Something Special

Chapter 10

When Alastor showed Charlie the forged but very convincing marriage certificate that Angel had written up, she still had doubts. But it wasn't really the document that had her thinking this way. It was her feelings, one hand everything Alastor said about their marriage and children felt wrong but everything else he described before those events felt right. It really was so strange.

"So are you convinced?" Alastor asked her after she had looked over the document countless times.

"I'm convinced that at some point in my life I must have lost my mind." She said.

"What do you mean?"

"How could I have possibly married you? God I had to have been drunk or high or something!"

"Now I think that's going a little too far."

"Oh no? Just look at you! Look at his hovel!"

"Hey pretty snotty words coming from someone who doesn't have any place better to live in!"

"Well I'm sure I could find a better place to live in! A damn pig farm would be a better home than this! And a damn pig would be a better husband than you!"

Alastor was getting really sick of this. She may have lost her memory but she still thought he was lower than dirt and he wasn't going to put up with it a moment longer.

"You know you really should drop the whole high and mighty act because you aren't exactly everyone's first choice either!"

"What is that supposed to mean? What? You're saying that you're the only man who would ever have me?"

"Actually I am. Oh yes you did have one other fine prospect interested in you at first. But once he got sick of that haughty attitude of yours, he dumped you!"

"I don't believe that!"

"You can believe what you'd like but it's the truth! So you can leave me if you'd like, try your luck with another man or a pig, but if you're still going to act like this then good luck! Because no man or beast in his right mind would ever put up with you! You're pushy and mean and ungrateful and ill-tempered! But worst of all, you don't ever think about anyone but your self! You don't think about other people or they're feelings! You just hurt anyboy without any remorse! Including me!"

"Well if I'm so horrible then why did you marry me?"

"I probably shouldn't have! I probably shouldn't have had anything to do with you! I probably should have just left you there at that looney bin! You certainly didn't do anything to give me reason to take you back! All I ever did was love you! I loved you so much! You were the only woman I ever loved! And I all I ever wanted was for us to someday have a happy life together! But you just treated me like I was trash! How can you do that someone you once loved?!" He was almost on the verge of tears. This was no act, these were real emotions of pain that had come from the day she broke his heart worse than anyone else in his life. Including Mimzy. "It's one thing if you don't love me anymore and don't want to be with me, I can live with that! But to act like you never loved me at all...I never thought that you of all people could be so cruel!"

Charlie wanted to slap him. She wanted to scream at him. Insult him. Do anything to let him know that his words had no effect on her. But she couldn't, she couldn't do anything except stand there and become very quiet. Alastor waited patiently for a reaction but none came. So he just decided to grab his car keys and leave for what he said was a meeting at the bowling alley. He had already put the kids to bed so they wouldn't give her any trouble til tomorrow morning. In truth, Charlie was actually relieved that he was gone and that the children sleeping now, because they wouldn't be able to see her cry.