Summary: Heather duke and Heather McNamara were about to get married. Duke wakes up. Mac died years ago. She calls Veronica and she comes to duke they talk.
Mac did die she took the sedatives they were too late to stop her (could write this later)

It was the best day. They were both going to get married, finally together Without fear. The whole Highschool experience forgotten And forgiven. They were at the altar of the church both wearing beautiful poofy white wedding dresses. Everything was perfect.

The officiant said "now you may kiss". They leaned in to kiss each other and then...

It was a dream. Heather looked beside her and no one was there. Heather McNamara died years ago... they never got their happily ever after. Mac died thinking Duke hated her which wasn't true, because she loved her so so much.

Her face felt wet. She's crying. Again. The cycle repeats almost every night. Sleep. That dream. Wake up in tears. Repeat.

She checked the time, 2:30AM. Ronnie said she could call if they happened. She knew about them when Heather told her about them. It was recent around a year after her death they were all 18 just starting their lives, then she felt this huge guilt. Like it was her fault Mac wasn't here anymore. Then the same dream would happen, them getting happily married and every single time when their about to kiss she'd wake up. In a cold sweat on the verge of a breakdown. Her and Ronnie were still friends Even after the whole westerburg insident.

Duke fessed up about what bothered her and Veronica said she could call her any time they happened if she needed someone to talk to or just know someone was there for her.

Now a few years later she was finally taking up the offer.

Ring
Ring
Ring

"R-ronnie remember what you said, if the dream happened and I needed someone I could call you"

"Yes"

"I'm calling you now I just need to hear someone's voice. It wasn't my fault. Was it?"

"For what?"

"Mac not being here anymore"

A few sobs were heard on the line from her end.

"No no no. Of course not. Mac had other problems too and even though you caused some of them you didn't mean for it. You were just abused by Chandler wether you think it's abuse or not. And then when you got the opportunity to seize the power to protect yourself, you took it. You were scared it could happen again and that's understandable, we all dealt with things back then"

"Thanks, but you really sound like a therapist right now"

"Yeah, want me to come over, I don't think you should be alone right now"

"This happens every night Ron, I'll be fine"

"Their that often?"

"Yes"

"Ok well now I am certainly coming round"

"Fine i know there's no stopping you anyway"

"I'll be there in 10"

"Ok, bye for now"

"Bye for now see you soon"

With that Heather put the phone down and contently collapsed on her bed.

10 minutes later she heard a knock. It was Veronica, who else would come round at like 3am.

Heather got up, took her keys and opened her door.

"Hi"

"Hey"

Then when they went inside into dukes room, Veronica held out her arms, "hugs always help me when I'm sad, they might help you too".

Suddenly tears poured out of the shorter girls eyes again and she fell into Veronica's arms, incoherently murmuring something while sobbing.

"Shhh, it's ok, it's ok, it's all gonna be okay" Veronica told the green girl, she said it again and again until she finally stopped crying.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cry that much" heather said.

"Greif is hard" Veronica replied.

"But it's been almost 4 years... and I'm still not over it, am I doing something wrong?" The last Heather questioned herself.

"No no greif is hard and processing it is even harder, it isn't linear and it will always be there you just grow bigger and stronger so the greif don't feel like it takes up that much space."

"Oh" was the reply.

Veronica stayed over, neither of them really felt like sleeping so they put on some random movie and just talked about stuff. It was ok. It was all gonna be okay.

Word count: 735
Feel like this one was a lot shorter😔