So, this is part of a challenge that I gave myself: take my least-favorite, most horrible characters and write a FanFiction humanizing them. Yeah.
Each chapter is going to be short, but introspective on the phenomena that is Gabe Ugliano.
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Gabe Ugliano was not a nice person. He himself understood that. However, he also didn't give a damn. He didn't give a damn about a lot of things, actually.
His first marriage ended in divorce. He loved her, and maybe she loved him, too. Maybe there had been a possibility for a happily ever after. Unlikely, but possible. He had cared...but not enough, apparently, considering how, in the end, she had loved someone else. However, he didn't give a damn.
He didn't give a damn so much that even though he was invited to her and her husband's funeral after they had died in a car crash, he didn't go. No, he didn't give a damn so much that he had gone to a bar, gotten black-out drunk, and woke up the next morning near where she had lived. He didn't give a damn so much that he spit on the house and cursed at it and yelled at it and nearly killed the small kitten that lived near there until the neighbors finally came and called him out.
(He had taken that kitten home and screamed at it and cursed at it and almost hit it...but then he didn't. He put it outside his house, threw it a few apple slices, and slammed his door shut. The kitten had been there again the next morning and stayed on his front porch for nearly a week. Then it had disappeared, never to return. He never gave a damn.)
When he met Sally Jackson, he liked her. She looked nice, she acted nice, she was nice. She was just like his first wife had been.
Gabe did the only thing he could do. He started to look nice, act nice, and tried to be nice. In the end, he wasn't though. He was a horrible person, worthy of divorce because he wouldn't love enough.
The day after he had married Sally Jackson, the first thing he said was, "Do you love me?"
She said, "Of course!"
Gabe was a horrible person, but he was not an idiot.
And Sally Jackson was a horrible liar.
Sally Jackson had a son. Perseus Jackson. The first time they had met, Perseus had given him a weary look. "Call me Percy," he had said. Gabe called him Percy out loud, but in his head, he was always Perseus Jackson, the Hero who didn't die.
Perseus Jackson was the first person to yell at him after he had yelled at Sally. Gabe was startled. Why did Perseus care? His mother still loved him, and Gabe yelling at her had no direct effect on Perseus. Why didn't he just ignore it?
Because,Gabe realized, Perseus loves her enough. Perseus loves his mother, loves people,in a way I never can. No one will leave him because they'll never have to. He loves enough.
Gabe didn't know why, but that thought sent him into a murderous rage. He had yelled at him and told him to GET OUT!
Perseus did, but he had dragged his mother with him. Gabe was left alone in the room. Perseus would never figure it out, but this was also the first time Gabe had hit Sally Jackson. It was the first time he had hitten anyone in his life. He didn't know what to think about it. It was a spur of the moment decision, something he didn't give any thought before doing.
Gabe realized that he didn't particularly care that he had hurt another human being. In fact, he didn't give a damn. That was the day Gabe realized that he really, truly, genuinely was a horrible human being.
He had left the house that day, ignoring a furious Perseus and quietly sobbing Sally. He had gone to a cemetery. The cemetery, in fact, where both his ex-wife and her husband had been buried. He had stood in front of their graves, a cigarette in his mouth. He had just stood there for maybe an hour before asking he ex-wife's grave something he had never asked her, "Do you love me?"
Gabe never got an answer.
But he didn't give a damn.
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Onwards! I tried to make it believable and stuff. Gabe is humanized and hopefully still in character. I'm planning a few more chapters. Not very many, though. Definitely not even going to reach ten chapters. So, yeah, don't expect some kind of angst-filled epic.
I think that's it for now.
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