It felt like the world was holding still, like it was unmoving, frozen, and she was frozen with it. Her eyes were as steely as the world was, as cold as could be, and as dark as the deepest parts. It was as if Medusa had looked her in the eye, frozen solid she watched as the world froze with her.
But then Cat came.
Cat was real; she was alive, moving, warm. Cat was everything she wasn't, and it made her almost smile.
So along came Cat, the Achilles heel to the statue of a girl. If she were made of stone, then Cat was the chisel that shaped her.
Her life hadn't really begun when it had frozen, it was as if she'd only just got a glimpse at the sun before night fell, and she was shrouded in darkness.
This wasn't living.
Things were frozen, dead where she lived. While Cat's very touch burned away the ice, and her simple gaze brought back the zombie Jade had come to be, because she certainly wasn't living.
Cat was the sun, and it burned Jade so deeply, so harshly, she was sure she'd never see anything but light again, but who could stand that after years of darkness?
It scared her, terrified her, that whatever darkness she'd become, could give way to the light Cat had always been, and yet remain. Was she really only surrounded by darkness? Or had she now become a part of it, become a shadow of herself. What if Cat's light didn't save her?
What if Cat couldn't save her?
So rather than give herself to the light, rather than risk knowing she was as dark as can be, she hid, and she ran from Cat.
She hid behind Beck, and chased after Tori. Desperately trying to hold on to what she had, in hopes that the greener grass was rotting underneath.
And then, she couldn't run anymore. Beck knew she wasn't frozen, and he knew she wasn't shining, and she knew that he deserved better than a half-living, half-loving girl too afraid of the sun to go outside.
And so she stopped running, she stood still, like she were frozen all over again.
She watched him walk away, and stood still.
Even as she saw the sunrise coming, she waited. Now she would either burn with its rays, or perish in the afterglow of what was the final, and perfect dawn.
She could feel it, the tingling sensation, her heart beating, her lungs working, blood rushing through her veins. She could feel, and she could see again.
And what she saw was definitely enough to make her heart leap in her chest, her stomach flutter in her gut, she felt as if she were freefalling, and she didn't care if there was anything to land on.
Because what she saw was Cat.
The sun in all its glory, the light in all her darkness, was smiling at her, and she wondered why she'd waited so long to go outside.
"Cat…" Her lips formed the words for her, and she thanked them, for she couldn't do it on her own, not when those deep brown eyes were looking into her own, and erasing all the shadows, and doubts that lived there.
Cat was the sun, and Jade was merely a victim of its rays, surrendering to the warmth, and welcoming the heat into her frozen over bones.
So long she had remained still, so long she had spent stationary; but not with Cat. With Cat she was running as hard as she could down abandoned streets and city roads, chasing clouds as they moved across grassy fields, with Cat she was alive, and there wasn't anywhere, or anything else she wanted to be.
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