Last Christmas
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100fandomsTitle: Last Christmas
Fandom: From
Characters/Pairings: Boyd Stevens, mention of Abby, Ellis, Frank, Father Khatri
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 540
Summary: It's Christmas morning in Fromville, and Boyd thinks back to Frank and how he'd wished for one more Christmas in the outside world with Lauren and Meagan.
Warnings/Spoilers: Spoilers through season 1. I haven't started season 2 yet (that's August's task) so any errors are for that reason. Mention of character death.
Prompt 92: sanction
As Christmas morning dawns, Boyd finds himself thinking of Frank Pratt again, about how he’d talked about his last Christmas with Lauren and Meagan before they ended up in…wherever the hell this is, and how he’d wished that he’d get a chance to have another normal Christmas in the outside world again. If Frank had taken Boyd up on his offer to escape to the woods rather than being put in the box, would he have had the opportunity to experience another Christmas?
It wasn’t a situation Boyd had ever really thought he’d have to face. As he’d said to Father Khatri at the time, he’d honestly thought that even the fact that the box was there, the knowledge that that would be the sanction faced by anyone who didn’t do their damnedest to keep their families safe, would be enough to stop that situation from arising. (Turns out he’d been even more wrong about that than he’d thought; even the fact that someone had been put in the box once hadn’t stopped some darn fool from letting them into Colony House.) Khatri had been the one to tell him at the time that he did have to enforce the consequence for Frank, so that the rest of the town would know that he meant business; Boyd had been pretty angry at him when he’d then made the decision to spare Sara from the same fate, yet despite that, he wouldn’t mind having Khatri to talk to right now about his feelings about this.
There’s a part of Boyd that gets why Frank made the choice that he did. What kind of life would it have been for him, trapped in that cabin, no means of getting the hell out of town, nothing but thoughts of Lauren and Meagan playing on his mind? He’d intended the offer as a show of mercy to Frank, but understood now that it wouldn’t have been a kindness after all. Frank wouldn’t have wanted that Christmas on his own, only the memories of Lauren and Meagan to keep him company. And that was assuming that he’d even gotten that far, without having crossed paths with the monsters anyway. If Frank had been here in town today, he’d have probably been out there getting hammered right about now, and quite likely ending up with Boyd and Kenny having to keep him in a cell overnight to sleep it off.
Boyd’s trying not to think of his own last Christmas with Abby, exchanging presents, how Abby and Ellis had taken comedy photos of him when he’d fallen asleep in front of that crap movie. He’s also trying not to think of that last day when Abby was opening fire on the residents, convinced that they were all trapped in some kind of nightmare and if people died in their dream, they’d immediately wake up back in their real lives. He hadn’t believed it when Abby said it, and he still doesn’t believe it now, but when he thinks of Frank and Lauren and Meagan, there’s a part of him that wishes there could have been some truth in it, that somewhere out there, the three of them are having their Christmas that Frank had dreamed of.
Fandom: From
Characters/Pairings: Boyd Stevens, mention of Abby, Ellis, Frank, Father Khatri
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 540
Summary: It's Christmas morning in Fromville, and Boyd thinks back to Frank and how he'd wished for one more Christmas in the outside world with Lauren and Meagan.
Warnings/Spoilers: Spoilers through season 1. I haven't started season 2 yet (that's August's task) so any errors are for that reason. Mention of character death.
Prompt 92: sanction
As Christmas morning dawns, Boyd finds himself thinking of Frank Pratt again, about how he’d talked about his last Christmas with Lauren and Meagan before they ended up in…wherever the hell this is, and how he’d wished that he’d get a chance to have another normal Christmas in the outside world again. If Frank had taken Boyd up on his offer to escape to the woods rather than being put in the box, would he have had the opportunity to experience another Christmas?
It wasn’t a situation Boyd had ever really thought he’d have to face. As he’d said to Father Khatri at the time, he’d honestly thought that even the fact that the box was there, the knowledge that that would be the sanction faced by anyone who didn’t do their damnedest to keep their families safe, would be enough to stop that situation from arising. (Turns out he’d been even more wrong about that than he’d thought; even the fact that someone had been put in the box once hadn’t stopped some darn fool from letting them into Colony House.) Khatri had been the one to tell him at the time that he did have to enforce the consequence for Frank, so that the rest of the town would know that he meant business; Boyd had been pretty angry at him when he’d then made the decision to spare Sara from the same fate, yet despite that, he wouldn’t mind having Khatri to talk to right now about his feelings about this.
There’s a part of Boyd that gets why Frank made the choice that he did. What kind of life would it have been for him, trapped in that cabin, no means of getting the hell out of town, nothing but thoughts of Lauren and Meagan playing on his mind? He’d intended the offer as a show of mercy to Frank, but understood now that it wouldn’t have been a kindness after all. Frank wouldn’t have wanted that Christmas on his own, only the memories of Lauren and Meagan to keep him company. And that was assuming that he’d even gotten that far, without having crossed paths with the monsters anyway. If Frank had been here in town today, he’d have probably been out there getting hammered right about now, and quite likely ending up with Boyd and Kenny having to keep him in a cell overnight to sleep it off.
Boyd’s trying not to think of his own last Christmas with Abby, exchanging presents, how Abby and Ellis had taken comedy photos of him when he’d fallen asleep in front of that crap movie. He’s also trying not to think of that last day when Abby was opening fire on the residents, convinced that they were all trapped in some kind of nightmare and if people died in their dream, they’d immediately wake up back in their real lives. He hadn’t believed it when Abby said it, and he still doesn’t believe it now, but when he thinks of Frank and Lauren and Meagan, there’s a part of him that wishes there could have been some truth in it, that somewhere out there, the three of them are having their Christmas that Frank had dreamed of.
