Let The Waves Carry You Where The Light Can Not
Title: Let The Waves Carry You Where The Light Can Not
Fandom: Locke & Key
Characters: Ellie.
Warning: Spoilers throughout the series
Rating: G
Summary: Ellie watches the waves, imagining a day she will see Lucas appear from them.
In the first few years after it happened, Ellie would avoid the waves, not wanting to think of that day when they had made their way there, carrying the bodies of their friends, already preparing the cover story of how they had gone into the caves and lost track of the tides, which had caused the drowning of three of their friends. Thinking about it now, she isn’t entirely sure why people never questioned it. They’d all lived in the area all their lives, and all had a good knowledge of the local tides; why had people believed that they had really been caught unawares by the waves? But at the same time, another part of Ellie was relieved that the story had been accepted, that she was never going to be expected to explain what she knew deep down she never could.
In later years, she found herself visiting that same spot more often, imagining to herself what it would be like to see Lucas coming towards her again; although the surviving Keepers of the Keys had vowed that they must never use any of the keys again, the knowledge that the Echo Key would provide her the means of seeing Lucas, or some form of him, was a temptation that became too strong for Ellie to ignore. From avoiding the waves as much as she could, Ellie reached the point where she would stand at that spot every day, imagining that she could see Lucas rising from the waves where all those years ago, she and Rendell had thrown his body.
Sometimes she’d considered the idea of throwing the key itself into the waves, removing the temptation from her path, yet at the same time she was also conscious of the fact that even if she tried that, the key could still wash up on the shore, to be found by someone with no idea of its history who could potentially misuse it. So it was better for her to keep her word, make sure the key remained in her possession.
And if Ellie threw the key into the waves, then her chance to use it, to bring Lucas back to her, would then also be lost to her. A part of her could hear Rendell’s voice in her head, telling her not to use it, that she didn’t know what it might do, that Lucas wasn’t himself at the time he died and might still not be himself if Ellie were to bring him back. Yet the other part of her knew she couldn’t not do it, that she had to take that chance to bring Lucas back again.
Fandom: Locke & Key
Characters: Ellie.
Warning: Spoilers throughout the series
Rating: G
Summary: Ellie watches the waves, imagining a day she will see Lucas appear from them.
In the first few years after it happened, Ellie would avoid the waves, not wanting to think of that day when they had made their way there, carrying the bodies of their friends, already preparing the cover story of how they had gone into the caves and lost track of the tides, which had caused the drowning of three of their friends. Thinking about it now, she isn’t entirely sure why people never questioned it. They’d all lived in the area all their lives, and all had a good knowledge of the local tides; why had people believed that they had really been caught unawares by the waves? But at the same time, another part of Ellie was relieved that the story had been accepted, that she was never going to be expected to explain what she knew deep down she never could.
In later years, she found herself visiting that same spot more often, imagining to herself what it would be like to see Lucas coming towards her again; although the surviving Keepers of the Keys had vowed that they must never use any of the keys again, the knowledge that the Echo Key would provide her the means of seeing Lucas, or some form of him, was a temptation that became too strong for Ellie to ignore. From avoiding the waves as much as she could, Ellie reached the point where she would stand at that spot every day, imagining that she could see Lucas rising from the waves where all those years ago, she and Rendell had thrown his body.
Sometimes she’d considered the idea of throwing the key itself into the waves, removing the temptation from her path, yet at the same time she was also conscious of the fact that even if she tried that, the key could still wash up on the shore, to be found by someone with no idea of its history who could potentially misuse it. So it was better for her to keep her word, make sure the key remained in her possession.
And if Ellie threw the key into the waves, then her chance to use it, to bring Lucas back to her, would then also be lost to her. A part of her could hear Rendell’s voice in her head, telling her not to use it, that she didn’t know what it might do, that Lucas wasn’t himself at the time he died and might still not be himself if Ellie were to bring him back. Yet the other part of her knew she couldn’t not do it, that she had to take that chance to bring Lucas back again.