Newly Wed

Finally complete, with two pages to spare.

I went back and forwards at least three times as to who was going to say which side of the dialogue in that final scene, then, having initially chosen to reverse it from my original conception, finally decided after a couple of days of trying to make this work that I needed to switch it over again. So after a complete rewrite of the last two paragraphs we are back, more or less, to the original concept, though like the rest of the story it was rather less angsty at that point!

Fluff is really not my strong suit... but I'm now a lot happier about the ending. My subconscious was definitely trying to tell me something there ;-)

I think this is only my second story using POTO-Raoul (as opposed to Love-Never-Dies-Raoul, who is basically the same person but older and badly damaged, or the younger and more vulnerable Leroux-Raoul, who is virtually a completely different character — though this gets confused by the shared offstage backstory and my conflation of the two as he grows up). He is a lot less angsty here than in Beyond the Abyss, but then he has a good deal less to be distressed about; the basically sunny and confident temperament we see in the rest of the musical is in full swing.

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Newly Wed

Every morning, the sun casts a rainbow across her pillow... and whatever her fears, they will face the future together. *C/R fluff*

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