#Child!Lara

[children-of-epiales]

Conversation

(The night Lara’s parents decide talk about leaving Poland)

26 June, 2008

     As her parents converse in the next room, Lara remains in her so-called secret spot, her back and head pressed against the wall and her legs folded up so they don’t cross over into the light. 

“ Scotland? Dear, there are so many countries in the world-why would your brilliant mind wander back to the United Kingdom?” Roxie demands in an exhausted tone. 

“ It’s just a suggestion, Diantha.” Arkadiusz reminds her, the sigh he lets out immediately after giving away that he, too, wants to be done with the conversation. “ I agree-our daughter should get to experience something new, but I don’t want her to be completely overwhelmed. Please, don’t act like you’ve forgotten why we’re discussing this.” 

The Irishwoman’s shoulders sink upon hearing the reminder. 

Lara’s eyes grow and she readjusts herself against the wall, shifting slightly further away from the entrance to the living room. If it wasn’t for why she’s decided to eavesdrop on her parents in the first place, she would be covering her ears as well. 

“ Of course I’m worried about her.” Her mother confirms. “ Don’t act like you’ve forgotten you’re the reason I haven’t killed that boy for punching Lara in the eye the other day.” 

Arkadiusz cannot hide how easily the scene reappears in his mind. He closes his eyes before he can see his wife’s grin. 

The brunette reaches up to touch the skin right below her eyelashes, having seen in the mirror earlier that the skin around her eye is still faintly bruised. The words he and the others shouted at her start to echo in her head again: Diabeł! Wróć do piekła, Diabeł! Nie należysz tutaj!

“ Maybe we should move to Scotland…” 

Roxie’s words break Lara free from the fog; she covers her mouth just in time to hide her gasping, the idea of moving never having crossed her mind before. She then decides she is unable to continue listening due to her chest feeling as if it has been torn wide open. 

“ I know it’s been a long week-” The Pole reaches for his wife’s hand; he kisses it, “-but we both know we’ve been avoiding this conversation. This was supposed to be where Lara was supposed to grow up.” 

“ And they took all of that from us.” Roxie states dryly. 

“ It’s late, let’s go to bed.”

The couple consider moving, only to freeze when they hear their child run upstairs. Lara closes her bedroom door much less gently than she desires, and Roxie can’t help her head falling into her hands. 

“ I’ll go talk to her-” Roxie tells her husband immediately. 

Arkadiusz stands up instead, one of his hands finds and squeezes his wife’s shoulder. “ No, no, you should go to bed.” He reassures her, “ I’ll speak to her.” 

The Pole follows the Irishwoman upstairs, waiting until she enters their bedroom before he goes to their daughter’s room; he knocks lightly and waits what he hopes is a minute, then enters the dark room. 

Arkadiusz closes the curtains first. He pauses, his head following the sound of the weeping, his knees slowly giving out so as to not make so much noise and lifts the end of the comforter up. 

All the way at the other end of the space, Lara lies curled up; her soft crying forces the warlock to crawl over to the head of the bed, Arkadiusz lifts up the cover. “ Proszę wyjść tam, Lara.” He pleads. 

He watches the girl freeze up, quick sniffs and deep breaths follow. “ Nie chcę, po prostu zostaw mnie w spokoju.” Lara presses herself further against the wall, she shuts her mouth in an effort to stop making sounds all together. The pains in her chest, unlike the sounds, do not come to an end. She cannot ignore them nor pretend the pain does not exist. 

Arkadiusz rests on his side, his hand extending as far as it can under the bed and keeps it there. 

Time seems to stop; Lara senses this, she knows she couldn’t avoid her father for long, even if she wanted to. 

“ Why are we leaving our home, Papa?” The girl finally gives in. “ I didn’t do anything wrong-I don’t think I did. I was trying to…” There’s nothing she can think of that would make sense to her father, with how many times he promised her that the kids who despised her so much were never Lara’s fault. 

Reassurance, her father promised her many times before, lasts for quite awhile. What he didn’t think of was that the magic that came with said reassurance had eventually worn off. That, and Arkadiusz taking her to school most mornings so the kids themselves and their parents had time to consider his imposing size; it was all he could do, the warlock couldn’t go to class with Lara and continue to be big and scary. 

“ This will be for all of us, moje Serce.” Arkadiusz blinks as his daughter almost hits her head turning so she could face him. “ Could you please come out from under the bed, Lara-I don’t want you to knock yourself out.” 

The girl eagerly climbs out from under the bed. “ Why do you want to leave Poland?” Lara immediately asks her father. 

“ Me? Oh well-well for me I suppose there’s nothing here for me anymore.” Arkadiusz responds. He could never get away with lying, not even with Lara. “ I do love Poland, the people I grew up with and the city-but it’s time for something new now.” He won’t say he’s made the decision to leave before, that there was nothing left for him in the country before, and he certainly couldn’t admit he came back for Lara’s sake. 

“ And Mama?” 

“ Moje Serce, you will have to ask her.”

He takes the few seconds he has to study the girl, while she contemplates actually wanting to ask her mother about the situation; besides how obvious it seems that Lara would prefer to avoid the topic around Roxie, Arkadiusz notices some sort of relief on her face. Possibly that she herself isn’t the reason he and her mother decided it would be best to move. 

“ We should have told you sooner-” He acknowledges when it becomes clear that the idea went right over his and Roxie’s heads, “ we just wanted to make sure we spoke about it before telling you. I’m sorry, Lara, if we made you feel like this was-” The words stop coming out because Arkadiusz cannot say “your fault”  to her face. He knows she knows what he means, to him it’s important that she knows that no one is blaming her for anything. Because Lara hasn’t done anything wrong. 

Arkadiusz carefully reaches and wipes a tear from Lara’s cheek before it can run. He remembers the principal’s words about the situation, the moment he and Roxie entered the office, the warlock was recognized by the now-elderly teachers. 

They were able to connect two-and-two better than the principal, who insisted there was no need to press charges against the students who chased after Lara the day before. That it was all a misunderstanding.

Roxie wanted to kill the kids. While the idea seemed a little extreme to the warlock, despite the situation, he knew the family would not be leaving Poland without expressing their dissatisfaction with the school and the children who should have been held responsible. No matter that people were wary of them before. 

Lara standing up snaps the warlock out of his thoughts. He rises as Lara sits on her bed. “ I know you said it already, Papa…” The girl says wearily. “ But, it isn’t my fault that we’re moving? I didn’t cause anything bad to happen for you and Mama, did I?” 

Arkadiusz shakes his head. “ I promise you, Lara.” He adds. “ Now, you probably already heard me say this-but it’s very late. You try and get some rest tonight, in the morning all three of us will talk about moving together, alright?” 

Not wanting to object, Lara lays down while her father pulls the covers up and over her.

*****

Translations:

Diabeł = Devil

Wróć do piekła, Diabeł = Go back to hell, Devil

 Nie należysz tutaj = You don’t belong here

Proszę wyjść tam = Please come out from under there

Nie chcę, po prostu zostaw mnie w spokoju = I don’t want to, just leave me alone

Moje Serce= My Heart

*****

Tag List: @poisonedtruth

#fic #Lara Darling-Jóźwiak #this is in present tense i hope its not confusing #i wanted to try something new #Child!Lara #lots of translation #bc Lara's papa speaks to her in Polish A LOT #cw: bullying #cw: mention of violence #if Lara sounds younger than she is #sorry but she's like 11 in this fic #she called her mom and dad Mama and Papa for a long time so

[guardian-of-da-gay]

simpler times

#this is actually the very first sonic fanart i ever done its just been sittin in my wips for so long #my take on movie!Lara-le #without that ratty lookin toupe thing the Archie comics put on her head #this is a Lara-le's Archie comic hair hate blog #anyway... #hc that she still divorces Locke and leaves #Knuckles Wachowski #has no idea if she's alive or not #but she never came back to the village #and she never sought him out even when he became kinda famous and was somewhat stationary (re:held captive) #this is in the 'before times' #before her kid revealed crazy super powers #and their tribe latched onto him as the one destined to find the Master Emerald #and she saw her child being steered toward a destiny that would take him away from her anyway #so rather than watch it happen #she chose to leave #Knuckles headcanons #knuckles the echidna #baby Knuckles #Lara-le #sonic fanart #my art #Knuckles angst #or is it #Knuckles fluff #baby Knux is livin that pouch puggle life #sonic the movie 2 #sonic the movie #scu

[cirithechildofdestiny]

Concept art of Lara Dorren aep Shiadhal.

#aen elle #the witcher #ciri the child of destiny #manga #comic #lara dorren #lara dorren aep shiadhal #elf #aen saevherne #concept art #webcomic #witcher

[rat-prophetess]

Pathologic 2 + text posts, part 3 (part 6 // part 5 // part 4 // part 2 // part 1) (Pathologic classic HD version, part 1 // part 2 // part 3 // part 4 // part 5)

this is just how I distract myself from my problems now and you're all going to have to deal with that

#pathologic #pathologic 2 #мор. утопия #taya tycheek #тая тычик #worm #worm with good intent #bad grief #гриф #lara ravel #лара равель #vlad the younger #младший влад ольгимский #stakh rubin #стах рубин #артемий бурах #artemy burakh #sticky #murky #сички #мишка my darling my skrunkly my child #yulia lyuricheva #юлия люричева #катерина сабурова #katerina saburova #rat prophet #крысиний пророк #i am often seized by the fatal american need to have a pretty good time

[tracingpapier]

knuckles deserved to have a silly happy little family >:-// locke gets him on alternating weekends ONLY.

wynmacher stepdad supremacy

#Archie Sonic #Knuckles the Echidna #Lara-Le the Echidna #Wynmacher the Echidna #pposting about more niche bs no one gives a shit about LMAOOO #okay found family fans. it is time to broaden your horizons and become blended family enjoyers #tbh making knuckles a child of divorce is the only based thing penders has ever managed to do #never thought i'd ever say this but good job penders *warily* #genuinely have no idea if ive posted that second image b4 it's from like 2022 #papier's art

[nicascurls]

Charlotte survived!

So, Charlotte has officially broken the chain of characters being played by recurring actors always dying and I love that for her!

I mean, I'm guessing that Lara posted this since season 4 hasn't been confirmed yet. If it is, do we think Charlotte, Grant, and Henry will return?

#chucky #chucky 2021 #child's play #chucky syfy #charlotte collins #lara jean chorostecki #grant collins #henry collins #eloise's random chucky thoughts

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Parents should be banned from making accounts under their child’s name, using their child’s image, on social media to get clout or monetary gain. Any money the parents earned should go directly to their child’s college fund; and they should also be fined. It’s weird, damaging, and fucking creepy.

#No one wants to see airbrushed makeup filters on a literal baby unless they’re a creep #Whether they realize it or not that is their target audience #Pick her up and hold her when she cries; don’t shove a camera in her face so you can post a video titled “When Lara is feeling bad 🥺” GROSS #child abuse tw

[stef-gallery]

#I missed the strong sexy Lara so much #as a child I always wanted to be like Lara Q_Q #they broke my heart with the reboot one D: #i am so happy she is back #Lara Croft #Tomb Raider #vgedit #tomb raider #tomb raider remastered

[leojrthetanooki]

mmmmm... animated preschool shows that don't talk down to the viewers so i can enjoy them too, my beloveds...

#Bluey #Little Bear #Octonauts #Franklin #Arthur #Tickety Toc #Ben And Holly's Little Kingdom (Proof that the Peppa Pig writers were held at gunpoint) #Elena of Avalor #Robot and Monster technically qualify as well since it was on the Noggin app for whatever reason #Wow Wow Wubbzy (I just love how it's an adaptation of a comic a child made that just makes it so much more special than it already was) #Y'know what honorable mentions to preschool shows that have familiar VAs *Looks intensely at Lara Jill Miller*

[rising-above-stars]

I love celebrating star wars day editing a star wars film with star wars fans and talking about star wars lego

as someone who has never seen a star wars related piece of media

#lara rambles #i did make a stat wars display at work that one kid got excited about #and this star wars film is pretty dope #i get to be credited as the force #the force. child double. tech. mic operator. historian

[enigma020]

Epictale Fanart

They're just adorable, I couldn't resist not drawing them like this-

Might draw more of them this valentine's day, ngl

Epictale belongs to @yugogeer012

#epictale #fanart #undertale au #papyrus #red/lara #i could've placed some sorta quote from child's play before the scream #but copyright 👁👄👁 #YUGOwOFanarts

[chuckyupdates88]

Cast update.

#chucky #jennifer tilly #tiffany valentine #charles lee ray #don mancini #childs play #brad dourif #tiffany ray #chucky tv series #fiona dourif #syfy #usa network #chucky tv show #chucky series #lara jean chorostecki #chucky season 2

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

by Lara d'Entremont | As my toddler and baby twins played on the living room floor, I retold my parents-in-law the most recent antics of disobedience my son had done the day before. They shook their heads while suppressing laughter. They knew these kinds of stories well (they raised my husband, after all)...

#Beautiful Christian Life #Lara d'Entremont #Why I Talk to My Child about Sin #beautifulchristianlife.com

[cirithechildofdestiny]

#ciri the child of destiny #the witcher #aen elle #comic #elf #lara dorren aep shiadhal #lara dorren #song #portrait

[rumor-weed]

NONE OF YOU ARE GOING TO KNOW WHY I'M SCREAMING EXCEPT TWO PEOPLE BUT

LAURA

IS A DELIVERY TRUCK DRIVER

i'M SCREAMING its CANON that Laura CAN DRIVE A TRUCK

#can i have a tag just for instances in which laura carrot mentions trucks? #ryan watches vt #veggietales #if you know you know. and one day if that fic ever updates... you will KNOW #or if you look on a specific blog by adding /lara to the end of your url #but i didn't say that #that would be spoilers #i will do a full review of rack shack and Benny and it’s commentary on child labor #but that’s another time

[badassbutterfly1987]

Summary: Justine plans for the fute while Thomas ends up looking back.

#dresden files #a child is a gift #fanfic #justine #lara raith #thomas raith #marriage and complicated history #also if you've read the fic with gideon then you might notice the inconsistencies #those are intentional #half propaganda half bad record keeping #the ones who know what happened arent eager to tell #gideon the betrayer #tagging for relevancy