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"Luz!" Amity was standing in front of the open portal, the portal to the Human Realm that Belos had been apparently building in his free time. Luz was in front of her, barely holding the portal frame together with vines as The Collector tore the space apart. All of their other friends had already gone through the portal, taking their chances in the unknown realm rather than face the destruction and chaos that had filled this one. But Amity couldn't just leave her girlfriend behind.
Luz was saying something that she couldn't make out over the sound of a child god tearing the world apart around them. She ran forward, desperate to reach Luz and King. However, no matter how hard she tried, it was like some force was pushing her away. Each step forward seemed to only take her two backward. She honestly couldn't tell if it was because of whatever The Collector was doing to gravity or just a trick of her desperate mind.
Either way, she ended up watching in horror as The Collector turned their attention to Luz, much to far away to do anything about it. She watched as King was ripped from Luz's shoulders and then as she spun around, grabbing him with one hand and holding onto the vines with the other. Amity watched as Luz, tears streaming down her face, began drawing something on the ground with her foot. And Amity could only watch as Luz stamped her foot onto the drawing and a massive vine erupted out, shoving Amity through the portal and into the Human Realm.
She laid on the cold dirt for less than a second but by the time she was up, the door was already closed. She ran over anyway, hope fighting against logic in her head. She hoped that the door would open back into the portal. She hoped that her girlfriend would be on the other side, ready to sweep her into a hug and tell her that everything would be alright, tell her that this was always the plan and that they would find a way back. But, she knew deep down that wouldn't happen. And that horrible reality sunk in when the door opened to the inside of the abandoned shack. No portal. No Luz.
Amity opened and closed the door over and over, praying that it would somehow start working again. That this was all some stupid nightmare because there was no way she was really stuck in the Human Realm without Luz. This couldn't be real. It just couldn't. It hadn't even been that long since Luz had broken in through her window, promising to take her out on a normal, boring date. And now they were literally trapped in different worlds with no way of getting back to each other.
The door swung open one last time as her hand fell to her side. She stood there, staring at the empty door frame, frozen in time. Then, her legs gave out and she collapsed to her knees. The rain, which didn't boil here, her brain supplied uselessly, pounded on the roof above her head, matching the empty noise of her thoughts. She was trapped, really trapped, in a realm she knew nothing about, with two people she had previously bullied and one who had tried to murder her the last time they'd interacted. She was all alone.
Something warm ran down her face. A tear. Then another and another and then, Amity sat there, on the splintery front porch of a long-abandoned house and sobbed. This had to be nightmare, it had to be some twisted game her brain was playing, some messed up what if caused by stress. She'd just gotten Luz back. Twice even! This couldn't be real. It couldn't. Never, not even in her worst nightmares could this be real.
Because that was what this had to be. Just a nightmare. She would wake up at home, in her bed, like nothing had happened. She was just worried about The Day of Unity. That was all. Her brain had just come up with some wild way that it would turn out. She'd wake up and everything would be the same.
There was talking behind her. It was too quiet to make out and Amity didn't even bother trying, too stuck in her head. She barely even registered the world around her until she felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to see Willow.
"Hey." Willow's voice was soft but still carried over the rain, "Can you stand? We need to find somewhere safe to spend the night. This'll all look better in the morning."
And that was what shocked reality back into Amity's brain. The thought of a "morning" in this place. Amity reached up and dragged Willow to the ground with her, pulling her childhood friend into a hug and sobbing into her shoulder.
She was really alone here, wasn't she.