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Prompt: "Too Far, Too Fast"

Note: Part 1 of 3

Too Far, Too Fast

(Part 1)

She was in getting in her car when she realized that she had forgotten a few pieces of paperwork to get Queen Consolidated back.

When she retendered the "lair" to get the documents, she wasn't thinking that she would find them, intimate. It wasn't like they were ripping each other's clothes off or anything, they were just kissing but it still looked very intimate. It wasn't that she had a problem with them kissing or being together for that matter, it was just that she didn't think that the "lair" was the appropriate place for it. She thought to herself as she made her way back up the stairs as quietly as she could.

She was about to close the door and go when he looked up. He looked guilty, as if he had been caught, which he had been but that wasn't the thing that she was focusing on.

Laurel noticed that his gaze was somewhere else and followed his line of sight. The look that Laurel gave her made her stomach hurt. It seemed to be a mixture of pity and victory. They all stared at each other for what felt like hours but were really just seconds. She then made an awkward hand wave and left.

Shutting the door behind her, she ran to her car sat in it as fast as she could. She couldn't breathe and was shaking. Taking a few moments to recuperate, she closed her eyes and took a few deep calming breaths. It shouldn't have been alarming, in all honesty she knew that this was coming but it still hurt like hell when she finally saw it.

"Well, did you expect him to actually mean what he said?" The voice in her head told her menacingly as her breathing returned to normal.

He didn't realize how much his words affected her, how much they meant to her. She was in shock when he told her, that day. She couldn't say anything and when she mind formed the words to say to him, the words that went along with his declaration of love for her, the syringe was placed into her hands.

He didn't realize that her world started to shift and spin as he confessed. He didn't realize that she would've replied to his confession had the words not got in her throat. He didn't realize that her world had become out of control when she realized that it wasn't real. Or how it seemed to keep crashing down on her as she tries to fix the damage he's caused her. And really, she doesn't want him too. Because she knows him, she knows the looks he'll give her, the words he'll say to her and the awkwardness that'll ensure if he ever found out about how damaged she really is because of him.

She knows everything that'll happen or at least she thinks that she does, because lately everything's changed. Lately everything has become so muddled together that she's not sure if he loves her, cares for her or thinks of her as another sister. Lately, she's been losing her mind.

She thinks about this as she drives away, back to her place. She thinks of it as she parks her car and makes her way to the door. When she opens the door, she's expecting to talk a long, scorching bath with candles and exotic scents. She's frozen yoghurt in the fridge and mint tea afterward. She's expecting to watch the notebook for t he hundredth time because she needs a good cry. What she's not expecting is him, waiting for her at the kitchen table.

What she's not expecting are his brooding eyebrows and solemn voice saying, "We need to talk."

AN As the title says, this is part 1. There will be two or three parts to this prompt. Because of exams, the chapters are a bit sporadic but it'll change in a couple of weeks. Thank you to everyone who's reading, following and review, it makes my day. :)