I love headcanon-ing that the one time Elliot Ludwig took oliver to poppy’s grave, he left him there overnight. And he just sat there, using the tomb as a very uncomfortable pillow, and the jacket his father told him to bring as a blanket. And he sits there, wondering what he actually meant to his ‘father.’ nothing. he meant absolutely nothing to his father.
in the morning when his father remembers, he doesn’t apologize for leaving him. He doesn’t say anything. not because he didn’t feel bad, but because he knew this child would be the next.












