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Nina tells the doctors it was all a drug freakout. “One of the guys had some pills,” she tells her mother, because otherwise her mother won’t let Lily come back, and Lily comes every day with a bouquet. White lilies, tiger lilies, lily-of-the-valley.
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Some of the dancers have left. (Not out of sadness for Nina; mostly superstition. The show is cursed. The company is cursed. Beth, and then Nina, and who is next? Not me, they say, not me.)
The replacements are brutally trained up, but the real pressure is on Lily and everyone knows it.
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Lily used to crave hearing Nina speak; watch the delicate skin of her throat as her words washed over her like honey. It was the closest she ever came to thinking about being with a girl again.
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Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in.
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Nina begs, but Lily will never relent.
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It started off as a dance...
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Prompt: Nina/Lily, destabilise
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When they danced on their own, they were light on their feet.
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- Part 5 of Writerverse
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She dances between mirrors and Lily is reminded of the old cautionary tale: Don't linger in front of your own reflection, child, or it will steal your soul.
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Lily knew a girl like Nina once, in San Francisco. (Lily/OFC, implied Lily/Nina.)
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The music of the mind wants choreography for the flesh it lightens.
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Lily's version of the events of that night when they went out clubbing together. She wants to set Nina free, but she finds she wants to pull her closer at the same time.
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Lily has a feeling this should be simpler than it's turning out to be.
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It’s just she has too much momentum when she pirouettes.
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As she heals, Nina still can't grasp hold of what is real.
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On Nina's recovery.
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She remembered that night, that night so perfect, but so disastrous. She had destroyed everything. Ruined her. All for that one, tiny moment of perfection.
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I swell to think of you inside me
