Chapter 36
Intruder
(Gaston POV)
I slipped past the gates and noticed that the place itself was something that looked as though it came from a nightmare. The dark look of the trees surrounding the place, the gargoyles that sit on top of the castle balconies, and not to mention the drop that lay below the bridge that I was crossing. But if this was where Rose lay then I would be damned if something like a scary castle kept me from marrying her.
Towering over me now, lay the door to the castle. It's dark oaken wood and bolts all rusted and old looking from not being used in so long. I pushed the two great doors open with all my might, and managed to slip inside the giant place with slyness. Once inside, the place had candles lit, and a fire going in a room somewhere, but not a soul was heard. I gripped my gun even tighter and dropped the rest of my belongings, after all a big castle probably meant a big owner and I didn't need any extra baggage to make it harder to get my prize.
I carefully walked down one of the long corridors, still not hearing any noise's besides the sounds of my muffled footsteps from the carpet. Everything looked clean, besides the outside exteriors look, everything in the castle was spotless. Someone had to have cleaned the place, and that meant that someone was still inside the building.
All of a sudden a door softly opened.
I quickly cocked my gun and raised it to eye level to aim. The person that walked into my line of view was the exact person I was looking for.
"Rose?"
Her hazel eyes quickly turned to me in surprise, and shock. She looked well fed, and was wearing a florescent green gown that looked to be made of the finest silk and matched her perfectly.
"Gaston! What are you doing here?" She asked in an equally shocked voice.
I chuckled in my deep voice and said to her in the most macho voice I could muster, "Why I've come here to save you! Your fathers been vary worried about you, and once we have returned to the village you can tell you how I saved you from this horrible and vile place as well as the Master of this estate. Then, you and I can live happily ever after, together."
She quietly whispered as if she remembered something she had forgotten, "Father…," then as if finally realizing something she yelled out.
"Wait! What do you mean, ''You and I will live happily ever after together?' Gaston I've already told you like I did in the village that I wouldn't marry you! I don't love you and I never will. You are self centered and you only care about looks instead of what a person is truly about. Like feelings and emotions, or even the person themselves." Rose said with defiance. Her small frame trembling either from rage or fear, I could not tell.
I didn't understand, here I was, going through wolf infested forests, dealing with crazy old men, and now entering a castle that was probably owned by some king, and here was the only 'beautiful woman as me' turning me down cause I liked her looks.
"Now you listen to me Rose," I fumed, pointing a gloved finger at her exasperatingly.
Suddenly I was furious, like the only thing I could think of doing was dragging that stupid girl out of the damn castle and taking back to the village, locking her old man up in the asylum, and then forcing her to marry me.
"I came all the way her to find you, and now I end up here only to find myself turned down. Well you know what?" Grasping Rose's brown hair, I pulled her face close to mine.
"Your going to marry me whether you like it or not! Your father will pay anyhow if you refuse. Let's just say you'll have to visit him in the 'crazy house'." As if she was suddenly some sort of disease, I threw her against the wall, her head hitting it hard.
All of a sudden Rose's cry echoed throughout the hallway, and seemed to go around the whole castle. Then her body fell to the ground, like a marionette with her strings cut. She grasped her head, I could see blood all of a sudden coming from her forehead from where she had hit the wall.
'BOOM'
The sound came clear from somewhere far off.
I pulled out my shotgun, and cocked it, ready for whatever was to come, ignoring the sobs of Rose as she tried to stop the blood flowing.