ProudToBeSarcastic
Nora O'Connell knew one thing in life was inevitable; change. Homes became just another dot on a map, people disappeared and left, and nothing was ever certain. She'd grown used to it, accustomed to life on the move with her bags never properly unpacked.
That's what Nora expected from the small town of Forks, Washington. A pitstop along the way to... wherever she ended up. The only goal was not to end up a statistic, some small part of a chart at a conference about kids ageing out of the system and all the tragedies which befall them.
It was foolish, considering she'd learned her lesson about expectations a long time ago too. And Forks proved it true, as a simple small town subverted all of the ones with which Nora walked into it.
She expected a foster father who'd read her file and believed every word of it. A school where she could sit near the back and go unnoticed until she didn't have to be there anymore. A town too small and too quiet for anything in it to touch her. Somewhere she could keep her secrets to herself, and the things she could do hidden where no one would ever think to look.
She didn't expect people who paid attention to her, read her and watched her, some with reasons far more than common human interest and far more sinister than care. After years of making sure no one ever looked at her too closely, of being the uninteresting footnote by the time she left, Nora walked into a town where what seemed easy enough before now became impossible.
And the further Forks drew her into its own secrets, the harder it became to keep hers. Because if this town's hidden world could find her so easily, Nora had to wonder how long it would be before the world beyond it did too.
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[Jasper Hale x OC]
[Pre-Twilight - Post-Breaking Dawn]