Snowells Week 2020

Day 2: Horror AU

Day 2: Horror AU

Summary: 

Snowells Week Day 2 Harry/Caitlin Gothic Horror AU loosely based on the premise of the show Penny Dreadful. Dr. Caitlin Snow has always had her demons, her issues, her tragic past. But when those demons come back to haunt her and a dear childhood family friend's life is threatened, she'll stop at nothing to fight back and protect that with which she loves. Even if it means facing everything she's run away from, including the one she can never have.

A.N.

While this storyline is somewhat based on the plot of Penny Dreadful, our characters are still Flash characters and you won't have to have watched Penny Dreadful to know what's going on. All you'll really need to know is that the time period is a bit different, like closer to Victorian England times just sorta in America. Also, this is still a WIP, so I just have a prologue and chapter one finished so far. But the plan is to keep going on it even after Snowells Week. Overall title comes from the song "Everything Black" by Unlike Pluto. Prologue title from the song "Control" by Halsey. (picture above found on pinterest)

I'll Take You To the Dark Side

"I have run from the darkness for so long, to find myself in a place darker still."

Vanessa Ives, as portrayed by Eva Green, in Penny Dreadful

Prologue: My Mind's Like A Deadly Disease

The moment she awoke from her latest nightmare, she knew without question that she had to go to him at once. She lay there wide eyed in a cold sweat, an icy smoke rising around the bed as if the arctic had made its way inside her bedroom over night. The ice was nothing new, her demons had manifested in ice and cold and snow since before she'd begun adolescence. No one had ever been able to explain it, beyond a threatening label of "witchcraft" or "sorcery" or even "hallucination" or "hysterics" despite the fact that everyone around her could see the frosty physical results of her outbursts. Something she needed to resist or control as if she had any sway over the cold within her as much as she did the color of her eyes or the long length of her legs.

No, what was new was this particular nightmare, as opposed to the other abysmal images that typically plagued her restless sleep. The dark shadows, the blue lightning, the looming dark figure, the disjointed voice, the girl trapped in a rusty metal cage crying out for help . . .

It was Jesse - Jessica Chambers Wells. The girl had only been a child the last time that Caitlin had seen her before she'd fled the oppression of her childhood home to pursue science and medicine. The Snow, West, and Wells families had always been close both in the neighborhood that they lived and the time they all spent together. Being several years younger, Jesse had followed teenage Caitlin and her similarly aged best friend Iris West around like a shadow. All three of them avoided Iris's annoying little brother Wally, and all four children frequently played pranks on each other. Both Caitlin and Iris doted on the younger girl as if she were a little sibling, though Caitlin tended to mother Jesse more than anything. Having lost her own mother as an infant, Jesse relished in the attention.

Caitlin had regretted losing touch with Jesse when she left for her schooling, but the pains of her past had become too much to bear after the fallout of her friendship with Iris. That had been entirely Caitlin's fault, and a continued source of her guilt even into adulthood. All three families drifted apart, and the death of young Wally had only solidified it. The years since had not been kind, if not unnecessarily cruel, and Caitlin had honestly not thought much of young Jesse in so long.