This one is a bit morbid, but that’s how I’m feeling today…
Enjoy!
True Love
“Um, excuse me?” Cole could hear his voice shake and he hated himself for it. He took a firmer grip on the spray bottle in the pocket of his lab coat.
“Yes, what is it?”
She was perfect. Her brown hair was tied back into a bun, showing off her perfectly shaped ears and graceful neck.
She made a small inquiring sort of noise and he realized that he was staring, caught up in her beauty.
He watched her about to draw breath to ask him something else, perhaps and inquiry into how she could help him, and he seized his moment to pull the bottle out of his pocket and spray her full in the face so that her next indrawn breath was almost as much his specially formulated potion as it was air.
She started coughing violently, but it was too late. The potion was in her, and doing its work. He dropped the bottle back into his pocket and steadied her, gently.
A couple minutes later, the coughing subsided and she turned to look at him. Really look at him, the way he always wanted her to. Her eyes widened with love and affection, and she gently cupped his cheek with her hand.
“Oh, my.” She breathed. “You are perfect. How did I not see that before?” She grasped his hand and tugged. “Come, I have to show you something.”
Hands clasped, in a heady daze that his potion worked and she was finally his, he followed her. She led him down, deep into the building, where he had never been before, to places he didn’t even know existed.
She let him go to unlock an unobtrusive door, then pulled him inside. He looked around to see a laboratory. A secret, highly illegal laboratory.
She went to a refrigeration unit humming quietly to itself in the corner, and pulled out a sealed test tube. She uncapped it and put it in his hands.
“Sniff this.”
When he hesitated, she covered his hands with hers and looked beseechingly up at him. “Please. Show me that you love me as much as I love you.”
So he raised the tube to his nostril and sniffed. The acrid odor made him toss his head a little.
She smiled and took the tube back and recapped it. “I knew it. I knew you felt the same as I did, that you see all the evils and horrors of our world, that it needs to be cleansed so that we can start over, anew. I will always love you, and remember you for your sacrifice.”