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.

4. IV

IV

Fear and Love.

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She smiles up at him; and she received a tender, shy smile in return. Only the scowl was forming inside her head, why does he mistrust her decision? It was her decision to stay; it was her decision to be with him, it's all solely based on her decision.

He was looking at her with such melancholic intensity, as if he's afraid that she'll vanish amongst the unforgiving air. She wave up a delicate hand for him to know that he'll never have to be lonely again.

She's his wife now.

She will pour him with care, affection, and undying love.

Love.

She hadn't expected herself to love him like that. At first, she was afraid of him, not because of his deteriorated visage. She was not vain to mind for beauty, but it's his misdeeds and madness where his true ugliness lies.

All in the Past.

She'll never leave his side from now on.