Side by side, unnoticed by all passerby, sat a pair of people. To pass by them, through them perhaps, would yield nothing but the sensation of a cold wind creeping down your spine. Almost everything about them was different, should someone have the eye to see them. One girl with a bob of short teal hair, a straight line of bangs over friendly brown eyes. Her smile was kind but sad as she stared out. One boy with fluffy black hair and a shock of purple in his gaze, face not entirely unfriendly but clearly displeased with what he was seeing.
“You really don’t worry about her?” the girl asked.
He shook his head, mouth twisting down in a frown. “Don’t see any reason to worry about the person responsible for this.”
“But she looks so sad most nights. I really don’t think she meant it.”
“Doesn’t matter if she meant it. She still got me killed. I’m still dead because of her.” Danny turned toward the girl, a fair bit annoyed. “How’re you so forgiving?”
“I’ve been dead a lot longer than you, buddy,” she chuckled. The merry tone fell quickly, however, into a more gentle, somber one. “And I’ve watched Nik beat himself up over it. I’ve watched other people, people who should have protected him, beat him up over it. He’s suffered enough. He doesn’t need my anger on top of that. It can’t be easy to see your family die in front of you.”
When Maria looked back up at him, Danny averted his eyes. She kept going. “Besides, them feeling like hell? It won’t bring us back. So I take that accident, and I forgive him. You should forgive her accidents too.”
“Easier said than done,” he murmured, eyes returning to the pair before them. Curled together on a motel bed, Caitlyn asleep and twitching her fingers against her dreams, and Nik flipping aimlessly through the holofeed. “You died through inaction. I was decapitated. It’s a little different.”
Maria winced ever so slightly in sympathy. Gently, she took his hand, squeezing it and keeping her hold until he met her eyes. “Just consider it. It makes it easier, I promise.”
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