The Chosen - Shipping Oneshots

Beauty and the Cannibal - Angst/Fluff - Rulius

Word Count: 598

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Triggers/Warnings:

Cannibalism, romance, small amounts of gore in the beginning. Not really much, and this oneshot isn't that graphic, either. So you don't really need to worry.

CAST:

Rowan Grey Duvall belongs to AbYsSaL_InZaNiTy
Julius Summers belongs to GeminixEvil

> > > Beauty and the Cannibal < < <

The rain poured down outside, filling the streets with puddles of water. It had happened again. Rowan was so desperately trying to stop his habit. But it seemed nearly impossible. Lightning lit up the sky outside, lighting up the dark room for just a second, revealing his feautures. Rowan's hands were covered in blood, there was blood around his mouth and on his black sweater.

On the floor in front of Rowan, lay the mangled corpse of a girl around age nineteen. The long, sharp, bloody scissors dropped out of his hand at realization of what he just did again. The metal scissors hit the floor, a dull, clattering sound echoing around the abandoned room.

Silence.

Rowan liked silence. But sometimes he hated it as well. Sometimes he wanted someone to hug and rant about all of life's problems to. Behind him, the door to a bedroom opened, and the light from the room spilled into the dark room, eating away at the darkness in its path.

"Rowan? What are you doing up?" The voice asked, then his eyes landed on the corpse and Rowan. "Rowan, baby..."

Of course, there was Julius. He was the one who comforted Rowan when he needed it, held him in his arms when he was down. Julius was his angel.

The pair had gotten off to a bad start when they first met. When Rowan confessed about his cannibalism habit to Julius, he freaked out, calling Rowan multiple different names. One stuck out from the rest, though.

Freak.

Rowan hated that name. When killing his victims, they would cry and scream many different names at him, but they never fazed him. It was only when Julius, his love, called him a freak, and Rowan grew to hate the name freak.

Though not all story books remain on the 'rising action' part of the plot. They eventually reach the climax, and then the plot winds down into the 'falling action' part. It just takes time.

Julius and Rowan were like Beauty and the Beast. Julius, was the beauty, and Rowan was the Beast. Just like in the book, Julius ended up falling for Rowan, and they started to date. Julius tried to help and nuture Rowan. He also tried to help Rowan out of being a cannibal.

It had been working for around a month. The two believed it actually was helping. Then came tonight. Rowan had snapped, going and killing the poor girl in front of him, showing no mercy.

Julius walked over to Rowan, standing in his gray pajamas. He kneeled next to Rowan and engulfed him into a tight hug.

Julius was the thing that helped him calm down. He was the one that helped Rowan remain happy. Without him, he would probably be on a murdering rampage right now with the police hot on his tail. Julius was his light in the dark, a small spark of love that egnited the tiny seed in his heart, making it grow and blossom into a beautiful flower.

Maybe it wouldn't be today that Rowan solved his cannibalism problem, and probably wouldn't be tomorrow or the day after. But Rowan knew that as long as Julius was with him, he would continue to make progress that slowly led him to a perfect, non-cannibalisic life.