Romulus Augustus One Shots

The East Woods

Warning! Dark spooky! Suicide and murder

I walked through the town watching people around me come and go, when I saw the most beautiful sight, the little brown dress of y/n y/l/n the bakers daughter. 

she always made me smile so much, she's beyond beautiful. Her body reminded me of her father's well-risen square loaves, which he would form into squares and then tie with twine giving a present-like shape, but she reminded me of them, in the sense of sweet curves and indents. I smiled going up close to her as she swept in front of the sweet little baked goods shop.

and in her distraction, I wrapped my arms around her waist nuzzling into her shoulder 

"Helloo My delicious little blackberry pie" I smiled 

"Ohh hello Romulus" she giggled

"how'd you know it was me?"

"For one know one else calls me that, and secondly I could feel the spiar pressing into my southern regions" she giggled 

"Can you now?" I smirked giving her more kisses 

"Where are you off to anyway?" she asks pushing me away so she could at least turn and see me 

"Off to the east woods,"

"what on earth for?"

"foraging my love, I heard a rumour of some very delectable mushrooms yet to spore over by the lake in the east woods" 

"Are you mad Romulus?"

"I mean... probably. but why do you ask?"

"Anyman to go walking in the east woods on hallows eve is as mad as a rabbit. you go a wondering in their tonight Romulus, I shall have to dawn a black veil"

"Ohh my sweet little pie, you listen to rumour and superstition far too much" 

"And Yet I have never gotten my little bum in trouble"

"well your little bum never gets in trouble" I smiled giving her butt a pinch "But I need to go stalls getting low, I need some stock, especially in these autumn evenings people always want more for stews and such" 

"Well, I am unable to tell you what to do Romulus. But I would not advise it"

"If I haven't come back will you come... looking for me in the morning?"

"Maybe"

"Or if I get too scared I could always... come and snuggle up in your little house?"

"You could" she smiled "You are always welcome" she giggled giving my cheek a kiss I gave her a few extra kisses before heading out to the east woods

I walked through the thick trees and bushed searching for anything of note. I never much went in the East woods they had dark rumours about them and I had always found the west woods plentiful so I didn't much bother, but it had been a very dry summer meaning now the woods where less plentiful then I needed them to be to supply the town so even if I didn't want to I had to take the walk.
The East woods where an unearthly place.
Tall looming trees.
Thick foliage that blocked the sun.
The woods so thick that once you stepped inside the outside was impossible to see.
The grass a dark merky colour.
The waters black or dark grey.
I gathered what I needed for the market stall, mushrooms, berries, veg, and even some game even if I wasn't ever much of a hunter.
Once my bag was filled I began walking my steps to get back to town but I only found myself going around and around in circles.
Without the sun or even much light if was impossible to tell how long id been here, everything seemed familiar and yet foreign to me.
Even my vision at points blurring and clearing intermittently.
I couldn't tell where I was or how long I had been here.
Every so often seen horrific flashed between the trees.
My parents blood soaked bodies.
The skeletons at the cliffs of Capri.
The goths sent after me to ensure my destruction.
The mask of the man from Britannia who came to kill me.
All of them as real as I had ever seen them.
Even the blood smelt real.
At a point o stopped trying to get my barrings but I tasted this horrid burnt taste in my mouth and when I tried to see what was happening my mouth was full of this thick black goo.
"Ahhhhhh! What the fuck is going on!"
"Romulus!" I heard her voice calling
"Y/n!"
"Romulus where are you?" She called but fading away
"I'm here!" I yelled
"Romulus!" She called but still fading so I got up and began to run in the direction I heard her voice
"Y/n! Y/n I'm here!" I screamed as loud as I could but she in got quieter and quieter
"Romulus? Where are you?"
"Y/n!"
"Romulus?" She called and I saw thought the tree's an orange lantern light
"Y/n! Thank god i-" I began running up to her but stopped short-
Finding the lantern on a tree branch and her body across a rock her eyes being pecked by dark ravens "y/n!" I screamed in panic
"Romulus!" She called making me turn in shock from hearing her voice and when I looked back to the rock nothing was there.
I rushed trying to find her and eventually saw her in her long cloak beside the river
"Oh there you are i-"
"Why did you go Romulus?"
"What?"
"Why did you go where I told you not to go" she cried "you've been gone for so long," she said moving back her cloak revealing she was withered and aged as if I had been fine a hundred years
"What's happened to you?"
"Why did you leave me?" She cried "I thought you loved me" she whailed as a wind blew thought turning her either body to nothing but bones which immediately dropped to the water below her skull floating up to look at me
I ran trying to find my way out of here
"It's all in my head. It's all in my head"
"Romulus!" She yelled angrily I turned and saw her stood between the trees
"Oh my god- I'm so happy to see you"
"I told you not to go walking in the woods Romulus" she smirked "now all of us must pay" she said
"What are you talking about?" She took a knife from behind her dress "y/n-" but before I could say another word she slit her throat sending blood everywhere.
I bolted as fast as I possibly could thought the woods I didn't care where I was going but surely I go one direction long enough I'll find a way out all the while her voice was calling me, which turned into begging me, which turned into screaming, and finally into wailing and crying a hundred of her voice in my head as if a chorus of witches has stolen her voice and where cackling at me begging me to remain with them.

And atlast I broke thought and I to the fields I took a breath and ran into town as fast as I could spotting y/n the real y/n still sweeping so I rushed to her and held her close giving her a million kisses
"Oh my god. Your okay. Oh your so beautiful. I'm a sorry. I'll never leave you again. Your okay. You feel okay? Oh my sweet little blackberry pie I'm so sorry"
"Romulus what on earth is the matter?"
"Your fine? Your okay?"
"Of course why wouldn't I be?"
"I- on the woods I- you came to find me? In the woods. I saw... Such terrible things"
"Why would I have come to find you?"
"Because I've been gone so long?"
"Romulus you've been gone about fifteen minutes" she says
"What?"
"I haven't seen finished shutting the shop up" she says "are you alright? Did you bang your head in there or something?"
"I - I don't know. I think I need a lay down"
"Alright I'll finish with the shop and you can stay the night with me so I can keep an eye on you" she smiled giving me a kiss.