Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream

She lost him, but she found herself. And somehow that was everything.

I’ve come to realize that you can fight a lot of things in life, but you can’t help who you love. You can’t change who your heart chooses. I’m afraid that very fact will be the greatest tragedy of my life.

He nodded in agreement and outstretched an arm for her to rest her head on so she could get a more comfortable position. “Maybe, I suppose we’re all full of pleasant surprises.” But really, she looked like she needed the laugh. “And you, Nora, you’re like a walking anti bad vibe shield, or maybe a rabbit on Red Bull.” With his free arm he looked at the ticking watch, one of those automatic rewinding ones that had a life of two days before they had to be rewound again. It was almost two in the morning already and he was surprised at how fast the time had passed.

Nora gladly took the new position to get comfortable, moving a little closer and settling her golden head onto his arm. "And what is that supposed to mean? I do not know whether or not to be offended by your statement," she asked him, faking shock and hurt. "Walking anti bad vibe shield? Rabbit on red bull? What even?" she asked, laughed again. It did feel good to really laugh again.

"There’s no point. I mean, the past never stays where you think it will. Nothing is ever just over. It creeps into your meals and into the air and sits in your clothes when you’re not wearing them. It’s hiding behind every corner, and it lives to take you by surprise, to make you remember everything you tried to forget. But eventually it all becomes a memory, you just have to wait till it starts feeling like one. Then, it’s okay." At least he hopes so. He laughed at her comment then. "Welcome to the twenty-first century. Maybe you can learn how to swallow fire, so with a belly full of it you can see what it’s like to burn like a star from the inside out."

His words really hit home for her and he didn't even know her full story. It didn't matter if she could pretend to be something else, she was now always going to a succubus. And she was going to have to deal with a lot of past and a lot of memories come the years. "It will be," she said to him. Nora always tried to think positive, to hold on to whatever hope that she could. "I think that would hurt quite a lot," she laughed. "You can be very silly you know.

Robert nodded once. “Yeah, it happens.” And it did, to most everyone so he shrugged against the crystallizing grass. “No point in letting it sink you down, right?” Especially not when the realization comes that pain isn’t unique to the individual, it had been felt by many people, it doesn’t belong to just one person yet it feels fresh like an open wound. He looked over to her as she agreed with him, revealing her own lack of astrology knowledge. “Maybe we’ll figure out what’s what one day.”

"Yeah, don't let it sink you down." she agreed with a nod but let out a long sigh as she ran her fingers through her curls. How could she not it get her down though? Because of Jackson she had lost her family, her humanity, everything. She used to say that he had ruined her and perhaps that was still partially true. She would never be the same Nora that she had been before she had met him. But at least here with Robert looking at the stars she could pretend that she was. "I think that's what the internet is for," she teased with a small giggle.

"Getting over a brunette." He said honestly, it had taken a long time, but he as functional and that was a giant leap after what happened after the breakup. "Isn’t everyone? I think you’re making a valiant effort, Electric girl." He chuckled and let go of her soft, small hand before laying on his back and crossing his arms behind his head to look up at the sky. "Do you see that constellation there?" He said, pointing to a cluster of stars. "I have no idea what that’s called."

"You got your heart broken?" she asked him gently. A broken heart was a sore subject, one that she knew very well many times over, not just by Jackson though he had been the worst heartbreak of all so far. "Thank you," she said to him, her smile growing when he called her Electric Girl. She was trying, she really was. Trying to adjust to this new life and new identity and the reality of her immortality. It was hard but at least she had Adrianna. Nora followed his lead and laid down on the cool and slightly wet grass, laughing at his lack of knowledge at the stars. "I have no idea too."

It was a kind of shockingly similar story, following someone across the country to nobody towns for the sake of a fairytale lust. He could say that those type of actions were stupid, but he wasn’t really anyone to say anything to the contrary so he ust watched her. “As always, don’t wait for prince charming to sweep you off your feet, not when your own two legs work just fine.” But after a moment he placed a hand over hers, the grass prickling both of their fingers. “You’re alright, Nora.”

Nora gave a little breathless laugh and then let out a long sigh. She was proud of herself for not crying. Talking about Jackson made her cry most of the time. "Where were you back in the spring to tell me that?" She had been so desperate for a happily ever after, for true love, for a beautiful life away from her toxic parents that she had let Jackson get her without even a blink of an eye. When he took her hand, Nora gave his a gentle squeeze and smiled at him. "I'm working on it, being alright."

Oh the bitten mouth, oh the kissed limbs, oh the hungering teeth, oh the entwined bodies.

"Yeah." He nodded and took a seat at the end of the clearing that dropped off into a trail like cliff. "I’ve never had a stuttering problem." He looked around, giving another small shrug and pulling her down to take a seat next to him. "Because it’s not special, not in ways people classify special as." His eyes were on the horizon. "No one cares about it, they just know it’s far and small. This isn’t a place people drive 2,500 miles across country less than an hour after graduating high school to, it’s calm and without any superiority. And we always find ourselves looking down on things, but you really can’t do that here. You’re forced to see things, feel those things that demand to be felt. Its pretty great so far. I’m not sure if you meant this spot or Maddox, but I kinda feel that way about both places.” He looked at her then. “Why’d you choose Maddox?” She clearly wasn’t from there.

Nora just listened to him as he spoke. His eyes were on the horizon but hers were on him. He sounded so smart, so passionate, like he knew or at least had an idea of where his life was going. She couldn't say the same. And it was nice just to watch him. But when he asked her why she had chosen Maddox, she turned her eyes away to the horizon. "I came because...," she started to stopped, trying to find the right words to explain it. "I followed a guy, as every stupid girl does. He promised me that he could take me away from my parents and the life I had with them, to a wonderful new life. He promised me forever. But....that ended pretty quickly after we got here."

It really didn’t all that long to reach the upper edge of town, Maddox was a small place. One of the smallest he had been in, full of trees and locals and the smell of wood and pie everywhere. “I like your voice, Nora.” He said as he put the car into park just near the clearing that over looked the next city’s lights, just past the lake, and opened the door. “Well, come on then.” The wind had picked up, but not by much. The environment was nice, it was as if the clean air allowed him to breath with more ease.

"You like my voice?" she asked him with a giggle. She hadn't been singing, and people did tell her that she had a nice singing voice. Had she been using her powers to make it more alluring? She didn't think so. "Well thank you." When he stopped, a crease formed between her eyebrows as she scrunched them together. What were they doing here? Nora did like the quiet of maddox and the natural beauty, so different from the hustle and bustle of LA and Beverly Hills that she had grown up in. "Why did you pick here?" she asked him as he helped her out of the car.

Nora didn't answer him for a moment. She thought about the choice she had made when Jackson had promised her a beautiful forever, the choice she had made when she had let herself be tricked and turned into a demon. She wished that she could get into a car and drive away to nowhere or to somewhere she could be a new person but she wouldn't be able to escape what she was now. But Nora did want control of her life again. "I do," she told him and looked over at him. When he pointed to their destination, Nora looked over and saw the lights and she smiled. "Then let's go."

The sudden closeness of the girl wasn’t something that threw Robert off, if anything, he was comfortable with most things and God knew he didn’t have many boundaries., if any when it came to himself. He shrugged at her words and gave her a smiled. 

Nora's smirk just grew a little as she kept her place in front of him. God knew since becoming a succubus, she had no shame anymore. She didn't even have any right to have shame. 

"Maybe not." He said nonchalantly even when every bone in his body showed otherwise, nothing about him ever settled. 

A smirk quirked up onto Nora's lips. "I don't believe you," she teased, stepping closer to him and looking up at him. "There's too much of a spark in your eyes to believe otherwise."

Haven’t I always had your back when it comes to this kind of stuff?

Every single time.