Mommy Issues
Your mother comes to visit you
Warning this story contains a not wonderful reunion with a toxic parent
For five years you have been no contact with your mother and everyday that her words didn't dig into you was another day that you were healing.
Elliott and you were at the Saloon sharing a drink in celebration of him coming home from a second book tour. He was working on another novel but was having trouble finding a good antagonist, luckily for him and ill fortunated of, you fate was just about to deliver one.
The door to the Saloon opened and your entire body went rigid.
"Ellie.." you whisper out. "We gotta go."
Elliott doesn't ask questions, the woman's back is turned to you two as she chats up Gus, quickly you two make it for the door and out into the night.
"Who is that?" He asks as you two speed walk home.
"My mother.." you say your heart clenching in your chest. "I can't believe she's here."
Elliott knew the relationship with your mother wasn't one to write home about, he knew that she had ripped your heart out with her narcissistic personality and you had fought hard to get away from her.
"Breathe my darling." Elliott said grabbing your hand
You went through your breathing exercises feeling the bile rise up in your throat. A thousand questions ran through your head as you wondered why she was here. Why now? Who had told her you were here? Dad?
You didn't remember the walk home, the feeling of Elliott holding your hand and controlling your uneven breaths were all you could register.
The lights were out, Elliot's body held yours as a form of sensory seeking.
"I hope she doesn't find the farm." You say quietly
Elliott stayed up with you until two when you both went to bed.
The next morning there was a knock on your door around ten. You went to answer it, Elliott was in the barn with Bubba the pig. Which left you alone with the woman you hated the most.
"Mother." You said.
"Hello (y/n), my darling. Stand up straight will you? Is this your home?" You stepped back as she let herself in.
"My, have you only just moved in? It looks like it needs a lot of work."
"We do ask." Elliott said from the doorway, "that guests take off their shoes before entering."
"Who's this?" Your mother asks taking a seat the table.
"My husband." You say tightly.
She looks Elliott up and down like a stain in the carpet, then turns to you.
"Well, I suppose that he's your type, though I think that he could do a little better."
"Do not speak about my partner like that." Elliott says coldly.
"Oh are you still in with that gender nonsense?" Your mother asks you. "Seriously darling, you're a perfect girl I see no reason to-"
"They," Elliott says tightly "are a perfect person and I think it's time you leave." Elliott says, "I spent four years chasing after that human. Four years of hoping and praying that I would get a single date and Yoba granted me with a partner more perfect than nature itself."
Your mother leaned back in the chair and looked him up and down.
"I came all this way and you're going to tell me to leave my daughter?"
"You came all this way to ridicule your child and I'm telling you that I will not stand by and have you rip away what they've been trying to heal for the last five years! Now you can either walk out or I can have our trusty goat kick you out."
"You let a goat into your house no wonder it's so-"
"Taylor!" Elliott yells outside, with a quick a high pitched whistle your goat jumps the stone fence and runs up past your dog and into the house.
The goat belts innocently at you, with a quick wag of it's tail it looks at the stranger and goes behind the chair she's sitting in.
The goat headbutts the chair and the woman stumbles out of it, she screeches as the goat and pulls the hem of your mother's skirt. She screams and runs out of the house cursing you both.
You run to the door and yell;
"Fuck off with you and your curses you hateful cunt!"
Elliott laughs and Taylor the goat belts after her, then innocently leaves the house and goes for the berry bush for a well deserved treat.
"Are you alright?" Elliott asks you.
You sigh and lean against the doorway, heart pounding, shaking your head you wordlessly allow Elliott to hold you in his arms.
"I froze up..thank you so much for standing up for me."
Elliott shakes kisses the top of your head, his arms like a weight holding you to reality that you're safe.
"I will always do what I can for you, please don't thank me for doing the bare minimum."
"Elliott, it isn't the bare minimum to me..its more than I could ever dream of someone doing for me."
Elliott sighs, a knot in his chest forming at how such a little basic action means the world to you, he feels good that he made you feel good but he hates how it was through him doing something anyone should do for you.
Your husband is almost startled when suddenly you pull away and place a sensual kiss to his lips, his arms coming to your ribcage to hold you close, a small groan escaping him as you kiss.
Someday you'll realize that someone who loves you should do more than the bare minimum for you and your confidence will truly thrive then and he can't wait to grow with you through that.
21 notes
·
View notes
thinking about Elliott dealing with Impostor syndrome.
He's a good writer, and he knows this — to some degree. He knows he's good with words and imagery and coming up with character dynamics. But reading others' works when he has time off from his own produces either one of two results:
He's inspired, wanting to hone his own technique to one day be able to be on par with the very authors who made him pick up the quill in the first place.
Or he finishes the book dejected. Look at how much better the story flows compared to his last novel, their descriptions so much more colourful and evocative, he'd never measure up.
And all of a sudden he wonders if he's not as good as he once thought he was. Was he really as good at painting a picture with words as he was led to believe? Maybe he should just pack up now, leave Pelican Town and rot behind a desk in a cubicle in the city.
But it usually goes away with enough encouragement from his loved ones and self care.
66 notes
·
View notes