It's just one of those afternoons where the absence of Henry and her parents and even Regina weighs too heavily on her mind for calmly sipping cocoa at a diner waiting for something interesting to do. So instead of sitting at the diner with her cocoa and cinnamon, she paid for a thermos of it and went looking for somewhere Henry would feel close.
She should probably have realized before she got there that she was in search of a playground. That damned castle slide Regina tore down, is forever tangled with her son in her mind. The swing she settles in when the families move on is less about Henry and more about time. About the gentle back and forth of moving without going anywhere, and the childhood she had but wasn't the one she wanted.
Her feet only lightly scrape the sand beneath them, and there's nowhere near enough noise to drown out the approach of footsteps she knows as well as her own. She doesn't turn though, because sometimes, just sometimes, it's easier to let him come before she looks into those ridiculously blue eyes.
"You're early. I wasn't expecting you for, oh--" Now she looks, feeds the concern in his eyes with a fragile half smile. "Fifteen minutes yet."
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Date: 2018-07-26 03:51 am (UTC)She should probably have realized before she got there that she was in search of a playground. That damned castle slide Regina tore down, is forever tangled with her son in her mind. The swing she settles in when the families move on is less about Henry and more about time. About the gentle back and forth of moving without going anywhere, and the childhood she had but wasn't the one she wanted.
Her feet only lightly scrape the sand beneath them, and there's nowhere near enough noise to drown out the approach of footsteps she knows as well as her own. She doesn't turn though, because sometimes, just sometimes, it's easier to let him come before she looks into those ridiculously blue eyes.
"You're early. I wasn't expecting you for, oh--" Now she looks, feeds the concern in his eyes with a fragile half smile. "Fifteen minutes yet."