Youth Gone Wild
She felt terrible. She felt like a failure. She felt...inadequate. She felt like she had failed her children. It wasn't their fault. She knew she could never truly blame them. It was the man that had hurt her. Elias had brought this, and she was forced to live with it. She loved her children dearly, but she began to realize that she wasn't being the mother she should have been. She didn't seem to do too much more than feed them and watch over them, acting more like a caretaker than an actual mother. She was sure her boys realized it too. When they weren't eating or sleeping, she was often away from them. What she did during her time alone from them was nothing even worth having been away. She just...left. But she came back at night. But when they got old enough to mostly fend for themselves, she kept leaving, and came back less.
Now, it was too late. Legion had discovered the land bridge, and her heart sunk. She didn't want him to leave, but at the same time she didn't want him to stick around. This was no life for them. They should have grown up knowing the true love of their mother...but all they got was the distant side of her. Maybe it was too late to change that, after all, she was sure their hearts led them somewhere else while hers remained with finding her family. She knew where her siblings were, but the hesitation and Avalon finding out how her latest litter had been conceived felt shameful. But...it wasn't their fault. It was hers for not being more careful.
Quietly, she trailed Legion's scent until she spotted him. Ears folded back and her head low, she came up to stop a few feet behind him, her entire demeanor looking defeated. "Legion I...I'm sorry..." She didn't know what to tell him. She didn't know if anything she said would make anything right. Reinhardt would be following soon too, she was sure. She could already smell him coming. And her other child? He had been gone for a while. Maybe he had already left to the other side. For now, it was her and Legion. |
