It had been a week since Josie had arrived to France, a long exhausting week. She began seeing a therapist for 5 days now, today being her sixth, from 9:30 to 11AM. A vampire therapist, so that the brunette wouldn't need to hold anything back.
"Josie darling you seem a bit exhausted do you want to take a break?" said her therapist, Eucelia Royd. She was a 200 year old vampire with deep brown warming eyes, long locks of chocolate brown hair and shining skin. The twin felt a warmth around her, she had opened up to her so easily and felt to accepted. Eucelia didn't judge her whatsoever.
"Yes please, I want coffee" Josie muttered, smiling a bit before getting up from the comfy leather sofa and walking outside the building, into the cold, crowded street. I think it's gonna rain soon, the brunette thought, as she looked up at the grey sky.
There was a small coffee shop across the street, it was quite empty, vintage records decorated the cafe's walls along with posters of a few well known rock bands, the twin could hear music playing, just barely, as she walked in through the glass door. The barista smiled at her as soon as she came in, given there were only a few other people in the shop, all seemed to be either college students or 50 year olds.
"Hi can I have a double shot Espresso?"
Josie asked, as she walked over to the till.
"To-go?"
"No I'm gonna go sit over there" replied the brunette, gesturing to the small glass table against the window and the black cushion in front of it.
The barista raised his thick bushy eyebrows and scoffed a bit, as if he had an inside joke about that certain place.
"Is there something wrong or?" she said, as she smiled a bit, too, and gave him a searching look.
"That's my favourite place in the whole cafe, I sit there and read a book sometimes when it's empty" he explained.
The twin raised her eyebrows and smiled at him, then went to sit down on the big, comfy cushion. She sighed and tilted her head up, staring at the ceiling fan whilst getting lost in her thought.
A few minutes later, someone came up to her, she looked back down, snapping into reality thinking it was her order, instead she was taken by surprise, she found herself staring at a familiar face. Mixed feelings and emotions rushed through her, as her thoughts clouded her brain.
"Jojo?" said this familiar stranger, looking at the brunette with relief, confusion, and even happiness.
She frowned and blinked rapidly, thinking she must be seeing things. "Penelope?" she said, in disbelief. She didn't know how to feel, was she sad? Happy? Mad?
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ahhhh finally posting this
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A Familiar Stranger
FanfictionAfter 3x01, a suggestions popped up that Josie should go Europe and spend time with her mother, as her sister did. But what happens when she meets her ex, who looked out for her and then left because she didn't want to watch Josie get hurt?
