The Flames of Amarra - DR STRANGE x OC - COMPLETE

UNFORTUNATE ENCOUNTER

Just like any woman going through a breakup for murderous causes, Nora had a few good days and a lot of bad ones. 

Most of the time she could make it through the day and only cried herself to sleep. She wasn’t hurting anyone, which was a relief, but she was constantly mentally listing all the bad decisions she ever made in her life. The nightmares came back every night, and Nora’s eyes were constantly on fire.

Lance never called her back. He put everything she left at his place in a box, brought it to the restaurant and asked a waitress to deal with it. And then he disappeared from her life. Nora tried calling him. She tried texting him, thinking that maybe he didn’t feel like talking. He never answered her calls, he never replied to her texts. It was like she never even existed.

So Nora started working. She could do that pretty well. She wasn’t making mistakes when she was working. She was barely coming back to Seattle on the weekends anymore. Since she couldn’t take the risk of anyone seeing her eyes, she was confined in her parents’ house, with everyone worrying about her. Working was a more productive option.

The problem was that everyone in Kamar-Taj was walking on eggshells around her. The smallest things were making her burst into tears, or on the complete opposite of the spectrum, making things burst into flames because she was mad at the whole world. 

She handed a few books to Julie, told her she was doing just fine, and went back to the shelves. She needed to clean them. She did it five times this week already, and she was feeling like doing it again. But she was clearly not fine. She lost a finger because she was an idiot, and now she lost the only man she told the truth about her because she was a murderer. Nora had to find out what was wrong with her before she could ruin her whole life for good.

Wong and Stephen arrived from New York and Nora immediately abandoned the cloth to run towards them. 

“What’s going on ? Is it big ?” she asked, already panicking. 

They exchanged a confused look before Wong looked back at her. “What are you talking about ?”

“You’re both here. You never come here at the same time. Who’s in New York ?”

Wong sighed and closed his eyes. “Keep working.”

“Everything is fine,” Stephen added. 

Nora's shoulders slumped. “Oh.”

She walked back to her shelf and started replacing some books correctly. Stephen followed her and crossed his arms. “Are you disappointed that nothing is happening ? Do you want to lose an arm now ?”

“I don’t want to go home,” she said. “My mother will want to make me feel better again. She doesn’t believe that I’m fine.”

“Nora, you’re waiting for something bad to happen so that you don’t have to go home, you’re clearly not fine,” he said, leaning against the shelf. “You can just stay here.”

“Do you know what I do when I stay here ?” He arched a brow and she put a bright smile on her face. “I’m spending time with Julie, and we make fictional plans on how to get back at the man who slashed her face and the one who broke my heart. If we do this one more time, you’ll have two killers on the run. Last time we did it, she was talking about getting revenge on you too.”

Stephen took a second to process what Nora just said. “You can stay in New York. And don’t talk to Julie anymore.”

“I have to. She’s helping me with my work. Plotting against people is just a cool thing we do on the side.” She placed a book down on the shelf and winced when she got back up. Her knee was sometimes painful when it was raining. “I can’t stay in New York.”