Mini fic pairing/prompt: E/C, #15 "things you said with too many miles between us" (LND-based)
The sea and sky were inky black when Erik finally dared to venture out onto the deck of the freighter. All the vastness of the world laid before him after years spent locked away in a tomb, yet still he could only skulk about under the cover of night. Even when his Angel had returned to him, warm and willing and alive, it had been in darkness.
The salt air was stinging and sweet, but it was not enough to drive away the ghost of her scent filling his nose, her taste flooding his twisted mouth. The ever-present roar of the waves did nothing to silence her voice in his mind. He would have to learn to content himself with the memory of her - his greatest treasure and greatest torment, all at once. Even without an ocean separating them, his Christine was no longer his. The laws of god and men meant little to Erik, but he knew that she would keep the vows she had undoubtedly exchanged with her young man by now.
"Oh, god...what have I done?"