#icask

I’d make an attractive woman, I’m sure. 

“Of course not, that would be extremely unprofessional.” 

What is your biggest regret?

“There is no…,” Ismaire began, fighting the urge to scrap this slip of paper altogether. She balled it up and tried again with a bit more honesty behind her motions. This could do all parties well, she thought. Perhaps they could learn something from my mistakes.

“Nothing will ever haunt me more than the times I chose to spend away from my son, blinded by the allure of a dream. He needed me to be there for him as he grew, to hold his hand as we walked, to kiss his knee when he fell, to teach him all the little things only a mother ever could. But I didn’t realize a single bit of it until he had already slipped right through my fingers…” A moment of pause was spent rolling the ink pen between her fingers. Perhaps she had divulged too much. Her body was beginning to tense.

With a bittersweet grin, Ismaire threw a sly glance at a portrait of her son sitting on a corner of her desk. It was of him at his coronation, yet another event in his life she had missed out on. In it he looked so regal – hard to believe now that she had caught a glimpse of the true nature of the Gambler King.

“Godric, I’m going to get eaten alive for this. Erm - So I’ve got to kill, befriend, kiss, and marry one each? Let’s say…I’d marry Greta. I mean, I see enough of her as is, it wouldn’t change much. S’pose I’d kiss Dolores - have to admit, I’d be sort of curious about it. I’d befriend Septima, if she’s not too stubborn about it all and doesn’t lecture me about the origins of the word ‘friendship’ or summat equally dull. That leaves Millicent out in the cold - she doesn’t really deserve that, but…I can’t be arsed to go through this all again and change everyone’s names to different places. You happy now? I don’t want to answer a single owl about this, I swear.”

That’s... actually a wonderful idea. I only wish I’d thought of it myself. Oh, the headaches it could save me...

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Believer - Imagine Dragons

Hurts - Emilie Sandé

Los Ageless - St. Vincent (The part about ‘how can anybody have you and lose you and not lose their mind’ screams Rumbelle at me)

Girl That You Love - Panic! At The Disco (This is for a very specific RP/Fic I do with Rumbelle)

Moonlight Sonata - 1st Movement

Carol Of The Bells

Prelude 1221 - AFI

Satisfied - Hamilton Soundtrack

I Did Something Bad - Taylor Swift

Yes. I regret hurting my son. I regret hurting Belle.

I regret what I did to Milah in the Underworld.

It just makes me all the more determined to be a better Father and Husband from here onwards. They deserve better and I will be better.

Maybe she should get her hair to calm down before she calms down about this.