Prompt: Escape (#593)

"I can give it all on the first date
I don't have to exist outside this place
And dear know that I can change

But if stars shouldn't shine
By the very first time
Then dear that's fine, so fine by me
'Cause we can give it time, so much time
With me"

(The xx, Stars)

She was comfortable in this place. Head tucked into the crook of a pale shoulder, head rested over a steadying heartbeat. Warm, bare flesh beneath her fingertips as her index finger traced patterns on pale skin.

She shouldn't be doing this, it was wrong... there were just so many things...

But the world was breaking. It had splintered and what was right or wrong anymore... what did it really matter when you could be seconds away from disappearing?

Tracey wasn't sure how it started. How she ended up in the bed of such a man.

There was just something in her... something that sometimes made her wonder if perhaps she was self-destructive.

But she didn't want to think about that. And here in this haven that was warm and... safe... all the world simply fell away. Simply disappeared and here there was no war, or fear or pain.

Just him. So glorious in his paleness, so lovely with his cloak of severity shed...

And Tracey wasn't sure if she'd ever be able to see anything as beautiful as this.

It wasn't love... Tracey didn't believe in love, but somehow she felt, this was the closest that she'd ever come.

What did it matter if it were in the arms of her ex Head of House?

-Fin-