"Death was nothing like he was told. In Church, in the dining halls, he could never have imagined the cold, rough feeling of the chains in his hands, the biting cold of the afterlife, the gnawing, harrowing, distressing sight of Ebenezer Scrooge."
Jacob Marley, infatuated with his very much alive business partner, watches him from the afterlife.
Based on the quote, '"How it is that I appear before you in a shape that you can see, I may not tell. I have sat invisible beside you many and many a day."
It was not an agreeable idea. Scrooge shivered, and wiped the
perspiration from his brow.'
Also posted on AO3.
Because it is Christmas I felt like doing a short story for the season, that and I've only just watched Netflix's version of a Christmas Carol where they have made Scrooge handsome? Like I was ment to hate this man back in GCSE English and now your making him hot? Anyway just a heads up I didn't want to leave too much out but did leave out a couple of songs here and there. Alright onto the story.
Scrooge has always been known to be cold and heartless but none know how he became like that. Not even his wife. Oh did we forget to mention that. Yes Scrooge is married to none other than his business partners daughter. Marly died seven years ago and in his will a request that his daughter marry none other than Scrooge? Simply put it would strengthen Scrooges claim to the business and secure that his daughter lives a comfortable life without her father. She went along with it as it allowed her security and stability in life only meeting her soon to be husband the day of the wedding not knowing what her father had placed upon her shoulders. After seven years of marriage you'd think she'd get through to him but no. He hasn't changed and it seems he never will. But maybe just maybe this Christmas things will change.
(Y/N) is 33and Ebenezer is 42. Just a heads up as the avatar age for a woman to be married would have been between 20 and 22 but for the men it didn't really matter. Gross ik, but that's what it was like. I've just made them a bit younger so it's less blegh, when they married she would have been 26 and he would have been 35.
I do not own the characters or original story by Charles Dickins, nor the Netflix film just the readers perspective and the ghost I've created for this fan fiction story.