chapter 6
erik dragged bloom behind him as they made their way through the crowded circus. while bloom and erik and madam giry looked for meg and oritel and marion. This was something that they needed to do before it was way too late. erik saw a glimpse of meg as he grabbed bloom hand and pulled her along, meg pulling oritel and marion along as they squirms trying their best to get out of her hold. they even tried biting her in which she slapped them for doing so. meg held onto oritel and marion in a vice-like grip. she was not going to let go of him. She was going to make sure the little bastards knew what they had done to her life. and along with their bitch mother.
"Please, miss giry…. I want to go back… I want my mother…" said marion
"Yeah, me to," said oritel
"The world is hard, the world is mean, it's hard to keep your conscious clean…." said meg
"Please, you're hurting me." said oritel
"Yes, let us go" cried marion
" The sea is calm, the sea is gray, it washes everything away…." said meg
Meg ignored oritel and marion pleas for him to be let go. oritel and marion didn't know what to do when it came down to miss giry. Why is she doing this to them. what did they ever do to her. they wanted their mother. she would protect them. While Meg brought him to the very edge of the pier, the dark water churned below. Meg smiled down at the dark water and knew this would end it all. and she was going to be taking the kids with her, she was not going to let them live if she can't have everything that she wanted. Oritel and marion shivered when they saw that smile. they didn't know what she had in mind.
"we can't swim…" said oritel
"don't worry, it's almost over…. sink into the sea… blue and kind…. then drift off to sleep… let the past unwind… leave the hurt behind…" said meg.
"ORITEL! MARION!"cried bella
bloom rushed over but erik grabbed her and pushed her behind him. He didn't know what meg is able to do in her current state. She was like this in the opera house as well. and he had seen her do some fucked up things in which he was freaking blamed for. but he needed to save his little boy and girl. and protect his beloved as well. He knew she could protect herself. but he wanted her to let him protect her for once. madam giry not figured out that her daughter was to blame for everything in the opera house. not erik. oh, how could her daughter do that to poor erik. It's as if she was going to be doing something worse now. that poor boy. his eyes like his mother's.
"No, I'm not done yet!" said meg
"Let go of the boy and girl, now!" demanded erik
bloom tried to go around erik but madam giry held onto her and shook her head as to say let erik do what he has to do. He needed this to protect them. bloom eye twitched she didn't need that she wanted to kill the bitch and take her and erik son and daughter back. erik moved closer and closer to meg. but that was when meg pulled out a gun and points it at erik. she was not going to let him take the brats back. She was going to show him that she was going to be in charge now. she was the one who has a gun, and she can kill him or the twins if she wanted to. while oritel and marion was trying to wiggle free. she might need to help here. but she was not sure yet. she might have to use kido on her. but erik gave her a look knowing what she was thinking. He wanted to protect her. even though bloom was getting this bad feeling something bad was going to happen tonight.
"Not another step." hissed meg
"Let go of them, girl, or I promise you…" hissed erik
"Not another word! always wondered how to make you watch! well watch me now!" hissed meg
meg smirked and pointed the gun at erik. but oritel and marion stomped on her foot and rushed to their mother. while she pushed them to madam giry who was glad to help. she knew that bloom was going to need her hands free for the help that she was going to have to give if anything goes down. erik stood in front of bloom. but bloom was not going to be having none of it. She was going to be keeping a eye on meg. but now it was all making sense meg is the reason why erik was blamed. She and Christine were in on it together. they did everything at the opera house to make erik look bad. this was making sense now. she should have seen it so long ago.
"I took a little trip to coney island. I took a little trip, because of you. I did as mother said, and followed where you led and tried to do what little I could do. well here the way it works on coney island… they make you pay for every little crumb. I gave what they would take, I gave it for your sake, now look and see what I've become," said meg
erik sighed he knew that she did this. but he didn't ask her to do it. He paid for everything with his own money. madam giry knew that from the start. but it seemed that Meg had in her crazed mind that she was the one who paid for everything here. madam giry sighed she still thinks that she paid for everything that erik has. That was all erik money and all the permits and stuff like that. erik put that through himself. bella was watching closely. She knew meg was unhinged. and if she needed to, she would have to take meg down herself. she would be damned that she would let her hurt the man she loved because she was obsessed and crazed.
"Bathing beauty, on the beach. bathing beauty. in her dressing room…. bating beauty,. in the dark. on their laps, in their beds!" hissed meg
"meg, my little meg." said madam giry
" what are you saying?" asked erik
" who helped you raise the money? who helped the permits come through? who greased the wheels of your high flying deals, bought you time when the bills came doe? who swayed the local bosses? curried favor with the press?" asked meg
madam giry knew it was not the best time to say that meg didn't do that for did that for herself. even though erik had everything handled. This was something that she didn't know how to handle. She knew that her daughter was not going to end this night on a good note. bloom sighed and looked to erik as if she was asking if this was all true. madam giry shook her head to tell bloom this was not all true. erik had everything handled from the very beginning. Yes, it was a rocky start, but he handled everything like a good boss should. erik sighed it was not the best time to say that all she had said was wrong. and that he had everything handled from all the money had had from the opera house. Meg point the gun to her head. while Lucius flinched from what was going on.
"No not her! and who kept singing, desperate for your favor? Who kept dancing, hoping you would save her? who kept dying, and this is what you gave her! now that I've got your attention at last… here the big finish, and then you can go…." said meg
"Give me the gun, meg… give me the hurt and the pain and the gun, meg… give me the blame for not seeing the things that you've done, meg… give me the gun, meg…. give me the chance to see you clear at last…" said erik
"See me clear at last?" asked meg
"You feel ugly, you feel used, your feel broken, you feel bruised, ah, but me, I can see all the beauty underneath." said erik
"yes…" said meg
"you've been robbed of love and pride, been ignored and pushed aside… even so, I still know there is beauty underneath." said erik
"yes!" said meg
bloom can see that erik was using something that meg didn't even notice. She didn't know he was using reverse psychology on her. even though it seemed to be working. but she didn't know how much longer it was going to work. even though she was still wondering where szayel and kenpachi were. madam giry watched as her daughter was starting to waver from what was being said to her. erik using reverse phycology is a good idea. even though she was not sure if meg would figure it out.
"diamonds never sparkled bright if they aren't set just right… beauty sometimes goes unseen.. we all can't be like bloom…." said erik
"BLOOM! BLOOM! ALWAYS BLOOM!" screamed meg
meg points the gun at bloom and suddenly it goes off, with a shocking loud bang, everyone freezes, as bloom started cursing as she clutched her side from where she was shocked as she fell to her knees. This was not the first time she had been shot but shit it hurt like hell. Megs stand there in shock. while oritel and marion eyes was wider at what they were seeing. as erik was in shock at what had just happened. He didn't know what happened. while bloom wanted to punch meg for fucking shooting her. while madam giry was freaking out from what was going on. her daughter just shot someone. Oritel and marion snapped out of his shock and rushed to his mother. as erik kneels next to bloom who is cradled by her children.
"I didn't mean to!" cried meg
"GIRY! GO GET HELP! GO!" ordered erik
"Where papa szayel? He should be here! where is papa szayel!" cried oritel
"your father… your real father…" said bloom
Oritel and marion eyes went wide as they looked back from his mother and to erik. erik reached out to try and console them. he wanted to be the father that he could be. but he was not sure if the twins wanted to. they had a rough night first being kidnapped by meg and then seeing their mother shot. and now knowing that he is their father. so yeah, they would not accept him right away. bloom sighed and knew they was in shock and it's not because of his face no more. It was not the best of times that this should come out. but she didn't want them to go back with Raoul.
"Look with your heart, and not with your eyes, the heart understands. The heart never lies. believe what it feels, trust what it shows, look with your heart, the heart always knows, love not always beautiful, not from the start," said bloom
"so open your arms," said oritel and marion
"And close your eyes tight." said bloom
"look with your heart" said oritel and marion
"and when you find love…" said bloom
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" cried oritel and marion
The twins ran away from bloom as she tried to get up and go after him, but she only cursed her luck right now. Plus, she knew she was fading quickly. she hoped he would find szayel and brings him back. but erik took her back and making sure she stayed still. He understood that the cant accepts it right now. since everything that has happened tonight. but it still kinda hurt but he was not going to take it seriously. he sighed and hoped she was going to live. She must live. He knew szayel would be able to save her from the fate that was about to fall on her. even though meg was going to pay for this. first kidnapping his son and them killing his beloved bloom. but bloom passed out and wasn't waking up. but szayel came running back to help out only to say that they need to move to somewhere so he could work on her.
meanwhile a few hours later
szayel came out of erik master bedroom. He gave a thumbs up to show him that everything went well. She was only resting. Ortiel and marion and erik talked and got along rather well. they finally accepted him as their father. szayel took oritel and marion and took them to the bedrooms that was one of many rooms. as he laid them down to sleep. while erik went into the room to lay next to his bloom who was in one of his shirts. he sighed and fell asleep. and in hopes she would be awake in the morning.
meanwhile a few years later
phantasma is bigger than ever. bloom and erik was married two months after the gun shot. meg was sent to a state hospital. madam giry still stayed on not even wanting to leave. while bloom had four more children with erik. they were very happy, Raoul has come and seen them by they always turned him away. but they loved and lived, until they finally be able to rule in sparks when her parents passed down the kingdom to her.,
the end
