Runaway AU with @chcmpiions
It’s normal for children to proclaim they’d be running away when upset with their parents. It’s normal for said parents to generally ignore said announcements as children are often to wander back home as soon as it’s time for dinner. It’s normal for children to pack up snacks and a few clothes and their piggy banks.
It is less normal for children to bring knives with them when they run away. But Warlock had growth rather fond of his collection. Though his father had gifted him one twice every year since he’d been old enough to hold a pencil, the hunting and pocket knives had all gone largely unused. One had sawed through the garden hose, one had a large list of destroyed garments and furniture behind it, and another had been used to hack through his mother’s flower garden. Several of them were responsible for the myriad of cuts Warlock had received over the years.
He tossed what belongings he deemed important enough to bring haphazardly into his suitcase trunk, tying the straps together tightly rather than actually buckling them. Without a word but with several angry thoughts and a singular choice hand gesture he walked out of the house and along to a bus station. From there he hopped on the first bus that arrived and after a seemingly random number of stops decided to hop off somewhere completely new.