Horribleness

by EccentrikPirate

A Ten ficlet challenge. Ten songs. Ten ficlets. Details inside. "Billy paused—fingers still tapping away at the Horrible Remote of their own free will. Crap. What did he just say? The human race was a rotting fish? Oh crap. That sounded awful."

9. Bohemian Rhapsody

9. "Bohemian Rhapsody" – Queen. "Momma, didn't mean to make you cry. If I'm not make again by this time tomorrow, carry on, carry on."

He writes a letter to his mother the night of his induction.

Evil-doers don't have families. They don't have mothers that once packed PB and J sandwiches with the crusts cut off for lunch. They don't have mothers that used to tuck them in at night. They don't have mothers that cried in shame when they dropped out of college to pursue a life of—

Well he never quite said what it was he would be pursuing. He thought it would be best if his mother never knew that particular detail. He thought it would protect her somehow if she didn't know.

So in the letter he apologizes—profusely—as he calmly explains he won't be coming home for Christmas; that he won't be coming home ever again.

She'll cry when she reads it.

Part of him believes she already recognized Dr. Horrible's face on the news.

They were just both in denial.