milestone s15 drabble/ficlet for 30k Eileen <3 Special props to @eileenguy for organizing!! Also check out all the other wonderful Eileen content on the milestones post located here!
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There is a silky softness to the curtains that hang over her roommate's windows. Between her fingertips, the sheer fabric slides carelessly through and away, falling silently to the drywall that shines a beautiful daytime blue-white.
Outside, she can see cardinals circling each other on the grass before they zip away for a fleeting moment of rest on the young branches of cedar. Free to be, free to move.
It's so pretty.
A normal life is not something Eileen has ever had or wanted, but she finds herself thinking about it often these days. What life would be like, not hunting the supernatural creatures that seek to steal from humanity? The answer comes as she thinks about the mornings she often wakes to, with eyes wide open and sweat tickling down her spine while the horrors of Hell crossfade with the relief of sunrise.
A new day exists where she reorganizes the trinkets that hang over her bed. Countlessly – a new day having been returned to her true self, as if her soul had never been plowed through, dragged into Hell, and her physical body had never been mauled to death by its hounds.
It was an ambush, she'd later learned. A specially designed attack against her senses to take her clean down. Did that man even realize then that she would be taken to Hell, of all places?
It doesn't matter. Life is full of the selfish and weak. She thinks this, as she tries to ignore the simmering fury that bubbles up her throat every day, threatening to spill over and burn her and anyone she cares about.
With a sigh, she squats down onto her bed and brushes her hand through her hair, stroking carefully near the base of her head, by her neck. She'd slept wrong again.
Soon, the hallway outside her room fills with bright light, indicating that the front door has opened.
When she stands at the entrance to offer a wave, it's Charlie's smile that brightens up the rest of the house. "Hey girl! I'm back."
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I'd written this so long ago but it was also part of a chapter of an s14-15 ongoing fix-it fic that I got really delayed on..so if you are familiar with it, well then Eileen's appearance is a general spoiler so congrats for making it this far ! loll
