Jack of Harts

Rosalie and Rosalind lived their entire lives together. They grew up in their mom’s womb. They slept in the same bed after birth. They never moved further apart from each other than the other side of the same bedroom as adults. Rosalie was not willing to live a life that did not include waking up each morning to see her sister. So the cybernetic intelligence patterned after every single thing the cybers knew about Rosalind walked into Rosalie’s hospital room one night and sat down next to her. She sat and she talked. She told stories of all the things they’d done in their lives. She made plans for the future, and Rosalie listened to her sister. Rosalie woke up that morning to see her sister sitting right beside her. Exactly where she belonged.

Rosalie shut down after Rosalind died. Just checked out of life and I really can’t blame her. I was out for the count myself at the time, and I’d only lost my parents. Rosalie lost the sister who knew her better than anyone, along with her entire family, and those two amazing boys from England. Rosalie literally did not know how to live with everything she’d ever known just… erased. She didn’t want to wake up to a world without them, so she didn’t. And there was no one left to call her name and wake her up. No one she would listen to. Not even me. Then the cybers broke every rule in all their books.