Sometimes it seems so hard to remember that there was ever a time before this, before her. It is not that they've been together very long (two years, officially) but there's just been so much of it. So many sweet nights with their bodies pressed together, so many early mornings of blinking her eyes open to that soft, sleeping face. Candlelit dinners, and parlour-dancing, and illicit, secret interludes in the wings, on the roof.
Christine sighs, and brushes a curl of hair from Corinne's forehead. Her lover snuffles, and nuzzles into her pillow, and Christine can't keep away the smile that curls her lips. Tonight, there is the opening of a new production, the first time Faust has been performed since—Since, and though she knows she should be nervous, should be terrified of any number of things happening, she knows, too, that there is nothing that can touch her on that stage, not with Corinne watching over her.
And there is no one left, now, to hurt her.
Sadness flickers in Christine's heart, but there are no tears left to cry, and there have not been in so very long. She has buried all of her ghosts, and they cannot reach her here.
Corinne's fingers tighten around Christine'ship, as if she knows the terrible thoughts in her mind, and it is enough to draw her back, away from those dark nights to here, to the misty light filtering in through the blinds. It is if it happened to somebody else, all of that, her whole past, as if she only truly came to life the night Corinne leaned in and kissed her hesitantly on the lips. And on a morning like this— on a morning like this Christine would not have it any other way.
A/N: I have many pieces hoarded up on my laptop to add to this collection - enough that I could post one a week until the end of the year - so this month, I'm planning to add one every day of the month, except on Saturdays when I plan to update 'Running Through the Rain'. If you're not reading 'Running Through the Rain' and think that a Pharoga western AU which will eventually include femslash is up your street, then please do check that out.
As ever, please do review!
Up next: LeRoux AU where Erik never overheard Christine and Raoul on the roof, and so is waiting anxiously for her to meet him after the show, but she never arrives.