Disclaimer: I do not own Eragon
Characters: Eragon, Brom
Genre:
A/N: warning to most these will probably come quit often due to the fact that I am in love with Eragon…
He watched the older man with the best his adolescent human eyes would allow. He moved with precision as if he knew so well what being a rider meant, the responsibilities you held, and the stress that weighed on your shoulders. As if he understood perfectly well what Eragon felt inside, that no matter how hard he tried he couldn't completely hide. It was as if Brom knew well before Eragon did that one day Eragon would be a broken man.
Brom had been watching over Eragon from the day he found Garrow dead until now. Brom treated Eragon almost like a son. He was kind, yet strict; Brom was a contradiction in and of himself. Yet Eragon was beginning to think of Brom like a father or a close friend, and he knew if he ever lost him he would be lost for a time. Although Brom never said it Eragon had a feeling that inside Brom loved Eragon like a son.
As he watched Brom, Eragon got a thought that seemed improbable yet he couldn't help but let it run through his mind for a time, for his own sake. Maybe Brom loved him like a father because he was his father! But no impossible, and yet Eragon knew he would forever think of Brom as a second father, who would join Garrow in Eragon's heart.