Terry Boot (toboot) wrote in fourteenshades, @ 2014-08-04 13:54:00 |
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Fear sat in the belly of Terry Boot. He'd never once in his life thought about being a parent, not even when dating his ex-boyfriend who now was suddenly being named as this little girl's other father. He wasn't sure what to make about that, and honestly had pretty much abandoned his journal the second after he'd written something of his own, and headed out to find her. He wasn't exactly sure where she was, but the town wasn't a huge place and he knew basic markers to look for- horses bigger than ponies. Whatever that meant. Jesus.
He wandered at a brisk run, looking down every little alley and into any windows he could find, not even sure what Rosemary Boot looked like, but knowing that there weren't all that many kids in town. And then he saw someone he did know, even if it was only from pictures of the Order that had been published after the war, and from afar there in the village-
Alice Longbottom, mother of his roommate.
"Mrs. Longbottom!" Terry said, knowing that she had responded to Rosie in the journals. "Mrs. Longbottom, I'm Terry- I live with your son, and I'm the person you spoke to in the little girl's journal. Have you found her?" he asked, breathless as he stopped and held his side a bit to try and avoid the painful stitch that had developed. He hadn't felt so stressed out in months. Stress was something he'd been told to actively avoid after his... well. After his attempt on his own life. Something that also told him he was so not ready for a kid to show up.