“Daddy?”
“Yes, love?”
“I missed you.”
“I missed you too. Are you glad to be back home?”
“Yes. But it was interesting there…”
“Oh?”
“Mm-hmm.”
Fire crackled in the hearth, pages of a book scratched together.
“Daddy?”
“Yes, Alice?”
“... Mommy wants to be Queen, you know.”
“... Oh?”
“Yeah…” and then, quietly, “She deserves it, don’t you think?”
And one day she would be.
The End.
What a journey!! We're finally here at the end <3 This end note may be a little long, so brace yourselves :)
While I still have a lot I want to do with this story, it feels monumental that I've completed this much, that I've created this whole thing. The longest thing I've ever written, it took over a year and many bumps in the road to get to this point, and I'm really proud of myself, if that's not too egotistical to admit. This story was what really got me into writing, and I have no intention of ever stopping now that I've started.
I want to thank every one of you for taking the time to read and bookmark, and kudos, and comment. It means a whole lot to me that this story may have touched some other lives, in some way. Thank you so, so much. This whole experience has been great, and lovely.
My plans for this story are to take a little break from it (maybe a few months, maybe closer to a year) before coming back to it with new eyes. Then I'm going to do some edits. I may add scenes, I may remove scenes, I may change scenes all together. However, I will most likely post this finalized version as a new work and keep this one as is. This is because the chapters might change and I don't want to lose any of the lovely comments. Plus I think it'll be neat, to be able to go back and compare the update-by-update version to the completed, tied-together story. It's more for my own peace of mind that I'm doing this, and I don't expect anyone to feel like they *have* to read the finished one once it's posted. Only if you want to <3 But if you are interested, please do subscribe.
In the meantime, I have some other Labyrinth fics I'm gonna see about working on.
So I'm going to close off for now, but first I wanted to share some of the other fanfics which inspired this one. Some of you more Labyrinth-heavy readers may recognize these first four titles. The last is a Yuri on Ice fic.
In no particular order:
Eulogy & Elegy by JRGodwin
Chrysalis in Reverse by Mesopotamia1
Blue Bananas in the Moonlight - and Selections from the Goblin Kingdom by Shadow13
Pieces of Glitter by Jetredgirl
Footprints by KashokuThere were many others of course. Often, my perceptions of characters from a particular movie/book/show are built in large part from the culmination of all the different fanfics out there, all the different characterizations. So thanks to all the lovely stories out there, for adding to such a beautiful world.
Please let me know what you thought <3
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