Day 6
"I wonder sometimes about what happened to Mal's child, poor little brat just disappearing." Cruella worried her painted red lip as she sat on the dock; it was a bizarre event for her staring at the sea and participating in a conversation with only one partner. Maybe it really was loneliness catching up with her and the need for someone, something, anything really to hear her speak, the need to be heard instead of having to wait until her input was requested and then ignored, a want for a person to listen, a person who was no longer there. "Children are quite a bit of work from what I can tell, so maybe its best we didn't find them, I'm sure we would have been horrible parents."
Cruella turned her gaze and watched as the waters crashed into the side of a boat, her thoughts wondering to the image of a little brown haired girl chasing her spotted puppy across the beach, the sound of a voice humming a lullaby to the same dark haired girl. Until, the images stopped on a familiar dream of Cruella's, Ursula was sitting in a theatre messing with the girls dress as Cruella comes to her seat, the little girl turns toward her and Cruella is left looking into a very familiar set of blue eyes, "Mommy, the Opera's about to start." And then just like every time before the image fades, leaving Cruella with that ounce of longing for a child that never existed, a child that would never have a chance to exist. Feeling that spark of sadness that always comes with these thoughts Cruella softly rocks her feet and begins to speak,
"I'm starting to think my mind must hate me, darling, if it feels the need to torture me with reminders that you're gone.", and as she stated this reasoning the salt heavy in the air was blown across the water bringing the once comforting scent of her lover toward her, "Complete torture, no matter what I do something has to remind me of you and it's killing me. It doesn't seem to help that this whole damned town is surrounded by this ocean, for sanity sake that horrible little cabin has a lake behind it. How am I supposed to forget you if it seems like you won't leave me alone?" Cruella angrily slammed her fist on the dock, "You have no right to ruin me like this, you're the one who left I did nothing wrong." Clenching her jaw she took in a slow breath, in a sigh she asked, "So why then does it feel like I'm the only one suffering? None of this was my fault, and yet I'm the one left to the wreckage."
Silence spread around her as Cruella continued her watch of the bay; it was in this stretching silence that she remembered why she used to hate the sea. The sea to her had been a parallel to her life for so long, on the top it was ever changing and new to anyone who saw it, but no matter what happened above and around it the water was the same, the waters would come and go, but no matter how far it went they would always end up back where they started at some point, and for Cruella she seemed to have finally found herself back where she started, alone. Always alone, and when she finally had let someone in who she'd thought was going to change that they too had left her for bigger things, their own ocean, an ocean she was no longer welcome to.
"It's been almost a week now, darling, and you're still not here I don't want to give up, but the time is coming when I'll have to. I don't want to keep waiting for something that's not coming back, even if it is you, I'll have to move on and even if it hurts me to do so I will." Cruella raised her gaze to the sky reciting her now customary plea, "Come back, darling. If not for yourself, then do it for me, the least you could do is come and give me a proper goodbye. A proper ending to our closed story, just come back." Bending over Cruella pushed herself up and stood her knees sore from their swinging position, turned and began the walk back to her car.
Once the door was shut and Cruella had driven off, Ursula released the breath she'd been holding and glanced up toward the dock, "Please, don't give up on me."
So don't own Once Upon a Time
Sorry this was late I think, umm I kind of rushed it, so also sorry if it's a mess.
Please review, and don't given up on me humans