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Little Things 3: Laura's Regret
Rating: PG-13 for now. May go up later, depending.
Summary: A series of drabbles, one shots, randomness, and abandoned ideas, all from Castlevania, Lords of Shadow and the original series. Don't take any of this too seriously.
3. When headcanon collides with canon.
She was surprised to be here in all honesty. She expected to end up in the same place as the creature she had once called mother. Even though she had been young when she had been taken against her will, she had done many horrible things in the ensuing centuries, so Heaven was the last place she had expected to end up after dying in Gabriel's arms.
Though... as she watched the child she had created, she began to really wonder if this was a reward after all. Carmilla had told her that vampires traditionally stayed with their master or mistress until they were old enough to control their new strength and powers and had regained their human form, yet she had essentially used her newly turned child to commit suicide. Instead of being there with him, guiding him and teaching him, she was watching from another plane of existence as he roamed the crumbling halls of her old home, raving and writing on the walls in his own blood. He thrashed in the grip of horrible nightmares, cried out for comfort, begged for someone to help him, but there was no one there.
She should be there with him, not watching him from afar. Her child needed her, but she could not help him. So she could only watch.
Watch as the isolation drove him mad.
Watch as his memories tortured him, forcing him to bury his memories and the shredded remains of his humanity.
Watch as his grief turned to rage, and he turned on those that he had once called friends.
Watch as he killed his own son.
She could turn away at any time, she knew; she didn't have to watch.
Yet, she felt that she must. She had left him alone when he needed her the most, and turning away felt as though she was abandoning him all over again.
So Laura watched Gabriel, her escape, her hope, her salvation.
Her child.
Kyrie Eleison -- The Dragon and the Keyblade Wielder
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Thanks for reading. Stay turned for the fourth one - I'm sure you'll get a kick out of it. ;)
Oh, btw, check this out - it's the full sized version of the cover image from Rebirth:
http://orionali.deviantart.com/art/Rebirth-507444945
I would love to have that skill. I would really like to do things like this for my fics. I'm rather fond of Blood Is' cover image, but this is just AMAZING.
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Yup, I've seen it, it's gorgeous. I loved the detail of the designs for angelic Gabriel. It's dedication. As for the Blood Is cover, it's great. It fits the fic. I really liked it when I first saw it in the game trailer, and it stuck with me as a line.