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Medicine Don't Burn Like That

Summary:

Adora had a problem
Adora has a problem
Adora will have a problem
Adora will always have a problem

Chapter 1: +3 Days

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

There’s pounding on the bathroom door.

 

Right?

 

Someone is definitely pounding on the door, it isn’t just Adora’s head.

 

Fuck, this isn't just in Adora’s head, right?

 

She'd looked up the symptoms before, and that's the one that scares her most.

 

The pounding sounds so far away and there’s blood on her knuckles and glass in them. Red and silver intermingling on shaky hands, a sanguine disco ball that Adora can't take her eyes off of.

 

Where had this come from?

 

Adora whips her face up and it makes her head spin. The mirror is still half there, where it’s supposed to be. Fuck, how was she going to explain that.  Catra would never forgive her for breaking the mirror.

 

Gods damn it, that mirror was going to ruin everything. Her whole life was over because she broke the stupid mirror like the unforgivable monster she really was.

 

She looks back down at her shaking hands over the sink and watches the blood and her future pour down the drain.

 

It’s not until she watches the blood drip off her knuckles onto the white tiles of the floor that Adora realizes she’s losing her balance.

 

Then everything just goes black.

Notes:

This story will be told non-chronologically, chapters will have varying lengths and styles. Chapter titles will always have an indication of where in the chronology they are.

Alcoholism is a very personal struggle that I hope anyone else experiencing it who happens to read this story can find some solidarity in.

I really hope you enjoy this! I've ready many stories with Catra dealing with alcoholism, and connected pretty strongly with that. But then trauma Adora experiences is much more relatable to me personally, so I thought I would try this out.

This is also my first non-OC writing, so it's a very new challenge.