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Live without shame
"Hello, Grace" You say to Robbie's mother. You are standing at the stairs of her small house, at Robbie's childhood home, holding your children's hands.
"Come on in, darlings"
You nod, letting go of your children's hands, they cautiously go inside.
"This was your daddy's home" You say with slight break in your voice. Grace puts her hand on your shoulder.
"Go make things right with your family, I'll look after them" She whispers in your ear.
You place your hand on top of hers, squeezing it gratefully.
Then you kiss your children's heads as goodbye.
You walk to the door, putting your hand on handle. You turn towards Grace, saying that you'll be back. She promises you to look after them as long as you need. You nod and leave the house. You walk the short distance from the small house to mansion.
You then pull the bell, Cecilia comes and opens the door.
"Cee"
"Y/N?"
"May.. May I come in?"
She steps aside to let you in. You look sadly around the lobby, looking towards the library. Cee squeezes your hand in comforting manner.
"Where's mother and Leon?"
"In the drawing room"
You walk slowly towards it, hesitating to open the door.
"I'll be there the whole time" Cee whispers. You and Cee have kept in touch during these five years, but you swore that you wouldn't contact any other member of your family, especially not Briony. But now has come the time to do that, as you promised Robbie that you would make things right with your family. You open the door, stepping in.
Leon and your mother look up.
"Hello"
"Hello" Leon says.
"What are you doing here?" Your mother asks.
"I.. I promised him that I would come and make things right between us"
"Well, then, sit down"
Hours later, you have spoken everything through, your family met your children and you're preparing to leave.
"Darlings, remember to behave, okay?
Mommy loves you very, very much"
You kiss their heads once again. Then you leave the mansion. You walk to the tree which has gravestone under it.
"Hello, my love" You say while crouching down to touch the stone. You leave wild flowers on top of the grave. Then you turn and leave.
Days later, you're lying among people at Balham tube station. Then you see the lights flickering and hear the thunderous roar of water.
You are seen gracefully floating through the water, hair fantailed around your head. Then the scene fades to black and to older Briony.
"In the end they had their happiness"
Now there are two gravestones side by side under the tree at Tallis grounds. The leaves of the tree move in the wind, the wind whispering the story of two lovers who were at last reunited.
The final act of kindness/I gave them their happiness
Tired voice can be heard saying: "I never made that journey to Balham. So the scene in which I confess to them is invented, imagined."
"And, in fact, could have never happened because Robbie Turner died of septicemia at Bray Dunes on the first of June, 1940, the last day of evacuation"
Months later, you're lying amongst people at Balham tube station. Then you see the lights flickering and hear the thunderous roar of water. The water drowns everything under it.
"And I was never able to put things right with my sister, Y/N, because she was killed on 15th of October, 1940, by the bomb that destroyed the gas and water mains above the Balham tube station"
You are seen gracefully floating through the water, hair fantailed around your head. Then the scene fades to black and to older Briony.
"So my sister and Robbie never had the time together they both longed for and deserved, which, ever since I've always felt like I prevented. But what sense of hope or satisfaction could reader derive from an ending like that? So, in the book, I wanted to give Robbie and Y/N what they lost out on in life. I'd like to think this wasn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness"
She thinks for a moment.
"I gave them their happiness"
Robbie and Y/N crunch across the pebbles and splash gleefully through the waves, below the towering white cliffs on their way back to their white clapboard cottage.
The end.
Till we're grey and old
"Charles?"
You walk around the corner, seeing nobody on the corridor yet you hear his voice in your head giving you orders where to go. You follow the instructions and they lead you to the grass fields of the mansion. You look around but don't see Charles.
"Charles?" You call out once again. You sense someone behind you. He turns you around, looking dazzling in his slacks and dress shirt, which is tucked into his slacks.
"Hello, love"
He steps behind you, wrapping his arms around your waist. Charles puts his chin on your shoulder, looking towards the sunset. You on the other hand look at him, wondering why he suddenly is acting weird.
"Charles, is everything okay?"
"Everything's perfect"
He starts fidgeting with the necklace, with two white diamonds and one green diamond, which he gave you last year as an anniversary gift.
Then you feel his hands leave your waist. You turn around and see him down on one knee, holding an open box, which has a simple and beautiful ring in it.
"I prepared a speech for this, but.. I'd rather speak from my heart"
"Y/N, the first time I laid my eyes on you, I knew that I had found the one, the one I want to spend my life with, so will you marry me?"
"Yes, yes" You nod as he slides the ring on your finger. He stands up and kisses you passionately. You kiss him back just as passionately.
You break the kiss in desperate need of oxygen. You put your foreheads together.
"Till we're grey and old?"
"Till we're grey and old"
Author's note: I don't know if anyone else has used the last lines (till we're grey and old), probably have but I took them from James Arthur's song called Say you won't let go.
My masterlist for my blogs mcavoy-girl and callsignmayhem
mcavoy-girl:
Loving and losing Dean Winchester x female reader
We'll be okay Dean Winchester x female reader
Stay with me Dean Winchester x female reader
Till we're grey and old Charles Xavier x female reader
Just like you Charles Xavier x female reader, Erik Lehnsherr x female reader
You son of an bitch Logan Howlett x female reader
Not broken Charles Xavier x female reader
Let me help you Charles Xavier x female reader, mentions of needles, alcohol and drugs used as medicine.
The final act of kindness/I gave them their happiness Robbie Turner x female reader from Atonement
Live without shame Robbie Turner x female reader from Atonement
Come back to me Robbie Turner x female reader from Atonement
The life you lived Robbie Turner x female reader from Atonement
callsignmayhem:
Kisses on fingertips Jake Seresin x female reader
Memories prequel/sequel/continuation to Kisses on fingertips, Jake Seresin x female reader
The letter he left you (kisses on fingertips-universe) Jake Seresin x female reader
Pictures (kisses on fingertips-universe) not a fic but pictures I made for the story
Flyboy and his darlings Jake Seresin x female reader
Others:
List of characters we need more fanfiction written about
Also this song which I think somehow fits both "kisses on fingertips and "memories" (just my opinion)
I might edit my fics every now and then
some of my favorite thingsss