runaway heroes

Seth's POV
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I walk past Cecelia's room on the way to the training room because John told me that we were going to be going on a mission soon,

Poor Cecelia, she's got the worse end of the deal for the entire mission. Having to pretend to be a call girl so she can kill the prince of the Quzech people before he attacks anymore innocent people.

I enter the spacious gym and run the virtual obstacle course to the highest setting, a few hours later I exit feeling exhausted. As I pass Cecelia's room I slowly creep in to check on her and make sure she's not having another nightmare.

Cole and I both had those after we were renamed and we started to remember things better off forgotten.
When John realizes she remembers he's gonna have her tell him everything that happened because he remembers too; we all remember eventually, except for the scientists and the testers.

I hear whimpers from her as I get closer to her bed, I also see her thrashing around as if trying to fight of some invisible force.

She's remembering one of our missions, I'm sure of it

I cringe as the images run through my mind

"I'm so sorry, Cecelia" I whisper trying not to tear up "I didn't save you nor Charlotte" I pause silent sobs racking my body "I'm sorry that your pain was wasted and that neither one of you made it"

I turn away from her getting ready to leave when she shoots up gasping for breath, I turn back facing towards her and hear her let out an ear piercing scream as she flies away from he towards the opposite end of her bed. I wrap my arms around her and pull her towards me so she doesn't fall off, I don't even realize everyone else has come in and turned on the lights until she looks around and her breathing partially slows down.

She looks at me and burst into tears once again grabbing onto my shirt and crying into my shoulder, I start to wrap my arms around her when I feel her go limp and start to fall backwards. I quickly scoop her up in my arms and lay her back on the bed spastically checking for a pulse. I relax when I feel one and finally realize Cole has been yelling at me for awhile when he punches me on my arm and pulls me away from her.

"What were you doing?!?" He screams at me

"She was having a nightmare and I checked up on her after I heard her crying"

"How do you know she was crying?"

"I walked by her room after running the virtual simulator for awhile and heard her crying, so I came in to try and calm her down"

"Why'd she scream?"

"She had just woke up from her nightmare and didn't realize it was me"

He sighs seeming to calm down "why'd she pass out?"

"I don't know" I answer honestly "I think she had a panic attack from the memories of her nightmare"

I look sideways at John and Amelia but they're caught up in their own world. Cole gives me a questioning glance and I mouth "later". He nods and walks out of the room John and Amelia following suit. I look at Cecelia once again and plant a kiss on her forehead

"I hope you don't ever remember" I sigh "or you'll never trust anyone in this world again, especially not Cole nor me"

I walk out of her room closing the door behind me after I switch off all her lights. I make my way back towards my room and I see Cole standing outside my doorway.

"It's later" he says "and John and Amelia went back to her house, she was going to stay here tonight but decided against it" he shivered as a disgusted look on his face appeared "it's revolting, isn't it?"

I chuckle and walk into my room and Cole follows

"Well they've always been like that so why would they change now?" I say humorously

"We changed" Cole states

I freeze and look back at him my eyes widened, that soon changed into a hardened look.

"We had to change Cole, if not we'd either go insane or never trust anybody ever again"

He clenches his jaw and looks away
"so what did you want to tell me about." he states quickly changing the subject

I sigh "I think Cecelia's starting to remember"

He whips his head towards me his eyes wide as saucers and a horrified expression on his face

"already?!? It's only been a week!" He exclaims "we took months and almost years before we remembered!"

"Yeah, well we also didn't have as traumatic of memories as she does and she was always the quickest learner" I chuckle ruefully "it's not so helpful for her now is it"

We both look at each other sadness clear on our faces as we think about our past.

"What do we do?" He whispers

I raise my eyebrow and look at him
"What can we do for her?" He asks again

"Talk to her" I say "help her understand what's going on and how to deal with it"

He looks at me once again and stands up to walk out the door. He stands in the doorway for a moment before pausing and turning towards me once again.

"It wasn't your fault you know" he says with a pained smile on his face and tears welling up in his eyes

"What do you mean?"

"Charlotte, it wasn't your fault"

I widen my eyes and look away shaking my head slowly.

"No" he says "we wouldn't have gotten to her in time anyway, she was long dead before we even left the airport"

"But what about her?!" I say jerking towards him "why'd she have to suffer if it wasn't going to do any good"

His eyes soften and he takes a step towards me "we couldn't have known" he says softly

I stand shaking trying not to cry "we lost both of them when we shouldn't have lost either of them"

He turns away and starts to walk out, he then calls over his shoulder "at least you got her back, I'll never get Charlotte back"

My eyes widen and I see Cole walk back down to his room. tears fill my eyes and I slowly make my way over to the doorway and shut my door. I drag my self over to me bed and lay down holding onto the brown stuffed bear she got me for my birthday so long ago.

A/N
Oooh, new POV! Yay! Do you guys like the new POV or no? I think this chapter left you guys with more questions than answers didn't it 😏?

What do they remember and why? Who is Charlotte and what is she to Cole? Why is she so special to him? Who did Seth and Cole lose and how? Who is the person that gave Seth the bear and why is it so special to him? Who is the "her" they keep on talking about? Comment or dm me your answers or questions that you would like answered and make sure to comment your ideas for future chapters!

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