hackthis_archive | The Lost Fairytale of Boone Carlyle (B/S)

Okay, so, I had this thought, right? The new Snow Patrol video for 'Chocolate' is about the end of the world, and in it the singer, Gary Lightbody, also known as Neville Longbottom on occasion, is just hanging around during the end of the world, well this totally triggered my memory of ~~Cillian Murphy~~ Theodore in 28 Days Later, and I have this image of Neville (Gary) wandering the city looking for Theodore when the world is ending and this only makes sense if you've seen 28 Days Later. But uh, yeah. Use your imaginations! What?! It made sense in my head. It was all beautiful and poetic too! Fine, fine.

Yesterday, I wrote Sawyer POV, today...

~~Tater!~~ Boone.

Lost.
(Boone/Shannon)

The Lost Fairytale of Boone Carlyle

Once upon a time, in a land called Manhattan, a young boy lived with his mother in a fair castle in the clouds. The boy had shiny black hair and pink cheeks, and he was considered the prettiest boy for many blocks around. The castle he lived in was a penthouse, decorated lavishly, with many rooms for a boy his age to play in, and the boy lived there happily with his mother, who was the fairest homemaker in the land. His father had died when the boy was very small and so he didn't remember him well, but it didn't matter because his mother was his entire world. Her pictures were all over the television and in the shiny magazines that decorated their fair castle, and the boy was always happy because his mother loved him very, very much. She said he was her special boy and that no one would ever come between them.

Every day the boy's mother went off to work where she did motherly things and at the end of the day she would bring the boy cookies and cakes and all the things he loved. She would pinch his cheeks, which she said looked like apples, and she would tell him that she would never leave him. She said she loved him, and that no one would ever love him as much as she did.

One day the boy's mother brought a man home. The boy knew very little about men, because his mother had kept him near her in the castle for a very long time, and the only other people he ever met were the children at school and his mother’s helpers. The boy was afraid. The man was tall and loud, when he was in the room his mother didn't pay as much attention to the boy. The boy was very sad, because he loved his mother very much.

The boy made a plan to leave the castle, because he thought if he left then his mother would realize how much she loved him and not the man and then she would get rid of the man and they would be happy again.

On the day he planned to leave, however, something unexpected happened.

The man brought someone to the castle: a little girl.

She was the most beautiful girl the boy had ever seen, with long blonde hair and bright blue eyes, and from the moment he saw her the boy was afraid and excited and confused. The girl was bright and charming and so, so pretty and for the first time the boy loved someone else besides his mother, and it scared him -- but it also made him happy, because if his mother could love someone else then so could he. So he gave the little girl all the love he had saved for his mother, and he thought this was good -- but his mother didn't like it.

His mother didn't like the little girl at all. She called the little girl The Princess. Not my princess or 'oh, what a pretty princess', just The Princess, and the boy agreed. At least he thought he did, because the little girl was beautiful and fair just like the princesses in the books his mother used to read him. And so he called the little girl his princess, and he loved her, and he thought this was good.

And he thought that she loved him too.

He promised his princess he would never leave her, and he made her promise never to leave him.

And he thought this was enough.

One day the man died, and everyone was very sad. Well, almost everyone was very sad. The boy's mother was sad and his princess was sad, but the boy wasn't sad at all. He had never liked the man for taking his mother away, and he had never liked the way his princess seemed to love the man more than him. Now that the man was dead, the boy had everything he had ever wanted.

But it was not to last.

The boy woke up one morning and found his princess gone, and he was sad and desolate. He went to his mother and asked her where the princess had gone, and his mother said she had sent the princess away because she was bad.

The boy wept, and he begged his mother to bring the princess back, but she refused. She said that the princess was bad and evil, and the boy was better off without her. The boy knew better though, and he wept more for his princess was gone, and he knew not when he would see her again.

The boy grew angry with his mother and he threatened to leave, but his mother was crafty and she said that the princess was false and untrue, for she knew of the promise and she said the princess had left the boy without a second thought. His mother said it was wrong for the boy to love the princess more than he loved his mother, and the boy knew not what to do because he loved his mother, but he loved his princess too.

And so he stayed in the castle with his mother and tried to forget that the princess had ever existed -- but he could not.

And so, without his mother's knowledge, he began to look for his princess. It took him a long time, but he found her, and he was dismayed to learn she was living with a man, because she was his princess and should only have lived with him. When he asked her to come home with him she refused; she said he had betrayed her by not coming sooner.

She said she did not love him, and she would never live with him again.

The princess said she only loved the man, and the boy wept for he loved her still, even though she caused him great pain.

The boy devised a plan to get rid of the man. He would offer the man whatever he wanted to get him to leave: gold, jewels, land, horses, whatever the man wanted. But the man was wily, and he did not want any of these material things. Instead the man wanted the boy –- and the boy was confused and scared, but he loved his princess and would do anything for her, so he went with the man.

Afterwards, the man left the boy, and the he left the princess, and the boy was happy.

He moved out of his mother’s castle, and waited for his princess to come, but she did not. Instead she found another man, and another and another until the boy could not move for men between he and his princess, and he knew not what to do. He went home to his mother, who took him in, all the while declaring the princess untrue.

And the boy lived with his mother and waited for his princess, and every time she called, he came running, hoping that this would be their happy ending -- but it never came to pass.

Boone still has hope though, and he is now a man himself, waiting on his princess and looking for his fairytale ending.

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