Coming Down

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Nicky gets out of max. Lorna waits. Season three OITNB spoilers but heavily disregards canon.

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She remembered glass and water and saying I love you, too to Nicky’s back as the guards led her away, and there was a finality in every piece of it.

Lorna had reached the end of days and – miraculously, though it felt like anything but – lived through them.

In the beginning it had meant crying and taking more pills and fitting herself back into the empty spaces where Nicky was supposed to be. Living in the absences, which (she imagined) was something like dying except everyone kept pulling her out of bed to make sure she ate and reported to work, surrounded her with sound and warmth and things rescued from Nicky’s bunk, and if this was kindness, well, she thought she might rather find the knife-edge underneath it.

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