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At first Jessica thought she’d made a mistake. It wasn’t as though she’d had any help, because it had been her idea and she was as certain as she could be that no one had ever used magic the way she had. There had been stories about people finding themselves living through the storyline of a book, movie, TV series, or game, but she hadn’t heard anything about someone who had chosen to step into a fictional world. Of course that didn’t mean it hadn’t happened. With fae magic no one seemed to be quite sure of anything, which was why she’d never mentioned her plans to anyone. Someone would have tried to talk her out of experimenting, especially as her plan was to create a magical portal that would take her into a fictional world so she could change something and see what happened when she left again.
In all honesty it wasn’t the most sensible plan Jessica had ever come up with. She knew that. There was just a part of her that wanted to see if she could create a portal that would send her into a fictional world, another part of her that really wanted to have some control over the books she read, and a third part that simply wanted to play with magic now that she could. A fourth part, a really quite fourth part, kept telling her that something had to go wrong, because she was playing with fae magic. Ignoring that part was much easier than she anticipated, which was why she was standing in the fictional world of her choice with nothing but the clothes she was wearing.
Well, that was where Jessica thought she was. The point she had chosen in her fictional timeline was one that had been mentioned, but was never actually a part of the story, and that was probably the stupidest thing to have done. She wasn’t sure exactly where she was meant to be. All she knew was that there had been a death at that time that she wanted to prevent, in order to change things in the future. If she could change one thing then it seemed possible that she could change the other things she had disliked, making the storyline go the way she thought it should have done instead of the way the author had made it go, because she was the one in control.
Biting hard on her lip Jessica looked around. The portal had appeared in front of her, the way it was supposed to, and she had stepped through it, so she should be where she planned on being. She should have done a test first, going to a part of the storyline she knew well, but she had been adamant about what she wanted to change first. It would, if she got everything right, make a huge difference to a couple of the characters in the future, which was what she wanted, because she had grown to love the characters and she wanted their lives to be happier.
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Donor House: A Conversation with Morgan
Mar. 14th, 2012 05:46 pmBased on the prompt eternity from dreamwidth user ariestess.
This was a very difficult prompt to work from because it’s very open but at the same time I had trouble thinking of something I could write. I started it about three times with three different stories so I might go back and do them at some point.
“Would you want to live for eternity, if you had a choice?” Morgan asked, looking at her best friend as she folded another pair of jeans.
“I don’t know,” Jessica replied, running her hand over the rim of the suitcase. “Eternity seems like a very long time and everyone I loved as a human would die, unless I changed them all.” She bit her lip. “Maybe, if I fell in love with someone who was going to live forever and I wasn’t, but I don’t think that eternity even really exists. At some point the world is going to end so even those who believed they would live forever would die.”
“Would they then go on to an afterlife then or is there no afterlife for vampires?”
“Probably. I don’t think that vampires are really actually dead as such, so it’s not like their soul’s already going to be in an afterlife while their body is here. It’s just not a logical point of view. I’d think that no one would want to be a vampire if they didn’t actually have some form of soul. Personally I think the no soul thing is just an excuse to have no morals.”
Morgan smiled at Jessica. “They loan money so that they can get people into their donor houses. I’m not seeing any morality there.”
“At least they give you a chance to pay off the money that you’ve borrowed and you’re stopping your family home from being repossessed.” Jessica sighed. “It will take a long time to pay off all that money though.”
“Mum will pay them about a small amount each month. When we talked to the vampires they said that it was better that way, otherwise I’d be in the donor house for about six years just to pay off the interest. As it is I’m going to be there for a long time Jess and I don’t want to be. I just want to live a normal life.”
Jessica stood up and wrapped her arms around Morgan. “Maybe you’ll like it there. From what I’ve heard, being a donor isn’t really that bad. When my cousin spent a year in one she said that they make sure that the donors have regular days off, there’s food and you can keep the tips.”
“People still die.”
“We both know what happens if a vampire kills a donor.”
“That doesn’t stop the person from being dead.” She sighed. “I know I’m doing a good thing for my family, and I feel selfish for talking like this, but I just wish that someone else was around to do this.”
“It will be over before you know it.”
“Yeah, and so will my life.”
“Stop being melodramatic. There are plenty of online degrees that you could do so that you’ll have a good job when you come out and that law is passed so that employers can’t discriminate against ex-donors.”
Morgan looked at Jessica, wondering if a law would really be enough.
Originally posted at dreamwidth.org as kajones_writing.
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ariestess.This was a very difficult prompt to work from because it's very open but at the same time I had trouble thinking of something I could write. I started it about three times with three different stories so I might go back and do them at some point.
“Would you want to live for eternity, if you had a choice?” Morgan asked, looking at her best friend as she folded another pair of jeans.
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