My Obsession
Word Count: 303
Prompts: Danger Ahead – Sinner Boy – Fiery Chasm.
Summary: Some of Alice's thoughts and emotions when Oz was cast into the Abyss.
He was not what she had expected him to be.
She had been expected someone older and more distinct.
Not this little boy that looked like his life hadn't even started yet.
How could someone like him become the target of her intentions? She didn't know, but her interest had already set onto him, and she wasn't going to let him get away.
The poor little boy being condemned for a price he didn't know how to pay. He looked so lost and unsure when the Baskervilles appeared.
When they were going to cast him into the Abyss, what was he expecting? The hell-hole everyone knew it was? A fiery chasm where it was so hot the flesh started to melt from the bones? Or maybe a cold inferno where you would freeze from the outside in?
The Abyss would be very different than he expected, and she wished that she could see his eyes and face when he was first pulled into it.
But she wouldn't be able to. She needed to leave now, since her powers were ebbing and it would be suicide to stay in a world that was unstable to your core.
She retreated before she could watch the ceremony that would bring forth the boy's demise. She wanted to watch, but she might as well get a head start on finding him in the Abyss.
"I'll be waiting for you," she whispered into his ear before, "to come to our side."
She couldn't help the longing she felt in her chest. "I've finally found…my key."
She released him and returned to the hell from whence she came.
Alice couldn't help her smile as she set off to look for the boy whose ruin had become her obsession.
He might be a sinner, but he was her little sinner.