AUTHOR:
Charlie
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Twin Peaks
PAIRING: Various, het and slash
RATING: PG
SUMMARY:
Laura's dead, but she's still here.
THANK YOU: To Verona, for the
beta :)
DISCLAIMER: Twin Peaks and everything about it and
copywrite Lynch/Frost Productions. If you don't understand it, tell
them. Also, I saw Leland Palmer in the preview for Jeepers Creepers
2. I mean, dude! It's whacky Leland Palmer! Dance, Leland, dance!
Laura's shadow hangs over everything in this town.
When Shelley kisses Bobby while a comatose Leo drools on the table, the memory of Laura with Bobby at the back of the school, and Laura with Leo in Jaques Renault's cabin threatens to overtake the moment. Without Laura, no one is this bizarre threesome would be where they are right now: Leo face down in a plate of food, a cardboard party hat placed jauntily on his head. Bobby's hands moving smoothy on Shelley's skin, while her eyes dart furiously for any sign of movement.
When James and Donna sneak out for a smoke and a midnight ride, Laura's there, too. James thinks how much lighter than Laura Donna is on the back of his bike. Donna thinks that she's lost her best friend more than once - the Laura she loved and the Laura she didn't even know. They don't know it yet, but Laura will die again and break them apart as she pulled them together - albeit in the form of Maddy Ferguson.
Laura's metaphorical ghost sweeps through the forest and whispers to Audrey Horne that her father loves a dead whore more than he could ever love his own daughter. Audrey is many things: rational is not one of them. If she could just discover who killed Laura, Audrey reasons, then maybe her father might see her when she walks into the room. She just wants to make him proud - she loves and hates him in equal measure.
Josie Packard is no stranger to death, and Laura's is not the only voice that haunts her guilty concience. Laura doesn't get to be heard that often, Andrew Packard is the one that's screaming. But there's a long list of people Josie used and abused.
There's not a part of Twin Peaks that Laura doesn't scramble into. From the Double R Diner, to the Great Northern, she's more a part of the town now in death than she ever was alive, stronger and fixed in everyone's memories. Pete Martell thinks that maybe Laura's death took the last of Twin Peaks' innocence, shattering it like a cheap china ornament. Laura herself knew better - Twin Peaks was never innocent. It breeds misery and hate and evil. It's a trap.
Cooper never knew Laura. He never met her. All that he knows about the famous dead girl is second hand and highly subjective. But since the dream with the dancing midget in the Red Room, he feels Laura as much as anyone else who steps past the sign welcoming you to town. Someone should really adjust the population marker.
It's more of tragedy, to Cooper at least, that someone else had to die so that Cooper could learn to love again. Sometimes, late at night, and when he's drunk either too much or too little coffee, when he looks over at Harry, he can almost see Laura's face.
And if he listens very carefully, he's certain he can hear her laughing at him.