littlebunnychloe:
“What about them? Nat’s already the wife of a hate group member as far as the media is concerned and there is nothing I can say or do to change that! I have no proof that I’m not. I’m the niece of the Revelationist who locked us all up in the warehouse, I’m the runaway who fled manhattan after killing her own stepmom, I’m the Skinwalker who shares a body with her own sister, I’m the gang member who wears her tat proudly for the whole world to see and I’m the idiot who wrote her name down on that dang contract. Heck, even the set security guard believes it. Me trying to defend myself would only add fuel to the fire and I- I’m fucking tired, Rocky,” Chloe swore. “I’m fucking tired of trying to be the bigger person all the damn time. I’m sick of it. Do you know how much I’ve wanted to scream over these past few years? How much I wanted to yell fuck you or just punch someone? How much I’ve wanted to give into the parts of myself I’ve been petrified of or Meredith’s voice in the back of my head? And I know you’re trying to help me. I do, but I have enough guilt eating away at me on a daily basis. So, I’m really sorry, but I really don’t need you to remind me of how my actions might fuck up the lives of my unborn children right now,” She exclaimed. Chloe was never one to swear or raise her voice. If anything, she’d spell out a curse word before ever daring to mutter it out loud. But, the second she had been declared a ‘revelationist’, it was like something snapped within her. “I know they’re powerful. But, so am I. I’m Chloe fucking Riley-Burgess and I’m going to make them remember who they decided to mess with. What families they decided to mess with.”
Rocky understood more than most where Chloe was coming from. She was no niece of a hate group. But Rocky always felt defined by who she was and the titles that people bestowed upon her. She was the granddaughter of faerie Elders, which came with expectations. The daughter of two famous and popular musicians, which came with another set of expectations. And then she became the negative things in the media. But she gave into them. She became the homewrecker, the wild child, the whore. “My point is not to make you feel guilty. My point is that just because someone slaps you with labels doesn’t make you the person that they say you are. It doesn’t make you that person to your wife, or your friends or your family. And I don’t want you to succumb to that life. I know how it feels to just be tired or trying to prove you’re not what the media says you are and I also know what it’s like to just give in and become it. Revenge is a slippery slope, so be careful.” She had nothing against revenge, she just didn’t want to see her friend lose herself.