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“Hey, you in there Rose?”
The first time Rose and Mel kissed, Rose just stared into space. Eventually, when learning about her partner’s DID, she would recognise this as dissociation. Bad things had happened to Rose, bad enough she had no memories at all of her father, and eventually she would learn that things like kissing when things aren’t great or before the work towards functional multiplicity had happened (communication, lowering of dissociative barriers), things such as kissing would cause a switch.
“Hey please what’s going on, you never told me about any medical conditions"
Mel was panicking. It felt like she broke her girlfriend, and as a teenager who was having her first kiss she didn’t know what to do
“Get off her!” Rose, or rather someone in Rose’s body, had woken up.
“Rose?” The angry girl shook her head. “Oh your um Thorn now, right?” It was 2012 and Mel didn’t really understand what DID was, and if Rose tried explaining it she’d probably draw comparisons to Psycho or Elfen Lied or maybe something even worse. Still, she knew when Rose started talking like this and asked not to be called Rose, it was basically someone else.
“Yeah, I’m Thorn. Go easy on Rosie for me ok? She doesn’t know about the bad thing”
“The bad thing?”
“You know, getting uh oh’d.” A blank look drew across Mel’s face
“I’m only gonna tell you because you’re one smoking hot babe, but we uh were violated. A long time ago. Can’t remember who though, but I sure as shit dream about it.”
“Oh.” Mel didn’t know what to say. Most people never know what to say. Eventually, Mel would learn what to say and how to tell Rose’s others.
“Still, I’m here now, so if you wanna kiss, you can kiss me, okay? We can even French if you want.”
Mel turned beetroot red, clearly into the idea of sucking on her best friend.
“Unless you know, you’d rather I kiss you “down stairs”.” Thorn even did the air bunnies to show she was using a terminology.
“Like on the couch? I mean I could get some popcorn and we could put on Looper or this new SAO show or um maybe the Wedding Singer?”
“I mean your pussy. Only if you want that is”
“I’m sorry, but no R-Thorn. I’ve never really kissed someone before. I’m not ready.”
“I’ve never kissed someone I wanted to neither. How about we put on that last one, and kiss at the romantic parts, right?”
“Right”
“Also, um you’re Mel”
“Hehe, yeah”
All in all they kissed about 5 times during the movie. It was nice.
Afterwards though, Thorn had the same blank look that Rose did earlier. A thousand mile stare and she didn’t respond even when called to.
“Owww my head”
“You alright? You scared me! You keep, I dunno, going blank on me?”
“Going blank?”
“Like you keep staring off into space and I can’t get your attention. It’s scary, Thorn.”
“Thorn? Was that psycho here?”
“Rose?
“Who else would I be the bloody Queen of England?”
“I just. Maybe you should get your aunt to take you to a doctor, okay? You could be having small fits or something”
“I’m not sure we have the money, but I’ll try” she could see how much this meant to her girlfriend.
“So, um, Thorn told me that you’d been violated, when you were a kid. Like maybe you were raped or something.”
“Oh… that’s not good.” Rose held her head and started spacing out.
“Hey, please don’t go. Let’s talk about something else. Have you seen this cool new show called Sword Art Online?”
“Course, SAO is fucking awesome!!! Being trapped in a computer is so cool and I love how seriously it takes things”
This was definitely Rose.
“We’ll work things out, together, ok?” Said Mel. She really wanted to help
“Yeah, together” came a voice or several in Rose’s head. She’d always be supported.