Her Precious Lad - by Larner

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: 2009 Cue 8: Contrast of beauty and ugliness.
Format: drabble
Genre: general
Rating: PG
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Sméagol, the grandmother
Pairings: n/a
Summary: How did her precious little lad become the monster she saw before her now?



Her Precious Lad

He’d been her precious lad when he was a child, sweet, curious, endearing. How she’d coddled him after his father was taken by goblins, and more after his mother and his baby sister died after a difficult childbirth. How beautiful he’d been in her eyes!

But things had changed with Sméagol on the day his cousin Déagol went missing. His curiosity was darker; and his sly behavior, sticky fingers, and cruelty had driven away any love his kinsmen had ever held for him.

Ugly is as ugly does, she thought.

She shook her head. “You are banished, Sméagol. Now, begone!”

Comments

[shirebound]

I never thought of this from her POV before!

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

It was interesting to visit her POV in this. I've played with it in "Stirring Rings," but wanted to distill it a bit for this challenge.