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"What do I do?"
"You can't get Laura out without hurting Ashley."
"I'm so sorry, Ashley." Derek said, looking and my still body. I wanted to scream I'M HERE or HELP, but my voice wasn't my voice anymore.
"Derek?" I say, even though it really wasn't me.
"Ashley?"
"She's gone. It's me now."
"Laura, you need to release from her."
"No..."
"Laura, she isn't you."
"I can't Derek."
"This is wrong."
"I don't wanna be dead anymore, Derek."
"Don't make me hurt you, Laura."
"You hurt me, you hurt Ashley."
"If you release from her, I will help you find someone else. Just please...release from her."
"I will stay here with her until you find me someone else."
"No...come out from her or we have no deal."
"Whatever you say brother dearest." Laura says, expelling herself from my mind. There was a trick...there always is with these type of things. I fall to the ground and lay coughing and screaming in pain.
"What did you do to her?" Derek said, collapsing by my side.
"No big deal."
"If she dies, you won't be able to live in someone else."
"She'll be fine." Laura says, jumping back into my mind and making it stop. When she expells herself from me again, I cough a few more times and try to catch my breath.
"We're leaving. You do ANYTHING to her while I'm searching, and you will die again. This time, I'll be the one to kill you."
"Oh Derek...Derek...Derek...you're all talk. You wouldn't kill me." Laura says, laughing.
"Don't test me, Laura."
"Oh I'm sorry." She says sarcastically. Derek takes my by the hand and we both wake up in the same room we started this whole ordeal in.
"Ashley are you okay?" Derek says, looking at me worried. I cough a few times, and catch my breath.
"Yeah, I'm fine." I say, faintly.
"You don't have any color. Are you sure you're okay?"
"I'm fine." I say again.
"Okay..." Derek said, backing off.
"Why did you take me there?"
"Ashley, don't-"
"Why?" I say, pushing for answers. Derek sighs.
"WHAT PART OF NO DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?" Derek yells. It startled me, but I didn't back down.
"You killed my best fried. You almost killed me several times. You took Scott away from me, You've terrorized and threatened my friends. And now you have me here...away from them...only a week before graduation. YOU OWE ME EXPLANATIONS, DEREK." I say, getting angry.
"Fine. You want an explanation?"
"That's kinda what I've wanted all along, Derek." I say, calmingly.
"There are these-what we call Oni's-they only appear at night. They wear black, but don't have any faces. They really can't be killed. You try to kill them, they simply just kill you. There isn't an inbetween. They killed my family, and then disappeared. They've started coming back, and I want to be the one to kill them."
"That didn't answer my question, Derek." I say, sternly.
"My mom knows how to kill them. Only she knows. She died trying to kill them and keep us safe. Which obviously didn't work out."
"And Laura?"
"She's the oldest of us kids. She tried to help mom, but it didn't work. They were fighting and growling. Swords were swinging and things were being broken. My mom told Laura to get us kids away somewhere safe. Once she did, she came back to fight. After fighting and battling with them, one by one, they started disappearing. My mom thought they were gone and that it was safe. She wasn't on guard anymore, and-"
"It's okay, Derek."
"They pierced her in the stomach, over and over and over. Laura stepped in to give mom a chance to get up and heal, but she never did. They kept going and piercing mom, and then Laura got hit, and that's when the house burst into flames. I could see the smoke and flames...I could feel the heat. Peter and Cora wouldn't let me go help. As the male, I should have stepped in, but they wouldn't let me. Cora kept me back while Peter stepped up and went to help. He didn't come back."
"Derek-"
"Let me finish."
"You don't have to. It's okay, really."
"You need to know the story."
"Why?"
"Because it could save you from many many dangerous people and situations." Derek said, sitting back in the chair.
"Okay." I say, waiting for him to continue.
"It was me and Cora. We stayed hidden, and by sunrise, they Oni were gone. They had waited all night long for Cora and I to return, but we stayed put. The house was standing, but there was damage. Mom and Laura had been dragged away from the fire, after they had died. I assumed it was Peter, but then I found Peter's body not too far from where mom and Laura were drug. Cora and I tried to fix up the house to make it liveable, but it wasn't much of a success. One morning, I woke up. Cora was gone. She wasn't anywhere in the house. She had abandoned me. I was on my own."
"I'm sorry, Derek."
"She knows how to kill them. I want to know how."
"Let's go back." I say, getting up.