Time Warp (Alastor x OC)

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The closer we get to the end just brings us that much closer to where it all began.

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Fawn's POV

The crash was bad...reading about it in a history book could have never prepared me for the horrible things that actually happened during this time.

Alastor and I were beyond fortunate...he was able to grab his savings before the banks closed down. Walking the streets is like a ghost town...shops are boarded up, and trash is everywhere.

And the children...

Everywhere you look, there are children strewn about like lost dogs, shivering and hungry, waiting for their parents to return like they promised.

But they never would.

I've stopped going into the main city because I can't help but cry every time I do...Julie and I stay at the house.

Except for today. Julie is turning four this week, and I had to go into town to grab her a present. Alastor was not with me, he still runs the station so he has a lot less free time when he's at work.

It breaks my heart walking these streets...seeing so many stores closed down, boarded up, broken and looted.

The city used to be so lively...now everyone is so depressed.

My eyes were soft and sad as I walked, keeping my gaze off the orphans as I passed. If I look, it just makes it worse...

There nothing I can do to help them, and it kills me inside. I wish I could do something but I can't I can't take them all in.

Each shop I went to didn't have much. No toys, or dolls, or books...

The longer I looked, the more disappointed I became.

Her last birthday was pretty lack luster...I wanted this one to make up for it, hoping that we can distract her enough that she won't remember this part of her life as being so dull.

Sighing, I exited yet another store that barely even had cobwebs on the shelf.

Then, my expression brightened slightly when I saw mamas shop.

Hers is the only one on the block that still looks brand new, kept up by magic I'm sure. She's still in business and still doing well as far as I know, then again she doesn't exactly need money.

My kitten heels clicked faster as I hurried over to her door, pushing it open and welcoming the sound of the soft jingle that announced my arrival.

Edith was behind her desk, hand sewing a piece of fabric with a smile on her lips.

She looked up, and that smile turned ten times brighter.

"Honeysuckle! Hi baby girl!" Her greeting was the same as always, excited and full of warmth. She got up out of her chair and waddled over to me with her arms out.

I accepted her hug, wrapping my arms around the woman and giving her a tight squeeze.

"Hi mama..." I greeted back, trying to sound happy. Though, my mood did bleed into my voice slightly.

She rubbed my back and hummed, "something on your mind...? Or is it just' everythin' that's going on with the current," she asked, and I pulled back with a soft, dejected sigh.

"A bit of both...Julie's birthday is coming up, as I'm sure you're well aware, and I've been trying to find her a present all week. No one has anything..."