Title: to live (again)
Rating: G
Fandom: Heart of the Woods
Relationship: Tara Bryck/Morgan Fischer
Wordcount: 250
Short summary: Early morning, Morgan muses on how she wants to feel alive again because of Tara who is by her side.
“Morning…?”
Morgan rubs her eyes and then blinks a few times, shaking off some of her sleepiness. It’s a good feeling; Morgan has slept quite well last night, and it’s due to the other person in bed with her.
Tara Bryck. A vlogger about the paranormal, of all things, is the one who makes Morgan feel normal. Makes Morgan feel like any other girl.
It’s been so long since someone actually saw her as a person. So long since someone didn’t think of her as just an outsider and a scourge. So long since someone actually cared about her, actually loved her. Not since long, long ago, when her mother was actually her mother…
Since that day, Morgan has been “living” but not really “alive”. Taranormal at least gave her some entertainment. She wouldn’t even say she had that much hope even when she had emailed them. She was just… at her wits end. Ready to throw out anything, because otherwise she was just going to die and…
But being reminded of the power of love... This is why her mother protected her. This is why Tara is by her side right now. And Morgan wants to fight not just to die. She wants to fight to live.
“I want to feel alive again,” she whispers, even though Tara is still sleeping and won’t hear it. It’s more of a prayer anyway. It doesn’t have to be Tara who grants it, although Tara definitely could…
“Please… bring me to life.”