2 Works by applesam
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There were a few things holding Amber Stevens together over the last couple of years, one of them being a stress ball she found in her jacket months after seeing that tree blocking the road. She had no idea where it came from. She had also refused to believe that it was particularly significant.
It was a stress ball. Not a message from the universe. Not evidence of anything. She had squeezed it, inspected it, cut a tiny piece from the bottom to see what it was made of, and eventually decided it was made of some kind of synthetic rubber. Mystery solved.
She kept it anyway.
Especially in a town where memories could be wiped, trees moved, monsters smiled, and every road eventually looped back to where you started.Or, in which a scientist was on the brink of losing hope before two cars arrived in town on the same day.
(this is an OC insert story so some canon events will be changed to fit everything together nicely yippie)
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Beneath the dread, beneath the denial, her path was already set. Lying in that hospital bed, Crystal made herself a promise that felt less like vengeance and more like absolution. She would find Eli Cardale, and when she did, she wouldn't need bullets or knives. She would return to him everything he buried. Every flicker of guilt he strangled. Every fear he disguised as faith. She would take her time, patiently unraveling him, until the certainty he wore like armor before he shot her cracked from the inside.
Crystal Allery died.
And something came back with her.Or in which she became an accomplice to negligent homicide and came out of the other end an EO