Death's a Bitch REPLACEMENT

Chapter Eleven: Charles

a little thank you for a certain someone, thank you so much for everything you have done to help me and encourage me through this, you are honestly so amazing and its a privilege to call you my friend xxx

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~~ Ashton's Point Of View ~~

I stood at her door, and swiftly knocked.
What if I was recognized? What if he saw through our plan?

"Charles" the man in front of me said happily "Come in Anastasia will be with you in a moment"
It took me a moment to realize that I was Charles. I silently stepped in the house keeping my head down shyly.
"Come boy we have known each other for years why are you suddenly so shy?"
"Forgive me sir, it's not you who I am nervous towards, it is the night"
Did that sound old fashioned... I should have had a lesson on that rather than Charles habits.
He let out a deep chuckle, which was soon cut off by Death's appearance. She looked stunning, the blue dress hugged her and brought out her blue eyes, her blonde hair was flowing down her back elegantly. How did I not notice before that she was blonde? Did she dye her hair? I'm sure its black in present time.
Death presented herself to me and curtsied "Charles" she said
I bowed "Anna" I breathed out, the foreign name cutting my tongue as I spoke it.
A perfect smile emerged on her flawless face. I held out my arm to her and she took it gracefully pulling me towards the door before I had to speak another word to her father.


"Come on" she muttered under her breathe as she pulled me down the road
"Can't we just take the car?" I asked
"There were no cars back in these times dipshit, only horses and coaches but none of our families can afford that so we are walking" she snapped keeping her voice low
We carried on down the dry dirt road until we reached...
"A barn" I said disappointed
"Nightclubs weren't in these days either boy. Have you ever read a history book"
"There the books about plants right"
She gave me a disappointing look
"I'm kidding" I said reassuring her I actually wasn't an idiot.
"Shut up and act normal" she snapped

The night was pretty boring, not only was the music horrific I barely got to dance with Death, all these other boys asked her to dance before I could. Could they not see that I was her date? Plus I was really uncomfortable in this place, not the fact that it was a barn, or it's not my timeline, or I'm trying to be someone I know nothing about it's the fact that she's smiling and it actually looks like she's enjoying herself.

"Charlie" a female said beside me
"Ma'am" I quietly said unsure of who the hell she was
"Well..."
"Well what?" I replied
"Are you going to ask me to dance?" she almost looked offended
I stood there staring at her; I didn't want to dance with a stranger.
"Marilyn" Death's voice cut through the silence
"Anastasia" she spat back bitterly
"What are you doing over here with Charles?"
It was clear these two didn't like each other.
"Charlie was just asking me to dance, weren't you Charlie?"
"Um... no" I said bluntly
I saw a smile flicker over Death's face before quickly vanishing
"You heard what the fellow said dear, off you go" Death said with so much venom in her voice
The girl simply picked up her skirts in a huff and stormed off to find another unfortunate soul.
"Anastasia, Care for a dance?" I asked before someone could snatch her away
"My pleasure" she said with a curtsy as we walked to the centre of the barn; known as the dance floor.
We danced few a few dances until something caught my attention.
"I can feel him" I whispered into her ear
"I know so can I. We have to go somewhere alone, he won't have enough power to corrupt all these people in my memory"
"Do we go outside or something"
"Sounds like a plan, and there is a great excuse to escape outside in a moment just let the dance end" she whispered pulling me along as we danced.
Did I mention before I had no idea how to dance, she literally pulled me around and held her tongue as I stood on her toes
The dance ended and just as Death said the excuse came waltzing over.
"Anastasia" the familiar voice snapped
A few heads spun around to see the unfolding drama, and to be quite honest I was interested myself.
"How dare you spread Dishonest rumours about me" Marilyn snapped
"Dishonest?" Death said innocently "Whatever do you mean"
At this point the whole dance ad stopped and they were all listening in to this new reality TV show.
"You told all the boys you danced with that I had lost my virtue"
"Wait it isn't true?" she said in an over exaggerated shocked voice "Well how terrible of me to spread such horrible rumours"
well what a shit reality show this turned out to be
"At least I could lose mine in a few years when I'm happily married, no man would want to marry you, a woman who can't even stand up to her own father, pathetic"
I double took on the sentence almost sounding as if her father had taken over that girls conversation. I looked over to Death whose eyes were full of anger but she soon reverted to something else. Tears were now streaming down her face as she ran out of the barn people clearing the way as she went. I instinctively followed her outside to find her.

It took me a few moments but I eventually found her behind a haystack pretending to ball her eyes out, the moment she saw me she ran into my arms
"Oh Charles" she said crying against me
I closed my arms around her very confused
"He's near" she said lowly I nearly missed it.
I placed my hand under her chin and pulled her tear stained face to mine.
"My dear Anastasia" I said smoothly "You know those things are not true, you will live a long happy life with a man who deserves you"
a smile appeared on her flawless face.
"Charlie I... I do-"
"Shhhh" I cut her off my thumb trailing her soft lip.
She pulled in her lips just miller meters from mine, I could feel her hot breathe, her eyes started to close.

"Anastasia" a cold hard voice broke the moment, she pulled away instantly, her face going red against her pale skin.
"Fuck off creep" she spat
"Lovely to see you to daughter, we have unfinished business"
"What do you mean?"
"While you have been playing dress ups in your old memories I've been taking something really important from you, your soul"
"What do you want with it you asshole?"
"Let's just say there are a few people who will pay a lot to have this little thing of yours"
"Who" she snapped
"Now, now daughter, I can't tell."
"You are not getting my soul" she snapped pulling her weak body up into a fighting stance
"You think you can stop me?" he said with a laugh
"oh god" she said with a disgusted face "I have to be all cliché here"
"what?" he said confused
"I might not be able to stop you" she said "but he can"
she gestured her hand back towards me
"Charles?" he father cracked up laughing "you think he can sto-"
He didn't get to finish his sentence

I had him up against the wall of the barn, his throat crushing under my firm grip
"You're not Charles" he gasped out
"No I'm not"
Confusion crossed his face along with a shade of blue
"Ash" Death said "Don't kill him, he needs to be alive so we can get him out of here. I just need the scythe in his hand"
I simply yanked the scythe out of his hand and let him crumple to the ground in gasps.
"Honestly I was expecting some epic battle" I said walking to Death who was behind me
she walked up to her father and spat at him, "I will find you asshole and I will fucking end you the right way this time"

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Sorry guys no epic battle this time. I'm saving the epicness for later :)

anyways my reaper readers how is it going? enjoying yourselves?

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