Four-Part Harmony [Green, PG-13] My Bloody Valentine 3D
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Title: Four-Part Harmony
Authored by: vanillafluffy
Pairing/spoilers: For the end of My Bloody Valentine 3D
Rating/Work-safeness: Green, PG-13
Approximate word count: 500
Disclaimer: I *do* own a pick-axe, but I've never killed anyone with it. Honest.
Summary: After The Miner's rampage, what happened to the principle characters?
Four-Part Harmony
After the events of what the media dubbed "The Hanniger Mine Disaster", the town of Harmony closed its ranks on outsiders. Sheriff Axel Palmer didn't want the jackals of the press, as he called them, to keep coming back year after year, so the series of murders which had occured recently were labeled 'accidental', 'natural causes', and the ever-noncommital 'misadventure'. No one, not even those who had lost loved ones, argued with him; Jim Burke (Death due to heart attack) and Ben Foley (Death due to concussion) were the only ones who might have tried, but they were awaiting oak caskets and marble headstones. Axel was respected by the town, but every time he looked at his wife, an inner voice taunted him, "She settled."
Sarah Palmer felt like she was walking a tightrope after the Valentine killings. Her relationship with Axel was strained, and their son Noah had to be admitted to a pediatric psychiatric facility after his encounter with The Miner. She no longer felt safe in her own home; antidepressants didn't help. Damages caused by the rampage at the market were just within the amount of the insurance company's deductable. Reopening the store strained her parents' resounces to the utmost. Sarah consoled herself with the thought that with Tom Hanniger missing but not officially dead, the mine couldn't be sold, and Harmony would continue its precarious existance. Sometimes she wondered if it was all her fault, if she should have listened to Tom when he begged, "Trust me."
Forty-eight hours after the explosion, in Peru, Indiana, Tom Hanniger awoke to find himself sleeping in a car. His memories of the events in Harmony were jumbled---finding the cardboard hearts in the cabin in the woods, checking into the Thunderbird motel, Sarah panicking and wrecking his car, Harry Warden attacking him with Axel and Sarah doing nothing to help him---and his meds were gone. In the days that followed, he had recurring blackouts. Several times, in the following weeks, he found large sums of money in his pockets or in the car that he couldn't account for. On another occasion, he regained consciousness in bed with a dead woman beside him. Sometimes he had blood on his hands, or his clothing was stiff with it. Often, he prayed to a God he no longer believed in, "Save me."
For the first time in years, Harry Warden was free. There was no institutional confinement now, no shock treatment or neurochemicals to befuddle him. He often seized control, and took mean-spirited pleasure in tormenting the weakling he shared the body with. "Poor Tom" didn't like to commit robberies or kill people, two of the things Harry enjoyed best. If only the stupid boy would give in and go away, but time after time, Tom struggled back into consciousness. Harry was certain he'd break eventually; whenever he was in the backseat, as he thought of it, he kept whispering over and over to Tom, "Be mine."
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Title: Four-Part Harmony
Authored by: vanillafluffy
Pairing/spoilers: For the end of My Bloody Valentine 3D
Rating/Work-safeness: Green, PG-13
Approximate word count: 500
Disclaimer: I *do* own a pick-axe, but I've never killed anyone with it. Honest.
Summary: After The Miner's rampage, what happened to the principle characters?
Four-Part Harmony
After the events of what the media dubbed "The Hanniger Mine Disaster", the town of Harmony closed its ranks on outsiders. Sheriff Axel Palmer didn't want the jackals of the press, as he called them, to keep coming back year after year, so the series of murders which had occured recently were labeled 'accidental', 'natural causes', and the ever-noncommital 'misadventure'. No one, not even those who had lost loved ones, argued with him; Jim Burke (Death due to heart attack) and Ben Foley (Death due to concussion) were the only ones who might have tried, but they were awaiting oak caskets and marble headstones. Axel was respected by the town, but every time he looked at his wife, an inner voice taunted him, "She settled."
Sarah Palmer felt like she was walking a tightrope after the Valentine killings. Her relationship with Axel was strained, and their son Noah had to be admitted to a pediatric psychiatric facility after his encounter with The Miner. She no longer felt safe in her own home; antidepressants didn't help. Damages caused by the rampage at the market were just within the amount of the insurance company's deductable. Reopening the store strained her parents' resounces to the utmost. Sarah consoled herself with the thought that with Tom Hanniger missing but not officially dead, the mine couldn't be sold, and Harmony would continue its precarious existance. Sometimes she wondered if it was all her fault, if she should have listened to Tom when he begged, "Trust me."
Forty-eight hours after the explosion, in Peru, Indiana, Tom Hanniger awoke to find himself sleeping in a car. His memories of the events in Harmony were jumbled---finding the cardboard hearts in the cabin in the woods, checking into the Thunderbird motel, Sarah panicking and wrecking his car, Harry Warden attacking him with Axel and Sarah doing nothing to help him---and his meds were gone. In the days that followed, he had recurring blackouts. Several times, in the following weeks, he found large sums of money in his pockets or in the car that he couldn't account for. On another occasion, he regained consciousness in bed with a dead woman beside him. Sometimes he had blood on his hands, or his clothing was stiff with it. Often, he prayed to a God he no longer believed in, "Save me."
For the first time in years, Harry Warden was free. There was no institutional confinement now, no shock treatment or neurochemicals to befuddle him. He often seized control, and took mean-spirited pleasure in tormenting the weakling he shared the body with. "Poor Tom" didn't like to commit robberies or kill people, two of the things Harry enjoyed best. If only the stupid boy would give in and go away, but time after time, Tom struggled back into consciousness. Harry was certain he'd break eventually; whenever he was in the backseat, as he thought of it, he kept whispering over and over to Tom, "Be mine."
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