Jungle fever
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Chap 7
He knew it was a bad idea from the beginning.
Yes he knew.
But he would do it anyway.
Fight against mother nature was always a bad idea. He and his servants have been fighting the ants, there were too many of them.
But this was his home. He built it with his own bare hands.
There was noway he let it all go for nothing.
There were a lot of peoples hurt. Because of his stubborness.
They have done everything they could, but there were thousand of those African killers. His servants burned everything in the house, hoping that would scare them away, but that was just a hopeless wish.
" there is noway we could kill all of them, what will we do now, master?" Kahsim asked.
" there is one more option." Erik said, all of them could feel the tension in the air. " there is a dam, we built it to keep water out of our plan…"
" but, master, if we do that, all of our…"
" I rather lose everything like that then let those bastards have what we have to work to have…" Erik snapped.
" but who will go open the dam?" whoever went out there could never be able to return…
" I will go." Erik said. " this is my idea."
" Erik, you will die out there. Beside, what about Christine?" Stephen said. " let me…"
" no, you will not survive before you get to the dam." Erik was a stubborn man, once he wanted something, he would get it one way or another.
" fine, but please, protect yourself…"
" I know."
" please come back…"
" …" his only answer was silent.
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he knew it was a bad idea from the beginning.
It was impossible trying to go out this way, but if he didn't, everyone would die. Erik wore boots and gloves but that would only slow those killers down a bit.
Those stings were starting to hurt.
But he couldn't stop now, when everyone needed him.
When Christine needed him.
He would make it to the dam. Even when he would lost his life doing just that.
For Christine.
For Stephen.
And for everyone who had been living in his home.
The stings were all to much.
Pain.
But he had to keep moving or he would die before getting to the dam.
Die.
He wondered.
Once upon the time, he wanted to die, when his parents told him to go and stop bothering his brother Nadir with all the music and poetry, when all those boys from his school called him freak of nature and thrown rocks at him after they found out about his face, when he first came to Africa in hope finding a real home where everybody would accept who he was but he failed miserably….
There were so many times he wanted to just lay down and never wake up, but never did he do just that.
He wondered what the others would do once he was gone.
Stephen would take over his works, he knew how Erik had wanted to give those slaves a better life. Christine would go back to France and find herself a worthy husband.
She deserved that, he wanted that for her. But the thought of her in another man's arm made he feel like crying, and a man like Erik wasn't use to that.
' I wanted her to go back, then why does my heart hurt when I thought about that.' He wondered. ' but then, I would probably not going to survive after this.'
Why did it hurt too much?
If he hadn't even been with her more than two months, then why did it hurt like this?
'The thought of her in another man's arm made me feel like… like.. part of me was dying.'
Then he saw it.
The dam.
That was the last thing he knew.
Before the darkness came.
He fainted.
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Erik woke up with the worst headache ever. The pain were all over his legs and arms. And he felt something heavy clinging to his less injured arm.
He looked to his left and found Christine sleeping next to him.
" Christine…"
Liked she could hear him in her sleep, she slowly opened her eyes and smiled.
" good morning, sleepy head, or should I say evening. You were out for three days." She smiled sleepily. " I was so terrified, I though that we had lost you."
" …" he was silent.
" Erik?"
" why are you here?"
" what are you talking about? Did your near death experiment do something to your head? We were sailing…"
" I know that, but why are you still here?"
" why am I here? you are my soon-to-be-husband, I need to be here with you." Christine raised her eyebrow.
" but there is nothing here for you. Not anymore."
" not anymore? What do you mean not anymore?" Christine looked around his bedroom. "there are a lot of things around here for me." then she looked into his eyes. " and the thing I want most here is you. Will you be mine, Erik?"
" but Christine…" he looked into her eyes and to his horror, he saw something. Love. " Christine, there is nothing that I could offer you."
" nothing to offer?"
" yes, don't you see?" Erik snapped. "I have nothing for you! What is there for me to give to you?! Money? I just lost my home, the home I had spent a lot of time to build. Flowers? The only things left in my garden is soil. My charming face? I am sorry but that is the one thing that I have never had."
" oh, Erik, it is not money that brought me to you in the first place, it was fate, and it is not your beautiful garden that kept me here, that imprisoned me, it was your personality. And the thing that made me want to stay with you, was not your charming face, it was love. I love you, Erik."
" you can't love me, Christine, how can you love someone like me? I have nothing. I am a monster. I shouldn't ask Nadir to find me a wife in the first place. It is unfair for whoever he chose to be with me."
" Erik, do you believe in love at first sight?"
" there is no such thing…" 'not for me anyway…' he added silently.
" Erik, my love. I love you, it is love at first sight when I met you…" Christine smiled. " I can't seem to take you off my mind, whenever I am not with you I always wonder what you are doing at that moment, and do you miss me like I do? Do you think about me when we aren't together? Because I do and I want to be with you at soon at possible. And even when you tried to push me away, I couldn't do as you said. I love you so much, Erik…"
" Christine…"
" please say you feel the same…" her eyes was pleading, she was begging for his love.
No one had ever begging for his love before.
" Christine…"
" I beg of you, say you feel the same. I can feel that you do, but sometime you was so cold toward me, that I had a moment of doubt." She moved to kiss his lips.
Erik was too shock to move away, or to kiss her back. Not until she pulled back.
" not anymore." She kissed him again. But this time, his brain caught up and kissed her back.
" I love you, Erik. And I know you love me, too."
" Christine, oh how I tried to stay away. But I love you, Christine, I love you like there is no tomorrow. You are my light, my everything, my one and only, please stay with me, even when I don't have anything for you, please, I will not be able to live without you anymore."
" there is nothing that could make me happier than that. Erik, I will stay with you forever, this life and the next, and the next... Even after a thousand years, I still want to be with you. We will build everything back, together, Erik."
" we will…"
" it will be faster when we are together."
" together forever."
" yes, forever."
Outside, the sun had finally begun to rise once again.
The end. (?)
Note: okay, there is something I want to say … WHO WANT LEMON? Kidding kidding, this is the end of my ' Jungle fever', thank you for all your review and favours, I did have a great time writing this. Thank you, now I will be back with my ' the Angel's Diary' and ' the Intimate full moon'.