Fairy Tail Angst Week
Day Four (Smothered)
AN: Happy Mother's Day.
Title: Smothered
Pairings: N/A
Character(s): Ultear Milkovich, Ur, mentions of others
Summary: There is more beneath the surface than most people ever realize. But no ever bothers to look.
There was something strangely poetic about living near the sea, Ultear had thought. She was free now, freer than she'd ever been, but Jellal and Merudy (and their new friends, the Oración Seis) weren't. It didn't make her sad, though, because she knew that it was only a matter of time until the remaining members of Crime Sorcière were freed from the chains that bound them. Actually, now that the war had ended, maybe they had already been freed.
Ultear had a relatively normal life in the little village she'd found. It was amazing that she was still alive, more than a year after sacrificing her time, but she knew what little time she had left was rapidly running out.
One day, the people of the small seaside town saw the old woman that no one really knew walk out onto the beach, sit down on a rock, and stare out at the horizon. In time, a young child ran over to her and poked her, but she was long gone by then, smiling happily at the endless sea.
Sometimes, when the people in the village looked out at the horizon, they would see a young girl, laughing and dancing on the waves, pigtails flying out behind her. The ocean seemed to cradle her sometimes, but that wasn't the part people paid attention to.
People came to see the little girl dance on the waves in the differences, but they never cared to look at the ocean. That was the way it always was with people – they saw the beauty of the iceberg, but not the complexity beneath. But the ocean didn't care. It simply rocked its waves back and forth beneath the dancing girl, because a mother's love for her daughter doesn't need to be seen. It just needs to be real.