Waiting On The Red String Of Fate

Waiting on the red string of fate

Alt ending 3 [chapter 3d]

Tanya Denali x fem!reader

Chapter 3d: Night time strolls to Mother Nature's call

Summary: The woods call to you on your journey, and you fight it for as long as you can, but fate and mother nature's call has other plans as Tanya takes a nightly stroll to find you.

A/N: Welcome back lovely readers who stick around for the angst endings. Here is another serving of sadness cause my brain would not stop on wanting to write this out Bon Appétit and happy readings!

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Warnings: hanahaki usually has its own set of warnings(choking, coughing up blood and flower petals) character death, angst, kinda graphic but not too graphic descriptions

Her fated POV:

You wanted to just walk off into the forest and become one with nature

The moon was shining on this quiet night as sleep eluded you, tossing and turning in bedding way too warm. You felt weak as the hanahaki got worse. The atmosphere of the hotel room in some small town was muffling. You couldn't sleep. Sitting up, you go towards the window of your room, staring out of it. Looking at the forest facing your window, something within you felt a pull to the forest, a call like a song of a siren telling you to come closer. Part of you has been fighting off the want to answer it, but with you getting weaker, more tired, as the hanahaki got stronger, it was clear that you'd eventually lose your fight.

You try to go back to sleep. The call of the forest will not take you today.

The next few nights the call gets stronger and stronger as you become more exhausted, you've been coughing up more blood and flowers lately and the pull in your chest started to get stronger and felt like it something was gonna burst through your ribcage, eventually one night you couldn't take it anymore and you find yourself leaving your hotel room.

Stepping outside in the cold, you can't help but shiver as the winds howl. You wrap your thin jacket over you more tightly as you start your trek into the woods along a paved path.

Deeper and deeper along the hiking path, you went until something in you took a turn off the path, onto the dirt you walked deep into the forest the pull getting stronger.

You shed your shoes and go bare foot as your feet walk along the ground, feeling the earth beneath your feet.

It's quiet in the forest despite the wind howling, but even that sounds distanced as an eerie silence holds the forest still, and the call gets louder.

You eventually feel like you've been walking for hours. The trees have grown tall, the foliage covering the light, leaving you to wander in the dark with the occasional moon light breaking through. You find yourself eventually stopping at the base of a large tree. You crouch in front of the tree, one hand on it as you suddenly feel the pain in your chest triple. You start to cough. At first, blood comes up in a wet cough, and then the petals start coming and growing and growing. You hunch over on the ground trying to fight it, but you know there was no winning this fight as the flowers started sprouting out of your mouth, growing like vine flowers pouring out of you. You keep choking as they keep growing. A pain in your chest feels as if it's bursting forward, and then you start to stagger. You sit against the tree in a pool of your own blood as you get weaker, and the fight in you goes out. The pain in your chest explodes, knocking your head back against the tree. Looking upwards, the light in your eyes dim as the gentle moonlight shines, breaking through the foliage shining down on you.

Tanya POV

She'd track your string to a small town. It was night by now when she arrived, and she'd assume she'd have a better chance in greeting you in the morning.

So here she was walking by foot into town, your string lead towards a hotel near the outskirts and she assumed you'd be staying there, but then she noticed your string did not lead into the hotel, not at this time of night, it was starting to lead off into the woods. Confusion clouded her face as she started to follow the string. What could you be doing out at this time of night?

She may not feel the cold, but she knew it would probably be cold for you. She slowly followed the hiking trail. Perhaps you had a cabin out here? It could be why you were out here, but then after a while, she notices the string swerve off path, into the unknown. She follows along a little more worried as she then comes across a pair of shoes taken off.

Seeing faint footprint marks, she follows the path and string. Where on earth were you going?

The walk feels endless in this darkness. The eerieness of the woods doesn't bother her, but she can't help but feel something is wrong.

Eventually, she makes it to where you last were, the big tree. The air smells of copper and a floral scent, familiar, but she can't place her mind to it. The copper can only mean blood, but there don't seem to be any flowers around that she can see.

Her foot steps crunch as she slowly makes it around the tree. The smell of blood is stronger here. The first thing she sees when she rounds the tree is a pair of legs, shoeless, just sitting on the ground, she notices the blood first, you seem to be sitting in it, were you injured? too distracted at the finding of a person and blood she looks to scan the rest of you, your clothes are not great for the cold weather outside, the front of your shirt was stained with blood, but there in the middle of your chest as if having been hollowed out and placed within the hole a scattering of flowers coming straight outwards.

What has she come across?

She finally glances at your face to see the eyes devoid of life, looking up at the moon that shines down on you casting a glow on your pale gaunt face, as if to caress your spirit off into the night for the final voyage you embark upon.

Your mouth was stuffed with flowers that were growing out of it and trailing downwards like wisteria flowers hanging from branches, the flowers a variety of daffodils, heliotropes, yellow tulips and more. The blood dripping down these cascading flowers.

The scene haunting if to describe it like a painting, there sitting in blood soaked earth with her back against a tree a woman, the woods behind her dark and cold as the only moonlight shines down to reveal her. Dressed in clothing that would not keep her warm in her dark surroundings, from her chest burst forth flowers and more coming from her mouth. The gaunt face looking away into the moonlight devoid of life. A scene feeling like it comes out of something paranormal, like she was called forth back to nature.

Tanya wasn't sure what she was supposed to do. Here she was looking for her soulmate, and here she instead finds a corpse. But then she suddenly has a thought as she looks down at her hand and follows the string that sits exactly on the other woman's hand...

She's not sure how to process this. Her soulmate is sitting in front of her...her soulmate, who now that she realizes it, isn't breathing. She rushes forward and pulls the woman towards her. Holding her in her arms, she presses her ears to her chest, even with flowers in the way she couldn't hear anything, no heartbeat, no breathing

....Nothing

She looked down at you in her arms, looking to the flowers that burst forth from your chest perhaps if she...if she pulled them out perhaps there was some chance to save you, perhaps if she tried to change you? But she knew that it was a hopeless cause. You were already gone by the time she found you, she didn't even know how long you were out here, the vampire venom wouldn't work....

She pulled you closer to her, hugging you, whispering apologies into your ear, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry I was too late, that I didn't find you sooner"

She didn't even know your name as she held you close. You had died out here from hanahaki alone, nobody with you, just you and the emptiness of the forest around you.

She couldn't help but wonder who did you fall in love with that hurt you, who did this to you, wanting to tear apart whoever took you away from her. The venom pooled in her eyes. There was no catharsis for her, her tears for you would not fall as she held onto you, wishing that you'd come back to her.

She's not sure how much time passed there as she held you. The sun eventually rises, and with it, her with you. She carried your body in her arms home, planning your funeral arrangements.

She eventually did find out your identity, going back to the hotel she assumed you had come from.

With it, she took your belongings, finding a camera with pictures of places you'd been, clothing, a list of places you'd been to and had planned on going, and then she found your letters.

Neatly placed in a shoe box were letters addressed to her.

She wasn't sure where she should start. Perhaps the most recent letter would shed some light on what was going on.

Reading through it she got a sense of your adventures, you wrote to her about your travels and how you always wanted to see this place with her, this left her confused, if you wanted to see it with her, why didn't you? Why didn't you find her? Why did you have to go and fall in love and leave her here? Why did you have to leave her alone in this world devoid of you before she knew you?!She accidentally crumples the paper slightly at her slow spiral of questions, moving to try and undo the creases she moves on to the second most recent and then the next, until she finds one of you talking about how you planned the journey.

"Dear soulmate,

I plan to go on an adventure, using all of the places I'd ever written down in the letters before, places I wanted to go with you.

I don't know how much time I have left cause I've learnt I have hanahaki.

Before you think anything, I'm not getting that surgery to remove it, besides the negative effects, I don't want to lose the memory of you, even though I saw you once and it was with someone else I don't want to forget you or mess up my emotions and potentially meet you again in the future broken and unable to love.

I know you probably wouldn't want to go with me on my grand adventure before the great beyond.

You have your own life, you have him and I don't want to wreck whatever relationship you have by being selfish and taking you away from him, if you're happy I'm happy, you chose your path and I just have to accept that.

I don't blame you for the hanahaki, I chose to love you even though I didnt know you and made a vow that I always would love you no matter what, even if you don't love me back like that. But even if I did know this would happen, I'd still choose to have loved you more than not at all.

It's really just my own fault, I guess, but I don't blame you for this, and you better not blame yourself. You have someone, and sometimes that kind of love is special.

So in some sense I guess I set you free from having to worry about me, live your best life and maybe I'll see you in the next life and we can be together then.

Love your soulmate"

And there written was your name.

How you ended every letter

It hurt to read this one. You had accepted the hanahaki would kill you, and you had thrown away the chance to save yourself cause you believe she was with someone. You had mistaken one of her one night stands as something more, looking at the date of the letter it was clear this was around the time when she started to feel the sense of wrongness, that night you saw her, all these feelings must've been through the bond...you didn't know she was looking for you, that she didn't do anything with that guy.

You didn't know she was trying to find you whilst you were on your great adventure that she should've been with you on, that you should've been together on from the start. That you never should've had hanahaki for cause she did love you...

You'll never know how long she's been waiting for you...

You'll never know how much she loves you

Her heart hurt at the fact that she was the cause of your hanahaki. She was your demise. Her sisters tried to comfort her, but when the person she wanted in her arms was you, there was nothing she could do. She didn't come out of her room for a while.

Eventually, the funeral happened, and she came out for it, for you.

You were buried near her home, and she would come out to see you a lot. Going out to your grave to chat with you.

One day eventually where you were buried, a flower garden started to grow, right above your grave, the same flowers that she found coming out from you that night in the woods. They never wilted and never died, an eternal garden, a remainder of what was left of you, painful to look at as she will always remember that night she first met you, and the night she could not save you.

Hanahaki had heard nature's call that night, with fate in hand, they took the life and sent her along, leaving a lone soulmate pained, in exchange with pity for the lone soulmate, nature gave her an immortal garden for the life of her love, something to always remember her.

A/N: don't know why, but my brain went to the annihilation movie when thinking of the flowers coming from her chest

Waiting On The Red String Of Fate

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