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The light is beautiful but I'm darker than light

...and you are wonderful but this moment is mine

Created on 2006-02-07 07:24:37 (#9454689), last updated 2007-05-02

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Name:	Ivy Hughes
Location:	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Bio

Full Name: Ivy Elizabeth Hughes
Age: 20
Origins: Michigan
Family: Richard Hughes, father; Cassandra Hughes, mother; Jacqueline Hughes, sister
Background: Ivy Elizabeth Hughes comes from a long line of prestigious Orthopedic Surgeons. Her father Richard is head of the Orthopedic Surgery division of one of the nation's leading hospitals in Michigan. He likes his father before him and his grandfather before him studied Orthopedics at Yale University. Lacking a male heir Richard pressed the importance of continuing the family legacy onto his eldest daughter Ivy.

In high school Ivy excelled, she was a very bright student who was willing to go as far as her father pushed her. She graduated as valedictorian and then went onto Yale University to carry out the wishes of her father.

After two miserable and lonely semesters at Yale Ivy discovered that she didn't have any passion at all for studying medicine. She excelled in her studies just as she always had but lacked the dedication of her fellow students. She returned home to Michigan on her summer vacation and was impressed again by her father on how important it was that she stay the course so that in time she would eventually take over his role at the hospital. Richard relied on his daughter's passive nature as he continued to promote her to his friends and colleagues.

Things seemed as if they would go according to plan for a time until one night Ivy attended a party one of her high school friends had thrown. At the party she couldn't take her eyes off the lead singer on stage and after a few drinks the two seemed to hit it off. Ryan was all of the things Ivy knew she could never be. Passionate, worldly and untamed, it was the closest thing to love she'd ever felt for another human being. The two continued to see eachother for the week that Ryan's band was on tour in the city and before he left he asked her to go back to his homecity of Boston with him. Tired of medical school and being a doormat to her parents she eagerly accepted.

Her parents were not happy about Ivy's plans despite her attempt to compromise and agree to pick up her studies at Harvard. Finally she was given a choice by Richard, to go back to Yale and continue on his set path for her or follow her heart and lose everything her family had worked for. The next morning Ivy packed some of her things and climbed into the back of a van holding Ryan and his bandmates, bound for Boston.

Ivy moved into Ryan's small Central Square apartment in Cambridge and took a job as a barista at The Coffee Bean. Ryan assured her it was only temporary while he and his band made a name for themselves. Ivy didn't mind, she wanted to support Ryan and his musical endeavors. She'd never seen so much passion for anything.

Weeks turned into months and months turned into a year and it didn't take Ivy long to realize that the only passion Ryan had was for women and drugs. He had spotted a conveniant doormat to lean on financially and she was just enough of a sucker to fall for it. The weeks dragged on and he hardly even bothered to hide the cheating from her and yet as was in her nature, she said nothing about it.

One morning before work a stranger accidentally bumped into her on the subway spilling coffee all over her. He didn't bother to apologize, he like everyone else seemed to understand right away that Ivy was a walking doormat.

Later that night strange visions invaded Ivy's dreams, brutal images of murder and destruction. Things that felt so familiar to her and at the same time so very alien. When she awoke the next morning she tried to brush off the dreams until she glimpsed the morning paper reporting on the murder of one of Boston's citizens. The same man that had bumped into her the morning previously.

Thinking it nothing but a coincidence Ivy tried to push past it until more strange things began happening. The dreams increased in volume, growing more violent and more chaotic as the crime rate in Boston steadily began to rise. Every morning, fresh from the same dream about the same man a new murder would be read about in the paper. Every single time it was someone she had either met or knew personally.

Curiousity began to get the better of her and she followed an angry customer home from the Coffee Bean one night only to meet the familiar figure that had haunted her in dreams. She watched as he killed the nameless customer that had irritated her only hours before before telling her things she knew she would never be ready to hear. He wasn't killing for her, he was her.

Still unable to hear the truth Ivy decided to deal with this newfound knowledge the way she handled nearly every problem in her life. Ignore it until it goes away. Getting in touch with an old family friend in psychiatry at Mass General Hospital Ivy received a prescription for sleeping pills so that the dreams would no longer haunt her, assuming that if the dreams stopped the murders would too.

She was wrong. A week later she woke up next to the dead body of her boyfriend and she knew her system of ignoring things until they went away wasn't going to erase this problem.

Now in jail, Ivy awaits trial for a murder she never commited surrounded by people who assume that she did. Desperate to keep a killer under control in the city outside the prison walls she is forced to turn to the detective who put her there.

All Of This Past

Here I go again
Slipping further away
Letting go again
Of what keeps me in place
I like it here
But it scares me to death

There is nothing here
The light is beautiful
But I’m darker than light
And you are wonderful
But this moment is mine

All of this dust
All of this past
All of this over and gone
And never coming back
All of this forgotten
Not by me

I find comfort here
Cause I know what is lost
Hope is always fear
For the pain it may cost
And I have searched for the reason to go on
I’ve tried and I’ve tried
But it’s taking me so long

I might be better off
Closing my eyes
And God will come looking for me
In time

All of this dust
All of this past
All of this over and gone
And never coming back
All of this forgotten
Not by me

All of this dust
All of this past
All of this over and gone
And never coming back
All of this forgotten
Not by me

I can see myself
I look peaceful and pale
But underneath
I can barely inhale
I can hear myself singing that song
Over and over until it belongs to me

[Ivy Hughes is an original character in play at

fandom_muses. She is original and I own the rights to her, don't steal her or I will cut a bitch. I however do not own the rights to Eliza Dushku. Sad times.]

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