Board Thread:Short Stories and Fanfictions/@comment-44851810-20200113003537/@comment-44851810-20200116025132

Heres the next part!

“Oh, hi Tam, I didn’t expect to see you here.” Sophie said. She had expected to find Fitz, hoping to share Oralie’s memory with him. But instead she had found a guy with silver bangs.

“Hey,” Tam said, tugging on his bangs.

“Perfect timing!” Elwin exclaimed. “I need to take a quick trip to Livvy’s place to grab a new elixir she made. It won’t take me anymore than a ten minutes. Can I trust you guys to watch Keefe while I’m gone?” Sophie glanced at Keefe’s body before she nodded.

“Oh, and Tam, I’ll speak to Lady Zillah about what you suggested..” With that he leaped away.

“What did you suggest?” Sophie asked.

“Well… do you remember when you and Fitz had those echoes, and I lifted some of the shadows to make you guys feel better?” he continued when Sophie nodded. “I was wondering if I could do the same thing on Keefe, but Elwin said he wanted to look into it more before I try it.”

“Do you know why Elwin won’t let you do the shadow thing before he wakes up?” Sophie asked.

Tam shook his head, “Something about not wanting to mess with the natural process or something.”

“Maybe if you remove the shadows, he’ll wake up! It’s worth a try.” Sophie said.

“But,” a squeky voice reminded her, “Elwin told Tam not to.”

“but it might make him wake up!” Sophie argued, annoyed at her bodyguard.

“But it might also make things worse!” He argued back.

“its really not your guys decision,” Tam said. Sophie felt guilty that she had forgotten that it was his ability, and his choose.

“Please Tam!” Sophie begged. “What could go wrong? Worst case scenario, it does nothing. What negative effect could it possibly have?”

Tam tugged his bangs. “I don’t know I mean…”

“Or,” Sandor but in. “It could kill him! Who knows? It might even kill you!”

“That’s not likely! Please Tam!” she transmitted ''if you do it, I’ll do you a favor. You name, I’ll try to do it.''Tam raised his eyebrows.

“I’ll do it.” He said after a moment or two of thought. “Come on Sophie, do your thing.” He wiggled his fingers.

“I don’t approve of this!” Sandor shouted.

Sophie turned on her enchanting and grabbed Tam’s hand. He flinched at her touch. “Woah.” He breathed. “Your enchanting has gotten stronger.”  Darkness and shadows went to his fingertips. He closed his eyes.

“if you stir Sophie’s echoes, you will think of your time at the Neverseen as a vacation.” Sandor grumbled. Tam’s mouth twitched at the remark. Darkness surrounded Keefe. It engulfed him.

“Tam,” Sophie said, concerned. “Tam! TAM!”

“Give me a second. This was your idea.” He grunted. The darkness went on for a few more agonizing seconds. And then it just… disappeared. Tam let go of Sophie’s hand, and she rushed over to Keefe, grabbing his hand.

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Then thrashing. Terrible, uncontrollable thrashing. Sophie took a few steps back to try and avoid getting hit. Darkness started to go around his fingers. “Tam!” Sophie said, whipping around. “I think that’s enough!”

“its… not me.” His voice was barely more than a whisper. His gaze was fixed on Keefe.

Sophie turned around. He was in the air now sucking all the darkness and light into him.

“What the…” Elwins voice faded out. Sophie tried to look behind her at the Flashers reaction, but she couldn’t move. Her gaze was stuck on the floating body in the air, which was shaking and twisting while pulling all light and darkness to it. It went on for another terrifying minute. Then he just… fell. Sophie started to go toward him but was pushed out of the way by Elwin, who started flashing different lights all around his body.

He turned to look at Tam. “I told you not to do it!”

“It was my fault,” Sophie blurted out. “I thought it would wake him up. I convinced Tam to do it.” Tam opened his mouth to respond, but Elwin cut him off.

“Sophie, its been five days. Five days. It took you weeks to wake up from the shadowflux you were exposed to.”

“But you sedated us!” Sophie argued back

“Not immediately! It was more than a week before I sedated you!”

Sophie didn’t have a response for that. Why did she do this?

“Yeah.. sorry,” Tam grumbled. He glanced at Sophie.

“Sorry Elwin.” Sophie said.

Elwin sighed. “You better go outside so I can look at him more indepthly.”

Sophie and Tam nodded.

“See you later, Keefe.” Sophie took one more look at the unconscious body.

“Get well soon Keefe,” Tam said, heading for the door. Sophie followed him out.

“I’m sorry Tam, I shouldn’t have asked you to do it.” Sophie said, staring at her feet.

Tam didn’t answer. Instead he pulled out his home crystal. “I’ll see you later I guess.”

Sophie nodded, “Say hi to Linh for me. And oh, I almost forgot to tell you-“

''Sophie!  Fitz transmitted. Quick! Neverseen! Help''