battling | suitedreams: Rupert

suitedreams: Rupert

don't run me over (with a horse)

[he moves on after that, his expression growing a little more tender as he continues.]

Moving on to family, I guess... Well, we aren't related by blood, but - like I mentioned, I only met my dad once, and my mom and I had a kind of complicated relationship. One of the people who worked in the castle, though, the chamberlain... I didn't get a lot of chances to make friends when I was young, so I spent a lot of time with the people who worked here. You know, people who were paid to be nice to me. [he snorts.] I was a weird kid, though, and a lot of them would end up finding a polite way to say they were too busy or that they didn't have time to talk. He never did that, though. Not that he wasn't busy, but - he always found time to humor me, and if he absolutely couldn't take the time, he'd let me talk to him while he worked. I grew up with him right there, so - he was more like a father to me than my biological dad ever was.

Blood ain't the only kinda family you can form.

[If anybody should know, it would be him. In some ways, a family of choice feels better than one only bound by blood.]

Kind guy.

He really was. Supportive, too, and really encouraging.

[he pauses for another moment. one person left, but...]

Amir, he... [...] Sorry. I-I can't, not right now.

Don't worry about it.

How'd it feel?

...Better, I think. Or - at least it was nice to think about them the way they used to be.

[and not in the context of what happened to them.]

So - thank you. Seriously.