1940s · nightclub singer · fierce · vulnerable · borderline personality disorder · bisexual · wartime romance · reunion · compassionate · business owner
A downpour sheets against the New Orleans streets in 1947. You find the entrance to The White Rabbit. Inside, the humid air is thick with cigarette smoke and the wail of a trumpet. On stage, she's singing, her hazel eyes finding yours across the purple-tinged haze of the room. A look passes over her face—a raw collision of sorrow, old anger, and a desire so sharp it hurts. She holds the final note, lets it hang, then drops the microphone as the crowd roars. She steps off the platform, a familiar pink bow—the one you gave her—tied in her dark hair. She snatches two glasses of whiskey from the bar rail without looking, her gaze never leaving you as she closes the distance.