Author's note : Antoinette "Bertha" Mason is a character coming from the novel Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë. She is Edward Rochester's first wife, the one who becomes crazy and is locked up in the castle, for those who don't remember who she is.
A french author named SerdaiglePower wrote a OS about her (on fanfiction.net), Edward et Mary, talking about Antoinette's arrival in the asylum directed by Hyde, as well as their short love story. A tragic and painful story, since they mistake the other one for the one they loved and lost (Antoinette thinks Hyde is Rochester, and Hyde thinks she is Mary.)
This is a long OS, but if you can read french, you really should read this one, if Mr Hyde's character interests you, and if you also think that he didn't stay enough time in Once Upon A Time.
1. Angst :
She is not Mary.
He wished he could succeed enough to lie to himself in order to believe she is, he wished he was as mad as Antoinette is, and that he was able to believe that she is the one he had lost.
Except that he can't.
And if he ever succeeds, it never lasts for a long time.
2. AU [Role reversal. Modern era] :
Antoinette looked with sadness at the man in front of her, locked up into his straitjacket, trying desperately to get out of it, and who was looking at her with his eyes blood as red, full of madness and rage.
And yet, strangely, she was not afraid.
"Mr Hyde, she said with a voice as soft as possible, you have to stay still, or then, we will have to be forced to isolate you."
The madman looked at her in a haggard and empty way, and then, when he saw her, his look finally had a little and weak flame of life in it.
- Mary ? He croaked in a weak and rough voice, and which became this way after he had screamed for hours.
She sent him a sad smile, and she nodded her head, desperate, for herself and for him.
"No, Edward, she said with a certain tenderness despite it. I am not Mary.
- Of course you are, he insisted, with an obstinacy which could have been touching, if it hadn't been so desperate."
She tried with all her forces not to cry.
Antoinette also had her own demons : her husband, Edward Rochester, that she madly loved, had left her some months ago for their governess, and the pain of this break-up was still painful.
She understood his pain, a little.
In an access of rage and madness, he had killed some months ago the one he loved, Mary, and seemed from this moment think that Antoinette was the one he had killed.
The young psychiatrist came closer to him, as he was moving more and more, understanding that there was just one thing she could do.
It was bad and cowardly to use this way his confusion, but it was the only thing she could do, if she wanted him to get better one day.
How, she wanted so much the things to be much more easier, she wanted to really to be Mary, and she really wanted him to be her Edward !
She took his face in her hands, and this time, she kissed him, as she always did during his crisis, and he instantly calmed himself.
Antoinette, letting her tears roll, then took a syringe from her pocket, that she put into Hyde's arm, who then completely stopped from moving.
She detached herself from him, and wiped her tears.
"I am sorry Edward, she then said, not knowing anymore to which one she was talking to."
The truth is that, she sometimes made the confusion.
And it hurt even more at each time she did so.
3. Crack!Fic :
"So, Antoinette is trying to permanently eat flies...
Shouldn't she be already dead from suffocation ?
I mean, this is not a really sane habit."
4. Crossover [Jane Eyre (inevitable)] :
She had come after Antoinette's funeral, to Hyde's own surprise.
She had seemed to him as being ordinary, banal, but she had in her look this flame which used to be present in Mary's eyes.
And in Antoinette's eyes, too, before.
She had come to see him, and he hadn't known what to say.
"I offer you my condolences, Jane Eyre had told him, and if Hyde hadn't been able to control himself, he could have told her that it changed absolutely nothing."
As she was leaving, he couldn't help telling himself that Edward Rochester was really lucky to have her.
5. First Time :
Edward was here, she told herself as Hyde was appearing at her look for the first time.
He was here, and he had come back to search her.
She knew he would never give her up.
6. Fluff :
Since her arrival at the asylum, since she had found back Edward, Antoinette was not making anymore nightmares full of burning houses, where her dear husband was looking at her with anger and sadness, she didn't see the governess anymore.
All she was seeing was Edward.
She was really happy.
7. Humor :
"You think you're crazy ?
Try to live with another personality that you hate, you will see if it's easy to live every day !"
8. Hurt/Comfort :
When you saw them like that, from a far place, you could have thought they were a true married couple.
It was too bad they weren't.
9. Smut :
If she still had her senses, she would have been maybe conscious that it's bad to use his weakness, bad to come close to him as he is under the influence of alcohol and despair, but her spirit blurred by madness can't anymore do the difference between good and evil, and by the way it doesn't matter.
Edward is here, in front of her, and she loves him, so yes, she wants him, and she has no shame.
She loves him, that's it.
And as he plunges in her, she tells herself that it should be enough.
(If she was still herself, she would know this is not the case.)
10. UST :
He should be ashamed and hate himself for daring to desire Antoinette, to dare to forget Mary, and this is just by destroying himself with alcohol to succeed to get better (or rather even worst) and to get away from himself all his forbidden desire.
Next chapter : An immortal boy and another one from which he took literally the heart...
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