Jamie’s Powers
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Falling didn’t feel like falling.
There was no wind, no rush, no sense of distance just a slow unraveling, like the world above had peeled away and left Alex and Jamie suspended in something that wasn’t space and wasn’t time.
Then they landed.
Not hard.
But wrong.
The ground beneath them wasn’t solid. It shifted slightly, like packed ash or memory trying to hold shape.
Alex was up instantly, blade already in hand. “Jamie.”“I’m here.”
Jamie stood a few steps away, but the distance felt inconsistent like it stretched and shrank depending on how you looked at it.
They weren’t in the café anymore.
But it was still… there.
A version of it.
Older. Rotting. Half-formed.
Walls melted into darkness. Tables were warped, fused into the ground. The air carried a low hum, like something alive was breathing just beneath everything.
“This is it,” Jamie said quietly. “The inside.”
Alex scanned the space. “No. This is what’s left after it broke.”
A voice answered “You’re both wrong.”
It came from everywhere.
And nowhere.
Alex turned sharply, blade raised. “Show yourself.”
A shape began to form in front of them.
Not fully human.
Not fully anything.
It shifted constantly, like it couldn’t decide what it was supposed to be.
But its eyes
Those stayed the same.
Locked on Jamie.
“You came back,” it said softly.
Jamie’s chest tightened. “I’ve never been here before.”
The entity tilted its head.
“You have,” it replied. “You just don’t remember yet.”
Alex stepped slightly in front of Jamie. “You’re not touching them.”
The entity didn’t react to the threat.
It smiled faintly.
“You still think this is about control,” it said. “About stopping me.”
A pause followed.
“It isn’t.”
The ground beneath them pulsed.
Once Twice.
In sync with Jamie’s heartbeat.
“You opened the path,” the entity continued, looking directly at Jamie now. “Not them. Not the ritual.”“You.”
Jamie shook their head. “That’s not possible.”
“Everything about you is possible,” it said.
And suddenly the world shifted.
Jamie gasped.
The broken café dissolved
Replaced by another scene Clear, Sharp and Real. The ritual.
Not a vision this time, A memory.
People in robes. Symbols carved into the floor. The twins smaller, terrified, holding hands at the center.
And
Someone else.
Jamie’s breath caught.
Standing just outside the circle.
Watching.
Older than the twins.
Younger than now.
But unmistakablg them.
“No…” Jamie whispered.
Alex looked between the two versions. “…What is this?”
“You were there,” the entity said calmly. “Not as a victim.”
The scene continued.
The robed figures spoke words that twisted the air. The symbol burned brighter. The twins cried out
And Jamie stepped forward.
Into the circle.
“I didn’t” Jamie shook their head harder. “I don’t remember this!”
“You weren’t meant to,” the entity replied. “They needed a bridge. Something already connected to both sides.”
The ground beneath the memory cracked.
The ritual destabilized.
The twins screamed
And the entire thing collapsed inward.
Everything shattered.
The scene vanished.
Back to the broken space.
Jamie staggered, breathing hard. “They used me…”
“Not just used,” the entity corrected. “You are the connection.”
Alex’s voice was sharp. “Then we sever it.”
The entity laughed softly.
“You can’t sever what doesn’t belong to either side.”
It stepped closer now.
Not threatening.
Certain.
“Human enough to exist there,” it said, circling Jamie slowly. “Other enough to exist here.” Jamie clenched their fists. “Then what am I supposed to do?”
The entity stopped in front of them.
“Finish it.”
Alex moved instantly, blade raised. “No.”
The entity didn’t even look at them.
“If the door remains broken, both sides bleed into each other,” it said. “You’ve seen the result.”
The creatures.
The shadows.
The chaos above.
“You don’t want balance,” Alex said. “You want out.”
The entity smiled.
“And you don’t want to admit this ends with a choice.”
Silence creeps in Heavy and Unavoidable.
Jamie looked between them.
Then down at their own hands.
Energy flickered faintly across their skin now unstable, shifting, reacting to the space around them.
“I can feel it,” Jamie said. “Both sides.”
They looked up.
“What happens if I close it?”
The entity’s expression didn’t change.
“You lose this part of yourself,” it said. “The part that connects you here.”
Jamie swallowed. “And if I don’t?”
Alex answered this time.
“It keeps opening,” they said. “Until there’s no line left at all.”
Jamie nodded slowly.
“So either I shut it… or everything breaks.”
“Yes,” the entity said.
Jamie let out a shaky breath “Great.”
The ground pulsed again stronger now. The space around them began to distort further, like it was running out of time to stay stable.
Above somewhere far away the café trembled.
“They won’t hold it much longer,” Alex said.
Jamie looked at them.
Really looked.
“You knew something like this could happen,” Jamie said. Alex didn’t deny it.
“I didn’t know it would be you.”
That landed hard.
But Jamie didn’t look away.
“Then help me,” they said.
Alex stepped closer.
“Whatever this is,” Jamie continued, “I can’t control it alone.”Alex nodded.
“Then we don’t close it from one side,” they said.
Jamie frowned. “What do you mean?”
Alex lowered the blade slightly.
“We do it together.”
The entity watched, silent now.
Interested.
Jamie hesitated.
“…That’s not how this works, is it?”
The entity smiled again.
“No,” it said.
“It isn’t.”
The ground beneath them cracked wide open.
Light burst through.
Blinding Violently.
The space began collapsing in on itself.
Time was gone.
The choice was now.
Jamie reached out.
Energy surged around their hand.
Wild and unstable.
Alive.
Alex stepped forward
And grabbed it.
The moment their hands connected
The entire space reacted.
The entity’s smile faltered.
Just slightly.
Because something unexpected had just entered the equation.
Something not planned.
Not controlled.
Not part of the original design.
Two sides
Choosing each other.
Instead of the door.
The light roared. The world shattered. And for the first time. The entity looked uncertain.
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