oblivion [druig]

10

PRESENT DAY 

AURORA 

"You're telling me we're just fancy robots?" Kingo's high-pitched voice breaks through the silence, high with nerve. "And our past memories had been stored somewhere in space?!" 

I sink deeper into my seat, blowing out a breath as I tried to take in the information Sersi had just given us. 

The world was ending. 

All humans were going to die. 

I guess after all these years Thena had been right. Mahd Wy'ry wasn't her going insane, it was her remembering. 

I feel a pang on my chest at the thought of Thena having suffered for years, not knowing what was wrong with her. At least now she had an explanation. 

The rest of the team sits in silence in their respective seats, all of them looking at Sersi, who's at the front part of the plane, standing up and facing all of us. 

We'd been on the way to get Druig on Kingo's plane when Sersi had had a vision. She'd stood up quickly, tears running down her face as she turned to us. 

"Sersi, what is it?" I had asked, worry washing over my features.  

She'd shaken her head and then started ranting, telling us about how our mission had never been to actually defend humans from Deviants, but to kill Deviants in order to help humanity flourish and provide energy for the birth of a Celestial.

We weren't real. Olympia wasn't real. Everything we had been living the past seven thousand years had been a farse. 

Ajak had fooled us. 

Although I didn't want to, resentment grew inside me at the thought of her knowing. She'd known how much I loved humans; how I'd always seen potential and life out of them. 

She knew all of them were going to die, and she let me live with hope. 

I didn't hate her; I never would. 

But I was disappointed. Disappointed that she'd known and hadn't told me. 

My gaze flickered to the rest of the Eternals, brow furrowing. 

We'd been living through millions of years together; through thousands of planets. Mission after mission our memories had been erased.  

Curiosity bloomed inside me. 

How many lives had I lived?

Had I been the same person before? I turned to look at Sersi and Ikaris. Had they loved each other in past planets? 

My lips pursed. 

I couldn't help but wonder whether there had been a planet where Druig and I had been together from the start.

Over the years I'd grown interested in topics like the stars and energies; learning about star signs and what different types of lovers there were on earth. 

I'd read once about Twin flames: two partners who are half of a whole, destined to find each other through different lifetimes. No matter where and when they always seem to meet. 

I couldn't help but wonder if in our past lives Druig and I had been together. I couldn't help but wonder if maybe what I read about twin flames hadn't just been pretend. 

I had so many questions and so few answers.  

My head tilts as I tune back into the conversation, sitting up straight again.