To My Shattered Soul

They put me on the bed and my eyes were stuck on his face, I gently touched his face and smiled.

“Daisy…” He kissed me on my forehead.

“Mrs. Peter…” I whispered with a smile on my face.

“Stay” He sobbed kissing my hand over and over again.

“I will! In here… Always!” I sat my hand on his heart.

I looked up at the ceiling “I’ve lived a century of happiness in your mirror in such a short time! Please live your life to the fullest, for me!” I spoke as my breath started to break, my vision started to get blurry, then darker until I stopped seeing or feeling anything.

Then I felt light touching my face, a bright yet cold light, a joyful light.

I opened my eyes and saw tall grass around me, I saw the sun smiling at me, I sat when I felt someone else is there with me, when I looked around I saw a little girl running around.

“Oh, you are awake?” She reached me, it was Ellie.

I rushed to her when I stumbled and fell down, “Are you really here?” I cupped my hands around her face as tears rolled down my cheeks.

“Yes of course… The question is… are you?” She asked me with a very playful smile on her face.

“What do you mean by that?” I asked.

“Come here” She started running away.

“Wait!” I stood up and chased her until we were at the edge of a small hill, down that hill was a beach, the river was quiet and shiny like a mirror, and there was something like a gazebo.

She looked at me and smiled, she pulled my hand “Come!” She insisted and started running down.

“Slow down! You’re gonna hurt yourself” I laughed even though I was scared, I remembered the way we used to run as children.

We reached the place that looked like a gazebo, it was wide and sparkly as we peeked inside I realized it was the place where I saw myself in the dream, where I was swinging on the swing.

I looked back and smiled at her, “This is what you deserve!” She whispered.

“Don’t mock me… I haven’t done anything to deserve this… or… Peter!” I lowered my eyes.

“Of course you did! You learned to move on! You’ve become stronger! You’ve realized that a person doesn’t need to be changed in order to be loved!

You’ve started to play your part in making the world a less suffocated place, for people like us! You are the one who brought me to a place like this, and for whatever you’ve done always cherish the biggest reward you’ve got ‘Peter!’” She smiled and held my hands.

I rubbed her tiny fingers “What kind of reward is that when it’s snatched right after it was given to you” I missed his face so much already, as it's been a century apart.

“Silly! No one can snatch him from you” She giggled like the child she was.

“And you said you are here because of me? I didn’t get it?” I asked.

“There are girls like me out there, who are wearing the cosplay of your comic, just because they have a hope now, that one day everyone will accept them just like you have!

Because they are as beautiful as anyone else of us! And this brought peace to my afterlife.” She looked at me innocently.

“So this is what peace looks like? Then I have no problem staying here” I grinned to make myself happy when I actually knew Peter must have been broken, I knew he loved me, but I needed to see him happy, even though I was dead.

She held my face with her little hands “No Daisy… It’s not your peace… It is just mine!” She smiled as she started walking away from me “Wait! What do you mean?” I called out to her.

But she just left after saying just two lines to me “Just know that I loved you always!” She disappeared in thin air, and I was left alone, I cried like a baby.

Meanwhile, Jordan carried Jill to her bedroom, as soon as he got close to her bed she kissed him and told him to put her down, she looked at him with a smile on her face and tears in her eyes.

“What happened?” He asked as he gently lowered his arm to help her get down.

“I want to tell you something” She kept looking in his eyes and sat down on the ground with him “I have loved you always, more than anything! I mean it.

And by anything, I mean everything… that includes my legs! If you’d have asked for my life I would have given you” She gently touched his cheek.

“What happened?” Jordan seemed worried, he thought she might say something that can break his heart.

“I am sorry about pushing you into the dark, I asked for more when I should have been thankful that I had you, I shouldn’t have done that!

You’ve done so much for me, but even after that I….” She couldn’t control her rapid breath she was sobbing “I can’t let you sacrifice my baby…” She said.

Jordan’s chest started burning from inside, he felt sweaty and his heart began to get heavier.

“What is happening?” He looked around when he realized he was not in her bedroom, he was in the basement.

When he looked down he realized he was sitting inside the symbol “What did you do?” He stared at her, with anger and pain.

“I didn’t do anything Jord… this is you who brought that upon yourself” She whispered.

He opened his mouth to speak when blood blew out of his mouth and nose.

“Sssh! It’s okay” She ran her fingers in his hair as he rested his head on her lap, his body kept twitching until he fainted.

“Now!” Rehan said.

Jill kissed him on his forehead and left the basement with both Athena and Rehan.