Scrapped story chapters

Stories that never end

Title: Your Beautiful

There once was a broken machine and a rusted tool.
The machine was tarnished and cracked with age, the cogs filled with dirt. But is still kept ticking, back and forth, tick and tok.
The rusted tool was abandoned and left to rot, the pain still there. But it kept working to fix, fixing and breaking, turning and freezing.

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In a small city called Ravenhigh, a clock tower stood. And with it came the workers who built a home around it, it's power to sooth was widely known. But then the wars came, they were known as "the three wars of death." The city was destroyed, the people were gone and no-one was there to watch the clock tick, no-one was there to hold the clock in their arms, to comfort the one who could not see.
The Avery tower, in the golden light, could no longer see the people it had cared so long for, their blood now lost forever.
And so the "wasteland era" started, the travelers of steam and iron. The world had returned to mechanical times, searching for the past lost to the world.
And so the rusted tool set out to find the clock of wonders, the one that had been said to have a spirit residing there. They braided their hair, prepared for the worst, checked their equipment, and set out.
By the time they got their the tower was was in depression, thinking that no-one knew of the clock tower anymore. Though, he didn't feel pity, he felt abandoned.

And so the tool started to fix it, even with the rusted parts. And so they went on for years, the tower disguised as a worker. And they fell in love.

A broken hearted love, one bird could fly, the other had broken wings.
And so the truth came when the tool had to go, the machine felt the guilt, the tool felt the pain, but the tool had to go, not matter the painful choice.
And she came back, and left, back and forth. For years and years, some times she brought things from far away, and sometimes the machine would tell stories of the old world.

And one year, the tool had moved into the rebuilt town around it, they loved and loved but love can't avoid death. The tool became broken, stranded in her own bed from a sickness that could no longer be cured, cancer.
And soon, the machine came to visit, looking upon his lover, the hot tears falling from his face.
He bent down.
Holding the rusted tools hand.
And whispered
"Your beautiful"
The first words they ever said to each other.
And she was gone.

The tool: Carol fetterly
Age: 23
Backstory: she was a orphan for as long as she remembers, and soon found a love for mechanics and engineering. As soon as she was of age, 13, and she could work, she ran off to the school of machines. By the time she was given the task to take care of the Avery Tower, she was a professional.

The machine(Avery Clock Tower): Avery
Age:???
Backstory: was the clock guardian for the Avery Tower and the Ravenhigh city.