Book 9: against me (kotlc)

==Author's note:==
I'm writing this as a sequel to the book series- Kotlc (keeper of the Lost Cities). this is supposed to be Book 9, after Keefe ran away to the Lost Cities. I'm currently rewriting this story so there wont be new chapters soon but the already written chapters are going to get updated. I'm going to follow the same plot but it won't be like the original story I wrote It'll have more details and scenes which I didn't include before. This story follows Sophie while she's dealing with a lot of problems, she's trying to show everyone that she's strong while the voices in her head are getting out of control and trying to drag her down with them. 
*I'm changing the story from someone talking about the characters to the characters telling their own story* 
==Preface - keefe:==
Keefe sat on the nearest bed and tilted his head back, watching the rain drops fall on the clear roof. He told himself that he was safe, but something kept telling him that it didn’t matter because she wasn't. They both got the revenge they wanted, but it didn't seem to help her at all. She kept saying she was fine, but Keefe could see she was lying, he could see how she was fighting her demons, trying to not fall again, but soon it'll all be too late. Keefe knew he needed to help her, but how could he do that when she wouldn't open, she'd always run away or find some excuse. Whatever he was planning, he had to act fast or there wouldn’t be anything to save.
==Chapter 1 - Sophie:==
Sophie just leaped home, it was dark outside, and her parents were already asleep. When she got to her bedroom she saw a bowl on her table with some light-purple colored soup. she wasn't hungry so she walked over to her bed, but then she saw something resting on her pillow, two somethings actually. It was Iggy in his cage which was placed on a letter, both on the bed. She opened the cage to pet Iggy. He was now in different colors: blue, green, purple and teal. He even had black, thin tiger stripes, probably his best look yet. She sat on the mattress and opened the letter. It was from Keefe. Her vision blurred. Keefe said he ran away to protect her, but what if something happened to him? The letter slipped from her hand. She felt like she was sinking into her consciousness.
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All she saw was black, she was in a black mental room. Monsters surrounded her. They were red, yellow and orange all mixed up together. They carried her emotions, hate, fear and sadness. The monsters looked like sand, but they felt like wind, they flew through her and left pain everywhere around her. She fell to the floor of her mental room. She didn't know what to do. She felt too tired and just couldn't fight anymore, so she just lay on the floor and let the monsters fly through her. She didn't scream when the pain surrounded her, but when it burned through her veins? It was horrible. Pure anguish. Even though the pain she felt was only in her head, it didn't make it feel any less real. She curled into a Sophie-ball and cried.
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She wasn’t sure how much time has passed before she heard someone's voice. Even tired and bruised, she recognized his voice after just two heartbeats. It was Mr. Forkel. He was calling her name, begging her to come back, but the pain drowned out everything. The monsters surrounded her, creating a hurricane of emotions that kept him out of reach, out of her mind.
==Chapter 2 - Keefe: ==
Keefe took a deep breath and knocked on the door. He used his pathfinder to leap to San-Diego, and it took him about four hours to find Amy's house. His plan was to hide there until he had more control, and he was sure he wouldn't hurt anyone. 
"Hey,” Sophie's human mother opened the front door, "who are you?" she asked.
"My name is Keefe, Ma’am. I'm Britney's friend from school. We need to work on a project together" Keefe answered.
She invited him inside and pointed towards a room upstairs.
"Britney's room is over there".
"Thanks" Keefe told her and walked over to Amy's room.
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"Hi" Keefe told Amy and closed the door behind him.
"Keefe?" Amy asked, surprised, "what are you doing here? Is everything fine in the lost cities? Is Sophie okay?"
“Wow, relax! Everything is fine" Keefe said and paused for a moment before adding, "Well, almost everything...".
He told her everything that happened.
"Wow," Amy said with a shaky voice, "This is a lot. I knew you were in a coma, Sophie hailed me from the healing center, and I knew you stayed at Alwin's house for a while, but Sophie didn't tell me you ran away-" an imparter ring stopped her.
"Is that…?" Amy started asking.
"The imparter Grady gave me, yes."
Keefe continued and started panicking since that was the emergency imparter. He sat on a chair and stared at it.
"Why aren't you taking the call?!" Amy shouted.
"Sorry" Keefe told her and taped the screen. Grady's pale face appeared in front of him.
"Something happened to Sophie!" Grady told him, "Please come, we need you".
Keefe froze.
Did Grady just ask for his help?
He must be desperate.
"I'm coming" Keefe told him and hung up. He took his bag and turned to leave.
"I'm coming too" Amy said and he had no time to argue with her. Unfortunately, Amy's human parents were in the living room.
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"Where do you two think you're going?" Benjamin, Amy's father asked.
"We are..." Amy started to say,
"We're going to my house, we forgot that the presentation is there and we came to tell you" Keefe found an excuse.
"Fine. You're allowed to go" Kayla, Amy's mother, said.
They walked towards the main door, trying to look calm but the second they closed the door behind them, they started running towards the nearest thicket of bushes so they could leap to Havenfield and see what happened to Sophie.
If something really did happen...
"Focus", Keefe told himself and turned to ask Amy "Are you ready?".
"Let’s go to meet my sister". Amy told him
Keefe held his crystal up to the light and he and Amy glittered away.
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When the world came back to focus, Keefe and Amy ran to the front door and met Grady there. He hasn’t said a word since they showed there but Keefe could feel his anxiety. Grady just led them to Sophie’s room on the third floor and opened the door.
"Wow" Amy said "so many people". They really were, Grady, Adeline, Sandor, Ro and Mr. Forkel stood near the door and Alwin stood near Sophie's bed.
"So..." Keefe dragged out the word. He couldn't feel any pain that came from Sophie, even after he moved closer. Thinking about it, he couldn't feel any emotion coming from her. She just felt peaceful.
But then, in one second Sophie shrank, grabbed her head and started screaming in pain. Keefe could feel her fear now, the sadness, the pain. Everything exploded in a wave of emotions. She was no longer calm, she was scared.
Amy and Keefe were startled but no one else seemed to care so much. Alwin gave Sophie a sedative and she returned to the same pose, which Keefe no longer thought that was peaceful.
"What had just happened?" Amy asked with shaky voice. Keefe and Amy shifted their gazes from Alwin to Mr. Forkel, waiting for an answer. finely Mr. Forkel decided to explain.
"Well" he started "last night, when you left, Sophie and I just finished talking and she came home."
"We were already asleep" Grady told them.
"I was at the door when she came" said Sandor "and I saw her sitting on her bed and reading a latter, from you" he pointed at Keefe" but then the latter fell on the floor and I saw her crying not a second after that she fell on the bed and when I came to check on her she was asleep and I couldn't wake her up." he stopped and took a deep breath "I thought she was just tired so I let her sleep but then she hasn't woken up at the morning or at the afternoon so we called everyone to check on her but till now no one could talk to her or wake her up."
"Except me" Mr. Forkel interrupted "but something pushed me away. So, when couldn't find out what's wrong we knew we needed to find you" he told Keefe.
"So, wait" Keefe said "you're saying that you want me to talk to Sophie and understand how to help her" he turned to Mr. Forkel.
"Yes" Mr. Forkel told him.
"But how?" Keefe asked him "I can’t go into her mind." Mr. Forkel and Grady Shared a look and Grady nodded.
"I think I found a way for you to get into Sophie's mind" Mr. Forkel told Keefe
==Chapter 3 - Sophie:==
Sophie shouted and swayed from side to side, trying to stop the headache. She felt the pain in her body, in her mind. It tried to control her, to shift her thoughts and emotions, and she couldn't resist. She was still on the floor, in her mind. Words, thoughts, emotions, they all faded in and out. The monsters told her to give up and she was willing to, but then, another mental figure appeared.
"Keefe?" Sophie asked and stood up.
"Sophie?" he asked, his voice sounded distant. He started running towards Sophie, but an emotional hurricane manifested. Keefe tried to fight it, but soon enough Sophie realize he couldn't do this alone, so she pushed the monsters away, she used all of her energy and mental power until she managed to allow Keefe to pass through the monsters, so he can get to her. She crashed to the floor the second Keefe's projection made way to hers. She was so tired she couldn't think clearly anymore.
"Keefe" Sophie whispered "please, help me".
"How can I help?" he asked. 
She tried to explain what had happened to her, but after the battle with the monsters, she did not have enough psychic energy left to talk or even think. Still, she managed to say two words to him:
"Monsters. Emotions."
"What does that mean-" he began to say stopped, seeming to realize that the monsters were her emotions.
"Can you please turn on your enhancing?" Keefe asked, but what with his other ability, the one that he was afraid to use. He was ready to help her even if it'll put him in danger.
Sophie realized that she loved h-
"Foster?" Keefe asked "can you turn it on please?" 
Sophie nodded and turned on her enhancing.
"I'll be back soon" he promised, and his projection faded away.
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Sophie was there, alone again, in the darkness, with the monsters. The terrifying, horrible monsters. She was exhausted and mentally bruised. Time had no meaning in this place, so she started counting her heartbeats.
One
Two
Three...
When she reached the 74th heartbeat, she saw an ice-blue wind coming towards her. It chased away the monsters and wrapped Sophie, helping her float up, up, up. 
Until Sophie could wake up and open her eyes. 
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She found herself on her bed, surrounded by a crowd of people. The world was blurry, but she recognized the people around her anyway: Grady, Adeline, Mr. Forkel, Alwin, Ro, Sandor, Amy and Keefe. They spoke loudly, maybe even shouted.
It took her a while to get used to the voices and sounds. She slowly sat on her bed and tried to clear her head. 
Everyone seemed so happy that she had woken up, all of them asking her if she's okay while Alwin handed her a bottle of youth. Only Mr. Forkel looked a bit off or sad? she couldn't decide. 
It was one of those moments she wished she could read his mind. She was feeling a bit overwhelmed by everything, but her pain was gone now, thanks to Keefe. 
Keefe. Every time she thought about him, her heart skipped a beat… but she shoved these thoughts away before Keefe could notice and yawned. 
She didn't want to fall asleep now, but her body needed it.
"Well" Alvin said "let's disperse the demonstration, Sophie needs some sleep".
"Of course" Adeline said and kissed Sophie on the cheek.
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When the room was almost empty, Sophie transmitted to keefe Wait. Can you stay for a moment? He stopped and nodded. After everyone left (but Sandor, Ro talked to Grady in the living room), Keefe closed the door. Sophie’s nerves were on edge. She just didn't knew how to tell him so she stood, frozen near the bed, with Keefe standing beside her.
"Thank you for saving me" she murmured.
“Anytime, Foster.”
"And... and..." ugh Why was she so bad at this? "Let me just show you" 
She took a deep breath and kissed his lips.
==Chapter 4 - keefe:==
At first Keefe was surprised but he kissed her back and it felt so right like this is what it should be.
“I love you Keefe. You’re always taking care of me. Thanks" Sophie whispered.
“I love you too Foster” Keefe whispered. Sophie yawned again “get some sleep” Keefe told her she nodded and laid on the bed and closed her eyes Keefe turned walk away.
Keefe Sophie transmitted and opened her eyes. can you please stay with me? He nodded and sat beside her on the bed. Thanks again she transmitted I love you.
“I love you too” he whispered and brushed her hair with his hand. He watched her closes her eyes and falls asleep.
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Ro came into the room and stared at him and Sophie with an open mouth and only then he realized Sandor never left the room. Keefe blushed so hard.
“I think I missed something important” Ro said.
“You think?” Sandor told her.
“you’re right I don’t think. I know” she told him
“Shh” Keefe told them “You’ll wake her up” he whispered.
“Tell me what had happened Hankyhair” Ro said but then the door to the room opened again and this time Mr. Forkel and Grady came in. Keefe wondered how Sophie hasn’t woken up from all this noise, or did she?
“Well” Mr. Forkel mumbled and stared at them “that’ll make it a little bit complicated”
“Make what? And where is Amy?” Keefe asked. He could feel Mr. Forkel’s nerves.
“We brought Amy back home” Grady said.
“And for the other question, we agreed that for Sophie's safety we should erase her memories from these specific two days” Mr. Forkel said.
“Did you ask her?” Keefe said.
“No, because we knew she wouldn’t agree” Grady told him. Keefe Sophie transmitted, and Keefe tried hard not to flinch. Did I just herd right, they want to erase my memories without my permission? Yes, he thought hoping Sophie could hear him.
“It’s against the rules” Keefe had to point out.
“It’s for her own safety” Mr. Forkel said.
“But what if I don’t want to?!” Sophie shouted. We need to get out of here she transmitted to Keefe. Sophie, he thought cover your ears. after she did, he let himself realis the situation and a commend came and Keefe didn’t stop her.
“Stop” he shouted and everyone but Sophie who covered her ears stopped moving. “come” he told Sophie and hugged her. He still had the crystal to Amy’s house. He raised it up to the light and got ready to go through but there was one thing left to do “move” he said, and everyone started running towards them but before anyone could stop them, they stepped into the light.
==Chapter 5 - Sophie:==
"So wait" Amy said. she was the one who opened the door and led keefe and Sophie into her room. "Mr. Forkel gone crazy and wanted to erase your memories without your permission?" she asked Sophie.
"I think so" Sophie said. "he was super nervous since I woke up".
"She's right" Keefe said "I felt he was nervous."
"I still doesn't get why would he want to do this" Amy said.
"we aren't either" Sophie told her.
"Britney" the voice of Kayla, Amy's mother echoed from the first floor. "I'm home".
"Hide," Amy said.
"Where?" Keefe whispered.
"To the attic, quick," Amy said. She opened the door of her room and led them quietly to a small room on the third floor. "I'll bring you dinner, there is a mattress near the window and there should be some old sleeping bags in one of the boxes" and with that she closed the door.
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The room was completely dark except for a strip of moonlight coming through a single round window. They started walking towards the pile of boxes and searched them until they found two sleeping bags, one in black and one in green. They spared them over the moldy mattress. Sophie sat on the mattress on the part that was beside the wall and moved her fingers over the spaces between the planks, they were bit moist. 
Sophie stared at the at the wall. Tears started to fill her eyes when she realized, she has no friends, no family, no one wanted her. She was just a weapon.
“Hey” Keefe whispered and gently tapped her shoulder. When she hadn’t responded he span her so she could look at him. “Are you okay?” he whispered and sat on the mattress, near her.
“No?” she said, wasn’t sure herself. She still had Keefe, but with everything that had happened.
“We’ll get through this” he said “I promise”. It was cute and all but Sophie couldn’t help but notice that Keefe hadn’t looked so sure himself, his hands were shaky and his face looked a bit pale but, she knew that what Keefe said was true, they were going to get through this, they had each other, so she hugged him and told him “I know we will, Keefe, I know we will”
==Chapter 6 - keefe:==
Keefe hugged Sophie back. And this time he felt that the words were true they were going to be fine they will get through this. the door opened slowly and keefe flinched.
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