Copy and Paste of my RA location challenge fic
Rangers Apprentice Challenges!
1/Location- Seacliff
Will looked out at the lush greens of Seacliff. From his stable Tug neighed, alerting him that someone was approaching.
Getting up from his seat by the window, Will left his mandola resting on the chair and walked to the door.
Something felt different today, but he couldn’t place it.
Something was definitely strange because when he opened the door Will could only stare at the person standing there.
It was Halt.
A grin broke out, “Halt! I haven’t seen you in ages! What are you doing here?” Will went to hug him, glad to see his former mentor.
Then, pulling back, he immediately got worried, as a ranger, he was taught to always expect the worst when something different or out of the ordinary happened.
“Did something happen and Redmont, or Castle Araluen?”
Halt looked at his old apprentice, correction, his son’s worried face and smiled, his ranger instincts were sharp as ever, no matter what he was feeling at Halt’s visit, “no, everything’s fine, but can’t I just come and see you every now and then? Speaking of which, are you going to just leave me out here? Or are you going to let me in?”
Will, ever the apprentice, hurriedly apologized and let Halt in.
When Halt stepped into the threshold, he was met with a pleasant surprise.
Around the room in vases of various sizes and colours, were wildflowers.
Will saw Halt looking and said, “old habits die hard, right? It makes me feel more at home.”
Halt shouldn’t have been surprised, but he still kind of was when he noticed that the mix of flowers was the very same that Halt had had around the cabin at Redmont when Will had been an apprentice.
Though he would never admit it, Halt in that moment felt quite emotional.
Pulling his mask of indifference up, Halt hooked up his Rangers cloak on the wall and went to where Will was making coffee for the two of them.
Truth be told, Halt had been feeling kind of lonely. Pauline was there of course, but it wasn’t the same. It never was. Halt felt that things had become so different the day Will left for Seacliff.
So when the opportunity to see him arose, Halt snatched it up, eager to see his son.
Though he’d never let Will know that.
Or admit it aloud.
He had a reputation to keep after all.
______________________________________________________________Just a little fluff. I feel like Halt would've missed Will.
Bro, I literally wrote this in 15 minutes. I never saw this post. Help.
______________________________________________________________ So, I was asked to make this its own separate post. But I never got around to it. :/ SO HERE IT IS 6 DAYS LATER!