Hamlet and Ophelia from 'Hamlet'
AN: I know Tesla doesn't drown, but Ophelia does.
Nnoitra x Tesla
Escape
"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
Nnoitra had bitten the white of his throat until he had been unable to do anything more than scream aloud: in ecstasy, in sorrow.
Tesla had known from the beginning that this strange man fully of so much loathing and anger would one day be the death of him, but he worshipped him anyway, stayed by him despite the hardships and the cruelty and – worst of all pains – the indifference. But he was his lord, his master! What else was there for him to do, but to bow his head and take the brunt of his madness? Nnoitra was cold steel and drowning currents and flames to melt the flesh away: he was the earth of an avalanche that would bury him entirely.
The gift of love, Tesla knew, came with a price.
Nnoitra watched as the water filled the lungs of his slave, his possession, his lover: he stood languid on the shore, stance almost impassive, but there was a joy of madness on his face that spoke reams more.
Tesla escaped, in the end, through the medium of drowning.