#Ava’s time in Reya’s realm aka S3 speculation

[echoes-of-realities]

i wanna tell you that i’m different (all that time in love was well spent)

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[ao3] 

[part i]

Title: i wanna tell you that i’m different (all that time in love was well spent)

Rating: General

Word Count: 13,905

Summary: Ava always suspected that God was a dick, but she’s not as happy to be proven right as she thought she would be.

For one, she’s in pain. Like, a lot of pain.

For another, Beatrice is on one side of the Arc and Ava is on the other. And the Arc is dead.

Ava squeezes her eyes shut and drops her head to the ground, tears mixing with the blood on her face and sliding down her temples. When she opens her eyes, Reya stands above her with a slightly puzzled expression, as if she can’t figure out why Ava is crying in her perfect little realm. “Hello, Ava,” she says, “Welcome to your new home.”

Ava resists the urge to punch the serene smile off her perfect little face.

Home is a tiny apartment in a nowhere town somewhere in the Swiss Alps. Home is a busy bar and a virgin Cuba libre in her hands. Home is a light hand on her back and sleepy lips against her forehead. Home is a small bed warmed by the steady press of Beatrice’s body beside her.

Home is not here.

But Ava is.

And here she has to stay.

Or: Ava, in the aftermath.