When Spring Comes

cyprith:

Belle sees Moe French once, in passing, as she and Gold walk towards the diner. She doesn’t recognize him. Only when Gold goes unsteady at her side, his hands white against the handle of his cane, does she understand.

“My father?” she asks.

Gold grinds his teeth and nods.

This man—heavyset, thick jaw, hands like a butcher—he is her family? He is not how or who Belle understands family to be. But he sees her, standing at her pawnbroker’s side, and starts. Shifts towards her in tiny, jittering steps.

Gold’s shoulders betray a woken monster, and Belle does not know Moe French, but she knows Gold’s threats and fears. She reaches up to stroke a hand in the tender place between his shoulder blades, runs her knuckles down his spine. His eyes close (old dragons are easily tamed) and his fingers loosen on his cane.

The not-father pauses, his eyes on them. Agony consumes the heavy lines bracketing his chin. Across the street, he turns, and swiftly walks away.

She feels a distant sense of loss, like a hollow wind chime in her chest.

“I hope he finds what he’s looking for,” she says.

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    ends happily!” then...end…notgoingtogiveitawaybecausepeopleneedtoreadthis!! I was...

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    No. what? That was lovely but…the end. The end. ;_____;

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    Everything Cyprith writes...AMAZING. EVERYTHING.

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    prompt. “Scroll, scroll, scro- HGNARHEAGHA!!!1!” AND THEN WHEN...ACTUALLY READ IT. All

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