Shattered
Summary: All his romantic visions of love and happieness had been shattered when his mother left.
He could remember it clearly. The day that his mother left, that is. Robert Ford had been just a child at the time, but he clearly remembered sitting at the window seat in his and his brother, James' room, staring down at the driveway and waiting for his mother's car to turn up the drive. Surely his beautiful and loving mom wouldn't just leave her two little boys with their monster of a father. It took awhile for him to come to terms that she wasn't coming back.
Then, when he'd just turned thirteen, Ford had another piece of himself shattered. His innocence. Daddy dearest had seen how his "clients" looked at his young son. Had noticed how people's gazes would flicker down to Robert's pink lips. How eyes would travel down his long, sinewy body. A body that had just began growing some muscle. It was then that his father began to sell his underage son to the highest bidder.
The only reason that Ford hadn't escaped that hell before he did, was because of his baby brother. What if his father forced James to do the same things that Robert did-was forced to do? He wouldn't be able to live with himself if that had happened. So he'd taken it. It was better him than his innocent brother. He wasn't going to be like his mother and just abandon the people that he claimed to love.
He could clearly remember the mouths that had touched him, the things that he'd done. But what he most regretted? Was leaving his brother to go to a school out of state. His brother hated him now. But for good reason. He'd left him there to fend for himself in a volitle, violent home. He'd been planning on coming back for James, once he had enough money to do so. He hadn't planned to just leave him there. Things hadn't worked out the way that he'd wanted them to. He'd been stupid. He'd thought that he could blackmail Elijah Clark, AKA: Bennet Thompson. He'd been so very wrong. Bennet Thompson had gotten Ford right where he wanted him. With the threat of his younger brother's life hanging over his head, Ford was forced to do Bennet's bidding.
And then James had arrived in Llanview. Running from his father, having stolen money from him. He'd had one of their father's men on his tail, ready to do anything-including murder James-to get the money back. James had ended up in the hospital with a gunshot wound in his chest, fired by Starr Manning, the girl that he'd incidently ended up on the run with, by complete accident, of course. But their father had ended up in jail. The nightmare should be over. There should be a happy ending. And Bennet/Eli was going to be arrested. But the nightmare wasn't over because the mother who'd abandoned them, was here in Llanview. She had another son, James and Robert had a younger brother by the name of Nate. A brother who was the whole reason why their mother had ran away. He couldn't forgive his mom like James could. She'd left him. She had moved on with her life in a way that Robert wasn't sure that he could, because the nightmares of his childhood still existed and resided in his head.
The End
