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We Can't Be Normal (But We Can Be Warm) by Eyeballs_to_Entrails
Fandoms: Heathers: The Musical - Murphy & O'Keefe
06 Mar 2022
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Summary
After surviving the whole bomb situation at Westerberg, JD and Veronica try to go back to normal, and part of that means learning to spend the night apart—normal seventeen year olds do that. they're not constantly climbing in each other's windows. They don't even have to wonder if their partner is dead when they're not sleeping side by side.
It's a shame neither JD, nor Veronica is quite normal.
There’s a knock at the window.
It doesn’t startle her when she awakens, only confuses her—normally he’s earlier. The clock is reading 2:36 AM, when she opens the window, and sees a shadow creep in in the darkness of her room. “You’re late,” she jokes, keeping her voice to a whisper. She can’t wake her parents, or they’ll have to stop. She’s not ready for that.
And then she takes his hand, to pull him in. He’s cold. He’s shaking, “you asked me to sleep at home,” he reminds her, “remember? Exam tomorrow—or, fuck, I guess it’s today now.” He forces a laugh, even if neither of them find it funny—there’s an edge to it, not like he’s angry, nor like he’s slipping, but like he’s tacked these words over harder ones, and a corner is peeling up.