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AMoS Chapter 6-6
Rating: R for language, and mentions of RAPE and M/M SLASH. Don't like, then don't read.
Disclaimer: Castlevania and its characters and situations are the sole property of Konami. I am making no money or profit off of this fanfiction and no copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: AU. What if Joachim Armster had lived through his fight with Leon Belmont? What might have been different? Well hang on, because Joachim is going to tell you all about it. From his kidnapping and forced turning to his rescue from the ruins of Walter's castle, and from Trevor's birth and to Richter's death of old age, he tells all - and blames it all on Leon while he's at it.
Section Summary: Part 6 covers from Liron's funeral to just after Belmont's Revenge.
6.
New Beginnings
It was on Day 29 that we finally received the news we had been waiting for.
Dracula's presence just seemed to vanish, and his power began to rapidly fade, and a few days later, a crier arrived with what we had been hoping to hear; the castle had fallen, and the vampire lord was no more. The expected celebrations broke out, and the clan gathered in the hall for a feast. Except, as usual, for me. I stood at the gate, waiting for sundown, watching for Christopher.
There was still no sign of Christopher or Soleil by the time the sun sank behind the horizon, which didn't surprise me. They were likely still several days away from home. Instead I focused on retrieving my child.
Hector was upstairs in Silvanus' attic library, and he once again leapt into my arms when I came up the stairs.
"Are you ready to come home?" I asked, and he nodded eagerly. I laughed at his expression as I carried him down the stairs, where Silvanus was waiting with the repacked satchel. He handed it over with a smile.
"Thank you so much, Silvanus." I said as Hector hung onto me tight. "I don't know what I would have done without you."
His smile widened as Isaac fluttered down to settle on my shoulder. "Think nothing of it, Joachim. The two of you are family, and family always stands together." He leaned over to give Hector a kiss on the cheek, which elicited a giggle. "Ready?"
I nodded with a smile of my own, and with a gesture, we were enveloped in the swirling magic of a teleportation spell. A second later, we appeared just outside the Belmont ward line, and I carried Hector across it and into the house. I tossed the satchel down onto the floor to be dealt with later and dropped him unceremoniously onto the bed.
"There," I said, "you're home. Happy now?" He giggled again as I flopped down beside him, and he curled up beside me. "I'm so glad you're home." I murmured to him. "I've missed you so much."
He snuggled in. "I missed you too. I hope we don't have to do that again."
We may not, I thought, but I didn't say it out loud. Instead, I reached out to Silvanus. Do you think that a stronger bond will really help? I asked.
It has a good chance, yes. Even if it doesn't, Joachim, I think you should do it anyway.
"Joachim?"
I blinked my eyes to see Hector looking at me in confusion. I smiled at him and raked his hair back from his face. "I have a question for you." I said. "I want you to seriously think about it and then give me an answer, alright?"
He looked at me, and his end of the bond filled with confusion and more than a little worry. "What is it?" he asked.
I paused for a moment, and then I asked. "Would you like to be adopted?"
The bond went silent as his jaw fell open in shock, and his mouth moved wordlessly for a moment. Then the bond flared to life, and excitement, tinged with desperate hope, filled it. "Really?" he asked. "You want me?"
"I do, little one."
He didn't hesitate at all. "Yes!" he practically shouted. "Yes, I want that!" I laughed as he snuggled even closer and grabbed a hold of me with both hands. "We can we do it? Can we do it now? Will it take a long time? Will it hurt?"
"Slow down, child, slow down. No, it won't hurt, and it will be fairly quick, but we can't do it right now. I want to wait until I know that Christopher has made it home safe, because the ritual is tiring for all parties, and I need to be able to protect the Belmonts in his absence. Once he's home and he's had a chance to rest, then we will go through with it."
Absolute joy flooded the bond from his end, and I heard Silvanus laugh as he picked up on it. I sat up, and Hector wasted no time in climbing up onto my lap. I wound my arms around him as Isaac trumpeted in his master's joy. I could hear August bellowing in excitement as well as I squeezed Hector tight.
"Wait." he said suddenly, and he looked up at me in confusion. "What do I call you?"
I smiled at him. "Whatever you want, little one." He laid his head back down. "Whatever you want."
******
Hector remained on my lap for the next few hours, and it was after he was tucked into bed for his nap that Silvanus arrived just outside the ward line. He came into the house as I was leaving the bedroom, and he gave me the widest smile that I had ever seen and swept me up into a hug.
"I am so happy for you two." he said quietly. "You both deserve this."
"What I would like to know," I said as I stepped away, "is where this came from? You just pulled this one out of the blue on me."
"Ah well, Hector might have asked me where Matatias' mother was, and when I explained that he was Kerwin's adopted son, that led to questions about adoption, how it worked, and if you could do the same with him."
"So it was his idea." I commented as a smile appeared on my face. "That little imp." I shook my head and chuckled as I moved over to the couch and sat down.
Silvanus sat down beside me. "Well then, when is a good time for us to do this?"
I jumped slightly. "Us?"
"Of course. The more that participate, the more of a power boost Hector will get, and the stronger the bonds between him and the rest of us will be if worst comes to worst."
"But -"
"He will still be your son, Joachim, so don't worry about any of us taking him from you. I just want to ensure that he gets as much as he can out of this."
"You won't be adopting me too, will you?" I said. How could they all adopt him without such a connection to me?
"Only if you want us to, child. We can bypass you and adopt only him, or we can adopt you too."
"I'd rather not; I'm fine the way I am." Not to mention that being adopted as Silvanus' grandson would in a weird way make Walter my father, and... No, just no.
Silvanus gave me a wry smile. "So, when would you like to do this?"
I leaned back against the seat back. "Sometime after Christopher returns would be best. That way I can collapse after it's done without having to worry about protecting the Belmonts." I looked at him. "Can we do it here?"
"That will work fine." He paused. "Joachim, if you really want to do this alone, then that is fine. I don't want you to think that I'm pushing you into it against your will. I just want to make sure that Hector gets the best possible result."
"No, it's fine. I understand your point. Besides, if something happens to me, being actually related to you and Kerwin will give Hector a safety net that will protect him from Actose."
"Exactly. If, and I sincerely hope that this never comes to pass, you were to die, then Actose would have to leave Hector alone for three days to give us a chance to get to him first. If he grabs Hector anyway, he would not be able to block the bond we have with him, which would allow us to track him."
"I just hope it's never needed."
"As do I, little one."
I paused as a thought occurred to me. "Will this, in a round about way, make Hector Walter's grandchild?"
Silvanus chuckled. "You could see it that way, since he will be the nephew of Walter's son, but only if that's how you choose to see it."
"I'd rather not, to be honest."
"Then don't. It's as simple as that. It saddens me though, that Walter was never given the chance to really be a grandfather."
I whipped my head around to stare at Silvanus. "He was given that chance, but he chose to ignore Matatias whenever he could."
"He was largely out of his mind by then too, if you remember. Walter had been a wonderful father to Kerwin, and I have no doubt if it hadn't been for the Ebony Stone, he would have made a wonderful grandfather as well." He stood up and squeezed my shoulder. "Call for me when you're ready." I nodded as he showed himself out, and I spent the next hour until Hector woke, once again lost in thoughts of Walter and the Ebony Stone.
******
Thirty-five days after he departed, Christopher returned home. Behind him, riding on a horse that they had acquired somewhere, was Soliel, and the boy kept his head down and made not a sound as the clan greeted his father and welcomed him home. Instead, the child only slipped down from the saddle, led his mount into the stables, and then he quietly went into the Lord's house, ignored by virtually everyone.
I found him there later, being fussed over by his mother, but his mind was clearly elsewhere, and he fled to his room as soon as he could, while Simona lamented that her poor son had been used by Dracula to return him to full power.
"What do you mean by that?" I asked as I took a seat near the fireplace. Simona sat down beside her husband, and Christopher slipped an arm around her shoulders and smiled at her for a second, before he turned his attention to myself, Adrian, and Elena.
"Apparently," he began, "I was not as... successful in defeating Dracula years ago as I thought he had been. He survived the battle, in a weakened state, and he just waited for the right time. The whip left him with wounds that would not heal, even with his power, and he couldn't risk me finding out and coming to finish the job, so he hid and waited until he could find someone to return him to full power."
"And he found Soleil." Adrian said solemnly.
Christopher nodded. "Yes. Dracula... he..." Christopher sighed. "Soleil's magic is gone. Dracula drained him of it to use it to counter the power of the Vampire Killer. Only the power of a Belmont could do so, and it also brought him to full power, as he was when Trevor faced him in 1476.
"I found Soliel in Dracula's castle under a mind control spell. Once I had knocked some sense into him, he warned me what Dracula's plan was and told me where to go to find him." He leaned back and closed his eyes for a long moment. "Soliel has been understandably... quiet since I freed him. He really did not want to come home."
"Do you know where Dracula found him?" I asked.
"No, I don't. Why?"
"The idea that Dracula could have been on my territory without me knowing has me a bit worried."
There was a sharp intake of breath from the others in the room, and Christopher sighed. "I will ask him later. For now though, all I want is a hot bath, a meal, and then some sleep." He stood up. "If you'll excuse me." He wandered off to the back of the house, while Simona went to the kitchen to speak to the cook. I took that as my cue to go home.
******
The following day, the clan celebrated Dracula's defeat with a feast and a party, and I was quick to note that while Soleil attended, he slipped out as soon as he could and vanished into the darkness of the encroaching night. Suddenly worried for him, I followed him, and I found him in Hunter's Rest, seated at the foot of Trevor's grave, idly plucking strands of grass from around the marker and tossing them aside.
"What do you want?" he asked as I approached. "Come to gloat like everyone else is doing when my father isn't looking? Come to tell me that it's all my fault, that I deserved it all?"
"No child." I replied as I walked up to stand behind him. "I was worried about you."
"You've never cared before; why start now?"
"I did care, but what would you have done if I had showed it?" Well, it wasn't a total lie; I had cared about Soleil when he was small, not so much once he was older, but that was not something he needed to hear.
Soleil huffed. "It doesn't matter, so you can go away now."
"Is that why you're hiding? Because everyone is harassing you?"
I barely heard his answer. "No."
"Then why?"
"Just go away, Joachim. I don't want to speak to you!"
"And I don't want you disturbing my godson's grave, yet here you are."
Soleil growled something and stood up. He then marched away from the grave and plopped back down under a tree on the edge of the clearing. "There. Happy now?"
"No," I said as I sat down nearby, which made him growl again, "not until you tell me why you're hiding out here to begin with."
"Because everyone hates me!" he snapped. "My parents are disappointed, my grandparents are disapproving, my cousins say that they wish I had never come back, and everyone else says I'm unworthy of my own name! Is that reason enough for you!"
"Would you feel that way, in their place?"
Soleil sighed and leaned back against the tree. "Yeah, I would. I see it now; I was a bastard to everyone, and now..." He swallowed. "Dracula just..."
"It's not your fault, Soleil."
"Yes it is!" he burst out. "It is my fault! I ran off thinking that everyone would be sorry once I was gone, and when I encountered him, he saw right through me. His words dripped honey as he told me that he could help make them all sorry for treating me that way, and I lapped it up like a cat with fresh cream."
"Soleil -"
"I let him possess me! I gave him my damned soul! All out of a childish desire to get one over everyone else! I gave him the power he needed to fully come back! He didn't have to steal anything because I gave it to him! And now... and now..." His shoulders began to shake. "Now may magic is gone, and Trevor... Trevor said I don't deserve the whip or the title of Vampire Hunter."
I was stunned into silence as the boy bowed his head and began to cry, and then I shook off my shock and moved over to sit beside him. He leaned into me as my arms came around him, something that he hadn't done since he was about six or so.
"The whip doesn't fully work for me anymore, Uncle Joachim." he sobbed. "Trevor said I don't deserve the power it offers, but that I'm still the best option after Papa, which is why it still works at all. He said if there was someone better, then they would have abandoned me years ago."
"Have you told your father yet?" I asked, and he shook his head. "You should do that soon then; he needs to know, child."
"What if he hates me too?"
"He's your father, child, and he loves you. I'm certain that he won't. This is something that he needs to know. If you want, we can keep that you let Dracula in between us, but he needs to know that the whip does not work well for you."
"The Whip's Memory will just tell him." Soleil mumbled.
"Then you should tell him first."
"Tell me what?" came Christopher's voice, and a look of horror crossed Soleil's face when he realized we had been overheard. He gave me a panicked look, and I gave him an encouraging smile and pulled him to his feet as I stood up. I then gave him a gentle push in Christopher's direction. Christopher looked back and forth between us in confusion as Soleil plodded over to him.
"He's afraid you'll hate him." I said, and Christopher turned to look at his son.
"Soleil! There is nothing in this world that could make me hate you, so don't ever think that!" He slipped an arm around the boy's shoulders and began to walk him out of Hunter's Rest. "Let's go home, where we can get something to drink while you tell me whatever it is that you're afraid to say." Soleil looked over his shoulder and gave me another panicked look at his father led him away. Once they were gone, I looked over at Trevor's grave for a moment, and then I returned home to be with Hector.
******
I took Hector hunting again that night, and once we had returned home, I was surprised to see Soleil sitting on the porch, waiting for us.
"Shouldn't you be in bed?" I asked as Hector went inside. "It's rather late."
"I... I need to tell you something." he whispered.
"You'd best come inside then." I ushered him in to find that Hector had already settled in the library with a favorite book. Soleil stepped inside, and he looked everywhere but me.
"I..." He hesitated as I stood there and looked at him, and the stench of fear touched my nose. What was he afraid of?
"Out with it, child."
"I..." He swallowed and then rushed onward. "ItoldDraculaaboutHector."
Had I heard that right?" "Excuse me? Could you repeat that, slower this time?"
He lowered his head to stare at the floor. "I told... Dracula about Hector."
Yes, I had heard that right. Apparently, it was my reaction to hearing that that he was afraid of. The urge to attack the one that had harmed my child boiled up within me, but I shoved it down. Killing a child of the Belmont clan wouldn't end well for anyone. Leon would probably come back from the dead just to haunt me for it. There was no telling how Trevor would react...
"Why did you do that, Soleil?" I asked in as calm a tone as possible.
"To get back at him, and at you." he whispered.
"Why?"
"Because, I was angry at both of you. After the dragon attacked me, and you did nothing but lecture me for it, I wanted Hector to hurt."
"And hurt he did," I said as my voice lowered in volume along with my rising temper, "when I had to send him off the Belmont lands to stay with someone I trusted, because the Belmont wards were not powerful enough to protect him from Dracula's mental attacks." I saw him flinch. "Go home, Soleil. Go home and go to bed, and stay away from Hector for a while."
Soleil turned and fled the house, and no sooner had the door shut behind him, than Hector padded out of the library and came up to stand beside me.
"He told Dracula about me?" he asked as he looked at me. "Why would he do that?"
"Because he was an angry, jealous child." I said as I slipped an arm around my soon to be son's shoulders. "I will worry about him some other time. I've more important things on my mind now."
Hector gave me a brilliant smile and cuddled into my side, and the rest of the night passed peacefully.
******
Over the next few days, I caught sight of Soleil apologizing to the other members of the clan, though few accepted it. Most seemed to take a wait and see approach, while others rejected him outright. Before, Soleil would have thrown a temper tantrum at that, now, he just meekly nodded and moved on.
"Maybe he has changed?" Hector mentioned when I told him.
I nodded. "Perhaps."
"You don't believe it?"
"It's hard to trust someone that caused deliberate harm to a child of mine. He might regret it now, but that doesn't change the the fact that he's the reason I had to send you away for several days." I watched through the window as Soleil walked home in the deepening dusk. "Time will tell, I suppose."
******
Four nights after Christopher and Soleil's return, Silvanus, Kerwin, Matatias, and Celia all gathered at my house. Celia's presence surprised me, especially when she asked for permission to participate as Hector's aunt. She then sent Kerwin a smile that had me looking back and forth between them as realization dawned on me.
"Is there something you two need to tell me?" I asked. Kerwin grinned like an idiot and took her hand. He then jerked his head at Matatias and whispered that he would explain later. My maid/cook laid out supper for us, and we sat down to eat while we waited for Hector to wake up.
An hour or so later, I felt a disturbance from the bond, and a few seconds later, Hector wandered into the living/dining room, rubbing his eyes sleepily. After a moment, he seemed to realize that there were others in the house, and he blinked his eyes and stared for a few seconds before excitement fill his end of the bond.
"Is it time?" he asked. "Are we doing it tonight?"
We all chuckled at his exuberance. "Yes, little one, we are." I said. "Are you ready?"
"Yes, yes! I want this!"
"Well then," Silvanus said as he stood up, "let's get started."
Kerwin had explained to me the process of adoption back when he had adopted Matatias all those years ago, but Silvanus went into greater detail, for my benefit as well as Hector's.
"Here's what's going to happen, Hector." he explained as he walked him into the bedroom and sat him down on the bed the child had just left. "Your father -" Hector broke into a wide smile at that. "is going to bite you and drain you completely."
"Completely?"
"Yes, little one. There won't be a drop of blood left in you when he's done, but as soon as he's done that you'll be given blood to drink that comes from all of us. Most of it will come from you father, but the rest will be from us. How much you get depends on how closely related you will be to us." Hector nodded in understanding. "It will also be infused, as you could say, with our power to help form the bonds. You are probably going to relapse after this, child, but I assure you that you'll feel much better soon."
Silvanus turned to the rest of us. "Are we ready?" We all nodded, and then it was my turn to receive instructions.
Silvanus pulled the largest goblet I have ever seen out of a satchel that he had been carrying. It was goblet shaped, but it was easily the size of a large bowl, and I saw Hector's eyes widen when he saw it. With a wave of his hand and a few words, Silvanus conjured a table to set the goblet on, and then he focused on me as he pulled a dagger out of the satchel.
"What you'll need to do, Joachim, is to call up your power like you're going to set new territory markers, but you need to call up far, far more than that. This is why adoption is so tiring, because you will be pushing everything you have into the blood you're about to give Hector. The dagger is special; it will prevent the deep cut to your hand and arm from healing long enough for you to bleed enough into the bowl. As you bleed out, push everything you can into that blood, even if you're getting tired and you feel faint. You must do it or the adoption will fail. Do you understand?"
I nodded as I eyed the sharp edge of the blade that he was holding.
"The rest of us will be doing the same, but over half of the blood will come from you, so you will be affected the most. Are you ready?"
I nodded again.
Silvanus smiled, and he looked at Kerwin, Celia, and Matatias. "Ready?" They also nodded, and Silvanus gestured at Hector. "You know what to do then, Joachim." I looked at him for a second, and then I stepped past him and sat on the bed. Hector climbed onto my lap, and I held him for a moment as Silvanus' immense power filled the room. A second later, he slashed his hand and wrist deeply with the dagger and held his bleeding wound over the bowl. He handed the dagger off to Kerwin, and I turned my attention to Hector. I gave him a tentative smile, kissed him on the cheek, and then I titled his head to the side and pushed his hair and the collar of his nightshirt away from his neck. He closed his eyes, and I did the same as I bared my fangs and sank them deep into the side of his neck. He stiffened and cried out faintly as I began to drink.
"Take everything he has, Joachim." Silvanus reminded me, and I used the bond to acknowledge him as I kept drinking. Hector whimpered and shifted around in my arms, but those movements stilled as I drained him. Soon he was limp in my arms, and the bond had narrowed to a barely audible whisper, and I still kept drinking as the blood flow began to slow. Finally, it stopped, and I laid Hector's cold, limp form down and stood up. Silvanus handed me the dagger, and I spent a moment gathering my power to me before I sliced my hand open and let my blood pour into the bowl to mingle with the already sizable amount from the others. I shivered as I kept pushing as much power as possible, and my blood almost seemed to sparkle with the dim light.
After a few minutes, there wasn't enough to keep up the floor, and it slowed to a trickle as the cut began to heal. Silvanus picked up the bowl, which was nearly full, and carried it over to Hector. I shook myself and forced my eyes open and followed him. I scooped Hector up and sat down with him in my arms as Silvanus held the bowl to his lips. A few drops trickled into his mouth, and he swallowed, and then his eyes, which were sunk in and ringed with shadows, opened, and he looked up at me.
"Drink, Hector." I said gently. "You need to drink it all." I sat him up and held his head up for him as he began to drink. He began to warm up as he drank, and as he warmed he seemed to gain more energy, as he greedily slurped down the blood, unmindful of the red streams that were trickling down his chin and neck and soaking into his nightshirt. Halfway through, he pulled his head back, which prompted Silvanus to take the bowl away.
"I can't." Hector gasped. "I can't have any more. I'm full."
"You have to keep drinking, little one." I told him. "You're not done yet."
"I can't!"
"We can't stop now, Hector." Silvanus said. "It won't work if you don't drink it all."
Hector looked at him, then at me, and then he raised his head to the bowl and started drinking again. He drank for another minute or so, and then he pulled his head away a second time.
"I'm going to be sick." he groaned. "I'm too full."
"You have to keep going." I said. "You won't be sick, I promise you." I pushed his head up. "C'mon. Drink up."
"No..." he moaned, and Silvanus looked at me. I caught his meaning clearly.
"Hector," I warmed, "if you do not drink, I will have to use the bond to force you." Hector looked at me in horror. "I know, little one, and I don't want to do it, but the adoption is going to fail if you stop here. I swear, you won't be sick."
He looked at me for a second, and then he raised his head to the bowl again.
After a few minutes, he was able to drink it all, and he gagged twice as I sat him up on my lap, but he did not throw up. He moaned as his head lolled and his eyes sank shut, and I cradled him in my arms for a moment as Silvanus, Kerwin, Matatias, and Celia filed out of the room. I felt my own eyelids drooping as I laid Hector down, and I had just enough presence of mind to cover him up before I flopped down beside him and was instantly asleep.
******
It was the bond that woke me. I sat up in bed and raked my hair back out of my face, and I turned towards Hector, expecting to find him awake and wanting fed.
But he was still asleep.
I blinked my eyes in surprise; the bond was wide open, which before it had only been that way when Hector was awake. While he was asleep, it narrowed down considerably, yet now... I reached out to him through it, expecting to find him feigning sleep, but no. He was deeply asleep, too deep to dream even. Was this what Silvanus had mean when he said the bond would strengthen? What would it be like once Hector was awake?
The tickling of thirst forced me to get out of bed, and I was quick to learn that it was dark outside, that Kerwin, Celia, and Matatias were gone, but that Silvanus was in the library. I dressed myself and left the bedroom in search of him, and I found him calmly drinking tea and reading a book.
"Ah, you're awake." he said, and I rubbed my eyes and sat down next to him.
"How long have I been asleep?" I asked.
"A full day's time. The adoption was last night."
I shook my head. "The bond is wide open," I whispered, "and Hector is still asleep. Normally it narrows down quite a bit when he's asleep."
Silvanus closed the book and with a wave of his hand, he returned it to its place on the shelf. "The bond is narrowed, Joachim." he said.
I stared at him. "This is narrowed?"
"This is the bond between a parent and a child. The only thing stronger is the willing marriage bond between two that truly love each other. Once Hector wakes, he will find it nearly impossible to lie to you or hide things from you, but he will know with a certainty that you love him. You will always know how he is feeling and where he is at any time. You won't have to feel for his location, you will just know. He, of course, will be able to do the same with you. You will be able to influence his dreams and protect his mind; you might even be able to sense his Innocent Devils through him. The only way this bond can be broken is with death. You won't even be able to fully close it, because it is that strong."
"I just.. I heard what you said before, but I didn't really think about it, you know?"
Silvanus nodded slowly in understanding. "Once you've grown used to it, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. Now, you need to go feed yourself. You gave so much to Hector last night, and you must replace it before he wakes, because despite how much he drank, he will be thirsty. I will stay with him until you get back."
I scooted out the door and quickly went hunting, and when I returned, Silvanus gave me a hug and returned to his own home, while I returned to the bedroom and settled into the rocking chair to watch my new son sleep.
He slept the night, and then the day through, and it wasn't until the next night, two nights after the adoption, that he began to stir. The bond flared to life, and I gasped and fell back into the chair from the partial standing position that I had risen into. A flood rushed down the bond from him to me, and I felt that he was warm, relaxed, and comfortable, but he was feeling thirsty. His emotions were calm and settled, and even without looking at him, I knew exactly where he was in regards to my own location.
He mumbled something and began to sit up, and I moved to sit beside him as he pulled himself upright and blinked his eyes open. There was blood dribbling from his nose, and I reached out and wiped it away.
"Tată?" he mumbled as he raised his head to look at me, and the sound of his voice, calling me that name sent a flood of emotions cascading through me. He, of course, immediately felt them, and his jaw dropped open as his eyes widened.
"Good evening, Hector." I said with a smile as I felt moisture gathering in my eyes. This... this was amazing, beyond anything I had experienced before. I opened my arms, and his face lit up with the largest smile I had ever seen as he leaned into my embrace.
"Tată."
I wrapped my arms around my son – my son! - as he curled close and made no attempt to stop the tears as they came.
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Yeah, Part 7... XD You see part 7 was supposed to be Simon's part, but then I realized a new game had been added to the series canon. Order of Shadows was released for phones (which explains why I never heard of it before), so I had to figure out how it was going to slot into the timeline (Which it did, just barely.) so now OoS is the new part 7. Simon has been pushed back to part 8. (And I was really looking forward to that too. Oh well, on with the show! XD
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I've heard of OoS, but haven't played it. I've read about it, but that's it. I look forward to seeing your take on things. :)
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I would like to give it a try, but since it's on phones, and I never was a huge fan of having a big fancy phone, I'll likely never be able to, even if it's compatible with current models. Still, there is always Youtube. XD
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