Victims

After regaining consciousness, the sweet smell of porridge wafted into her nose, the hungry girl immediately set her sights on the warm porridge that was on the bedside table. Without even bothering to think if it might be poisoned, she hurriedly gulped it all down in a single breath. Although the porridge was just plain she didn't mind it, she had really been very hungry, noticing the water beside the bed table she gulped it all down as well before heaving a satisfied sigh.

"Good, finish it all, are you feeling better now ?" a woman's voice said.

Turning her head, Orion noticed for the first time that the woman from before, her mother, was sitting on the couch like earlier and she herself was lying in the same bed like before.

From her memory, the original host was named Remi, her mother's name was Astrid and she didn't like Remi much regardless of being her only child. And it wasn't because she's not a boy, her mother didn't care about her gender she only cared about herself, her body in particular. Ever since she gave birth to Remi, her perfect slim figure never came back, no matter how hard she worked out or how little she ate she still couldn't regain her old body back. It was for this reason that she disliked her daughter and fell out of love with Peter, her husband, especially since Peter still wanted another child but Astrid refused to get pregnant again.

"Hurry up and call your father, tell him you are all better" she said impatiently while walking towards the doorway.

"I have already wasted two precious days tending to you like a nanny, how outrageous....Peter is definitely doing this on purpose.." she mumbled as she exited the room.

The moment she left, Remi's tense body finally relaxed, even though he was a different person now, his fear for women seems to have followed him to this new life.

Remi knew that her mother had been very impatient about her recovery because she had probably been kept here against her will. Ever since her parents had a fallout, her mother decided to fulfil her long time dream of travelling around the world. She often travels from place to place all year around only returning home for a month before heading back, Remi barely felt like she had a mother at all. Her father must have called her back to tend to Remi's injury since he didn't trust his main wife and eldest daughter after the occurrence of the events that led to Remi's injury in the first place.

With her mother away all year long and her father mostly away on business trips, she was subjected to abuse at the hands of the mother- daughter duo, the first wife Margaret and her daughter Ophelia .

Her father had married Margaret for business reasons, but after giving birth to Ophelia with great difficulty, her constitution was weakened and she could no longer give birth without endangering her own life. Peter didn't mind this but 5 years later he fell in love with Astrid, a 19 years old actress at the time, later he made her his second wife. Due to the open favouritism Peter had for Astrid, Margaret's hatred for Astrid began to blossom.

When Remi was born Margaret didn't dare to mistreat her so openly but after Astrid had a fall out with Peter and left her daughter behind all hell broke loose. Remi remembered how they never gave her a chance to breathe, even Ophelia found joy in suppressing her, when anything went wrong she became the punching bag. The original Remi being so weak willed never resisted or reported it to her father, she was always delusional, thinking that their cracked family will come together and become a happy family in the future so she beared with it.

Thinking of the events that led her to her current predicament, she remembered that Ophelia had come home upset and angry for some reason. When she found Remi, she began to curse and scratch at her face, Remi knew that her face was the only good thing about her so she protected it. Seeing her protect her face, Ophelia had gotten more angry, making Remi feel a deep sense of fear. She instinctively turned around to run but was too slow and was violently pulled back by her hair causing her frail body to lose balance and fall, hitting her head in the process.

Thinking of this, Remi touched the back of her head and felt the white gauze wrapped around her head.

"So that's how you died huh?" Remi mumbled

Thinking of his own death as Orion, he clenched his fist, he felt sad for the original host to have died so unjustly but he also felt happy to have gotten a second chance in life.

She got out of bed as she felt her strength returning and her throat feeling much better. After looking around she finally found her phone under another pillow on the bed, using the password from her memories she unlocked it. Searching around on the internet, she found a lot of news articles, videos and other posts about his death. A lot of the mocking comments and posts had already been taken down but new ones still kept on coming, after scrolling through most of the repeated information she absent mindedly went on an illegal website out of habit.

As expected she found a lot more deeper information, but she wasn't mentally prepared for it, seeing the video clip that someone had posted on the dark web her whole body trembled, seething with rage.

"How dare they!" She screamed, unable to control herself .

At that moment someone dashed in through the bedroom door, she was wearing a sky blue servant dress with white laces.

"Young miss, is anything the matter?" She asked with concern.

Seeing the woman burst into her room so brazenly only infuriated her more.

"Get out!" She growled menacingly

The maid was stunned, why was their weak and meek young miss suddenly so fierce? Has she been possessed ?

Looking at those eyes that seemed so beastly and carried a trace of killing intent, the maid was so frightened that she hurriedly stumbled out of the room, her heart beating chaotically.

Remi wanted to smash the phone down to relieve her anger even by just a little but she knew that with her current status at her new home, she wouldn't be getting a new one soon if she did that.

Calming herself down for a moment, she subconsciously went through her contacts in search of her previous ICT guy to find out who posted that clip only to come back to her senses a moment later.

'Right, I didn't memorise his number' she thought.

Her mind went back to all the faces of his most trusted friends who had been present at the time of his death, his head hurt, who was it ? He knew for sure that his death was a well plotted murder but he couldn't figure out who did it. Killing him was one thing but they actually dared to film his moment of weakness and post it on the dark web. Thinking of his horrendous appearance on the video as he choked to death, her killing intent surged.

" I swear I'll get my revenge on whoever you are, I...Orion, won't spare you even if you're the son of Lucifer!" She spat.

As Orion he might have thought he died young and unjustly but thinking of the little girl who died before she could even reach 20, his anger toned down. They were both victims after all, the only difference between them was that the girl had been a victim all her life.

'that will change now that am here'

"I swear to avenge you too little girl, thank you for your body, I'll use it well" she muttered to herself before getting up to go shower, she had to get to work right away.