Dryad universe prompt. William does something telekinetic at school. Maybe on purpose, maybe not.
William launches himself into the car like he’s escaping the paparazzi. “Go go go,” he hisses, raspy, to his mother.
Scully, bewildered, looks back at him. “William, there’s a line! This isn’t an action movie, what’s going on?”
He makes a noise like a dying walrus.
Heather up ahead in a Juicy tracksuit and day-glo safety vest, directing traffic like a fucking Busytown cop with rhinestones across her annoyingly fantastic ass.
She spots Scully and waves like a beauty queen.
Scully smiles back, waggling a few fingers.
“MOOOOMMMMM GOOOOO,” her son wails.
She whips around. “William Samuel Scully, what on earth is wrong with you?”
He slouches, scowls. “I messed up.”
Having been with his father for nearly two decades, she knows “I messed up” can mean anything from “I might have eaten a smidgen of evidence” to “I sort of released a serial murderer of children.”
Something throbs in her temporal lobe. “Tell me.”
“There was…there was this bird,” William says, hiccuppy. Curled against the door.
She knows. She knows before he says it that the bird hit a classroom window during recess and that its delicate flower-stem neck snapped and it fell and fell and fell.
“Oh, honey…” she murmurs, closing her eyes for a beat.
Her boy - her lovely, strange, terrifying, angel of a boy - makes another hiccuppy sound. “Katie handed it to me and she was crying and I didn’t know what to do, Mom, his eyes were so…and and his beak was a little bloody and Katie was crying and even Aiden looked really sad and he’s NEVER sad and I just…”
He sobs a little.
“Oh, sweetheart,” she breathes. “Oh, Will.”
“I pulled the… anyway. I made him alive and his eyes were so bright but everyone was talking and they told the teachers and…”
Her sweet, sweet boy. He never asked for this.
William is gasping, trying to stay in control. “Am I in trouble?”
Scully laughs a little, merging left as Heather waves. “Honey, no. Let me call Daddy, let’s go to The Melting Pot. Let’s eat cheese and chocolate until we’re sick.”
He sniffles, looks up. “You said to nev-“
“Cheese,” she says firmly, blinker on. “Chocolate.”
William smiles from the corner. His beautiful eyes, red-rimmed because he is too good.
“Okay,” he breathes, with a watery smile. “Okay.”
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