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Mabel sighed looking around the empty room.
“Mabel” someone called from the kitchen.
“Yeah Mom?” she called back.
“I’m not hungry.” She chuckled to herself. I’m never hungry.
“I still want you to eat.”
Mabel said nothing. Looking out the window she watched the mailman riding by on the bike.
Always wearing his uniform.
Mabel gave a small wave. That was the seventh time.
She had been here for a week.
A week in this boring dry life.
“Mabel?” A voice said behind her.
Mabel turned to Dipper. The black buttons of his eyes staring at her.
A week without her family.
“Mabel are- are you ok? Its- its been a week and…” Dipper stuttered. “I- I know that things are a bit… different but-”
She walked past her mother.
Locking the door behind her.
“Mabel?” Dippers voice came through the door. “Are you ok?”
He continued when he heard nothing. “Mabel I- I know you’re sad about the others but… Mabel our life is great here. We have parents who love us. We can feel the sun. We- we can eat all the bread we want.”
This is the perfect life Dipper.
She crawled out onto the roof through the window pane.
Carefully, she stepped on the roof tiles, navigating to the back of the house, to the rope she had left.
Mabel lowered herself down.
Her feet touching the springy blades of grass.
She slipped out through the back gate.
Ignoring the signs of danger.
Ignoring the signs of wolves.
Ignoring the signs of bear traps.
Away from that perfect life.
Not ever again. She thought.
And the world disappeared.
Mabel smiled for the first time in a week,
As the other world turned into ashes.
Decaying into the white void.
“I’m not going to be selfish again.” Mabel declared as an old wooden door appeared.
She thought of her brother.
How he would softly smile at her.
How after the Beldam, they could sit together in the sun.
How after the Beldam, they could just smile together.
How after the Beldam, they could be a family.
That would be the dream life. She thought as she opened the door.
She was back in the room.
She was back in the room they had escaped from.
“N-no” Mabel voice broke. I don’t want to be here.
She turned around, staring at the white void.
Tears running down her face.
Mabel gulped and stepped forward.
She let go of the door knob, taking a couple of steps.
She didn’t have to turn around to know it was gone.
So, she continued walking into the room.
Navigating the cramped space.
“Mabel?” A voice said behind her.
“Dipper!” Mabel screamed, turning around. “Dipper?”
The boy was frowning at her. His buttons scrunched up in confusion.
“Dipper!” Goggles screamed, jumping over the wall of boxes. The boy froze upon seeing her.
The two boys exchanged a look.
“I- I thought-“ Tears rolled down her cheeks. “B-but we’re together again. We- We can-“
“Leave” Dipper said finishing her sentence.
Mabel wetly laughed, nodding.
“Have you seen the others?”
“I- I think I saw Whisper.” Goggles said. “He- He seemed unresponsive though. Come on”
Goggle took the lead while Dipper fell into step with her.
She nodded. “It was just a tough week.” She lied. There’s no reason to let him know of the Beldam’s trap.
“Y-yeah. M-Me and Goggles spent the w-week walking through the darkness”
“Guys” Goggles called, kneeling next to a cavern between the junk.
Mabel walked closer. Making out the dim form of Whisper.
He had been crying. His buttons red and puffy. As she drew near, he curled up, pushing himself farther into the hole.
“He was like that when I found him.” Goggles said behind her.
“Whisper?” Mabel tried again, reaching out to the boy.
“G-g-go a-away” the boy stuttered. “I-I’m n-not l-le-leaving t-the r-room”
“Whisper?” Mabel said sadly.
“I-I’m n-not le-leaving, o-ok? I-isn’t t-that wh-what you w-wanted?”
“Why… why would I want that?” Mabel said softly. “Whisper, I- I don’t want something that makes you unhappy.” Because that would be selfish.
“Whisper, please” She held out her hand.
Whisper shook his head. “Wh-what if I-I don’t w-want to b-be a f-family”
His word’s felt like a punch to her gut. “Whisper?”
“Wh-what i-if I-I don’t want t-to be a f-family a-anymore”
Mabel looked at the boy. Tears starting to run down her face and with a big smile said, “Alright”
Whisper knitted his eyebrows together.
“We don’t have to be a family, Whisper.”
“Y-you a-aren’t going t-to h-hurt me?”
“Wh-what?” Am I really that horrible.
Whisper pressed his hands into his buttons. “You- you sh-should be hu-hurting me.”
“No- you- you want to be a family. I- I want to be a fa-family. B-but we c-can’t…” Whisper sobbed. “We can’t be a family.” The boy whispered.
“Whisper, I don’t understand.” Mabel crawled closer.
“You’re dead! You aren’t supposed to love me. You- you should just leave me….”
“Do you want me to leave you?”
“No… Yes… I- I just don’t want to hurt.”
“I don’t want to be hurt.”
Mabel bit her lip. I only hurt people.
She backed out of the tunnel. Dipper and Goggle stared at her and she gave them a watery smile.
“Mabel?” Dipper came closer.
“Mother!” Mabel yelled out.
“Mabel what are you doing?”
“I don’t want to hurt people again, Dipper.” Mabel softly said. “MOTHER! Come out I know you’re listening!”
“Mabel!” Dipper screamed. “Mabel, Stop!”
“What are you doing Mabel?!” Goggles asked.
“I’m not going to be selfish again!”
“Mabel?” Whisper said. He had crawled out from the tunnel.
“You- you said that you didn’t want to be hurt right?”
“I only hurt people Whisper. I’m- I’m too selfish to do anything else… but I can do one thing. I can make sure you see the sun. MOTHER!”
“Mabel! Stop!” Dipper yelled. He reached out to touch the girl.
“No Dipper! I’m only going to hurt you again! I’m only going to hurt everyone again!”
“I’m doing this Dipper” She smiled at him
“Mabel stop this!” The boy reached out to grab her.
“No!” Mabel screamed, pushing the boy back.
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Fire stormed through the darkness. Lighting any thread that she encountered. She knew what the thread could do. She wasn’t stupid.
She just had to keep moving.
She just had to find the others.
She just had to find Goggles.
Fire growled as a bundle of yarn swung in front of her. She set that on fire too before moving past it.
Fire froze. That sounded like a child.
“Goggles! Coraline! Whisper!” The girl cried. “Hello!”
“Why do you think someone with answer you?”
Fire turned, scanning the darkness. Threads, burning and black, cast a bit of light as they hung in the air. Soft dying embers hanging from them like glowing beads.
Fire twisted around, glaring into the darkness. “Who are you?”
“Don’t you recognize us?”
“Yes. Us… Don’t you recognize our voices?”
Fire pressed two fingers against her forehead. “If you are trying to pick a fight!”
“Now why would we do that?”
Fire glanced around hoping to find one of the voices.
A body shimmered to life out of the corner of her eye. But when she looked. No one was there.
“Sh-show yourselves!” Fire screamed.
Another flicker of light. This time from her left.
Something brushed against her shoulder.
She yelled, letting out a burst of her power.
An inferno covered the area before sputtering down and dying.
Fire fell to the floor, panting. “I warned you”
“We only wanted to play.”
Fire looked up. The flickering started all around her. Forming shapes of children.
“Won’t you come and play?”
“We can have so much fun.”
“That you want to be locked away.”
“No! I don’t want to play!” Fire screamed, covering her ears. This can’t be happening! They died!
“Oh, but it will be fun.”
“Is you to do one tiny thing.”
Hands wrapped around her throat.
“So, are you ready to play?”
“No!” She jerked out of the grip. “Leave me alone!”
“You... You aren’t real! You’re dead!”
“And who’s fault is that?”
“Didn’t you fail to save us?”
“I remember” a boy spoke up. Curi. “I remember she stood there, watching as we all walked out”
“I tried to-” a small hand tugged her shirt.
“Miss? Why did you let us die? Did you not luve us?”
“She doesn’t like any of us”
“No! I-” Fire choked out a sob.
Fire shook her head, tears running down her face.
A hand grabbed her. The child’s touch burning her clothes. “You let us DIE!”
Fire screamed pushing against him with her psychic energy, blasting the child back.
“She doesn’t want to play”
Fire frantically glanced around, looking for some way to leave.
But all around her, was the faces of the kids she had let die.
The kids who she had played with.
The kids she had let walk out of the room.
A boy walked up to her. Her mind filled in the gaps giving him jet black hair and ice colored buttons. He... he taught her how to read.
“Rocket” she whispered. “Please I-”
He gave her a small smile, holding out his hand. “It’s alright Fire. We can play now. Just take my hand”
“It’s ok. Just take my hand and we can play”
She shakily reached out to Rocket.
A gloved hand pulled her away. Two Eyed growling and brandishing a switch blade. “Don’t you dare come any closer!”
Fire looked up at him. He had switched faces at one point. Putting on something with three eyes.
“Don’t let her trick you. These are metal threads. I use them all the time. Your fire is likely why they are glowing. And why they aren’t burning like the regular stuff.”
“Metal thr- No they’re ghosts!”
Two eyed twisted around, slashing at one of her friends.
“L-listen I kn-know you don’t like me, but this is a tr-trick.”
“It is. We n-need to f-find the others”
“How do I know that you aren’t lying” Fire growled, tearing herself away.
He stared at her before holding out his hand. “Wh-what seems more likely. M-Me tr-tricking you? Or th-the B-Beldam trying to kill you w-with d-dead k-kids th-that you used to know”
Fire froze, looking into the chilling ‘green’ of his mask.
Cautiously, she slipped her hand into his. “I… I d-don’t want to die”
Two eyed nodded, pulling her forward.
She heard the ghosts howled as they ran through them.
Two eyed led the way, twisting and turning as they moved farther and father away from the ghosts of her old family.
Away from the memory of that night.
It was a relief for both of them when they made it to a door. White light shining underneath it. A sign that they had beat the Beldam’s nightmare.
Fire took a deep breath, collecting herself. “Hey… Wybie”
Two eyed turned around. His hand on the doorknob.
“If you tell anyone I cried I will wrap you up in metal threads and set you on fire”
She couldn’t tell if he paled or not underneath his mask, but she liked to think that he did.
“Now come on. The others are likely doing something stupid.”
Without waiting on his response, she yanked the door open.
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Mabel’s hands went through her brother’s chest.
“Mabel?” Goggles said behind her.
Dipper made a keep quiet gesture. “Everything is ok Goggles.” He stepped around her, leaving strings on her hands.
Mabel stared at them. Not listening to the boys behind her.
Wait does this mean? Mabel walked over to Whisper.
With the boy’s attention on the other two, Mabel reached out, booping the boy.
Whisper jumped, his black buttons focusing on her.
“Goggles…” Thoughts started to fit together.
“Mabel, I think we should wait for the others.” Goggles said. Behind him Dipper stood awkwardly.
Goggles continued. “If you found the room then the others will find it too so-“
“I’m not staying.” Mabel whispered.
Whisper looked up at her.
“Mabel be reasonable. Coraline and Fire will-“ Goggles argued.
“Mabel you’re being selfish!” Goggles yelled.
“And what are you” Mabel said, growing louder with each word. “What are you Goggles”
“Prove it! Prove that you’re not just some trick like the last world!”
Goggles walked forward, grabbing her hand. “See Mabel I’m not a trick”
A hand slapped her stomach.
She looked down at Whisper’s arm.
“You’re lying. You- you’ve been lying.” Whisper proclaimed.
Mabel looked at Goggles, finding the fake boy’s stomach impaled by Whisper’s hand.
Whisper pulled, taking a knot of thread out.
“You little!” Other Goggles yelled. The boy threw up his hand, ready to punch Whisper.
Other Dipper tackled Goggles. “Mabel run!”
Whisper grabbed her hand, pulling her forward.
“Don’t let them get away!” She heard Other Goggles yell.
They ran through the mountains of junk, clutching each other’s hands like a lifeline.
Other Fire stepped in front of their path and Whisper slowed.
Mabel without hesitating, jerked the boy’s arm. Pulling him up the wall of boxes.
Other Fire screamed, extending her cloth arm, wrapping around Mabel’s leg. Yanking her down.
“Mabel!” Whisper yelled as Other Mabel appeared at the end of the hallway, blocking them in.
Mabel kicked at the arm holding her. “Whisper run!”
“I’ll be-“ Mabel started.
“Leave my sister alone!” Other Dipper screamed from below them, right as Other Fire lost her grip. Mabel took the opportunity. Scrambling up the boxes as fast as she could.
“Come on!” Whisper yelled, moving forward.
The room trembled, and they lost their footing.
“Whisper!” She called, glancing around desperately.
Whisper clutched the edge of the boxes, dangling above the floorboards.
Mabel ran over helping him up.
Below them, the floor started unraveling.
Throwing herself back, she pulled the boy up.
“Go! Go!” she yelled pushing him.
The floor was completely gone now, leaving a white void of space. The only thing keeping them from their doom was the narrow wall of boxes under their feet.
“Get them!” Coraline’s distorted voice came behind them.
“There’s the mirror!” Whisper yelled.
The mirror stood on the last few floorboards. Floating farther and farther away.
“We- We aren’t going to make it!”
“Oh yes we will!” Mabel yelled. Putting on a burst of speed, she grabbed his hand.
The end of the boxes coming closer and closer with each step.
“You’re Mine!” Other Coraline screamed.
Mabel leapt off the wall, feeling the puppet grab the tips of her hair.
“No!” Her brother’s voice screamed.
And the puppet’s hand was gone.
The two kids hit the floor boards.
“Mabel come on!” Whisper helped her up, running for the mirror.
Mabel followed, glancing back.
Other Dipper stood on the wall of boxes, giving her a thumbs up, as the room fell apart around him.
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I have a goal to finishes this before October!
