Summary:
It’s the smell of it. Chemical. Bitter and sharp as a raw edge on metal. Just a hint of it as she passes him at breakfast — but enough to stop her dead, mid-step.
There is Wolfsbane in his tea.
ETL Echo presents Don't Look Back by Onyx & Elm
Chapter 9: Fractures / Fragments
It’s not that she’s refusing to read it.
Or, well — perhaps she is. She tells herself she wants to make her way through the more scientific texts first. Though, if she’s honest, she feels a fairly overwhelming sense of dread every time she looks at that pale blue cover.
A book written by a paramour isn’t likely to contain the best advice when it comes to undoing it.
But that’s just it.
With each passing day, it feels more and more as if there is no undoing it.
ETL Echo presents Don't Look Back by Onyx & Elm
Chapter 8: Effusion / Deflection
The last thing Neville deserves is a wand in his face, but that’s exactly what he gets. Not half a second after the doors shut behind them.
“—the fuck did you bring him here?”
ETL Echo presents Don't Look Back by Onyx & Elm
Chapter 7: Aches / Allies
The moment she wakes up, she knows she’s being punished.
A laundry list of symptoms — cottonmouth, splitting headache, stomach in knots and blood on the sheets.
Her cycle is early.
ETL Echo presents Don't Look Back by Onyx & Elm
Chapter 5: Ghosts / Mirror Images
https://archiveofourown.org/works/26453452/chapters/65747839#workskin
ETL Echo presents Don't Look Back by Onyx & Elm
Chapter 3: Paper Cuts / Paramours
https://archiveofourown.org/works/26453452/chapters/65390860#workskin
ETL Echo presents Don't Look Back by Onyx & Elm
Chapter 2: Exhales / Answers
https://archiveofourown.org/works/26453452/chapters/64995040#workskin
Ao3 Rating: E
ETL Echo presents Don't Look Back by Onyx & Elm
Chapter 1: Bitterness / Bruises
https://archiveofourown.org/works/26453452/chapters/64455256
Ao3 rating: E