Never Let It Go
by Amy R.
In tribute to Richard O' Brien, the great God of Cult Movies and Midnight Humor. I own nothing that you've heard of before.
And thank you Mr. O' Brien for inspiring me to be a little more out there in life, and not be ashamed of it.
Prologue
In 1975 a small budget miracle from Fox hit the theatres of America. It was called The Rocky Horror Picture Show, about a young couple who experiences a tire blowout in the middle of the woods and stays the night at a castle where they have a curious encounter with people from another planet.
As with most science fiction films of this era it was believed to be entirely fictional. In fact the end of the movie features a disclaimer on that very subject. But to those of us who know the movie well, the names Magenta and Riff Raff ring clear. The siblings who override Frank N' Furters' dreams of absolute pleasure and hijack the castle to take it back to their home planet of Transsexual.
So is it a mere coincidence that two years after the release of this now, acclaimed cult classic a basket was discovered in the woods outside of the set of this movie. A basket containing a note and two tiny children; the note simply read:
Magenta and Riff Raff
The bottom of the note was smudged and the finder of these two seemingly perfect children assumed the words to be their names and took them home immediately to his wife, Elizabeth and their five year old son, William.
None of the family had ever seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and so they could not know the importance of the small red-headed Magenta, and her slightly-larger brother Riff Raff. They were introduced to the world as Evan and Elizabeth's adoptive children, Magenta being a little less then a year and her brother being a little over two at the time.
How were they to know what their lives had in store for them? How were they to know who they really were, and where had they really come from?