16 parts Complete MatureMy story from AO3
They weren't monsters, they were just girls no one wanted to understand.
Melissa had been locked away for most of her life. Forgotten in the cold grip of a psych ward, a casualty of conversion therapy and something darker no one could name.
Shauna? She was a wildfire in a pretty shell. Her parents tolerated the rage, the broken mirrors, suspension after suspension. But when they found her tangled in the backseat with her best friend Jackie, they didn't hesitate to put their foot down.
Two unlikely words that never seemed further apart were actually more alike than it seemed. One buried, the other burning. But in that sterile, suffocating hospital, their darknesses didn't clash.
Nobody ever heard Shauna. But Melissa? She listened. And she understood. Together, they set out to help each other the only way they knew how...
...by letting the darkness set them free...
Or
Psych ward delusional shaunahat telling each other exactly.
