Godchild; Mortician's Daughter Arc- "Die to Live"
Title: Die To Live
Fandom: Godchild
Pairing/Characters: Implied Coffin Maker (Grifford)/Marjorie
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Word Count: 343
Summary: He would die to let her live.
Die To Live
She was all brightness and joy, a candle lit in the dark room of his life. Her smile was so sweet, even more so when it was real, and he felt utterly and irrevocably drawn to her.
“I’m just a mortician’s daughter,” she’d say, smile empty and fragile, “there’s nothing special about me.”
He wanted to tell her she was wrong, wanted to tell her she was beautiful and perfect and everything so wonderful that it almost hurt to look at her glory. But he kept silent, for he knew a monster like him could never make her happy; he was evil and bad and every nasty thing the world called him, a devil doomed to fall.
But, sometimes, sometimes, he’d close his eyes and imagine a world where he wasn’t a hideous criminal and she wasn’t lonely and half-deranged. Imagined a world where she was his loving bride, an angel in white lace and he was her saving grace, her knight on a white horse, where he brought her flowers instead of bodies.
Then the smell of formaldehyde would bring him back to reality and he’d go kill for her again, go curse himself for her again.
“I hope to never be reborn into this horrible world again,” she’d whisper, “I just want to leave this awful place.”
‘Me too,’ he wanted to agree. ‘Take me with you,’ he wanted to beg. ‘We’ll leave this nightmare together.’
This place was their coffin, but he’d die before he’d let her wallow in it. He’d rip out the nails she’d hammer into her own lid, make her get up and live, because she didn’t deserve this hell, she didn’t deserve to be damned his way. He’d drag this place of loneliness and despair with him into the pits, he’d save her soul for the cost of his own. He’d let her live so she could cry and laugh and smile for real because that’s all he wanted, that was all he could dream of.
He’d die to give life back to the mortician’s daughter.
Fandom: Godchild
Pairing/Characters: Implied Coffin Maker (Grifford)/Marjorie
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Word Count: 343
Summary: He would die to let her live.
Die To Live
She was all brightness and joy, a candle lit in the dark room of his life. Her smile was so sweet, even more so when it was real, and he felt utterly and irrevocably drawn to her.
“I’m just a mortician’s daughter,” she’d say, smile empty and fragile, “there’s nothing special about me.”
He wanted to tell her she was wrong, wanted to tell her she was beautiful and perfect and everything so wonderful that it almost hurt to look at her glory. But he kept silent, for he knew a monster like him could never make her happy; he was evil and bad and every nasty thing the world called him, a devil doomed to fall.
But, sometimes, sometimes, he’d close his eyes and imagine a world where he wasn’t a hideous criminal and she wasn’t lonely and half-deranged. Imagined a world where she was his loving bride, an angel in white lace and he was her saving grace, her knight on a white horse, where he brought her flowers instead of bodies.
Then the smell of formaldehyde would bring him back to reality and he’d go kill for her again, go curse himself for her again.
“I hope to never be reborn into this horrible world again,” she’d whisper, “I just want to leave this awful place.”
‘Me too,’ he wanted to agree. ‘Take me with you,’ he wanted to beg. ‘We’ll leave this nightmare together.’
This place was their coffin, but he’d die before he’d let her wallow in it. He’d rip out the nails she’d hammer into her own lid, make her get up and live, because she didn’t deserve this hell, she didn’t deserve to be damned his way. He’d drag this place of loneliness and despair with him into the pits, he’d save her soul for the cost of his own. He’d let her live so she could cry and laugh and smile for real because that’s all he wanted, that was all he could dream of.
He’d die to give life back to the mortician’s daughter.