Title: break some bread for all my sins
Fandom: htgawm
Rating: teen
Length: ~100
Notes: michaela gen, pilot coda, title from k flay's blood in the cut

The shower has long gone cold, and Michaela scrubs harder. Maybe if she scrubs deep enough her fingerprints will be worn down to smoothness, maybe her skin will stop feeling too tight, her hands too light- maybe she’ll step out of the shower a different person.

She doesn’t.

She didn’t expect to, but disappointment still turns her stomach. Michaela grabs a towel instead of her bathrobe, an empty gesture. It isn’t like she’s going to truly torture herself over the death of a murderer.

This isn’t how her life was supposed to go. The thought brings a near-hysterical laugh to her lips, hand closing over her mouth to trap the sound within. Three short months and everything’s gone to hell. There’s no contingency plan for this. For any of it.

There’s only madness.