A/N: I was bored so have some Aric drabbling I guess! Yay!
This fic was inspired by an amazing Tumblr post of Aric smoking while his mother cries in the next room :'( It's great art, and the feels- I cannot. I've been looking for it but I can't seem to find it so if anyone knows which one it is...? Thanks!
once upon a time.
He calls it witchcraft, he screams and he shouts and he hurts.
(It's okay it's all okay you just have to change)
He is going insane with fear and anger and pain.
(if you're different he will love you)
She finds him with a knife to her throat, one night, deciding whether to kill her or not, as she opens her eyes-
He doesn't know, but she is afraid, so afraid.
For herself and for her child.
(her child her lover her life what to choose?)
What happened to us?
She can't stay. She would. She still loves him.
But her child is more important.
Leonora Lesso steals away in the middle of the night, leaving her former life behind-
Her child is all that matters.
(all that matters)
(just run)
I.
He is born into a world of blood and screams, a world of darkness and the things in the dark.
The Endless Woods are where monsters hide. And where she hides. And now where he does.
No one ever dares go into the Woods without a Quest-
No one except her.
"Aric," she whispers, holding him close, so gentle, so lost.
She brings her boy to life with a name.
The eternal ruler.
Aric.
II.
He is one year old when she leaves in the dark, promising to him that she will be back, that she will always come back.
The words have no meaning to Aric, but still he smiles, that adorable smile, because Mama, she loves him, she will always care.
So he doesn't cry- he sleeps, soundly, in the darkness of the Woods, and waits patiently for Mama to return.
She does, at night, smiling and happy. Her face is brighter than little Aric has ever seen.
"I found a job, little baby boy," she tells him. "The Professor of Evil. You have to stay here, but I will come back. I promise."
He doesn't understand. But she smiles and kisses him gently, and everything is fine, isn't it?
She leaves every day.
Aric doesn't understand at all, but she always comes back.
He trusts her to always- come- back.
Sbe will always come back-
III.
One day she doesn't come back.
He's all of six years old.
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