The Fine Print: Daniel Knauf and HBO own Carnivale and, unfortunately, Justin and Iris.
Minutes Like Hours
By twinb80
Chapter One: As I Lay Me Down to Sleep
The house had become quiet as Norman lay under his covers. Iris had finally left him after changing his soiled cloths and Norman welcomed the quietness. And it yet feared it just the same. Justin could be anywhere in the house doing God knows what and to whom. Norman had heard the ambulance arrive and carry out the latest maid Justin had gone through. He had tried with all his capabilities to try and rise out of his bed when he heard the Bishop talking to Iris. Unfortunately that had been a lost cause since the Bishop didn't even come to say hello to him. This hurt Norman for he and Bishop McNaughton had been good friends and to have the man barely acknowledge him was truly a slap in the face. Norman's pride had also taken a blow from his encounter with Iris soon there after. At least now she was gone. For how long Norman didn't know but he welcomed her absence.
When did she become his enemy and not his daughter? Norman could honestly say he did not see these events coming. Even if the Lord himself had told him that the man he raised as a his own son would turn out to be a Demon and the girl he had loved as his own flesh and blood daughter would one day turn on him he wouldn't have believed it. Wouldn't believe that such a betrayal would ever take place. And yet here it was. Betrayed by those he had saved in that forest so many years ago. Norman's eyes began to tear and he allowed himself this indulgence to mourn the loose of his "children". Thank the Lord his wife hadn't lived to see this day. It would truly have killed her. For she loved Justin and Iris as if they were her own. Just like Norman had. As the tears flowed silently down his cheeks Norman looked back into the past and into himself. And he finally admitted that he a Reverend and father figure, had loved Iris more than just a daughter at one point in his life.
