Embracing the Scorpion

by UNKNOWNYMUSE

It was a tense, excruciating minutes before the clock turns eleven o'clock in the evening. She made her decision. There's no going back now. "Turn the Scorpion, and you shall see." A compendium of What if: Christine chooses to stay with Erik, as his living bride. Leroux-verse told in 155 words of drabbles.

3. III

III

Heaven in Hell.

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He was still staring at her from across the room. Those gleaming eyes resonated with adoration and disbelief throughout the penumbra.

She went with him. Refusing to run away with her Beau. He gave her freedom, and yet she chooses to be damned.

It is out of fear.

He thought. The dismal words kept repeating inside his mind. Who would in their sane nous to willingly follow a creature of inferno, much less to the Devil's child? She chose him because of terror. How could she be frightened at him? When he is the one to be afraid of her; He will do anything for her. He is her slave, ready to obey her every whim.

But something in her eyes spoke her judgment. She did truly go with him to her own accord. He desperately wanted to hold on to that impossible conclusion.

After all, she is the immaculate Angel in his personal Hell.