WHOA, tons of reviews. Crazy. You guys are awesome. I love you all.
Note before I forget: literarycritic is doing this challenge, also Addisoncentric, over on the actual LJ community. It's pretty awesome. Can't link it in here, but google it up and see. Fanfic100-- literarycritic
Diamond
It's diamond, because even Derek isn't that unconventional.
She looks hard at it, hoping, maybe, to see a flaw in it, a chip. Something to reflect what happened to its symbolism, something to show the taint on her marriage.
She almost wants there to be a scarlet 'A' pinned to her chest as she walks around, just so then her guilt will be public, but, then again, Dimmesdale dies in that ending.
She doesn't want Mark to die, but she does wish that he'd care about the fact that the diamond winks so obviously at him whenever they're together.
Reference: Scarlet A, Arthur Dimmesdale are from The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Side note: Addek, I suppose, is something that has to be addressed in this sort of collection, but I stand by my Maddison-ness.
Loving the reviews. Keep it coming.
Happy New Year, guys!