I was always lost on what freedom and love looked like. I thought it looked like moving away at first, then it turned into just being able to go into town without worry. After that it looked just like a man I used to know, and after he left. I had no idea what exactly freedom should look, taste, sound or smell like anymore. I thought I had everything I needed growing up, and that freedom didn't exactly matter. Why care about it, as long as we were locked away together? Now years and a few months later, I was forced to figure that out. What freedom looked like for me.

The night Smoke stumbled onto Rae's porch, neither of them imagined what the coming weeks would bring. Old wounds reopened. Fragile hopes rekindled. And a secret neither was ready to face. In a town where the past burns slow and the future feels uncertain, love and loss become one. But some ashes never fade. This is their story - of what was lost, what was left behind... and what still burns beneath it all. ___________________________________________ Not exactly a narrative of the movie in some parts. Smoke x Female OC SINNERS (2025) Any picture work or art doesn't belong to me, the rights belong to their owners. Disclaimer: English is not my first language and I'm not fully aware of American history, any grammatical errors, or cultural errors, Please let me know in the comments. ⚠️ Trigger Warning: This story contains mature themes including violence, emotional trauma, grief, and implied abuse. It also features themes of abandonment, pregnancy, and loss. Reader discretion is advised. While this is a romantic and emotional prequel set in the Sinners universe, it explores heavy themes with depth and sensitivity.

A Sinners-Modern!AU Melody came back to Houston with a plan-stay low and stack her. Fresh out of nursing school and back from Mexico, she's ready to reconnect with family, find herself, and finally exhale in the thick heat of the city she used to call home during the summer. But Houston's changed-and so has she. But nothing threw her off balance more than him-Smoke. Quiet. Tattooed. Dangerous in the way a match is before it touches fire. A friend of her brother's, with a stare that says more than he ever will. What starts as late-night texts and car conversations quickly turns into something deeper, something riskier. Melody finds herself toeing the line between danger and desire-and Smoke's not the type to let go easy.

Melody "Lil Bit" Moore is trying to hold her family together while her husband Smoke is locked up... still running his mouth like he runs the house and a temper that don't know how to be gentle when he scared. They love each other bad. The kind of love that don't always sound pretty. Their kids? Raised in it. Their twin sons, Malachi and Messiah, are straight-A students with gang ties, street reputations, and tempers that don't come with warnings. They're rich, feared, and still acting like they don't got sense. Their little sister Eliana "Peach" is caught between being the baby and having a sharp mouth, too grown for her age, trying to protect her mama while she still figuring out who she is. Everybody got something they hiding. And the Moores don't do "calm conversations." They do slammed doors, blocked numbers, busted lips, and "say it again" energy. They do family... like war. ♛ ─── ♛ ─── ♛ ─── ♛ ─── ♛

She lives quietly, streaming horror games and sipping iced espresso, hiding behind hoodies and headphones. He walks loud, inked in ghosts, laughing like thunder, carrying a past that burns at the edges. When Elias "Stack" Moore steps into London Hart's silence, he doesn't shatter it-he waits inside it. What begins with a stolen coffee turns into something slow, something hot. A love that smolders. A past that won't stay buried. And two people learning how to be seen, without running.

A bite. A bond. A burning desire When Elias Moore marks her with his bite, Zariah is pulled into a hidden world where blood runs deeper than secrets. She craves his bite. His blood. His touch. All Elias wants is love, but there's someone who will stop at nothing to make sure he spends the rest of eternity alone and miserable. But he'll do anything to protect her. He's drawn to her purity, and they find out their connection runs deeper than they thought.