(TW: Child abuse/Toddler abuse and violence)
Fourty years ago, Atila had made his first world domination plan. It had to be rewritten and perfected over one hundred times, due to changes in ideology and mainly because of heroes. Focused on the main heroes of the time and the biggest treats, not thinking about the absurd ideia that a teenager that just started the course would be the one that would kill him.
Matthew dreamed about it and decided he needed to recall every single detail he could possibly remember and every single possibility of downfall for containment. Ava had recently bought a baby stroller for him and she had putted him there. He woke up with so much excitement he almost got out of the room.
- Hey Matt! Good Morning! What happend? You scared me! -
Ava said after stopping the stroller.
- PENCIL! PENCIL! -
Matthew said. Despise tecnically being an adult, the spell he casted was incomplete, so despise how old were him when he died and how much knowlegde he had, every bodypart of him needed to still learn the basics, because he only had the theoretical knowlegde now, also, it would call too much attention writing that young.
- You want to draw? -
Ava said, smiling while taking him out of the stroller. Matthew giggles. She changed him and went to the kitchen. Ava gave Matthew a smashed banana as breakfast.
- You should stop babying him like that. He will become spoiled. -
Ava's father said while his wife was putting his plate in front of him and poring his coffee. Matt stares at him with jugdement, but Ava thinks the banana may be a little sour for him because of the face he made.
- Oh. Not nam-nam? I will get you some water. -
Ava gets Matt some water. After breakfast, Ava took him out, brushed his few teeth, gave him some paper and some old color pencils she finded in her closet, grabbed her purse, kissed Matt goodbye and rushed to work.
Matthew spended most of his day "writing" and drawing his evil plan on the living room. When he got hungry, he rapidly went to the kitchen and ate some cookies that he could grab, since he wouldn't be properly fed unless his mother was there because according to his own grandparents, raising him wasn't their job, and aparently feeding him counted as raising. It's not like Matthew cared, they don't interrupt him or try to force him to another path, so he was fine with the conditions. He has the mind of an adult after all and if he ever got caught, he could use his pretty face and sad backstory as an excuse and do something worst.
- You know, you are a lot quieter then I thought you would be! -
The smell of alcohol was tolerable, but annoying and very present. The grandmother was there, drinking something directly from the bottle while sitting on the couch. Matthew continues to register and draw his evil and detailed plan.
- I thought you would be super loud and destroy my house. I mean, girls are quieter and your mom was a hurricane when she was your age! I am older now and I prefer like, not having to deal with all of it, you know? I have to accept you two in my house because your mom is my daughter and people will talk. I think me and Harry would despise you less if Ava got married first and we got invided to the wedding and if she had told us she was pregnant, invided us for the gender reveal party and we could be there when you were born. You don't feel like part of the family, you know? What kind of grandson are you if I couldn't be part of the most important and delicade moment of your life, when you needed me the most? And... -
She continued to talk nonstop, taking Matthew's focus out of the plan so much he got angry. He wasn't paying attention to her, but the fact that she decided to use a one year old as a terapist was pissing him off. So he interrupted with a scream:
- HEY!! Shush! -
He looked directly at her with anger. She got up and went out of the living room. After she left, Matt realised he stopped using the papel at some moment and started drawing to the floor and went to the wall, he felt ashamed for exposing his plans accidentally like that. The grandmother came back with Matthew's binky on her hand. She curved herself, grabbed him but his cheeks, forced the binky in his mouth and looking at his eyes, said:
- Listen to me, boy. I am bigger, I am stronger and I am the owner of the house. I make the rules here, not you. So YOU shush. -
He started crying, so she slapped him across the mouth. The slap was so strong Matt felt the taste of blood.
Ava comes back at the evening, all sweaty and tired. Matt went running after her while crying the moment he heard the door opening. He was just on his diaper and binky, with his hands dry and smelling like lavander. Matt was pulling her pants trying to force her to look at him, but Ava was so tired she grabbed his tiny hand and went to the bedroom without thinking and jumped to the bed. Matt kept trying to call her attention until she realized it was too early for him to be using his binky so she took that of and a small string of blood came out with it.
- W... What happend? -
Ava asked, very worried.
- I was mean! -
Matthew said while sobbing and crying. She took one hour to calm him down so he could explain what happend. He told her grandma forced the binky on his mouth, slapped him across the face, made him clean the wall, flushed his drawning on the toilet and didn't let him eat because he misbehaved.
He lied about his grandma flushing his drawnings and not letting him eat because of that instead of the usual neglect. He himself flushed the paper down the toilet and decided not to eat, but he is "just a innocent and harmless little baby" and have Ava on his hand, someone, who he knows, is a very powerfull individual.
Ava went to the kitchen to grab an ice pack for him while trying to understand what happend and what to do. She heard her mother's voice close, don't even listen to what she had said and immediatly hits her elbow on her nose, the woman falls on the ground. Ava grabbed her by her hair and whispered in her ear. She came back to her room, gave the ice pack to Matthew and start packing their things in silence. They left to a hotel that same night.
- Matt, do you miss your friend? -
Ava asked, while putting Matthew to sleep. Matt nodded.
- We are going back home, okay? -
Ava covers Matt with a blanket and offers him his binky, but he covers his mouth with his hands. She kisses him goodnight and kept starring at him all night long, slowly freezing the hotel room, mixed feelings and terrible memories come to her mind. Her hair turns longer and white and her fingers start turning blue. She touches Matthew's chest gently and whispers far away.
- I promised I wouldn't ever again. I do deserve my punishment. But rules are always changing, the world is always changing, some people stay the same, but I can't. -
Matthew grabs Ava's hand while sleeping. She smiles and come back to her original body and hair.
- I could destroy de world to keep you safe. -