Topic: Perspicacity

Audrey Horne

Date: 2010-06-15 13:39 EST
(Err, quick Mun note; I don't own Audrey, or Twin Peaks, or anything involving it. That Mr. Lynch and Mr. Frost, I just like to play with their toys.)

She shouldn't have slipped when she did. It had started out innocent, sweet; the primitive urge to feel another person's arms around her, to feel that ingrained warmth and closeness which had proved to be one of the hardest crushes that she had ever had.

She had always fancied herself smarter than this; smarter than her other friends who fucked and fell with her unspoken advice to them always being a mental "I told you so". She had guarded her heart under steel lock and key, but her life had been one head and heart let down after another. Crushes tossed away like rag dolls, family ignoring her, those who were supposed to protect her running off like the one last lingering ember of an ever warm bonfire; leaving her cold and jaded.

She shouldn't have fallen for him, with his dark hair and dark eyes and the way his voice always had a way of making her melt with one little phrase like, "Goodnight Audrey", or "Would you like to get some lunch?". She can't help the way she feels about him and she reasons that she might sleep better at night if she could just tear her heart out, erase every trace of him from her mind and soul.

He had done nothing wrong, her dark haired dream man with the golden tongue, and yet she felt that she had. She felt that in some way she was and still is betraying everything that those hard boiled bitches in her favorite film noirs had taught her. Lust was lust and she knew that, but this was different. Like every little first time in her life wrapped into the most incredible human being that she had ever met. A deep down, claw your hair out, toes in the dirt sensation that swelled and burst with every word from his mouth. She knew he liked her, enjoyed her for things other than the outer touches that make even the most vicious packages into pretty little things.

She wanted to tell him and hold him and love him and stay that way until her heart finally stopped beating all together.

'Too young'', he had implied over and over, ''you're too young."

And yet past indiscretions of the non relationship variety stopped her cold, tied her guts into knots and made her curl into a ball in the middle of the night and cry.

"Too young," she thought. Still in High School.

She wanted to vilify him, make him into some sort of monster for his honesty. She wanted to scream and scratch and tear him apart, the way he ripped into her with every little right-out-of-a-50's sitcom glance.

She thinks about him more than she would let on during her days and nights away from home. The explosion at the bank had almost literally knocked her back to next Tuesday and she found herself thinking about all of them, but it was her suit that stood out.

Audrey Horne

Date: 2010-06-15 13:41 EST
In her dreams she doesn't trust him anymore and it's with that deep down gnawing distrust reserved for serial killers and bible salesmen. She awakens, whimpering and crying into the night, her dreams giving her no solace. Red rooms, flashes of town and questions from her dream lips answered with a "Who is he" We've not seen in him in ages."

Most of the faces are old, some bloodied, some unknown. In her dreams she finds him and he smiles sweetly and she can see the thing wearing his skin, hear it lie to her face. Venom tongued the possessor assures her from behind somehow still sincere eyes that when she comes back, he'll make sure to take care of her, just like he did Annie. Just like he did Laura.

The waking world leaves her with a cotton dry mouth and the sheer idea that her friends, family and unrequited love may be in trouble tears her apart. A deep, soul crunching pain that leaves her fists clenched, her knuckles fish belly white and eyes overflowing with unbidden tears.

In the dream he doesn't deny, doesn't explain, just flashes that perfect smile to hide all of the things that she thinks the creature behind his eyes has done. Her head swims, red rooms and small town diner spinning and she yells at him with no voice; tells him to leave her suit alone, to leave everyone alone. To leave her alone.

She blames him for being so damned heroic. She blames Annie. She blames Laura. She blames everyone, including herself.

Days pass, alcohol numbing her fear and anger into a tolerable boil. She's helpless. She can't go home and she knows it. Knows everything will be different; horror-show. It's these thoughts upon sobering up that hit her like a ton of bricks.

Slowly, hour by hour and day by day, she gets a little better. Those little pieces that the dreams take from her rebuild themselves, reforming the giant puzzle of what makes her Audrey Horne and the hold he still has over her head and her heart- Her secret agent and not the damnable thing hiding in his skin nor the man who jetted off on silver wings- sticks like glue. She'll be okay, really, and she knows this. What other choice does she have"