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Regina and Drey as vampires - 1 word prompts.

This was crazy difficult. I enjoyed it for ten minutes, then regretted ever starting this challenge. I began forever ago and, finally, finished tonight on a whim, so the writing style jumps around (I think). Also, I intended the sentences to sort of flow together - unfortunately, only some of them do that. Some of the sentences are ridiculously horrible too.

/grumble



1. Doll
The change tightens away your innocence; the only thing you keep is the doll-like curves of your face.

2. Silk
As soon as the guilt makes Drey’s eyes heavy, your voice, silk-sweet, enters the room, clears the doubt.

3. Nightmare
What you used to dread you now dream (in sanguine-rich hues) - Drey’s eyes hold a funeral for your nightmare vision.

4. Smile
Your mouth is very pale now, and you smile against the marble column of her throat.

5. Feather
There is a softness to her touch, brushing the backs of your shoulder blades, dipping across your hip, and you realize that Drey knows only how to demand in silence and with the lightness of a feather.

6. Jump
You heard “Jump. Lose yourself.” but what she said was “Come with me.”

7. Confusion
The confusion settles against your motionless insides – your body died but you keep hungering with every lifeless second.

8. Explanation
Drey’s explanation resonates like a plea, so you laugh.

9. Sky
This dark life of yours, this new existence, is full of midnight waters and a distant-starred sky.

10. Name
Regina sounds foreign; the name no longer matches the thing you have become.

11. Flame
The flame of heartbeats burns your tongue, scalds your throat.

12. Eyes
Sometimes, you are motionless as she moves against you and only your eyes betray your cunning.

13. Fight
Drey speaks of the promises of endless eternity, and you fight like dismal creatures.

14. Dance
She tells you to understand, but you lost your understanding long ago in the midst of a wedding dance, when your heart still thundered, and you wore a dress the color of lilies.

15. Winter
Your voice is the frost of winter – a trait you never used to possess.

16. Drink
You feed, you drink, with abandon, relishing in the singular warmth this sunless life allows.

17. Perfect
There’s a something perfect inside you still, and Drey manages to see it.

18. Expression
You stay for a long time, watching the expressions of the stars waver as each night passes.

19. Escape
The weight of this – whatever it is – settles where your heart used to be, dark and heavy in your chest, denying escape.

20. Mask
Like a mask falling, something stirs somewhere.

21. Bonds
Blood dampens the places between you both; you shift so Drey can stretch on top of you, tasting the blood that still paints your mouth, stirring old bonds.

22. Home
“Sometimes I forget what being human was like,” you say, standing over the renovated ground that might’ve been your home, forever ago.

23. Hair
She’s pretty, a slender little thing, but you can’t move your eyes away from where Drey kneels between her legs, sinking her teeth into the her thigh, her pale fingers knotted in your maker’s hair.

24. Forgotten
Drey hasn’t entirely forgotten how to love.

25. Ghosts
You are no woman, that Drey knows, but she cannot help wanting to see ghosts of life in you; her reasons are selfish.

26. Red
Her fangs strike at your throat, tearing open the lace flesh; the edges of the wound are jagged and red, slow to heal.

27. Shy
Drey is sure that one evening, you’ll be looking at her the way you used to, all hopeful and a little bit shy.

28. Shame
Drey’s embrace puts steel to shame, heavier than any memory or thought of God.

29. Danger
There’s the danger of a fire, and your name cracks through Drey like lightning: Reg-ina.

30. Bruise
You feel almost empty as bloods flows into your mouth (through you fingers, over your face), but sometimes you get flashbacks of blurred memories - metal piercing needle-bruised skin, a very white high.

31. Motion
It was always you who set everything in motion.

32. Temptation
The two of you find a boy, a child, whose pulse becomes your temptation; you laugh darkly when he tells you his largest dream is chocolates for breakfast.

33. Shrug
You shrug around the taste of his heart, disappointed by the bitterness.

34. Frown
Drey’s frown is hard, but it cannot touch you – she grabs your wrist instead.

35. Down
When she lays you down, only the cotton sheets beneath your back are gentle.

36. Comfort
Drey still has moments, these random unpredictable moments, where she’s suddenly quiet, and soft, and looks at you with so much feeling; it stops being a comfort.

37. Lose
The fact remains that you are miserable and she is empty and there is nothing left to lose.

38. Found
In losing yourself, you were found.

39. Merciful
On the nights you feel merciful, you let her dress you in soft patterns, pretty little shoes like the kind you used to wear, and you press adoration to the insides of her wrists.

40. Trouble
There is too much history between you for their not to be trouble.

41. Nothing
You open your eyes and then – nothing.

42. Shielding
Drey starts to realize that she’s the one who needs shielding, not you.

43. Tree
You still dream about the color of leaves on a maple tree, drenched in morning sunlight, and when you wake, you are so very hungry.

44. Same
Sleeping in the same space, sometimes Drey will wake with you curled into her – your features are still fine and round, like a child’s.

45. Alley
This life is becoming an alley, something narrow with sides that bear down upon you.

46. Present
These days, the present is a not-so distant star, waiting to implode.

47. Caught
Drey never caught you in a lie; she caught you with your teeth in another woman’s neck.

48. Now
Now becomes then becomes forever, and you stop understanding the importance of a second.

49. Up
There’s a spiral inside of you – you think it’s moving up but it’s a downward clamor.

50. Click
The two of you are silenced from each other; you hear the insect-like click of her relief.