While I do ship Apple/Humprehy and Dexven, I do love exploring different things in my writing and, in my shuffle challenge I wrote an Apple/Raven chapter and I decided to expand on one of the snippets. I don't know how long or short this will be but, I do want to flesh it out some. I don't own EAH or the song lyrics that initially inspired the snippet. Enjoy!
"Now I'm sitting here with your name on my skin…" ~Eminem, Puke.
Apple stared down at her wrist. A simple black bird perched along curved lines somehow perfectly fit the small space of her wrist. Even if the tattoo fitting on the small patch of skin was a wonder, it marked Apple's skin regardless.
If this had been a tattoo done with ordinary ink, Apple could smear it away using a beginner level spell and eventually wash it away. However, this had been a tattoo done by a magic-powered needle and permanent was a light way of putting the strength of this tattoo.
The little black bird was going to stay on Apple's skin for the rest of eternity and that was final.
Calling the bird on her wrist a 'black bird' was inaccurate because, that wasn't right.
Apple's tattoo was of a raven.
For her Raven.
Of course, that had been in the midst of when their love was growing and they were busy soaking in the sunshine of it all.
Sighing in frustration, Apple realized that she was fixated on her tattoo now.
She ran her fingers over the curved lines one more time. These lines used to fit perfectly with the ones on Raven's wrist that surrounded her dove tattoo.
The two pretty birds, one black as night and one white as snow. The raven and her dove.
Another sigh escaped the heartbroken blonde. She and Raven, her Raven, were no more.
A/N: I'm going to leave it like this for now. At most, there will be another 2 chapters but, at the very least there will be one more chapter...will the dove and the raven find love again? Or, are they just going to wear their tattoos as scars? Guess you'll have to find you!