this is / 𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔯𝔶𝔦𝔫𝔤

* . ✧ . * . ⌜ danielle rose russell, 21, cis woman, she/her / this is me trying by taylor swift + sunlight spilling through lace curtains, there is a darkness lingering under that radiant glow that not even you understand, a fierce need to protect those around you so strong that you often forget to allow others to care for you ⌟ hey, have you met 𝐒𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐄 yet? they’re a 𝐆𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐄, and have lived here for 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄. i wonder if their tendency to be 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐄 and 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐓𝐔𝐎𝐔𝐒 is why people call them the 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐗? they claim that they 𝐃𝐎 believe in the supernatural, but rumor has it that they might even be a 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐍𝐄 (𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐎𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐒 & 𝐔𝐌𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐒). wouldn’t shock me in a town like salem.

hearing his name is like a trigger and he suddenly recounts all the other ways she’s said it ( joy when he proposed , the fond exasperation when he’d come to her yet again covered in some sort of paint ) her exclamation though makes him pause, lump in his throat as his eyes sting. “ yeah, “ he says quietly. “ i am. “ ( it’s not fair. it’s not fair. ) jasper doesn’t even entertain the idea of lying to her. “ something happened after i - when i - “ he clears his throat, unable to address it directly and ignores the delicate chime that sounds in his ear. ( this was exactly the elder’s point. that loving her would interfere ) “ i’m not the same as i was before. “

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he doesn’t have long to do this- see her, talk to her. it’s only because his charge was on the opposite street to her work that he even had the chance to be this close to her. he hadn’t worked up the courage to speak to her at the masquerade ball but now… “ samara!” he calls out as soon as he sees her. once he approaches he realises he doesn’t exactly know what to say. jasper can’t help but stare at her, the hollow in his chest aching. he’d said he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her once- in a way he did but it wasn’t enough. it would never be enough. “ hey…”

Halloween isn’t really his thing; the whole all hallow’s eve and the supernatural things that go bump in the night, it’s his life. But leave it to Salem to not only celebrate halfway to halloween but it’s a huge draw for locals and even tourists who come to the city to learn about the dark history with the witch trials. He’s not going by choice to the event, he would have probably sat this one out and the sisters could have called on him had they run into trouble. He’s a photographer in his normal nine to five and apparently the one hired for the event got food poisoning, couldn’t make up and couldn’t he last minute fill in and take pictures of the evening. So, that’s why he was there…

But even the photographer wasn’t allowed to mess with the rules; dressed in a dark navy suit and tie with a blue mask covering half his face he was at the entrance of the masquerade event stopping those coming in at the photo backdrop. with the camera in hand, he took the shot of the couple, “Alright, enjoy the event. Next.” He said dismissing the couple at the photo backdrop, who were already wandering off into the evening’s festivities. He turned his head back towards the next guest. 

samara loved halloween. not only was it a holiday revolving around all of her favorite things, but it was her birthday. the halfway to halloween masquerade was no exception. this year however, she hadn’t been as excited to celebrate as past years. it felt wrong to celebrate without her grandfather or jasper. normally she would have had her outfit planned weeks in advance, but this year she couldn’t bring herself to plan ahead, instead opting to reuse her outfit from the previous year.