/ Um… just something I typed up in a few minutes because ff.net needs more Monte Cristo fics… don't expect perfect spelling or grammar 'cause this is like a 10 min fic. Dantes's collective thoughts from the moment he enters prison to the moment 14 years later when he realizes what happened. /
Disclaimer: Not mine. Not mine. Not mine.
14.05.04 Friday, 10:18 PM
The Chateau d'If! But… but Villefort agreed that…he said I would be allowed to leave! Why would he lie to me? We both knew that the evidence against me was nothing more than a letter I did not write and was not meant to receive; I was merely the messenger. Maybe I'm only here temporarily, until he gets things settled.
How long am I supposed to wait here? How much longer am I to waste away in this God forsaken cell? I must obtain my freedom and return to my father – he won't survive on his own with no income and only a small handful of gold to live on. My crew is still waiting for me back home now that I'm the captain; I can't fail my first task by not even being present; Monsieur Morrel will be most disappointed. And Mercedes…
It's been two months since I first set foot in this place, and I have still not received word from Villefort… and the letter that was sent accusing me of supporting Bonaparte, I wonder who wrote it. It had to have been someone from the Pharaon; I never mentioned the letter I delivered to Elba to anyone else. But why would anyone say that? I clearly explained to the crew that the captain wished for me to deliver the letter to someone at the Isle of Elba; I did nothing to make them think I knew the nature of the contents of the letter. Why would anyone of the Pharaon think I am a Bonapartist?
An entire year wasted, rotting in these damp cells… maybe something went wrong and Villefort's messages didn't get through. Or his superiors did not approve of restoring my freedom. Whatever the reason, help is not coming. Not even God is willing to help me. What have I done wrong? Why am I sitting in a locked cell, with a pitiful barred hole for a window, the only opening to this room? Why am I imprisoned like a villain? Why am I caged like an animal? Why - …I hear a sound. A scraping sound, as if someone is attempting to remove the stones and escape to freedom! If we collaborate, I may be able to regain my freedom!
/ After discussing the incriminating letter with Faria, Dantes realizes that he was framed, blah blah blah, you guys know the story./
Fernand Mondego, Gaspard Caderousse, Danglars …I have done nothing to them, and yet they would see me rot in prison merely to possess what is rightly mine; Fernand would have me out of the picture, leaving him free to marry his cousin Mercedes, Caderousse would have me locked up because I worked harder than he and brought in money to support myself and my father, Danglars would have me imprisoned, locked in d'If for the reason that I was made captain of the Pharaon, a post he desired… let's not forget Gerard de Villefort, the ambitious prosecutor who had an innocent man thrown into one of the most heavily guarded prisons so his superior would not know that his father was a Bonapartist. These…men will pay. They will pay for these fourteen years I have spent in this hole, deprived of sunlight, never able to walk more than twenty paces in one direction, bereft of reading material… they will pay for what they have done. I will drag their names through the mud, and leave them willing to take their own lives, wanting to take their own lives.