How aboit It'sALoveSong? <3
For this writing meme.
ItsALoveSong is my baby. The bones are an idea I’ve been carrying around since… God, 2010, I think? It’s followed me through fandoms and I thought I might’ve found a home with it in Leverage, but then I found Lucifer and the rest is history. After all, what’s better for an Orpheus & Eurydice retelling than a story about the actual devil?
Writing it also coincided with me being rec’d the Hadestown soundtrack (how appropriate!) and I spent literally months listening to that over and over while I wrote. Highly rec.
In any case, I hope to publish this sometime this year. It needs a lot of work, and idk if this scene is going to even end up in the finished version, but here you go:
The woman was waiting patiently, watching her with regret in her eyes. “You should turn around and go home,” she said. “There’s nothing for you here.”
“I can’t,” Chloe said immediately. “I can’t leave him here.”
“Ah,” the woman said. She nodded, understanding coming over her features. “You’re here for love.”
Chloe shrugged and nodded. She was here because her conscience wouldn’t let her rest if she didn’t at least try to get Lucifer back. And her conscience wouldn’t let her rest because she loved him. She had to get to him, and whatever came after that, they could fight together and get home. But if she couldn’t get across this river…
“You know this never works,” the woman said, shaking her head. “Love is never enough, no matter what they’ve told you.”
“I still have to try,” Chloe said, but doubt was starting to creep through her, tendrils of uncertainty worming through her thoughts. She could turn around, walk right back out of the tunnel, climb down the cliff, and go home to her family. She didn’t need to do this. She-
But he would do it for her. That was the thought that kept her circling back. He would do it for her, and she could do no less for him. Could love him no less.
