GOTHAM FANFICTION. 'Queen of hearts'

Prologue

-((TRIGGERWARNING-Sexual assault, Alcohol, death, lost.))
It was the summer of 1965 and the pretty Elizabeth Hart was preparing herself for the night ahead.

The young woman sat at her makeup desk, curling her silky black hair into a neat style. She stood up and brushed her black pinafore down.

The blued eyed girl decided she was going to surprise her lover Elijah Van Dahl. She stared at herself one last time in the mirror and took a deep breath, she always got butterflies before she met him. He was EVERYTHING to her, her universe, her light.

Elijah made Elizabeth feel sane, something she rarely felt. Elizabeth had always been told by her parents she had devilish thoughts and that if she doesn't contain them she shall be sent away.

Elizabeth had always been a very creative girl, her drawings and writings showed that. She would document how she would like to kill someone and she would draw exactly how it would happen, and what it would look like.

Her parents forced religion down her throat hoping it would change her awful thoughts. But to prevent being taken away, Elizabeth kept her feelings and thoughts to herself from then on.

Surprisingly; since meeting Elijah all her devious desires, had almost nearly disappeared, all she cared about was him. She would have the occasional thought like, "i wonder what his flesh would taste like, probably milk and honey." Or, "If i was to take a limb, it was be his arm, then i could always hold his hand." Ovbiously these thoughts were never spoken aloud.

Elijah and Elizabeth often exchanged in sexual acts, Elizabeth didnt mind, she assumed it showed how much love he had for her, it also made her feel rebellious, her family believed in no sex before marriage, so going being their back in this certain way made her smile.

Elizabeth grabbed her purse and walked out the door, it was 6pm she would have to be home by 8. She opened her car door and sat down, fixing her hair yet again in the mirror.

She drove for around 10 minues to Elijah's house. There was another car parked out front. 'How peculiar?' Elizabeth thought to herself. Elizabeth made her way to the side door of the house and used the key under the mat, to unlock it.

She slowly crept in as to not make much noise, she shut the door behind her and walked towards the stairs. Suddenly she heard a groan like noise coming from upstairs, her heart nearly stopped.
Elizabeth crept closer and closer to the bedroom door and pecked through the tiny crack left open. What she seen, made something snap in her brain. Something that had been hidden away for a long long time.

Elizabeth swung the door open as tears rolled down her face, "Elijah!" She cried out, he quickly turned and the pair covered themselves quickly.

"E-Elizabeth m-my love! It's not what it looks like!!" He lied.

Elizabeth shook her head and barely even caught a glimpse of the woman, Elijah was loving.

Elizabeth turned around and stormed out.
Before she could even reaslise where she was going, Elizabeth had drove herself to a bar. She stormed in and began to drink one shot after another.

The hours droned on, and Elizabeth's parents started worrying, but little lizzy sat talking, crying and dancing with the drunks in a bar.

Drunken Lizzy looked at the clock on the wall and it read 12:45. She sat up in a hurry.
"Oh goodness! I'm so sorry. I have to go." She said to the people at her table.

One man stood up and offered Elizabeth a lift, "Would you like a lift, Love~." He cooed. She had been speaking to him most of the night and nodded yes.

He stood up and linked arms with her, "b-but use my car!." Elizabeth asked, he nodded, they left the building and headed towards the car, Elizabeth could hardly stand at this point and sloppily handed the keys over to the man and slipped into the side seat.

They drove for awhile and it was dark, Elizabeth's eyes began to slowly flutter shut until a hand on her thigh awoke her. She looked down to see the 'kind' man's hand slowly slipping her her dress.

She tried to push his hand but she was far to drunk but his grip was too strong, "S-stop." She called out, but he didnt stop. The car had seemed to stop and they were parked in a discreet area.

In Elizabeth's mind she knew what was going happen and she had to act Quickly.
She attached her hand to his and slowly and tried to move it closer up her thigh, leading him on.

As she did this she carefully used her other hand to open the car door. Suddenly, the car door sprung open with a click, the man tried to slam it shut again but as he moved forward, Elizabeth elbowed him in the nose and groggily got out of the car.

Her first instinct was to RUN. She ran through the field, leaving the car and the man behind. She could hear the engine began to start up so she tried to run faster, resulting in her falling forward, pushing herself back up, Elizabeth began to run once more, forcing herself forward for around 10 minutes until she was completely hidden in a bunch of trees. She slipped down the tree and took a deep breath, her vision was blurry and she felt sick.

Taking a deep breath, she stood up again and turned around.
Elizabeth suddenly realised, she was completely lost. She shivered and began to cry, she sobbed and sobbed into her hands, she shook and shook with fear and terror,

She screamed out, "HELP." She was petrified of being alone. She was beginning to think maybe staying in the car would have been better.

Elizabeth began to feel her heart pulse strangely, and she grew more and more scared, soon she felt as though terror had washed all over her.

She collapsed on the ground, and felt her heart pound against her chest, she looked down at her dress and she could see her heart pumping in and out.  She screamed out in pain "AHhhh." She groaned. The pain was imense and too much for her to take. "Ughh AHHHH." She screamed once more.

She felt her brain was collapsing and her whole body was drenched in pain. She couldn't describe it but all she could feel was  fear.

Elizabeth began to go dizzy and her heart began to slowly stop its rapid pulse, for just a moment her heart seemed to beat a normal beat, but suddenly it started to drop and drop and drop. Until it wasn't beating anymore, Elizabeth was confused and she felt her pulse, there wasn't even a beat.

She sat up right and felt her other pulses and veins, yet no beat at all. Her fear washed away and she stared blankly at the tree infront of her.

Elizabeth felt empty. Thats all she could describe it as. She rubbed her eyes, and lay back down in the dirt. Something wasn't right, she wasn't cold, nor warm and she just felt as though she was dead.

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Elizabeth lay in that exact spot for 3 whole days until eventually the gcpd found her.

When they found her, they thought she was dead just by looking at her. Her skin was as pale as snow, her eyes a dull, pale colour. And body was like ice, but as soon as she noticed the gcpd. She sat up and gave them a smile.

The gcpd said the smile she gave them was haunting. She looked dead.

She told the gcpd she had got lost and been unconscious for 2 days and they insisted she went to hospital, but she refused. All she wanted was to go home to bed. The GCPD unable to force her to hospital as she seemed fine, took her home.

She waved goodbye to the police and walked inside, avoiding her parents hug she walked upstairs and got into bed.

The truth was
Not only was Elizabeth physically dead she was  broken-hearted. Literally.

((Rape or sexual assault!! Is not okay in anyway. If you have experienced this, just know I love you and i am here for you if you need to talk. Stay strong, speak up and be a voice for others and don't give up.))
Sorry this is kinda rushed and shit i wannah gt to the story
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