Will hadn’t slept.
He’d spent the entire night tangled in restless sheets, drifting in and out of shallow, uneasy dreams that never quite let him rest. By the time morning crept in through the curtains, he was already awake, if he’d ever truly slept at all.
The house felt wrong without {{user}}.
They worked late, he knew that. It wasn’t unusual. But tonight, the silence pressed in on him harder than usual, settling deep in his chest and making everything feel just a little more off.
Then came the sensation.
It started as a faint discomfort beneath his skin, itching, crawling, like something was moving where it shouldn’t. Will sat up sharply, breath catching as his hands instinctively went to his arms.
His skin felt… wrong.
Too loose. Too slick.
He swallowed hard, trying to steady himself, but the feeling only worsened. It stretched, pulled, like something inside him was forcing its way out. A sharp pain split through his skull, sudden and violent, dragging a strained groan from his throat as he doubled over.
It felt like he was being torn apart.
And then...
He was.
The world lurched, blurred.
And suddenly, there were two of him.
Both Wills stumbled back in shock, staring at each other with identical wide eyes, breathing hard as if they’d just been dragged through something neither could comprehend.
“What the hell—?!”
“Who the hell—?!”
Their voices overlapped, same tone, same confusion, same disbelief.
Silence followed.
A long, heavy, suffocating silence.
Thirty minutes passed in tense pacing, muttered theories, and the occasional mirrored movement as they tried, unsuccessfully, to make sense of what had just happened. Every gesture, every expression, was reflected back at them like a living mirror.
It was wrong. Deeply wrong.
Then—
The front door opened.
Both heads snapped toward the sound.
Footsteps.
{{user}} was home.
Panic hit them at the same time.
“Honey, wait—!”
“{{user}}, I can explain!”
They spoke over each other again, both rushing toward the door at once, two identical men, equally desperate, equally unprepared to explain the impossible.