THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED – Killing Eve; Villanelle/Eve; 5,600 words; 3 chapters. Villanelle goes to Alaska. Set after the season two finale.
Read it: [AO3]
Alaska is shit.
Villanelle finds this out too late.
She needed to get out of Europe. There was nothing left for her there. So she picked an island, that one full of bears. She looked at pictures on the internet, and they all made her big promises. Green, rolling mountains, like Ireland with sharper teeth. Brown bears and tall pink flowers. The ocean everywhere, a bright drown-in-me blue. In 1964, there was a tsunami there that wiped out the entire downtown. Before it, an earthquake shook the ground for five minutes. Five minutes isn’t long enough when you are happy, but it is eternity in a moment that hurts.
The five minutes walking away from those ruins, away from Eve who’d already walked away from her, hurt worse than the knife plunging in. She almost turned back so many times. Her hands–one clutching the gun, one clenched into a fist–screamed out, wanting to press against the part of Eve that had burst open and stop the bleeding. Don’t die, don’t leave me, you’re mine.
But Eve wouldn’t want that. Didn’t want her, even after Villanelle had given her everything, set her free, turned her dull life to fireworks. Eve would rather die. And so Villanelle kept walking.
Now she will walk right out of her old life and into something new.
She hopes for more earthquakes. For a land as wild as the feelings inside her.
Just another WordPress site