I woke up, feeling groggy. My chest hurt from the panic attack the other day. I sat up and saw Larten sitting on the bench, thinking about something. He looked over at me as I put my glasses on.
"How are you feeling?" he asks.
"I'm feeling better, a little scared but..... better." I say
"How exactly do you know this Dean character? You mentioned he assaulted you..... what did he do?"
I glance away, rubbing my arm. I didn't like talking about that night, hell I thought I had moved on from that.
"He choked me." I say "three times in the span of one night..... I almost passed out the last time he did"
"I am so sorry."
I shake my head, "that's been years ago...... I just never thought that it'd come back up."
I get out of the coffin. I stretch the stiffness from my body. Larten stands as well.
"What was that about a book series that Mr. Tiny was talking about?"
I stop, "oh.....um....that. You might want to sit down for this one."
I tell him all about the Cirque du freak series, everything that happened and such. I teared up a little when I started to talk about his death. I told him how it ended and why everyone was still alive.
"That is...... a lot to take in" he says.
"I bet, I'm sorry I didn't tell you about this earlier. I just thought it wasn't the best idea."
"I understand. " he says.
He walks over to me as I'm about to open the door and wraps his arms around me. I let my hand drop from the door.
"I give you my word, we will find your assulter then, I will kill him." His grip tightened slightly.
I touch his hands, "thank you Larten.((Art by personaparadox on Twitter))
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Cirque Du Amour
FanfictionThis is a self ship story of myself and Larten Crepsley. Spoilers ahead for the Cirque du Freak and Saga of Larten Crepsley. There's also a bunch of art I got commissioned. Info on the artists in story and in the comments.