Prima Ballerina(#Wattys2015)

Goodbye and New Beginning

I slowly come into consciousness and remember why I am in a hospital bed. "Marie!" I say sitting up then immediately flopping back down with a cry of pain. "Don't move Penn. The bullet in your shoulder exploded upon impact" says Miss. Lara who was sitting next to Cameron on a couch by my bed. I groan before replying "Miss. Lara? What are yo doing here?" she laughs "Penn if you think I wont involve myself in the case of one of our dancers shooting another you are sadly mistaken. However I am only here to check up on you till you wake up. Goodbye Penn. Goodbye Cameron. You wont be seeing anymore of me my work here is done." she stands up preparing to leave "Why is this the last time I will see you?" I ask sitting up slowly.

"Pennyworth Compton, Cameron Johnson... you two were meant to be. Goodbye." then she disappears.

"I have no idea what that was about. But how are you?" says Cameron sitting on the edge of my bed. I give him a grim smile. "Tell me what happened?". "Marie shot you and as Miss. Lara said it exploded upon impact you passed out from blood loss but you were asleep the whole surgery its been two days since then." He says with a slight smile. I smile pull him into me and kiss him. "I expect that I need to build up some strength? We could always be creative?" I say pulling him into a kiss.

*Three Months Later*

"I love you my Prince" I say right before we go on for our bows, It was the final encore performance of Swan Lake and I was amazed at how far we had come. We had postponed the performance because of my injury. And the fact that my understudy was dead and had given me that injury. But I didn't like dwell on that. Miss. Lara hadn't been heard from since then and most of us assumed we would never see her again which was fine by me. "I love you Odette" says Cameron "I thought we agreed I was Odile?" I say before we run onstage.

The crowd was cheering my mother was cheering my dad had even showed up looking honestly proud of me. The director walks out and hands me a thing of flowers which was customary. What was not customary was him handing Cameron a microphone, Cameron gets down on one knee in front of me. "Pennyworth Compton I have loved you since before I knew you from the first moment I saw your face I knew I wanted to make you my wife someday, to wake up to your beautiful face every morning and to cherish you through everything. We have been through ups and downs already so I feel confident in asking you this. My Penn, My Odette, My Dark Odile, will you do me the honor of being my wife?"

"YES" I say tears streaming down my face.

And as I am kissing him I look into the audience to see a smiling Miss Lara.

*Another Year After That*

"I do"

"I do"

And they lived Happily Ever After...Ish.