I can never really say if i got this right. Sometimes i say yes, and then i say no.
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# Part Sixteen:
One of his hands snapped up to his unmasked face, the other hand shooting out, shoving Lark hard to the ground; but not before she got to see his deformed face. Twisted and hideous with no nose and malformed lips, Lark only saw a part of the horrific thing that made up his features. She fell hard on the stone floor giving out a cry as her leg hit the cold ground hard, something clattering to the floor from her shirt. "DEMON!" he yelled, keeping a hand firmly over the middle of his face. She cringed away from him as he started towards her, the hatred seemingly burning from him.
His eyes burned a in a gold fire as he hissed at her, "You little monster, why did you want to see this??" She only stared at him in a numb surprise. His fury grew, as he lashed out at her, Lark drawing back fearfully. "Curse you!" he shouted, "Damn you! Damn your curiosity! Damn it!!" He stormed around, knocking down things that stood in his way, seeming to be going completely mad. Lark could only watch him unmoving, unfeeling.
This is what he was hiding…a deformity.
"I—I'm sorry…" she whispered. That seemed to hit him in the back, he stopped dead. A shock went through him as all control on himself was lost. Turning on her with a blind fury, his hands wrapped around her neck as she gave out a startled cry but then… Erik seemed to have been hit with a thought. Another face looked back at him instead of Lark's, a familiar woman's frightened face…
He let out a pained moan. Letting go of her throat he stumbled away, sinking to his knees only once he was far away from the girl and put his head in his hands; scrunching himself up. She crawled over to him, wincing as she bumped her bruised leg, and drew near to him. On hearing her approach, Erik's hands fully covered his face, hiding it from view.
His voice came out soft and filled with some deep hurt Lark couldn't even compare to. "Leave me alone…" he said numbly, "Go back to where you belong, don't come back, either…" She touched his shoulder but he moved away from her, waving a hand back at her to leave. "Please…" she said softly. "GO AWAY!" he shouted suddenly, shoving her away but not as harshly as he had done before. The girl just stayed where she had fallen, watching him.
Lark didn't notice the tears that streaked down her own face. Biting her lip she reached out with both her hands. Clasping them on each side of his face she turned him toward her. Erik didn't pull away, only stared back at her with a dull sense of surprise as she looked fully at his deformed, twisted, hideous features barely able to be called 'human'. "I'm not scared…" she told him confidently.
Smiling sadly, she traced from the top of the forehead, careful to avoid the gaping hole that served for his nose, down to the malformed, almost unidentifiable lips gently with her fingers. He wouldn't look at her as he tried to take his head away with long, skeletal hands grasping at her arms. Lark only held his face more firmly between her hands for a moment longer, and then released him. Erik turned away, groping for his mask that she had taken off. As he placed it firmly back on, Lark sat up and looked down at her hands. "I am sorry…about everything." She whispered to his turned back, "I've been nothing but trouble to you and…and everyone else."
Erik glanced back at her once, his face unreadable behind the mask. She stared at her hands, "Why does everyone want me to go away?" she asked her open palms sadly. He watched her warily as the girl got up and walked toward him again. Lark could see that his eyes kept on her were filled with suspicion but she couldn't blame him for that; she betrayed what little trust he had in her to leave him alone.
"Why does everyone I know…push me away?" she asked, tears refilling her eyes. "When Mama was…was sick or really sad she'd go in her room, and push me away when I wanted to help." Erik stood up but didn't make any other movement anywhere else as he stared at her, face and eyes expressionless, but listening. Lark wasn't talking anymore though, she just stood there. Finally breaking the silence Erik said, "I'll take you back up, now."
Erik turned around and started to head out of the house, leading them down the corridor that would end at the mirror. Turning to face her only to motion that she should follow, Erik led the way. Lark walked behind him through the tunnel, wiping her eyes and remaining uncharacteristically silent. "You are not to come back down, understand?" he said, opening the mirror door. The girl looked up at him one final time before nodding and walking out into the room. He hesitated by the opening. "I'm sorry." He said, and then closed the mirror.
Updated. XD
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