Title: Losing
Author: Magpie
Rating: pg-13
Genre: Eliot
Verse: Backstory to both my verses
Summary: Eliot is used to losing things
Notes: Actually wrote this awhile ago, just never posted it. Some spoilers for my story "Fathers"


Spencer Lawrence was used to losing things.

When he was eight and his mama married he lost what little of his real father he’d had when she told him not to come around anymore.

When he was nine he lost his mama when he told her that That Man was the one hitting him and she told him to go to bed without supper for lying.

When he was ten he lost his faith when he told their preacher the same thing and the father said it was a sin to lie.

When he was twelve he lost his innocence to That Man’s brutality.

When he was thirteen he started losing his mind.

When he was fifteen he saw that he was about to lose his sister to That Man and instead he lost her to the system, sending her into foster care.

Two days later he got his mama back when she stepped in to save his life only to lose her permanently when That Man killed her.

He lost everything else that day, but gained something else.

Eliot Spencer. A name crafted from what his mama had named him and an adaptation of his little sister’s nickname for him: “Elie”. It was something that was his, something no one, not That Man, not even the world could take from him.

His name was Eliot Spencer. The rest he’d figure out as he went.