For @emotioneater -&gt; Breaking Up Is The Hardest Part

Nancy had put it off for far too long. They’d always known their relationship had an expiration date. It just happened that today was it. Tomorrow was the day Bill was getting out of jail. Eames had told her, counseled her. But Nancy knew what she had to do, as she’d always known it. She and Bill were meant to be together. There was something deep and magnetic, ancient and primitive that drove the two of them to each other. Nancy was the only one who could keep Bill on a metaphorical leash. He listened to her. He listened to her as a wolf. That meant something.

The last time she’d seen him had been so long ago. She’d just been a girl, never thought anything was going to happen when she’d kissed him before running off to get to work. He’d been arrested that very night, caught red-fanged. Nancy’d come home to solemn faces in the den, telling her the news: Bill wasn’t coming home.

That had been five years ago, and now, now he was finally being released. Things were going to go back to normal now. She’d be at his side, they’d get married, have the children she couldn't before, everything she couldn’t have with Cooper. Everything she’d always wanted.

But in order for that to happen, she had to break up with Cooper.

This time, it’s Nancy waiting for him, when he comes home. She’s had too much to drink, it’s clear in her eyes, in her face, in the way she can’t look at him.

“Cooper- John,” his first name, reserved only for special occasions. “You- you know I love you.” Her voice was already starting to crack. This wasn’t going to be good. This wasn’t going to be good at all. She couldn’t handle the tears, the emotions. She should have done this weeks ago.

She should have done a lot of things.