A (late) Theo Raeken appreciation week post because I accidentally forgot to post it on day 7
The boy and the monster that replaced him -
A snippet that may become more
Theo sat, legs crossed over as he stared at the grave in silence, the only sound filling the space being his own racing heartbeat and the faint sound of the wind rustling the leaves up above on the lone tree next to the lone grave.
The grave of a little boy who loved Star Wars and those small frog shaped chocolates that were once twenty cents. A boy who's mother hated him for an illness he couldn't control and a father who somehow still looked at him with so much love, despite the fact even the smallest of certain things like playing catch left the boy gasping and out of breath. An older sister with so much potential, held back by the boys piling medical bills.
The boy once had two best friends... before everything went to shit and one lost a mother slowly and painfully, the boys own mother, who sat by and watched for the ump-teenth time as he struggled to breathe before his father found him.
His eyes skimmed the name engraved into the grave.
"Theodore - Theo, Teddy - Raeken."
"I'm sorry you never got to live." Theo whispered to the grave of a boy that had died too young, a monster rising in his place.
The boys heart was somewhere Theo didn't know, scattered in some dread doctors lab along with the other pieces of himself they had dug out and replaced. Even his memories of these people he knew about were tainted by their touch.
Theo could walk past the boys father in the street and never know it was him. He sometimes watched Liam and Dr Geyer and wandered if the boys father would treat him the same way, even if he never knew that Theo was the reason 'Teddy' never came home from the bridge that day.
"I'll bring you home." He silently promised the boys' empty grave. He didn't know how or when, but it only seemed right in Theo’s journey for absolution that he brought together the pieces of the boy.
For @theoraekenapperciation week
