Escape By Night - Chapter 2
Title: Escape By Night
Chapter Number/One-Shot: Chapter 2
Author: fireandicewillsuffice/ untothebreachwritings
Actor/Non-Actor(AU) Lee/Character: AU!Lee
Rating: Teen for some swearing
Author’s Notes/Warnings: Finally, I have officially restarted Escape by Night! Yay! Thank you topersephone622 for the beta and editing, and for working on this with me every step of the way. I really appreciate it. Also, thank you to all who asked for more and more of this story, and to everyone who took the time to read it, like it, reblog it, comment on it, it wouldn’t be here without you all. I’m linking the Prologue and Chapter 1 on here, to those who might need a refresher, seeing as it’s been more than a year. I do hope you enjoy! And now, for Chapter 2.
It doesn’t look different, I thought staring at my hand for the fourteenth time today. I had examined it the entire night after the ball, and everyday since then. Three days ago when it happened, the sensation took hours to leave me, but now it had almost completely vanished.
When Annabelle touched me, the shock that went through my body had me seeing stars. But it wasn’t stars, not exactly. I saw something- was it an old man towering over a young boy? Was it… me?- and I hadn’t been able to shake that feeling since then. It wasn’t pleasant in the least; it felt more like a rude awakening. A rude awakening of what, I wasn’t quite sure…