me when relationships in an apocalypse are not the same as Before
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in your dream, you were looking for me by TheLastTheosaurus
Fandoms: The Road - Cormac McCarthy
22 Aug 2023
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Here, in the residue of the word that once was, the man sometimes forgets that he is a parent.
Or rather, he does not forget. It is impossible to forget. He is always with the boy, and the boy is his.
The boy is his, but sometimes, the man forgets that he is meant to be the boy’s parent. After all, in the end, it was supposed to be that both him and the woman would be the boy’s parents. They would do it together. That was the plan, and then the boy was born, and the world fell apart, and there were two then one bullet left in the gun and the woman was dead and it wasn’t the man’s fault. At least, he hopes so. He hopes and he prays because if it was his fault, he doesn’t know what to do. If it was his fault, that means that he is supposed to fix it, and he doesn’t know how.
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or: the man does not know how to be a parent in this skeleton of the earth. he does not know how to be a parent to a child so good where the man is just that -- human. he is human and he is a person and he has never gotten to just be the boy's dad and nothing else and that makes me sad :((Series
- Part 9 of theo's road fics
- Part 25 of theo's twb mcc 2023 fics