Summary:
It's been seven long years since Sarah Williams escaped the clutches of The Goblin King with her younger half-brother Toby. After receiving her degree of Education at university; forlorn and impatient, she applies for a teaching position at a local high school. Soon after applying, she begins feeling as though she is being stalked, being watched everywhere she is. Paranoid and afraid, she is terrified it could be something that had left her years ago.
M for cussing and eventual content. Warnings shall be given out when needed.
Falling Down
A thunderstorm was raging outside, the heavy drops of rain smashing against the cracked windows. Lightning streaked the sky and the heavy roll of thunder woke the young woman sleeping in her bed. She jerked awake, her eyes wide. She spun around to see the storm and cursed under her breath. When she heard a light knock on her door she lay back down and called out, "Come in!"
A familiar bob of blonde hair poked in and adorable blue eyes stared straight into hers. She relaxed and smiled at the cute little boy at her door. "What's wrong, Toby? Is the storm scaring you?" Her voice was kind and gentle, like the way her mother would have spoken to her if she'd been alive right now.
Toby nodded, his blonde locks bouncing on his big head. "I'm really scared, Sarah." He said, whimpering when another roll of thunder was heard. He bolted to Sarah and attempted to jump into her bed. Sarah caught him and tucked him in beside her, his blue polka dot pyjamas rubbing against her silky ones. She enveloped him in a tight hug, her arms a haven to the Toby.
There was once a time when Sarah would have pushed Toby away from her and screamed for him to leave her room. But that was seven years ago; seven long, forlorn years ago. She was now twenty two, an age too old to be still living with her father and step mother. After completing a degree of Education at university, she'd just retired to just living with her parents until she found a suitable job that would help support her.
Yet she had a certain yearning in her chest that she couldn't quite define. She'd felt it after dating so many men it was hard to know how many she'd actually dated. It was too many to count. That feeling of not belonging with those men was strong and she dumped them the moment she felt it. She wasn't the type to lead them on.
Toby snored by her side gently, his small body rising and falling in a steady rhythm. Sarah stroked his blonde hair and sighed, reminiscing when he was only three, when he'd disappeared from her life for thirteen hours. No! She shouted in her head. I will not think of that. Sarah inhaled deeply and forced out the willing memories to surface, to make her face her fear.
Instead, she let Toby curl into her and she too fell asleep, for once not dreaming of a particular person.
A/N:
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