A little Sparkling Blaze

Aria's POV
It's been an year since that whole tragedy happened,Sparkling woke up a week after,when we told her about Sky she broke down and told us she is the one that should've died.

Sunset tried to take Blame to make up with her more than once since then.It always ended in Blame shouting,Sparkling crying,me getting mad and Sunset apologising.

But lately Sparkling hasn't been herself.I went up in her room it was an early Sunday morning Dash was on her jog,once I enter I see an hair straightener,scissors and hair on the ground.

"Sparkling what's all this?"I ask her.

"Huh what?"She asks as she looks to her hand and everything around her.

"Really you're gonna play dumb?"I ask her,I realize her arm is burnt she didn't even knew how to deal with that thing."If you wanted me to teach you to straighten your hair all you had to do was ask."

"Mom I'm not playing dumb.I have no idea how it got in my hand or when I did all this."I take a look at her face she seemed genuine,really tired too."Sparkling you must have had a bad night's sleep woke up wanting to do something and forgot you were doing it.If this keeps happening I'll take you..."

"No doctor please!"She begged before I finished."I-I'm just tired."

Something tells me I should tell her no and go take her checked out anyways but I decided to trust her.

"Fine then get some rest."I said as I give her a hug and take a look at what she's done,her hair was cut really short,she gave herself sideways bangs her hair wasn't straight but also wasn't curly like it usually was it was wavy.

What worried me the most were the burnts on her arms,but she seemed fine.

Until some other accidents happened.

One day me and Dash got back home from a date and she was outside sitting outside in the sidewalk.

Sometimes we would be talking to her only to be received with a really late reaction,that was unlike her.

One time I was talking to her and she just bursted out from nothing:

"LEAVE ME ALONE!"

It took me and Dash by surprise as she ran to her room and kicked the door closed.

"What's up with her?"Dash asked me.

'I don't know." I told her. "But she seems to be getting worse, whatever this is."

"Well she is a teenager now. That could be a lot of it." Dash says.

"That may be part of it but I think there's something more wrong. You know how she's been acting, that's not normal."

"I think we should get her checked out but you know how she is with doctors."

"We'll at least go talk to her and try and find out what's wrong."

We go up to knock on her door and hear something from inside the room,she was still yelling but it sounded like it was at...herself?

"No!No!No!Please!"She sobbed."I'm scared!I want my moms!"

Me and Dash nodded whatever privacy she wanted could be put aside right now.
We enter her room.

She's was in the ground shaking in a position I only seem her be once she was rescued from being kidnapped.

"Hey what's wrong Sparkling?"Dash asks.

She nods no.

"We can't help if you don't tell us."

"I-I..."She blinks a few times stopping answering,then looks around,then turms to me."How did I get in here? I swear I was talking to you in the kitchen seconds ago."

"That was about half an hour ago Sparkling."I tell her."Is something wrong?Is something bothering you?"
She nods no."Just really tired,have a headache."

Dash goes and looks into her in the eyes."Sparkling if anymore incidents like this happen me and your mom are taking you to the doctor,ok?No arguing about it."
She nods.We delayed it the max we could thinking it would pass,but one incident after other happened.And with all the mental-health problems in my family I was starting to get worried.
One day I got home from a quick trip to the market and when I was back the gate was left open,I thought Forced found our house until I saw the composing notebook in the ground.I open in the last page.It wasn't a song.

It was a cry for help.The letters changed between someone that only knew how to doodle,a nearly alphabetized kid,Sparkling's letters when she was about 10 and how Sparkling wrote now.

The doodles included what I could only assume me laying on the ground,me pregnant,an baby with the face all painted(dead,I suppose?),and a little girl crying all stick figures.

The nearly alphabetized kid wrote cries for help:"I can't speak,I can't eat,he told me if I do I'd suffer more,he found me,I better hide...I'm scared.I want moms back!"

The third was simply:"Why?!Why?!Why?!He could've,should've got me.I'm a monster for letting that happen everyone should just leave!Leave me alone at once!"

And then finally I got to the letters I recognize:"What is happening?!" was written a bunch of times."Why can't I remember all this?" a couple.And the one that broke my heart "I'm so tired...".

So this is what she meant by she was tired,she was tired of trying to understand what was happening.

I take off with my siren speed looking all over for her and find her by the lake by the look in her face she was confused,trying to find out how she got here,she also hold one of her hands in head and flinched like it was aching.

"Sparkling tell me everything you remember!"I tell her as I put my hands on her shoulders.

"I'm not Sparkling."Was what came out from her mouth.

"Who are you then?"

"Heating Light."

"Alright."Shit now she got me really worried. "Can you tell me why you're here?"

"Escape from the man that didn't let me eat,sleep,play,talk..."She continued the list.

"That was years ago.You're safe."

She nods no,starts blinking heavily and then looks around.

"Sparkling?"

"Mom?Why are we at the lake?"She then puts the hand in her head."Oooouch."

She starts crying now of pain.

I go over and hold her,she couldn't have so much headache else it would cause a...Oh no.I held her tighter to make sure I didn't drop her if what I thought happened,and took her more far from the lake and just like I thought her pain started causing a seizure.

Alright,I catch her in my lap even tho it's not easy anymore and I use my siren speed,we weren't that far from the hospital.

I rushed Sparkling to the hospital. I don't know what was wrong but I knew it had to be bad to make her do this. When we got there they did all kinds of tests on her but so far no one has given me a straight answer about what could be wring with her. Till finally Sunset finally came back.

"I have the results back. But you're not going to like it." Sunset told me.

"What is it? What's wrong with her?" I asked.

"Are you familiar with the idea of mutiple personalities?"

"I think..."

"Ok,ok let me try and explain this so you understand. There is more then one person in her head."

"So she's hearing voices?"

"No...well maybe I don't know for sure. But that's not what I mean. When she told you she didn't remember how something happened it because she didn't do it."

"Then who did?"

"Heating Light."

"But that was what Sparkling called herself at the lake."

"I know because it was Sparkling but is wasn't at the same time."

"What do you mean?"

"That Sparkling has a psychiatric problem like most of your family does except hers it's caused by all her traumas."She then sighed."You related her writing in the last page but it doesn't looking like her.That's because her personality is scattered in her mind,she probably doesn't remember a lot before this year and she probably doesn't knows why Blame hates her.And she probably doesn't remember Sky,or Flaming,or knowing she's Forced's daughter.But some of her other parts do.The seizure happened due to her coming back to being Sparkling being in pain because of what we call switching.And she needs meds and treatments else these incidents that are dangerous for her are gonna keep happening.I'm gonna keep her here for a few weeks,but if she doesn't get better...She might need more help than I can give her."

"What do you mean more help then you can give her? You're the best doctor we know. The only one that understand magic."

"This isn't magic Aria. It's not even because she's a siren. A human could have the same thing. And yes I'm a good doctor if this was something wrong with her body I could do it. But it's her mind, I don't know very much. Nobody does."

"What do you mean nobody does?"

"The brain is complex Aria. We don't understand how it works when it's healthy much less when there's something wrong."

"So what do we have to do?"

"Like I said I'll keep her for a few weeks but if she doesn't get better...well...."

"Just tell me Sunset."

"I'll have to send her to a mental hospital."

"You have to be exaggerating."

"I'm not."

"Well I'm not sending my daughter to a mental hospital after Tify and Becca got out of there traumatized."

"Aria it is a complete different situation nut maybe she'll get better,I think you should tell Dash what happened after all she's gonna be wondering where you two are."

"You're right, I'll call her."

"Aria we both know this is something you tell someone face to face. What would you do to Dash if she told you about this over the phone?"

"But I can't just leave Sparkling alone."

"She won't be awake anytime soon. But I won't leave here alone."

"Alright." I left to go find Dash.

I get back home,Dash was dinning I assume just got home from her job and must've assumed I was in Dagi's or Sony's house and took Sparkling.

So when she doesn't sees her with me,her faces changes as she realized something may be wrong.

"Ari where's Sparkling?"

I sigh."I had to take her to the hospital,she's gonna be hospitalized for a few weeks...if not even more..."

"What happened?"

"She's worse then we thought."

"What happened to our daughter?"

"I don't know if I even understand it. But from Sunset told me she has more than one personality. She changed today."

"What do you mean she changed?"

"It wasn't Sparkling. And if we don't get her help she'll just get worse."I sigh."Sunset told me she's gonna keep her for a few weeks and if she didn't get better she might need the mental hospital.I'm worried because that switch Sunset said it's called made her have a headache strong enough to have a seizure."

Dash got up.

"Let's go see her.Who's with her right now?"

"Sunset."

We soon arrived at the hospital.

"She wake up yet Sunset?"I ask.

"Only for enough time to eat,but she seemed scared and wasn't talking,we realized it was another switch because then she became like she was when she arrived and we had to dose more meds.So she's passed out cold now because of them."

"Be honest with us Sunset." Dash told her. "Can you help Sparkling?"

"I'll do everything I can." Sunset told her.

"That's not an answer. Can you help her?"

"I...." Sunset looks down. "I don't think so."

"So why are we waiting so long to send her to the mental hospital?"

"Because I might..."

"Sunset if you can't help her we should take her to the people that can."

"Dash." I said. "You know what happened to Tifany and Rebecca."

"Sparkling doesn't have the same thing they do."

"But if Sunset finds better keeping her here...And I don't know maybe she can help her."

"No Aria,she needs the help."

"Well they won't send her if both parents won't agree.And I'm not agreeing on sending her unless it's absolutely necessary.Plus she might get better by herself."

"Fine we'll see,but if in 2 weeks she's not better I don't care if I have to get Adagio to convice you she's going."