They Have Always Lived In The Castle

Chapter Ten

"Merricat?" a faint whisper comes from Constance as she looks at the body on the floor. 

"Constance..." You look down, Charles standing up himself slowly also looking a the blood around the girls head. 

"Merricat!" Constance begins to sob incoherently as she holds her sister, the blood all over her in seconds. 

Charles holds you close to his side, kissing the top of your head as you both stand and watch. Soon the crying stops, Connie looks at you then lays her sister back onto the floor. "Charles darling, this is the code to the safe, take it all." you hand him a slip of paper and nod for him to go although he looks unsure "I'll be fine" you kiss his check before sending him on his way. 

"Why?" Constance looks at you. 

"She was going to kill Charles" you say deadpan as Constance stands slowly, meeting your eyes directly. 

"But she saved you."

"No, she didn't, she got the idea from me, I knew to stay away." You say matter of fact. Mary Kathrine would kill anyone given the chance, you knew that but Connie seemed to not quite grasp that despite what she knew. 

"You killed her..." 

"I didn't have a choice Constance...." Something snapped then, as you hopped it would, the mix of medication and sedation you'd been putting in her tea seemed to finally take its toll, the trauma her last straw. Launching for you with such passion, Connie didn't have time to see the letter opener you'd picked off the floor, or how quickly you swapped it across her neck. It was a blur, so fast the blood didn't even begin to trickle down her throat until you both landed on the floor. The thud of your bodies causing Charles to take what he had and come running to you in the kitchen. 

"Shit! Y/N!" he cries as he slides down onto the floor moving Constance off you... helping you off the floor he checks you over. "Are you ok what the fuck happened?" 

"She, she came at me..." you stutter "I was going to make her think it was her fault get her sent away but she flung herself at me... I... there was nothing else I could do I ..." you drop the letter opener in your hand and put a hand to your mouth... they both weren't mean to be dead. 

Just then the sound of cars pull up on the driveway. Charles holds you, pulling your face to look at him. 

"Hey, hey its ok, look at me" you shake looking at the bodies "look at me" he pleads and you do. 

"The plan stays the same, we just change it to what happened, you were attacked." He explains and nods "yeah?" 

"Ok..." you nod back slowly "ok" you breathe out shakily as Charles kisses to the top of your head. 

"Now come on, let's stumble out of here, I'll chuck the bag out this window, we can come get it when we get the car." He says launching the bag out the window before you walk to the front door, just before you open it, you both nod to each other as you lean on him, pretending to limp. On opening the door you're surrounded by the locals, slowly getting out the car. 

"Y/N!?" Ned the old man shouts, Jim and Stella also running to your side. 

"She killed her sister and then tried to kill her..." Charles pants as you both collapse onto the floor outside.

"Where is she now?" Jim looks thought the door. 

"Dead..." You sob "it was self defence... if Charles hadn't of come I would be dead" you rush the sentence out before sobbing into to Charles chest again as you sit on the floor, everyone around you just staring into the house. Silence filled the air, only being broken by the heavily breathing between your soft sobs.