Loathing
By novampires503 & queenkels
Sophie awoke with a start. Her heart pounding and face dripping with sweat, she pressed a shaking hand to her forehead. Another nightmare. Although it didn't seem like it, the "incident", as Sophie preferred to call it, was five years ago. Five whole years and she still had nightmares about it. They usually were about the things you might expect from a nightmare when one had been in a situation such as hers, but that night, it was MUCH different, and that's what terrified her the most. That nightmare had been about her mother. More specifically, it had been about the moment she realized her mother wasn't the person Sophie had thought she was. Her mother, the woman she had aspired to be all her life, was essentially living a lie. No longer in her eyes was her mother the saint she'd always believed she was. She wasn't kind, or beautiful, or a loving wife, she was a witch. But that wasn't what made it a nightmare. No, it was the realization that she was exactly like her mother. Like her mother, she couldn't let her friends be happy together. Oh no, she had to be with someone she KNEW didn't love her the way he loved Agatha, or Honora. And, just like her mother, she absolutely had to have what she wanted. No matter to the people she hurt, the relationships she shattered, or the people's lives she broke. As long as she had her happy ending, she didn't care. And that's what made her mother Evil, and made her evil, too. She was so wrapped up in what she wanted, that she tried to force Tedros to love her. He loved Agatha. Not her, not Beatrice, not anyone but Agatha. And no matter how hard she had tried, she couldn't change that. "But you didn't", Sophie thought to herself, "And that's all that matters.". She had stopped trying to be good long ago, and no amount of nightmares was going to make her try to change who she was on the inside. She now embraced her evil side, and encouraged others to do so as well. So, all was balanced in the Schools. Putting her trademark regal smile, she hopped out of bed and got ready for her morning classes.
Hort smiled internally as he packed, more than ready to get back to the School for Evil. It would be the first time in 5 years that he would get to see Sophie. It felt like forever! Sophie had sent a letter to him not to long ago, and she was in desperate need of a new Uglification teacher, and Hort was more than happy to fill in. She had said in the letter that one of the students had gone into a terrible rage and slaughtered Professor Manley and that they had to be expelled; the whole next generation of evil would be gone if she stayed.
Ah, Sophie. The lovely young woman who had once held his heart. The smile started to show on his face. She didn't have it anymore though. They had been apart long enough for him to lose all romantic feelings towards her. He wouldn't know how to handle another heartache by her hand.
There were many good memories that he had of Sophie though. How she panicked when they first met, when they has shared a room, her reaction to his frog pajamas (which he still had), how they were kinda sorta friends when she pretended to be a boy, how she reacted when she saw him after he had changed into a good-looking teenage boy. That was his favorite. It was her face, filled with shock and what seemed to be awe. There was only one question he had now though; was she the same?