Challenge 16 entry
Title: Failings
Prompt: #16 - Lapse
Rating: G
Characters: Mulch (!)
Points to: The Unofficial Jade Princess Fan Club
Words: 100
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Mulch used to hate theft, to hate hearing the other boys talk about their loot. He preferred being with his father, who said he was good at mining, he'd go far, he was special.
Then Mother died. Father closed up. Mulch let him drink, and joined the boys at the shopping centre. They praised his nimble fingers.
Later Father began smiling again. Mulch left the boys.
But one night, Father hit the bottle and then hit Mulch. After escaping, Mulch stomped down to the centre, returning with somebody's watch.
Mulch doesn't remember this. He believes he's a thief at heart.
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I can't believe I wrote Mulch!fic. And sympathetic Mulch fic, at that...
Prompt: #16 - Lapse
Rating: G
Characters: Mulch (!)
Points to: The Unofficial Jade Princess Fan Club
Words: 100
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Mulch used to hate theft, to hate hearing the other boys talk about their loot. He preferred being with his father, who said he was good at mining, he'd go far, he was special.
Then Mother died. Father closed up. Mulch let him drink, and joined the boys at the shopping centre. They praised his nimble fingers.
Later Father began smiling again. Mulch left the boys.
But one night, Father hit the bottle and then hit Mulch. After escaping, Mulch stomped down to the centre, returning with somebody's watch.
Mulch doesn't remember this. He believes he's a thief at heart.
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I can't believe I wrote Mulch!fic. And sympathetic Mulch fic, at that...