She changed everything about herself... then ran. She knew no one was looking for her anymore... but the memory of life as she once knew it was never going to be a thought again. Never would what the psychopath in her past did to her happen again, the world was now closed off from Quinn, she was done trying. She was done caring.
Rayden was just a bad boy on a power trip, who happened to own, "At the Fights", a club where fighters competed and spectators drank. The place Quinn tended bar. He was the boss, and wanted by all, therefore he looked right thru her and on to the patrons and fighters like him, the ones who'd kill for a moment of his attention...
Or so she thought...
From the moment he saw her from the catwalk, towering above them all like minions they were, he saw thru the cold exterior she fought to show the world around her. Her eyes full of fear as though everyone and everything scared her, she tried to hide with a steely gaze never making eye contact with anyone.
"What are you hiding... Rabbit?", he named her as he thought to himself. "Surely Alice isn't still chasing you..?"
Rayden too, had a past. A dark one, hidden even from him, in fragments long ago walled off from his own memory... but nothing stays hidden forever...
Will two broken people locked away from the world, by their own choosing, allow the rusted shut lock to fall open, and heal? Or stay locked away forever?
Mature subject themes.
Not recommended for 18 and under.
Trigger warnings:
Anxiety/Depression
Complex-PTSD
Abusive Content
Suicidal Thoughts/Attempts
Self Harm
Sexually Explicit Content (consensual/non-consensual)
Narcissistic Abuse
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID/MPD)
Other Specified Dissociative Disorders (Osdd1-A/B)
Ranked Number 1 8/2018: #cptsd and #severeanxietydisorder
Geoff and Naomi are dead, and they're depressed, but when Geoff's cat Bernie dies as well, they embark on a wild journey to find it in the underworld.
*****
When Geoff dies, alongside his girlfriend Naomi, they end up sharing an apartment in the Underworld as skeletons. But after a few years, Geoff starts suffering a mid-death crisis. What's the purpose of going through the motions as a skeleton if you can't really live? Then he gets word that his cat, Bernie, just died and he can collect him and bring him home! Geoff and Naomi hurry to get Bernie only to discover that, due to a clerical error, their cat has been lost. With the hunt for Bernie giving new purpose to Geoff's un-life, he and Naomi begin a quest to get back their cat. Battling skeleton pirates, climbing the sky ladder and facing off against the villain who took Bernie, Geoff is determined to find his purpose - or die a second time trying!
[[2018 Wattys Winner - The Originals]]
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