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Post by Vianne Giry on Jun 27, 2007 0:15:38 GMT -5
*Vianne awoke slowly, and in great pain. Everything ached, her head and lip more sharply than anything else. A cool cloth gently dabbed at the drying blood on her chin and she strained to focus her vision.*
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Gerard
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well this sucks
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Post by Gerard on Jun 27, 2007 0:29:03 GMT -5
"Quite a day it's been for you, dear," *said Gerard in a pleasant tone, swiping the cloth across the wound he'd given her, smiling to see her flinch.* "And...I am happy to say...it's only going to get worse. Again, for you." *He picked up her limp hand and kissed it gallantly.* "Always for you. You've a debt to pay me..."
*He tied a strong cord about her wrists, binding them together.*
"Fifteen years...as a prisoner..."
*He wound the rope about the headboard, drawing her arms taut above her head.*
"Do you know..." *he continued in the casual, conversational tone.* "There were times I wondered if I was mad. And then you would come visit me...and I would recall all I owed you..."
*He took a switchblade from the bedside table and flicked it open. The blade had a slight curve and shone wickedly in the dim, dusty daylight filtering into the curtained room.*
"Now I know mathematics was never your strongest suit...but tell me...sixty minutes to an hour...twenty-four hours a day...seven days in a week...and fifty-two weeks in a year...for fifteen years...how great a debt of torture do you think you have incurred?"
*He smiled gently and stroked her cheek before he turned to binding one ankle to each bedpost.*
"But even I was allowed to sleep from time to time...it would be generous, would it not be--to allow you some...rest, now and again?"
*He leaned over his wife and drew the knife point across her skin, along her jaw, down her neck to the hollow of her throat and across the exposed swell of her breast above the collar of her dress.*
"But I cannot be held accountable for your nightmares...though I do hope to be an inspiration..."
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Post by Vianne Giry on Jun 27, 2007 0:29:50 GMT -5
"You want me to scream?" *she asked with withering contempt.* "I've changed, Gerard."
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Gerard
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well this sucks
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Post by Gerard on Jun 27, 2007 0:33:32 GMT -5
"Oh, I don't think you have...not really..." *he smiled.*
"And as much as I might enjoy your more...vocal expressions of...terror...I have a loftier goal in mind."
*As he began to cut away her dress with careful, almost mincing little strokes of his knife, he hummed snatches of old waltzing tunes.*
"...I will see you destroyed as you nearly destroyed me...trapped like some great dumb beast...where no one you know will ever think to look for you...where every passing day will cause you to inch closer to the madness you are accused of...and people have been asking after you--and you are my poor, ill wife...quite, quite mad...and I must tend to you...constantly...and you are not to be disturbed, nor your rants believed."
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Post by Vianne Giry on Jun 27, 2007 0:34:02 GMT -5
"You do not know my husband," *she growled, straining against her bonds.*
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Gerard
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well this sucks
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Post by Gerard on Jun 27, 2007 0:35:25 GMT -5
"Ma biche..." *he murmured almost tenderly as he stripped her down to her shift and stood to remove his waistcoat.* "I am right here."
***FADE OUT***
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Gerard
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well this sucks
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Post by Gerard on Jun 27, 2007 0:53:47 GMT -5
((Damn, Gerard is one sexy bitch. I don't even wanna fade in from that. That was just the awesomesauce on this creepycake. I don't even know what to compare it to. Mental self-gratification of some sort?))
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Post by Parisa on Jun 27, 2007 0:57:14 GMT -5
((SCARY SCARY! This makes me feel like one of the kids from Devereux is going to manage to escape somehow and come and get me. SCARY!))
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Gerard
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Post by Gerard on Jun 27, 2007 1:01:11 GMT -5
((Only if they owe their imprisonment to you. Gerard seems the type to just stand silently outside your window, just watching you until you look up and scream.))
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Post by Parisa on Jun 27, 2007 1:06:27 GMT -5
((AHHHH GOD now I keep flipping around to look every 3 seconds. And the alarm system on my house doesn't work. And the Devereux kids get out WAY too often for comfort. *yoga breathing*))
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Post by Vianne Giry on Jun 27, 2007 1:10:14 GMT -5
((Yeah, I totally just looked around, too.))
***FADE IN***
*It was several hours later before Vianne was left alone--the waning daylight beyond the curtains gave her the only hint of passing time.
Gerard's torture had been carefully done--worse than any of the blunt pain he'd inflicted upon her fifteen years earlier. He'd had time to wait, to plot what he would do to her. And he wasn't making the same mistakes he used to--no bruises, save the one on her face where he'd struck her, almost for nostalgia's sake. This time he used a knife, carefully drawing maximum pain and a minimum of blood from her flesh--he would leave no scars.
She shivered in the chilled and dingy room--left lying atop the filthy blanket rather than under it. As darkness fell and the foul closeness of the room crept nearer and nearer, pressing heavily upon her, she fell into a panicked state of near-delerium, her thoughts a jittery maelstrom.
Did she ever have a career at the Opera? Had she ever met a golden-haired stranger who offered her salvation and a love so sweet and strong it could conquer death? Had she ever been a mother to her three beautiful children? Painful doubt gripped her as she slipped into a terror and agony far deeper than she had ever known--even in Hell.*
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Gerard
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Post by Gerard on Jun 27, 2007 1:16:15 GMT -5
((*throws horns* BARBIE DOLLZ 4EVA! WHOOOOOO! *rocks out* GOD. THIS IS AWESOME.
...I should really just write a book or something if I get off on having this much control over plot.))
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Post by Parisa on Jun 27, 2007 1:17:20 GMT -5
((AHHH GOD! Why do people go for walks at 2 AM? It's ridiculous and it gives me a heart attack EVERY TIME. UGH!
Also: Vianne! *cries*))
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Post by Vianne Giry on Jun 27, 2007 1:22:04 GMT -5
((The things I do to get her husband to notice her...and poor thing, she's a pawn. A slave to my whims.))
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Post by Parisa on Jun 27, 2007 1:24:19 GMT -5
((Poor little Sues. They have angst heaped upon them because we get bored and it's fun. Where is Percy, anyway?))
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