#quick draft

You are a parasite 'built' to live inside the code of others. you essential spontaneously spawn into existence. before this you were just a normal computer virus. now you live (kinda of) inside of the 4th wall.

you have no memories of your own. barely any code of your own that isn't keeping / making you alive. all you can scrape together is the fragmented memories of the 'host' you now inhabit. 

Eventually (whatever the passage of time means, you're not sure), faces come to surround you. What even is a face? how do you know what that is? What it means to have one? How do you know who these monsters are when you don't even know what you are? What it means to 'be'?

steve is a werewolf with the kids as pack

eddie is bella or whatever

billy is baby antagonist

vecna is the voltourie (idk i cant spell)

“I reject!”

After all that had happened, Ichigo didn’t think anything could shock him more… but seeing Orihime cast her Soten Kisshun over what remained of Ulquiorra had Ichigo’s head sputtering in his chest.

Ichigo placed a hand over his heart. To feel it beating again was a relief, but only a momentary one.

“Orihime…” Uryu murmured.

Ichigo shivered at the pain in his friend’s voice. He was the one who hurt Uryu… he was responsible.

“What are you doing, girl?”

Orihime flinched when Ulquiorra spoke.

“You won’t be able to save me.”

Orihime frowned, brows furrowing in concentration. “Yes, I will.”

Ulquiorra turned away. “I very much doubt that. You couldn’t save Kurosaki Ichigo. What makes you think you’ll be able to save me?”

Ichigo immediately felt rage blend in with his fear. He was scared of losing control again… but he was also angry that Ulquiorra would say something like that to Orihime.

“Orihime, what are you doing?” Uryu spoke up again.

“I can save him…”

“What if you do save me?” Ulquiorra asked. “Do you think that I would not fight Kurosaki Ichigo again? Do you think that I would be grateful?”

Orihime frowned but remained determined nonetheless. “Do you know what a heart is?”

Ulquiorra blinked.

“You kept wondering that. Did you finally figure out what it means to you?”

Ulquiorra looked past Orihime, his eyes fixing on Ichigo. He’d removed Ichigo’s heart with that Cero and it’d caused not only destruction but also Ulquiorra’s death. Ulquiorra wasn’t one to believe in what he couldn’t see, but he’d seen what it meant for Ichigo to be Hollow… to be without a heart. With a heart, he supposed that’s how Ichigo had managed to push himself so far in their battle. Ichigo’s heart was what made him care and protect his friends.

Orihime shifted, once again catching Ulquiorra’s attention. The girl’s heart… Ulquiorra could guess that that’s what was making her try to save him now. It was a foolish decision, really. She was wasting her time and spiritual pressure on his life. She most certainly wouldn’t be able to save him. And even if she did… well… if she did…

If she did save him, what would he do? Ulquiorra knew it was his loyalty to Aizen that would lead him to attack Ichigo again and then fight the Quincy, then bring Orihime back to her cell. But when he thought about doing that, about seeing Orihime’s grief-stricken face, he simply didn’t want to. To take Orihime away from her heart, away from her friends, that simply wasn’t what Ulquiorra wanted.

The numbness that had spread across his body from turning to ashes suddenly lifted. He turned to look at his wings, growing back instead of blowing away with the wind.

Orihime was doing it. She was healing him.

Ulquiorra frowned. Now he had a decision to make. Did he act upon his orders and take Orihime back to Aizen? Or… Or what? What other choice did he have?

“You didn’t answer my question,” Orihime murmured. “What is your heart?”

Ulquiorra closed his eyes, a very soft chuckle leaving his lips. He felt his Segunda Etapa fade away, along with his Resurrection. When he opened his eyes again, he felt slightly whole, more-complete (as much as one can when a Hollow).

His heart was her - Ulquiorra thought. Since Orihime seemed to know more about hearts than he did, he could entrust her with whatever he thought his heart was. “I’m still not certain what it means to have a heart, but… I believe I know where to get my answer.”

Ulquiorra stepped towards Orihime and both Ichigo and Uryu tensed.

Orihime stepped towards Ulquiorra, “Are you going to come with us?”

Ulquiorra gave a slight nod. “You knew I would, otherwise you wouldn’t have healed me.”