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In the ruins of her wedding night, Elizabeth offers the Creature one final act of tenderness and teaches him what it means to be wanted.
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Bookmark Notes:
Gorgeous and melancholic. Reads like what should have happened in the movie
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When she’s ready, she reaches between them, wrapping her hand gently around him.
“Slowly,” she murmurs. “You won’t hurt me if you go slow.”
She helps him find the right angle, her free hand steadying his hip. He enters her with painstaking care, inch by inch. His eyes never leave hers. She arches slightly, jaw slack with a soft cry, which startles him slightly.
“You’re all right,” she reassures him.
He moves like she shows him. Gently at first, then deeper, learning the rhythm of her breath and the way her fingers tighten when she wants more.
When he pulls back too far, she whimpers and guides him forward again, whispering: “Don’t stop.”
He listens. He watches. He feels everything from her soft tremors to the way her body opens for him and holds him like he belongs. [....]
“You feel like life,” she whispers. He kisses her shoulder, her mouth, her closed eyelids. He keeps moving with her, even as her hands begin to slip. Even as her body goes still.
Her last breath is against his cheek, but he doesn’t stop. He stays buried in her, motion slowing to a tremble, his forehead pressed to hers. When the silence around them settles fully, his body follows—a shudder, a soundless cry—as he spills into the cold cradle of her body.
He stays there, holding her wound with one hand and her face with the other, whispering her name until the sun rises. And when he lets her go, he does so gently.