DISCLAIMER: You can't always get what you wanted.
This fan fiction is the collaborative work of UniversalForce (go check out her profile) and AngelicSpring.
Huge thanks to: VolcanicLily, Koraki, Rouma Hassit and DaughterofOceanus. Also, to TheOneWhoActuallyNoticed. Thank you all for your encouraging insights. Much Love, Peace Out! XD
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Wormwood (noun): It is an herbaceous, perennial plant with a hard, woody rhizome. Its leaves taste extremely bitter.
Branch clue: Tomas
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St. Petersburg,Russia
Irina Spasky, as hard and bitter as wormwood.
That's what people whispered behind her back whenever she passed them.
She seriously has no humor. And what's with that freakish eye twitch?
The words washed over her like water, but that was not a cause to let them go unpunished. Armed with only a paperclip, she disabled the school burglary alarm and soundlessly changed the grades of the students who made fun of her.
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Cambridge,Massachusetts,UnitedStates
Two years later on, Vikram Kabra and Isabel Hollingsworth announced that she was a Lucian. She'd agreed to be an active agent and the whole party erupted into cheers.
"You belong with us now. The Lucians will be there for you," Vikram told her and Irina blushed.
You belong with us now.Those words were foreign to her ears, yet so pleasing. She'd been so eager to join then. Now, she was not so sure.
Irina Spasky, as hard and bitter and wormwood.
Those were just bittersweet memories to her now.
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Characters: Irina S., Vikram K. (mentioned)
Author: UniversalForce
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