Sorry about the long update, been very busy with school and the thing I have called my life. But like any of you guys care about that, you just want me to give you the new chapter.
This one is based on the Salem Witch Trials. Due to my English III class, we are reading the Crucible which takes place during that time. All I have to say is that Abigail Williams is a real bitch, trying to hit on a man who hates her. BLEH!
Okay, this chapter is the first of Atemu's gender-bending. He will be a girl in this one but Seth is still a guy, as he always will be in this story. Poor Atemu! XD
I will place some characters from the Crucible in here because I'm too damn lazy to make up names for other people.
Warning: Witchcraft and death.
On with the fic!
Love History 101
Chapter Three: Salem, 1692 CE
She was scared; actually, she was beyond scared.
Poor Margaret Sampson was accused of witchcraft and for relations with the Devil himself. She was only eighteen, she was a good Christian who went to church every Sabbath Day, said her prayers, and did as she was told.
But why did the other girls accuse poor Margaret?
Because of the red-eyes she had and because she was against the lies the girls told about the other women and men in Salem to hide the fact that they danced in the woods. Abigail Williams accused her in court the other day.
She was mad that Margaret knew of her affair with John Proctor and was going to tell it in court. Abigail stated that Margaret was trying to take over her mind by looking at her with those red-eyes.
The courtroom doors opened and the small girl walked in, Margaret gripped at the pale blue dress she wore is fear.
"Margaret Sampson, you have been accused of witchcraft. How do you plead?" Judge Hawthorn spoke, looking at her. She bit her lip and looked at him.
"I am not a witch." Margaret stated, feeling all eyes on her.
"But you have been suspected of it. A few of the girls told that you were seen drinking blood."
"From a wound on my hand, I did not want to get it on my clothing. I had cut my hand while helping Mr. Giles the other day."
"There have been accounts of you speaking to yourself."
"Prayers sir, I will pray to God when I feel I must. I am good Christian woman."
"And you have taken control of some of the girls' bodies, sending your spirit out to them? A few of them claim that you have. There has also been word that you have been lusting after Thomas Gertrude who is a married man." Hawthorn spoke calmly.
Margaret looked at him in shook. How said those things!? She had never done witch craft nor had she sent her spirit out! And Thomas was a friend, nothing more; even if she did have feelings for him she respected the man!
"I never did that! They lie! Those girls are tricking you!" She cried and pointed at them, though Ruth Putnam stood up and pointed at her.
"You're the liar! I have heard you say that you wanted to have Thomas as your own, you wanted his wife dead!"
"That was Abigail! If anyone wants to have something she can't have it is her! She wants Goody Proctor dead!"
Suddenly there was a cry from the stands were the girls stood, Margaret turned to see Abigail looking off at the ceiling and screaming.
"Oh Margaret! Why are you telling me these things?! Why do you want me to hurt Mary?!" The girl reached out with her hand and slapped Mary Warren who gasped. Some of the other girls started moaning and groaning.
Margaret looked at them, knowing that they were tricking the court. "They lie! I am not doing anything!"
"Margaret, are you sending your spirit out to hurt them?"
She turned to see a man with dark brown hair and shining blue-eyes looking at her, Thomas looked slightly scared at her. "Thomas, I am not doing this!" Margaret cried.
"She's controlling me! Her eyes! They are the eyes of Satan himself!" Abigail exclaimed and fell to the floor, clawing and screaming. Everyone was in mass panic and Margaret was horrified.
"They lie! They lie! I am not doing this! I am a good girl! I am with God! Please, they lie! They danced with the Devil, I never did! They are fooling us to keep themselves from trouble!" The poor girl begged as she fell to her knees, weeping.
"Oh the pain! She is making my chest hurt!" A girl yelled, another fainted and soon the others were acting insane.
All Margaret could do was cry and repeat over and over that she was not a witch.
The prison cell was cold as Margaret sat there, this was her final hour, she was to die soon. The court stated that she was a witch and that she was to be hung. How could this have happened, the poor girl never wanted this to happen.
Suddenly the cell opened and she looked up to see Thomas looking down at her. "Thomas…" She began but he only picked her up and led her out. "What are you doing?"
"It is time; I am to be the one to finish you off." He spoke calmly and Margaret gasped.
They went outside and to the gallows where red-eyes saw the noose that hung there. She was taken to the platform and told to stand a chair which she did. "Any last words Margaret Sampson?" Thomas asked.
The girl nodded and looked at the crowd, seeing the girls from the court. "I will die knowing and still believing that I am no witch! The only witch here is the lying whore known as Abigail Williams! May her own accusations be her downfall!" Margaret glared at them all, but mostly at the one she hated most.
The rope was around her neck and she took a breath, but something clicked in her head as she looked into the eyes of Thomas one last time, those blue orbs she knew all to well…
"I love you Seth…" A smile, then the chair moved and a sudden gasp followed by twitching and then… nothing. Thomas blinked and gasped himself as he looked at the hanged body of his former lover of the time when he was a priest and her a pharaoh.
"ATEMU!!!"
TBC
I'm sorry that I killed Atemu… then again I'm not.
You know what I hate, that the chick that played Abigail in the movie version of the play has the same hair as my lover! ARGGGGG!!!!!
Historical note: The Salem Witch Trial happed in 1692. Many people were accused and 13 were killed, however, the idea of witches in Salem was actually the cause of a bacterium from what historian/ scientist have figured out, it cause hysteria. Atemu's death was not the death of a real person; his was fictional to fit the story.
Anyway, please review. The only character that were made up were Atemu and Seth's, the others were created by Arthur Miller.
Hey Hathor, remember when I said that I would have this up by Saturday?
I lied.
