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Post by Ellie Baum on Sept 18, 2008 9:31:42 GMT -5
"What happened - when you traveled with Dorothy - it must have been horrible having to pretend to hate mother..."
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Post by Fiyero Tigalar on Sept 18, 2008 10:44:28 GMT -5
"It was. Everything was so stange then. I was just getting used to this being the new me. I couldn't even walk straight to start with, kept falling..." he shook his head, "and to have to pretend to believe in that good for nothing Wizard and hate your mother...was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. If I'd been me...not this useless bag of straw...I would have killed him right then and there with my bare hands."
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Post by Ellie Baum on Sept 18, 2008 11:57:17 GMT -5
"At least you'll never have to feel pain" Ellie said.
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Post by Fiyero Tigalar on Sept 18, 2008 16:07:12 GMT -5
"Not physically, no, but I still feel on the inside. I still ache to know your mother will die someday, and I won't. And it still struck me when I was told about you. And you still are yourself wholly...only with a longer life span. I will never be FIyero Tigalar again, and I wouldn't trade it, don't ever doubt that. But you've been blessed, really. You get to be you." his hand brushed her cheek, "Ellie, you're so lucky, darling. I know this is hard right now, but at least you're still you."
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Post by Ellie Baum on Sept 18, 2008 16:35:10 GMT -5
Ellie stood up. She was so confused, she was sad, but angry too. "I feel like I barely know you. I barely know mother - but you... I couldn't even see you until I was ten years old."
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Post by Fiyero Tigalar on Sept 18, 2008 16:57:01 GMT -5
"I know. We were trying not to scare you to death. It was bad enough that your mother was green, but your father was a scarecrow. I mean the word 'scare' is actually in the name." He hugged her close. "Ellie, everything we did was to try and do the best we knew to do for you. And I will tell you anything you want to know. And I will do anything I can to try and make up for time lost. I know I can't, but there were so many things that I couldn't do. I couldn't play with you like a father and daughter. I couldn't teach you how to swim. I couldn't protect you from much danger at all. And I certainly couldn't give you normality."
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Post by Ellie Baum on Sept 18, 2008 17:11:07 GMT -5
"i feel like I don't know who I am."
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Post by Fiyero Tigalar on Sept 18, 2008 17:15:39 GMT -5
"You're still young. You don't have to know yet. When I was seventeen, I didn't have a clue who I was, but I didn't care then. By the time I was twenty, I was starting to have a clue, and by twenty-three I knew. Some people find out at ten and some at thirty. Everyone's different..."
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Post by Ellie Baum on Sept 18, 2008 23:03:34 GMT -5
"There shouldn't be that much too it" she laughed. "You are who you are and that's that. How did you feel? When you realized you had become a scarecrow?"
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Post by Fiyero Tigalar on Sept 18, 2008 23:06:26 GMT -5
"Scared. Confused. Elated to be alive. Vain for being so upset about not being human...or handsome anymore." he'd been filled with more than he could even explain. "I hung there for quite a while before Dorothy Gale finally let me down."
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Post by Ellie Baum on Sept 18, 2008 23:10:26 GMT -5
"I can't imagine how horrible... I'm ashamed to admit it, but when I found out what mother did I was so thankful not to have been made a scarecrow too..."Ellie looked at her father ashamed beyond belief. "I love you, and I love the way you look, truthfully. But I was... it's selfish, and vain. I'm so ashamed."
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Post by Fiyero Tigalar on Sept 18, 2008 23:14:34 GMT -5
"You're not vain. You're no more vain than any other person." he held her tight. "You're my beautiful little girl, and I was thankfuly you weren't a scarecrow...or something else...either. The grimmerie is fickle. It could have turned you into a blob for all we knew. I'm just as happy that you're still beautiful you, too. It doesn't make you a bad person for wanting to still be human. I'm just happy to be alive. I'm happy to have you and your mother. But i'm even more happy that you didn't get turned into this..."
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Post by Ellie Baum on Sept 18, 2008 23:18:07 GMT -5
Ellie reached up and touched his face. "You're still beautiful" she said, not realizing she was echoing the words her mother had said to him years ago.
"Well, what are we going to do you and I? We've got a LOT of time to kill."
Ellie thought for a moment, before asking something she'd always wanted to know."
"Dad, everyone says I look so much like Aunt Nessarose, and I have my mother's gifts, and spitfire personality. Did I get anything from you?" She always felt so disconnected from her father. She had always wished that she had inherited his "Dancing through life" popular personality.
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Post by Fiyero Tigalar on Sept 18, 2008 23:21:50 GMT -5
"My eyes. And my heart. You love so much. That I had. But you have my eyes..." he touched one with his gloved finger, "and my lips." he repeated, touching them as well. "And my heart." he touched her chest, putting his whole hand over her heart. "I wish you could have seen me...known me before, too. I had hoped you might get a little of that Tigalar confidence, but your temperment is definately your mother's. And yes, you do look a lot like your Aunt Nessa. Nessa was very beautiful, though. So take that compliment with pride..."
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Post by Ellie Baum on Sept 18, 2008 23:24:12 GMT -5
"You and mother BOTH have the biggest hearts in Oz" Ellie said. "You're a good match" she gave her father a smile. "I wish I'd gotten more of your confidence too. I wish I could have grown up with you and mother" - she was still angry about that.
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