“They told me you were dead” Vivian rasped, glaring hard at the man before her. Though ice filled her words, her eyes swam with unbridled grief. How, she thought desperately. How can this be possible? She still remembered that day; the chaos that followed an explosive ambush, her mother and father barking orders over the noise, Azazel whisking her away to safety while her caretaker, her only real friend in the world, ran to the other side the moment they broke into her childhood home. Vivian grit her teeth; the cold, crystalline shards swirling around her fingers sharpened like daggers.
“I spent ten years believing you were dead,” she said, unable to keep the quiver from her voice this time. “And now I find you’re alive and well? With him, of all people!”
The older man, this scruffy, wayward remnant of a life long past opened his mouth to reply; she wasn’t about to give him that courtesy. Not anymore.
“I was just a girl,” she cried, and as she did the ache in her chest spilled out across her face. “I was a girl, and I needed my father.” Why, she added silently, unable to speak it aloud. Why did you leave me all alone?
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That one AU where the Ice Queen discovers Erik is still alive…💔
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