mommy issues core

fable

fable ~ gigi perez
y/ns age: 14
agatha harkness and rio

y/n pov
i've always been smart, and my mums have always been proud of me for that.

they adopted me a few years ago, i remember mama there the day my parents died. although she looked a bit different.

right now i was at school, i dont see why i had to go to school but they both insisted a good education was important.

all of a sudden my phone started ringing. it was mum. "and where do you think you are cotton tail" she said in that accusatory tone she often had.

"i'm still studying at school mum, i'll be home soon" i said flipping through the pages of advanced witchcraft.

"come home and be a kid, nicky wants to go to the park, why don't you take him and senor scratchy"

"i can't take a rabbit to the park"
"don't be silly, of course you can" she laughed. "mama will be there soon to pick you up"

i sighed as she hung up the call and started to pack up all my things. i then walked to the front gate and mama was there standing by the road.

"another work trip?" i asked as i noticed the atire
"yeah, im sorry sweetie" its then when i looked back at the school and saw my body limp against the gate.

a drive by  

"oh" i said and felt her take my hand.

"i'm sorry i couldn't protect you" she wraps her arms around me. i never thought being in deaths embrace would be so comforting. i cried and she held me.

"can we go see mum and nicky one last time?" i asked her. she nodded and in a flash we were by the house. deaths doorstep.

my mum came out.

the second she saw us her knees gave out. i don't know what she saw. was it me and mama? death alone? her wife and my lifeless body? what was it.

either way she cried. she rushed over to me and cradled a body by my feet. my body. mama brought me here instead of taking me.

"why! WHY WOULD YOU TAKE HER" now she was angry she pushed mama away. "come on agatha" she says to herself and hovered over me again.

she's whispering all sorts of things while holding me. channeling all her magic.

i cried for her. i looked helplessly at mama the line between my mother and her skeleton form changing.

all of a sudden i felt pain. a lot of it. and i woke up in my mums arms. pulled from where i was just standing.

and instead of seeing death anymore i jsut saw my mum, cosy clothes, neat hair. fully alive.

my chest heaved as i curled into mum. she held me just as tightly. mum picked me up and carried me inside leaving mama behind me.

"i'm not letting you get that close to deaths embrace again" she shook her head getting stuff to clean up the gun wounds.
"but mum, you're basically depriving me of mamas hugs" i chuckled. whatever spell she healed me with was working.

mama didn't come back inside. i'm guessing she still had work to do. which saddens me. how does she manage her job all the time. isn't it daunting.

after i'm all fixed up i go to the lounge room where nicholas is trying to teach tricks to senor scratchy.

"he's not a dog nicky" i laughed at my brother.

"oh but he does know tricks, look!"

when mama came home it was late. i was in my room but i could hear them arguing in the kitchen. mum was mad i could tell.

"how dare you!"
"agatha please i was just doing my job"
"she could have died!"
"she did die! i brought her here for you"

i just wanted them to stop fighting. i really didn't like it.

"and now she can't leave! her soul is tied here but her body is gone. my baby is gone"

what.

i get up and catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror. someone else stares back at me.
i feel like me. i don't look like me. no i do look like me. my appearance keeps changing like my mind can't keep up with me now.