Caspian
She had met him when she was merely a year in college. A handsome stranger in a bar, with all the qualities of a man that made her stomach flip and her heart flutter. Her friends had convinced her to pause her studying to leave that night, against her better judgement.
When he looked at her from across the bar where he sat perched on a barstool, it was as if he could see through her, right into her soul.
The corner of his mouth perked in a dagger-like grin. Was he tempting her to come over?
She couldn’t possibly speak to a man that looked like that, but the strong drink in her hand gave her liquid courage.
“Caspian...what’s it like?”
She asked, sitting at the edge of oblivion, her neck aching.
“Have you ever put your head under the water? When you hold your breath until anxiety starts to set in, and the immediacy to breath overwhelms you? Your throat tightens, your lungs burn. And you know, if you don’t peek your head out of the water, your body will force you to take a breath, and it will be water that fills your lungs instead of air.”
She stares at him, suddenly filled with adrenaline and dread.
“Thirst is like that.”
If only she had stayed home and studied.
Years of hope. Years of promises.
< “And you think you’re the first person to come along and think they can change me?”
> “I know you can change. Please let me in Caspian. Trust me. I love you.”
< “Humans and your fragility. It’s almost comical that you believe me to have a modicum of love for you. That you would fall for such frivolous adoration. You stand here, ready to drop to your knees if it means that I follow you in what you believe is your ‘happy ever after’. Darling, your happy ever after ends here, with me. It is not immortality that awaits you, but the cold dark hands of death.”
> “Have you forgotten your humanity completely? So this is it? Fine. Let your cold dark hands hold me in my last embrace; death. I walk into it with willing eagerness. If not for the love you bore me, but for the love I bore for you.”
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Caspian
She had met him when she was merely a year in college. A handsome stranger in a bar, with all the qualities of a man that made her stomach flip and her heart flutter. Her friends had convinced her to pause her studying to leave that night, against her better judgement.
When he looked at her from across the bar where he sat perched on a barstool, it was as if he could see through her, right into her soul.
The corner of his mouth perked in a dagger-like grin. Was he tempting her to come over?
She couldn’t possibly speak to a man that looked like that, but the strong drink in her hand gave her liquid courage.
“Caspian...what’s it like?”
She asked, sitting at the edge of oblivion, her neck aching.
“Have you ever put your head under the water? When you hold your breath until anxiety starts to set in, and the immediacy to breath overwhelms you? Your throat tightens, your lungs burn. And you know, if you don’t peek your head out of the water, your body will force you to take a breath, and it will be water that fills your lungs instead of air.”
She stares at him, suddenly filled with adrenaline and dread.
“Thirst is like that.”
If only she had stayed home and studied.
Years of hope. Years of promises.
< “And you think you’re the first person to come along and think they can change me?”
> “I know you can change. Please let me in Caspian. Trust me. I love you.”
< “Humans and your fragility. It’s almost comical that you believe me to have a modicum of love for you. That you would fall for such frivolous adoration. You stand here, ready to drop to your knees if it means that I follow you in what you believe is your ‘happy ever after’. Darling, your happy ever after ends here, with me. It is not immortality that awaits you, but the cold dark hands of death.”
> “Have you forgotten your humanity completely? So this is it? Fine. Let your cold dark hands hold me in my last embrace; death. I walk into it with willing eagerness. If not for the love you bore me, but for the love I bore for you.”
Featuring:
Hair from Dura
Shirt from Ascend
Pants from Kai
Earrings from RichB.