Marilynmansonxreader storie

They had known each other for half their lives. She was twenty when she made the mistake of falling for her brother's best friend-the infamous, complicated man she had grown up watching from the sidelines. Ten years older, already becoming someone the world would eventually know, he was never supposed to look at her the way he did. But he did. For a few brief, intoxicating weeks, they crossed a line neither of them could uncross. What they shared was real... too real, perhaps, and when it ended, it ended badly enough that neither of them dared reach for the other again. Years passed. She built a life of her own, becoming a respected principal at an elite private school. He became Marilyn Manson: celebrated, vilified, married, divorced, broken, rebuilt, and dragged through years of addiction and darkness. She heard about him through her brother. Never directly. Never enough to satisfy the quiet part of her that still wondered. She told herself she had moved on. Then, one ordinary evening, her sister invites her to her nephew's very first concert. She expects a forgettable night surrounded by teenagers and noise. Instead, she walks into a venue and sees him standing beneath the lights. Older. Changed. Still unmistakably the man who once knew exactly how to make her forget the rest of the world existed. And when his eyes find hers in the crowd, years of silence suddenly feel like they never happened. Maybe they really were the right people at the wrong time. And maybe, after everything they've survived, the timing has finally changed.

She'd always been drawn to beautiful things with something broken underneath, and she'd stopped caring what people thought the moment she walked into a room. She wasn't looking for anyone, especially not him. Then one ordinary night, backstage in a world of black velvet and smoke and music loud enough to shake something loose, there he is: Marilyn. To everyone else, an icon; to her, a man hiding behind the mythology, carrying his own ghosts. Their first encounter is brief. Their second isn't. What begins as an unlikely friendship becomes something neither of them knows how to name: conversations into the early hours, lingering looks, attraction turning into trust, and trust into something far more dangerous. Because sometimes the person who sees the darkest parts of you is the one who makes you feel safest. And some loves don't arrive like sunlight. They arrive like a shadow and stay.

•collection of manson one-shots cuz I need some place to post them :)

after all, it was just a way to make society wild, nothing more, nothing less. i was just one of his target audience.