A/N Hi everyone! It's been a minute. First off I want to thank everyone who's followed this story from the bottom of my heart. This fic has lived in my brain rent free for over a decade.
But good news! It's going to be finished soon! I've been working to rewrite the entire thing into something more polished and to give it a fresh start I'm going to be reposting it under the new title Mere Monstrosity. The first few chapters have been posted already and it will be updated weekly (because holy shit I've got enough written now to actually do that?) Anyway, here's a shiny new prologue and I hope y'all will keep reading 3 (Alexa has been changed to Alessa btw)
Additional tags:
Graphic depictions of violence
slowburn, hurt/comfort, angst, tragedy, time travel, demigod oc, saving Tom Riddle, tragedy with a happy ending, romance, Tom Riddle/OC
MERE MONSTROSITY - Prologue
Alessandra looked up at her dour father and half jogged after mamma, clinging to her hand.
"Mia stellina," her mother tsked, "Alright, you can come with me."
"Mamma!" Bianca called, "I want–"
Alessa didn't catch the rest of what her sister said. There was a bright light, an overwhelming smell of chlorine, and then she was in the air, thrown back as if by an invisible force. Before she could even scramble, screaming, to her feet she knew, she knew the smoking flesh on the floor was no longer her mamma. She had felt, as one feels a rubber band snapping, the horrific rip as the body and spirit divorced.
Father was suddenly towering even farther above her, scooping her wailing body into his arms. They were falling–down, down, down–through an emptiness so dark even her keen eyes could not parse.
Mamma was gone.