him up she put her feet down beside him and pushed her out of bed and walked quietly out of the room.
She drank a cup of water and put it down.
"How'd you sleep?" a voice behind her said. Catie jumped and turned around to see Hercules stand leaning on the wall beside his room.
"Okay, I guess."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah" Catie forced a smile. "I'm sure." Hercules shook his head.
"Why do you do this?" He asked.
"Do what?"
"This. Pretending that nothing's happened and that you've moved on when you haven't."
Catie didn't answer, Hercules went over to her. "Why don't you talk to me?" he asked.
"Do you really think it's easy?" she asked upset, "she was my twin sister, Hercules. Twin. Do you really think I want to tell the whole world that my twin sister died because of me?"
"It's not your fault, you have too see that."
"It is my fault, I broke the promise and let go of her hand."
"No. How can it be your fault? You didn't know there was an undercurrent there. You can't blame yourself for what happened, it's not your fault." Catie didn't answer instead she let a tear fall down her cheek. Hercules wrapped his arms around her and let her cry.
Mitch isn't my character, I borrowed him from Baywatch.
I'm sorry if there is any misspellings but I did write the flashback some time ago, even before I wrote this chapter actually.
Note: the flashback is a kind of flashback to the future, if that makes any sense.
Well, here's the chapter. Hope you like it.
Catie's secret
"Why did you have to go? I need you. I want you back" Catie sobbed. Hercules found her at the spot he had showed her two days ago. "You're not supposed to be with them, I am because it was my fault. It's all my fault. I shouldn't have let you go. I need you so much. I want you back. I want you back." Catie sobbed even more, Hercules put his arms around her, "Let me go, Let me go" Catie said punshing him in the chest, Hercules didn't let go, "Let me go" Catie's punch was barely a punch at all, she gave up and dropped herself in his arms crying. "It was my fault, it was my fault" she repeated over and over again, "I promised her, but I broke it. I shouldn't have let her go. She's supposed to be here...with me, not with them. It hurts, it hurts so much." Catie went quiet for a while and just cried.
"What happened?" Hercules asked in a soft voice. Catie sobbed a bit more before answering.
****** Flashback through Catie's view
It was a bright sunny day, birds was singing everything was perfect. The phone rang and Mitch picked it up then he gave it to me.
"It's Julie"
I smiled in happiness remembering that we had made plans for that day.
"You remember that we had plans for today, right?" I heard a fermilliar voice say.
"Of course I do. It will be great."
"Yeah I know just the warm beach, the ocean and us." She said in a dreamy voice and I giggled at that.
"You will meet me at headquarters, right? I'm just gonna eat breakfast then I'm going over there with Mitch."
"Yeah. Well, I see you then."
"See ya" at this I hung up the phone and sat down by the table.
"What are you two going to do today?" Mitch asked.
"We're gonna go to the beach and hang out." I answered.
"Remember not to go out in the water alone and..."
"Mitch, I know the rules. I'm not gonna go in the water unless if Julie is with me." Mitch opened his mouth to say something more but I continued, "and I'm gonna say hello to Jana, and ask her about the water and so on. Mitch I know this, you've said it at least a million times to both me and Hobie."
"Good." Mitch said and took a bite of his breakfast, "Hobie's gonna get you around three and then you're..."
"Gonna go to headquarters and help cleaning the cars and stuff. I know, I know."
At headquarters when Julie came we changed in the locker room to our bathing suits put a t-shirt and shorts over it and went to tell Mitch that we were gonna go to venice beach. Mitch gave us more of 'don't go in the water alone' and so on before we left.
Well at Venice beach we said hello to Jana.
"Hi girls, how are you today?"
"We're great." Julie answered. "Just gonna relax on the beach."
"But first, we need to know the usual. You know Mitch."
Jana laughed a little, "yeah, the water is fine, nothing to worry about."
"Okay"
"Have fun girls."
"We will." Julie said beaming before dragging me to an empty spot. We had fun playing cards, reading books, talking, cracking jokes, looking at the surfers and a lot of other things.
After about an hour Julie wanted to go swimming, I was unsure about it but she convinced me and we went into the water after waving to Jana to tell her we were going into the water. Julie splashed some water at me to loosen up a bit and it had worked. Then she started jumping up and down and by each jump she landed further out, she thought it was fun so I copied her and it was fun. We kept jumping but jumped one too many times, an undercurrent grabbed us and dragged us under water. We managed to get up to surface and signal for help but then got dragged under again. Julie grabbed my hand, and somehow I was able to turn to her and face her. She looked scared, terrified, not knowing what to do except to struggle the current.
I was able to get up to surface again still holding her hand but just long enough to take another breath. I squeezed her hand in a promise not to let her go, no matter what and she did the same. Julie stopped struggling she didn't have any air left in her lungs and swallowed water instead. Her grip on my hand started slipping but I grabbed it harder, I wasn't gonna break the promise. Soon I didn't have any air left and started swallowing water, her hand slipped out of my hand. She looked at me scared as she disappeared in the water, someone had grabbed my waist and dragged me out of the water. My world went black and then next thing I knew I was lying in a boat coughing, when I had stopped coughing I asked after Julie, they wondered who Julie was and I started screaming her name and demanded them to turn the boat around but they didn't. So I attempted to jump into the water but one of the lifeguards grabbed me and pulled me back down, I cried her name. They had been oblivious about Julie and didn't bother to look for her, they thought I was halucinating that someone had been with me and tried to tell me otherwise.
****** End flashback
"They went back to search for Julie but didn't found her, they never found the body." Catie finished her story and cried even more. Hercules didn't understand some parts of the story like what a phone was.
"How long ago?" Hercules asked.
"Two years" Catie answered.
"Does anybody else know?" Catie shook her head.
"It's my fault."
"No, it's not yourfault. How could you have known about the undercurrent? It's not your fault."
"It's my fault." Catie repeated.
"It's not your fault, if it's someones fault it's the undercurrent not you." Hercules tried to convince her that it wasn't her fault.
"It's my fault my sister died." Catie said before she fell asleep from all the crying.
"By the gods, your sister?" Hercules didn't get an answer, he looked down and saw that Catie had fallen asleep. He picked he up and carried her back to the house.
Lilith, Iolaus, Jason and Alcmene sat by the table when Lilith saw Hercules.
"Hercules' back." She said and they went outside.
"Hercules what happened?" Lilith asked when she saw Catie in his arms.
"She's just exsausted." He told them and Alcmene helped him inside. Hercules put her down gently on his bed and put the blanket over her. He sat on the floor beside Catie looking worried.
"What happened, Hercules?" Alcmene asked softly.
"Her sister died" he told them "she drowned, Catie was with her but survived."
"Poor Catie" Lilith said and tried to stifle a cry of shock.
"Her name was Julie, just like she called you, Lilith, before she almost drowned." Hercules said looking up at his friends and mother. Lilith gasped and looked away, Jason hugged her trying to comfort her. Hercules looked back at Catie. Alcmene sat down beside him.
"There's something else." She said.
"She blames herelf"
"Why don't we go out to the kitchen and talk" Alcmene suggested and they all went outside and sat down by the table.
"This can take a long time. And she really needs friends now, she has just started the grieving process but she can't do it alone." Alcmene said to Iolaus, Jason, Lilith and Hercules.
"JULIE!" Catie called from inside the room. Hercules rushed into the room. Catie sat up in the bed crying again. Hercules sat down and hugged her, she hugged him back and held on to him as if he was the only thing keeping her alive.
"It's okay, it's okay" he said softly whispering to her. After about a minute Catie let go as she fell asleep. Hercules put her down, tucked her in the blanket and kissed her forhead.
"I'm not leaving her alone." Hercules said as he came back out into the kitchen.
"Why don't you sleep in there tonight then." Alcmene said.
"You can take my bed" Lilith offered.
"It's okay, I can sleep next to her on the floor."
"Are you sure?" Hercules nodded.
Catie woke up the next morning without having more nightmares that night. She swung her feet over the bed edge and just before she put them down she noticed Hercules sleeping on the floor where she would have put down her feet. Not to wake him up she put her feet down beside him and pushed her out of bed and walked quietly out of the room.
She drank a cup of water and put it down.
"How'd you sleep?" a voice behind her said. Catie jumped and turned around to see Hercules stand leaning on the wall beside his room.
"Okay, I guess."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah" Catie forced a smile. "I'm sure." Hercules shook his head.
"Why do you do this?" He asked.
"Do what?"
"This. Pretending that nothing's happened and that you've moved on when you haven't."
Catie didn't answer, Hercules went over to her. "Why don't you talk to me?" he asked.
"Do you really think it's easy?" she asked upset, "she was my twin sister, Hercules. Twin. Do you really think I want to tell the whole world that my twin sister died because of me?"
"It's not your fault, you have too see that."
"It is my fault, I broke the promise and let go of her hand."
"No. How can it be your fault? You didn't know there was an undercurrent there. You can't blame yourself for what happened, it's not your fault." Catie didn't answer instead she let a tear fall down her cheek. Hercules wrapped his arms around her and let her cry.