Love Conquers All | GREAT EXPECTATIONS fanfiction

LOVE CONQUERS ALL

FANFICTION BY: ASAD ALI

        Pip looked on. His son,James,eight years of age and his daughter,Victoria,five, were running around the grass carelessly. The backyard was relatively large with tall trees enclosing the estate and flowers colored the plain.

        "This is the perfect dream come true," Pip said with his arm around Estella. They were sitting in the back porch's swing with Estella comfortably tucked under his arm. Pip in his black overcoat and dress shoes but this time he wore no hat and Estella in a blue, frilly dress and a golden necklace in the shape of a heart, rest neatly on her chest. They both looked like the perfect couple- and they are,actually. Nine years of a happy marriage and not a day goes by that they love eachother less.

        "And what is this perfect dream of yours my dear Pip?" Estella's voice screamed with amusement and curiosity and she raised her head to look at him, eyes gazing with pure, endless affection. Pip tore his eyes away from their children and returned Estella's love.

        "To be a man of great expectations," he then emphasized, "A gentleman. To own an elegant estate, two extraordinary children and the most ravishing, perfect bride." Estella chuckled warmly causing Pip's smile to widen, "What is it that amuses you?"

        "The latter," she said,"You always speaak as if you've only ever loved me." These sort of conversations tend to be tricky and manipulative, Pip thought and he surely knows that it crossed Estella's mind in that moment but it was not the case with them because true love hold no secrets.

        "I do," Pip replied without hesitation,"You are the one woman that I have ever loved. My heart belongs to you and no one else," he bent in to kiss her lightly on the lips,"There is no other person that I would rather spend my life with. You are the last dream of my soul,Estella and my life would be a sad one without you,James and Victoria."

        "I love you,Pip and I will never stop loving you,"  and she kissed him this time- longer and ever so passionately,"Not today," she whispered between breaths, "Not tomorrow. Not even after I have passed from this life."

        After a short moment, Pip and Estella were interrupted by the light touch of a hand, "James,Victoria," his voice shaking with surprise and Estella laughing, clearly embarrassed since this act has never transpired in front of the kids, "What do you have here?"

        "This one is different from the rest,father," James gave his father a...leaf? Pip didn't need to examine it because he realized what it was.

        "A four-leaf clover," he smiled at his son, "You know this means good luck," and he ruffled James' brown, feathery hair.

        "You got a butterfly, Victoria," Estella noticed the butterfly was actually resting on her palm and her daughter nodded.

        "It's blue and green, mother!" her voice was filled with excitement, "I've never seen any like this before."

        "You know," Estella said as a matter of factly, "There was someone close to your father and I whose brother loved the colors of butterflies and it was his passion to collect them." Victoria looked at her mother and smiled.

        "I want him to be free," Victoria said so peacefully.

        "Then let him go," Estella's voice was soft and she watched as Victoria let the butterfly flutter away.

        Later that evening, Victoria was fast asleep in Pip's arm and James in Estella's and they looked on at the last light of day. A diming light shining on perfection has always given me hope that one day you will smile; one day love will come."

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