Chapter 20
Me and Vee sat at our usual table in the borderline diner.
"seriously, what happened? you, like, disappeared off the raider for a month!" Vee ranted, she hasn't shut up since I met up with her.
"sorry, just some stuff happened" I said as I noticed Patch walk in from the back door. He was wearing his uniform. "sometimes I wish I never came back" I said looking down at my hands on the table.
"Patch is a dirty sleaze bag, you shouldn't waste your time on him, babe" Vee said glaring evilly at Patch.
I took another at my ex love, my body felt numb, but my head was pounding. Patch's eyes found me and he began walking over to us.
"great, send in the clowns" I rolled my eyes and looked away.
"Vee could you give us a minute" Patch ordered more than asked.
"no, anything you can say to Nora, you can say to me" she replied, standing her ground against the dark waiter. He glared in response. "fine don't get your knickers in a twist" she finally gave in, tapped my hand with a nod of the head and walked over to the bar.
"the thing with Marcie, it isn't what it looks like" Patch began.
"then what is it? My cousin Jacob is god knows where, he's probably dead because of that skanky bitch" I said in one breath, keeping my eyes on Patch's.
"when you went missing, I looked everywhere for you, I thought you were dead and then Marcie said she knew where you were and she'll only tell me if I go out with her" Patch kept his eyes on mine, inviting me in so I could tell he was telling the truth.
"Marcie wouldn't know jack scwat, yeah she's a distant relative on my mothers side, she isn't too closely related to us, she's not even the same blood as us, but she wouldn't know of anything my father's side of the family does, I explained that to you before we started dating, that outsiders were considered intruders on my fathers side."
"listen, I'm sorry please just understand I was at my wits end."
"ok, just forget it and stay away from her or you'll most likely end up like Jacob and I won't be there to save you from Rolf and his crazy experiment fetish" I said sitting back in my seat.
"just tell me what did they do to you?, your not you anymore."
"hah, thanks alot, let me tell you, before they did this to me, I went down fighting with all my strength, hoping for you to blast through the door all guns blazing to save me from that hell" I said. by now I would've been in tears by now, if I was still normal.
"what did they do?" he insisted, leaning closer to me.
"meet me at my house at eleven tonight and I'll explain everything" I said. then, I walked over to Vee and walked out of borderline with her.
"I'll see you later" I said to her as I dropped her off at her house and pulled away.
Eleven o'clock on the dot, Patch was knocking at my door.
"come in" I said as I closed the door after he strode past me.
"so talk to me, explain" he said sitting on my sofa and placing his feet on my coffee table.
"they kept me locked up in a room, they often strapped me to a table and experimented on me and well, this is the end result, any questions?" I said, leaning on the door frame.
"why did they do it?" he asked, finally observing the scars that are visible like the ones on my neck.
"I don't - " a sharp pain blazed through my entire body and I collapsed on the floor, shaking and twitching like I was having a fit.
"Nora!" Patch yelled kneeling by me and everything went black.
sometime later I opened my eyes to Patch sitting with his back against the wall, his head in his hands.
"Patch?" I said, sitting up painfully, I miss my numbness.
"Nora! your alive!" he said, grabbing me into his arms.
"what do you mean?" I asked hugging him back, only out of habit.
"you were not breathing and your heart stopped for about five minutes, I thought you were a goner" he breathed down my neck. he gently kissed my scars on my neck and suddenly, his lips found mine.
"I love you so much, don't ever scare me like that" he said, which surprised me. He didn't really care for me that much did he?
"Patch, there's something wrong with me" I said pulling away from his embrace.
"what do you mean?" he asked, staring me straight into my eyes.
"I mean, the real Nora is trapped inside this brain, in this body, I'm just a empty shell, do you understand?"
"no, your Nora and no one else" he said standing up.
I stood up with him. "no, Nora is trapped with Lilith inside this body, and Nora's suffering, I can feel stabs of her pain, I first noticed it when I saw you and Marcie together, I think she hasn't forgiven you."
"I never did anything! Nora why are you doing this?" he barked violently shaking me.
"I'm not Nora and I think that she wants you to cope with your betrayal."
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