Charles Blackwood x Reader
This is a 'We Have Always Lived In The Castle' - Charles Blackwood Fan-fiction based on the movie adaptation and Sebastian Stan's portrayal of Charles. (AU)
What happens when the death of almost an entire family leaves tw...
"What took you so long?" Charles gets no response as Merricat sits down, you knew exactly what she'd done, it was in the book. Charles chuckles to himself. "Forget it. Don't even say a word. I just want to enjoy this meal in peace." He chuckles again.
"Amanita phalloides contains three poisons."
"Don't."
"Mushroom Ammunition, which is slow but potent." she continues ignoring her cousin.
"Merricat..." you warn but she continues...
"Phalloidin, which attacks the liver and kidneys, and Phallin, which dissolves red corpuscles."
"I mean it....I won't stand for it." Charles cuts his food angrily.
"The first symptoms do not appear until seven to 12 hours..."
"Not another word Merricat, you're upsetting your sister..." you say sternly as you look at Constance, her eyes blurred in confusion.
"Constance?" Panicked at your words, she looks up at her sister but that was the last straw, Charles bursts out of his seat, grabbing hold of Mary and dragging her ups the stairs, flashbacks of her Father angrily dragging her about to punish her come flooding back and she screams.
"John..." Julian tries to stand, almost seeing the flashbacks happen.
"Get out, goddamn it!" Charles shouts continuing.
"No. No." Mary screams as she's dragged upstairs.
"No. No. No." Constance whispers as she follows watching on.... tears in her eyes as follows but doesn't do anything.
"Father, stop!" Merricat screams, you sit Julian back down before going towards the stairs, everyone feeling like they're watching history repeat itself.
"Be quiet! Shut up!" Charles covers the manic girls mouth with his large hand and she kicks and screams.
"What are you doing?"
"Be quiet."
"Father, stop!"
"Shut up!" The drama continues until Charles has Mary pinned down, hand over her mouth as she sobs more quietly. You run up the stairs as if to pull Charles away, but you stop.
"What is that?" You sniff the air, quietly listening out.
"Merricat! What is that?" You look at her, her eyes grow wild again as she sobs into Charles's hand mumbling something incoherent.
"Fire!" Charles yells as he sniffs the air, "Fire! Constance Grab a bag. Constance, quick." He looks at her as she stands stunned moving towards her sister.
"Hey, hey, hey. Grab the money out of the safe. Okay? Do you hear me?" He yells as he dashes outside towards the car.
"I'm gonna get help." He looks at you holding your hand "be safe..." he whispers, you nod and he leaves dashing for his car. You hear the sound of Julian's wheelchair.
"Constance, you need to get out of here... I'll rescue your uncle..." but she's staring at the room, her fathers room, the room Charles has been staying in.
"We just cleaned it." She sobs "It has no right to burn."
"Take her..." You motion to Merricat as you run towards Julian's room.
[fire engines approaching]
"Julian." You yell between coughing as the smoke encircles you, you bang on the door again "Julian! Open the door." The sound of fire engines almost drowning you out. As you thought, the sound of the locals turning up and looking at the manor burn was starting to get louder as Jim and the other firemen stormed into the house, trying to clear it out, and put out the fire. The sound of them storming the house makes you bang on the door louder as a stone breaks one of the windows.
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The sound of their hate is another kind of fire moving through the bones of their house. I know now that Mary Kathrine will feel all of her spells are broken. What was buried here in this village, their want for their ruin, has come to the surface at last, they've come to destroy the castle.
When you finally kick the door in to Julian's room, you're joined by Helen and Mr Clarke, you all look at Julian, dead, a picture of his dead wife in his hands.
"It was her, again." You say quietly, but not so quietly they can't hear you over the noise of everyone smashing up the place. You grab the fireproof box from Julian's desk "I need to find them..." You say as you run off, but you run to the office instead finding Charles struggling to open the safe.
"Leave it Charles!!" You shout above the noise "please leave it we have to go!!"
"Y/N!!" he stops and comes to you, scanning over your smoke covered body, cuts on your arm from where the window shattered onto you before you managed to kick the door down. "I told you to stay safe why are you still here are you ok?" But before you could answer you both take a sharp breath as you hear the sound of a gun go off.... you look at each other before dashing to the window. You see Helen and Mr Clarke outside, Connie and her sister surrounded.
"Julian Blackwood is dead! There's been a death in this house. You get out of here! Go on now! Get out of here!" Mr Clarke shouts as he sends away the mob, the all hurriedly leave.
"We have to get out of here Charles, right now." You say to him a little panicked for the first time since the whole thing began. As you both stumble outside, covered in ash, clothes a mess, you walk quickly towards the Charles's car. Getting in as you watch everyone disperse, you catch the look of Jim and the other firemen... "it was her again" you say quietly before Charles hit the accelerator and you speed off towards your little abode in town.
. . .
"Shit..." Charles flumps down onto the sofa, you join him, handing him a strong drink. "Thanks"
"The safe will still be there tomorrow... although this didn't go to plan... I think it's best." You say earning a confused look. "We need to put the nail in the coffin tomorrow, and we need to make sure no one is suspicious of us..." you say calmly "tomorrow we take it..." you place the box of Julian's papers on the table.
"You took his papers?" Charles opens his arms for your to curl into, holding you too him as you cuddle.
"Its got his book in... I want to finish it... and..." you smile triumphantly "Julian re-wrote his brothers will for me, his hand writing exactly the same as his brothers... it shows I had nothing to gain from the Blackwoods and that Connie had all to gain from the death of her entire family."
"So we won't get the money?" Charles looks down at you confused.
"We'll still take it, but we can pin that on one of the looters... a particular name comes to mind." You say, this earning you a kiss on the forehead.
"I didn't think I'd ever meet someone I'd fall so deep for so fast, but here you are" Charles says almost astonished at his own admission.
"I think we make quite the pair" you beam, this is what love was supposed to feel like.
