Chapter 3: Darkness Within Detail

It had been a dark night upon which storm clouds gathered within the sky and lighting flashed giving a great cry causing Hope to startle awake and her blue eyes gave off a golden glow for a moment as she quickly rushed over to her desk and picked up a piece of charcoal and began scratching it against some yellow parchment with a look of fear upon her face.

Erik cried out as Javert brought the whip down against the flesh of his back and lightning seemed to crash with every cry,

"No audience, no food. No money, no mercy." Javert growled as he whipped Erik's back even faster,

"How did you do it Devil's child?... How did you bewitch my Hope into giving you food?" he demanded and smirked as Erik fell to the floor weakly and he knelt down next to him,

"I think you like her" he taunted,

"Is she not beautiful, monster? Her eyes as deep and as blue as the oceans themselves. Her hair like a delicate flame and her smile... Does it not warm the piece of coal that is your heart?" he mocked and Erik felt his fist clench, despite the searing pain upon his back,

"She has impressed me greatly just as she has done you. Her purity has conjured a desire within me that I might just take her for myself this very night" he whispered in Erik's ear before turning to leave, releasing a cruel laugh and it was then that time sped up, Lightning flashed as Erik's teeth gritted together in anger and he ran at Javert with a new found strength, the next thing Erik knew... Javert was lying on the ground before him and Erik was holding Javert's whip in his hand. He had strangled him.

Erik looked up slowly to see Hope standing at the entrance of his cell with a horrified look upon her face,

"Hope... I..." he tried,

'You... Killed him' she signed in fear but Erik stepped forward causing her to step away,

"Hope, I promise... I could never harm you. I don't know what happened... He told me that he was going to take you as his own and I... I just saw red" he said desperately and Hope looked unsure before holding out her hand to him hesitantly but he took it in his own and watched as Hope gave a silent gasp as he eyes glowed for a moment,

"What's wrong?" he asked concerned,

'You are telling the truth... I saw it... In your memories' she signed before looking around when she heard someone coming,

"You can read minds?" Erik demanded causing her to look at him unimpressed,

'Now is really not the time' she signed before grabbing his hand and began running towards the stables, where she pulled out a saddled horse,

'Go... Quickly' she signed and Erik frowned,

"I... I can't leave you behind" he said but then a bell began ringing announcing trouble within the camp,

'Go Now!' Hope signed frantically and Erik shook his head before hopelessly mounting the horse and rode off.

The gypsies restrained hope believing she had killed Javert as the gypsy master has bragged amongst them of how he intended to take her as his home; The gypsies believed that she was the devil child's mistress and that she had released him intending for them to elope but Javert had caught her causing the devil's child to leave her behind as he fled.

The gypsies tied Hope to a wooden post intending to burn her for her crimes but as Hope closed her eyes tightly in fear, Erik rode in on horseback,

"LET HER GO!" He yelled and the gypsies fled in fear as Erik used a dagger to cut Hope's ties as he pulled her onto the horse,

"Don't look so surprised. As if I would leave you behind after saving my life so many times... I'm indebted to you" he said with a warm smile as they quickly rode of as Hope kept her arms wrapped securely around Erik's neck.

Sorry if Javert's death was rubbish. I've never written a murder scene before :( I hate stuff like that but unfortunately I felt it was the only way the story could flow correctly.

Kind Regards,

TheAuthor1996