I opened my eyes… and there i was… on the roof… and sam was alive before me…
"You… your… you are… alive…"
"Well yeah silly… at least i think i am?" She placed her fingers and a concerned look crossed her face. "Oh… it seems i no longer have a pulse… i am dead… BLEHhhhhh" she slow fell dramatically back down off the ledge onto the roof… "blehhhh…. Ergggg…. Dieing… help me… jack…"
I was lost for words… and then i noticed it this time… a blue shimmer in the air on the other side of the roof… and i saw it… it walked out of the blue ripple, but it came from inside it, not as if it was a doorway but a physical spce tucked away in the real world… and its tail shot out straight for her neck and once again i fell back off the roof. I couldnt loose her… not again… i coosed my eyes but instead of waiting forever i felt a hot stabbing sensation that snapped open my eyes. I saw it, it came for me this time… it stopped me from falling… from saving her… it pulled me back up.
Coughing up blood i looked into its beady eyes… the scaley skin all over its body… the hard plated exoskeleton covering most of its body leaving very few weak vulnerabilities in this creature… it was… the perfect killing machine…
Its jaws seperated wide like a snakes would as it stuck the up half of my body into its mouth and chomped down. I closed my eyes and as i did i noticed a shift in smell… before i smelt the inside of the creature but now i smelled the fresh night air.
"It worked… wait… we need to go sam!"
I looked over but her face was full of fear as blood spilt out of her mouth.
"It seems we have a jumper here… my pets aren't quite equipped for anomalies like you and i… so heres your warning kid… nothing you do will stop me… your friend is dead and you will too soon… hide in a ball somewhere and wait for your world to burn…"
Tears streamed down my face… anger… sadness… grief… regret… loneliness… everything all piled up on top of each other as i stared dead into this murderers eyes… but i saw a reflection of myself… no… i… was looking at myself…
"There it is! THATS IT JACKIE BOY! Now you know… you cant stop this because you caused this! God i love seeing my pathetic reaction! Fucking god your worthless… but this is what fixes you… so whatever… farewell… me…"
I watched as the other me stepped into a blue ripple that swiftly disappeared after…
"Life… sucks…" her voice faint, a mere whisper in the air.
I couldnt help but smile slightly as she tried to cheer me up. "You stole my line…"
"I… know… don't… give up… you… you need… to… remember..." her voice trailed off and her eyes went blank… and with that the spark of joy i started to feel snuffed itself out…
I screamed into the night sky, a raw gutteral roar to the universe… i wouldnt become that version of me. I had to stop that me from completeing his tasks…. I closed my eyes to shut away the tears. 'I need to go somewhere… i… i need to stop him…' racking my head with any idea of where to go the words i heard once flashed across my mind… "one day you will seek the truth…"