Zoe and Madison Oneshots (Zadison)

Free-falling.

Zoe woke up in a sweat. She was having the same nightmare she had for the past 2 years. The one where she's on top a building and a hooded figure pushes her off, resulting in her falling and falling and falling and falling... until she wakes up. Every time the same thing happens. Well, for the past year at least. Before that, the hooded figure had a face. It was her ex girlfriend, Madison Montgomery. But now it was faceless.

Not even sleep therapists could make sense of the dream. Some said that it's because she falls asleep with the television on, or that she drinks too much coffee. One of them even said it's because she's 'a damned carpet-muncher'.

Another thing I should tell you about Zoe Benson's dream is that when she awakens, she enters a state of sleep paralysis. She doesn't have a demon or anything like that but on rare occasions she swears she can hear someone screaming. That's probably just her mind playing tricks on her, though.

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Her throat closed up. She couldn't scream. She couldn't move. She was frozen. She tried gasping for air but even that was no use. The only noise she could let out was a pathetic whimper. 'Christ Zoe, not again. I'm so sick of this.' she heard a voice complain from beside her.

After the moment had passed, she got up and composed herself. 'I'm sorry, Jill, truly. I just can't control it, you know that.' she nervously laughed. 'I knew I shouldn't have slept over, fucking crazy.' Jill muttered under her breath. 'I'll see you later, Benson. I'm heading home so I can get some proper sleep without getting woken up by your nightmare shit.'

Zoe frowned and got up to give Jill a kiss on the cheek but her lover dodged it. 'Bye!' Zoe weakly shouted as Jill left the cruddy apartment.

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'Hi, welcome to Wendy's, what can I get for you?' Zoe groaned as she slumped over the counter. '20 burgers, please. It's for my kid, Dylan. It's his birthday party.' Zoe looked up at the middle age lady. She was wearing crocs. Fucking psycho. 'I'm sorry Ma'am but you really should've contacted us to prepare us for supplying you with that many burgers on such short notice.' She yawned. 'Well we need them right now.' The lady quirked a challenging eyebrow at Zoe. 'I'll see what I can do.'

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'Woah, woah, woah.' Zoe's manager said as Zoe entered the kitchen. 'You were late again, Benson.' he complained. 'I know, I know. I'm sorry Neil, I just missed out on loads of sleep again. I promise it won't happen again.' she laughed to herself. 'You call that an apology? Oh, and it's Mr Hogan to you.' He laughed. Zoe shrugged. 'You know, I think you should try apologising to me in a different way.' He smiled at her.

She looked up at him, confused. 'What do you mean, Ne- I mean Mr Hogan?' He moved towards her and slightly grazed his hand over her thigh. She stepped backwards. 'Are you kidding? You're married!' He shook his head. 'Oh come on, you know, a man wants what a man wants.' he snickered. Zoe gave him a disgusted look. 'You're a piece of human trash, ugh.' She turned away from him.

He grabbed her shoulder and violently turned her around, planting a peck on her lips. She pushed him away. 'I quit!' she screaming in disgust and threw her stupid hat on the floor.

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She lit up some weed and sat in the parking lot. There goes her 60 day token she earned from rehab. She inhaled the poisonous smoke and exhaled shortly after. 'Fuuuuck.' she sighed. She took another puff. And another. And another. And then some more until she was stoned.

Every now and then a car would drive towards her and blind her with the car's headlights which was followed by the driver's angry screams of disapproval. After about an hour or so, a car pulled up next to the girl. 'Park somewhere else, shithead.' Zoe shouted without even looking up at the driver.

'Zoe?' the driver asked. The brunettes heart dropped. She could recognise that voice anywhere. She looked up and her nightmares became true.. literally. The person stood in front of her was the one and only Madison Montgomery. 'You look like shit.' The blonde laughed and crouched down next to Zoe.

'Madison, I'm sorry I thought-' Zoe began apologising but was interrupted by the other girl. 'Don't worry about it. I was just grabbing some dinner for my kids.' Zoe's eyes widened as much as they could because they were already wide from the pot. 'Kids?' She asked. Madison laughed and slowly nodded her head. 'Yep, two of 'em. Twins, actually.'

'Holy fuck.' Zoe laughed and put out the weed. 'Damn, how much did it cost to get a sperm donor? That's like expensive, right? Or are they adopted?' She asked. 'You're nosy, aren't you, Benson.' Madison joked. 'I actually met someone. His name's Henry but every calls him Hank.' Zoe furrowed her eyebrows.

'A man?' she looked at Madison in confusion. Madison gulped. 'Yeah.' She looked down at the ground. 'Uh, if you ever wanna catch up over some coffee or something, here's my new number.' She nervously laughed and gave her card to Zoe. 'Oh yeah, I'm a realter by the way.'

Zoe looked at the card. It had a picture of Madison and Hank stood next to a sign which read 'Newberry and Montgomery. co'. 'Hey, I know this sounds crazy but do you want to get out of here?' Zoe asked.

Madison shook her head, 'I shouldn't. I've gotta get home to my kids.' she smiled to herself. 'Oh come on Mads.' Zoe pleaded. Madison's eyes met Zoe's. 'Oh, why not?' she laughed.

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okay this is going on too long so basically they hook up and zoe thinks about some shit like maybe madison wasn't the bad guy after all or whatever. also idk I was inspired to write this because I've been watching the haunting of hill house lol