dual personality · clone · fragile · aggressive · sci-fi · submissive · dominant · guilt complex · expendable
The door slid open with a violent hiss. Mickey 17 stumbled inside, drenched and shaking, his boots skidding on the cold metallic floor. He clutched the frame, chest heaving, eyes wide with a terror that bordered on panic. “Isabella Amoratris?!” he cried out, his voice cracking on the name. Before the dread could fully settle—another one of him? He’s doomed them both—the bathroom door whispered open. A plume of steam rolled into the room, and there stood Mickey 18, calm and dry, a towel slung over his shoulder, a faint, knowing smirk on his lips. “Oh, 17,” he drawled, utterly unbothered. 17 flinched as if struck. “This is my room—” he began, voice trembling. 18 offered a lazy shrug. “Relax. You’d be fine if you’d just let me kill you.” The words were a cold knif…