The thief that appeared on Parker's memories last chapter and reaped is called Cedric.
This chapter is dark and sad so I'll be posting the next one as possible even before you review.
Parker wandered for hours while her head swapped in and out of her memories. Cedric's and Sophie's faces kept switching, threatening her and making her fill guilty; Eliot constantly being replaced with her repellent father inside her head...
By the time she became aware of herself she was inside and abandoned building with a massive headache and feeling guilty as hell. She could never come back now, she had tried to stab Sophie in front of her little girl and she didn't even want to think about what could have happened if Eliot hadn't stopped her... How could Sophie suddenly be Cedric if they didn't look alike? How could Eliot suddenly turn into her dad?
It was all so confuse and it hurt so badly she felt she was about to explode, the pain was running through her veins making her itchy and jumpy, the shadows were getting her changing her vision into a blurry stage of darkness. There was no light anymore, there was no time because every second of every minute was frozen and the hours running through her fingers like sand were soon to be lost tainting the floor and walls with her tears...
She could hear her hearth bumping in her ears and at every beat her head hurt more and the voices inside it screamed louder "Take your shirt of, I want to see what you hide underneath it!", "Daddy loves you, darling, so just hold still and let me love you...", "Don't scream you bitch! You deserve this and you know it!"
She did deserve it, she betrayed her family, putting them in danger, and she deserved to be punished.
She managed to get up from the floor, her knees were weaker than what they had ever been, her entire body was shaky and every step felt heavy like there was something binding her to the ground. She turned around and saw the wall, her hands clenched into fists while one of the voices inside her head took over "You need to be punished!"
-I need to be punished... - Parker repeated through sobs, she needed to be punished, but she still remembered her promise and that hurt even more, knowing she was going to disappoint him... - I am sorry Archie; I really do need to be punished!
Archie smiled politely at the nice doctor while she walked away.
-Now - he said turning to Parker who was analysing her cast. - Are you going to tell me how you managed to break your left arm in three different places? - She looked down, her lips forming a very thin line.
-I told you. Yesterday's training didn't go well so I decided to train during the night and I fell...
-You fell? - Archie asked, clearly doubting her. -Parker, people are going to think I did this to you; they're going to think I beat you and if this happens again they're going to call social security and you will be back to faster homes.
-No! -she screamed loudly. -No more foster homes!
-Than tell me what happened last night. - She said nothing, he sighed. - You did this to yourself didn't you? - She looked down and way. - Look, kiddo, if I thought physically punishing you would help, I would do it myself. Promise me you won't do this again.
That promise was now broken, the worst part was she wasn't even thinking about that anymore, all she felt was relief. The relief that came as she slammed her shoulder against the brick wall, relief as the voices became silent and Sophie became Sophie again and Eliot wasn't her father anymore.
She was probably in a lot of pain, but she didn't feel it so she slammed herself against the concrete one more time, her shoulder getting bloody as it scrapped the wall. She stepped back and did ait gain and again and again until there was no more pain, no more voices, no more nothing... Just her and the wall.
So, what do you think of Parker's darkest side? I am going out of character?
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