Title: Send Your Rain
Author: queen-of-sinking-ships
Rating: T
Pairing: Esmeralda/Frollo
Summary: But the threat of fire does not scare the Godless.
Length: One-shot (300-ish words)
Disclaimer: I do not own The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Lyrics belong to Flyleaf.
what you confuse for glory's fire
is fire from the tongues of liars.
- 'Fire Fire', Flyleaf
Send Your Rain
Fire. Hellfire. Burning. Damnation. Hell.
Frollo seemed to talk a lot about fire.
Not that Esmeralda feared the Christian pit of torture - after all, she was a witch, a heathen, a gypsy. As far as she was concerned, if God was real, and if He was that much of an ass, and if she was tossed into that ever-flaming ditch, the Devil himself would welcome her with open arms. If the good - the church-goers, the faithful, the decidedly un-wicked - were rewarded with an eternity spent in the luxury of Heaven, then by principle, shouldn't the bad - the sinners, the pagans, the gypsies - be rewarded with an eternity in the luxury of Hell?
Granted, Esmeralda was well aware that Satan did not offer love or friendship or comfort. But if she truly was an evil woman, a black-hearted temptress, why should she need those things, much less want them? If Hell offered her the best it could - pain, misery, anguish and despair - shouldn't she accept those things wholeheartedly? Why would the villainous want anything to do with the rewards of Heaven, if the core of those gifts were pure?
Esmeralda wasn't sure. The Bible was such a strange, paradoxical thing. Like the heathen she was, Esmeralda wasn't particularly convinced in a book pieced together by men who'd killed for their seemingly benevolent God.
If Frollo was a truly man of God, and if Heaven was full of God's men, then Esmeralda wouldn't need to be thrown into to the Hell. She'd jump in herself.
Headfirst.
Willingly.
With pleasure.
.
.
.
fire, fire, fire
fire from the tongues of liars.
a/n: This is just something I wrote on a whim in January, having been inspired by a two-week long Disney addiction (Which I vehemently smothered with the most sexual, violent episodes of 'American Horror Story' Netflix had to offer). Anyway, it's super short, but I didn't want to just toss it out.
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