New Beginnings: The Jailbird Flies Free
I FINALLY FINISHED THIS. This work is inspired by @oh-itskitkat‘s I know why the Jailbird sings I hope you enjoy it.
The language Yan speaks is Void Speak.
Warning: Mentions of child abuse but nothing descriptive. Accidental misgendering because Yancy doesn’t Know Yan goes by They/Them
A/N: It took me like five days to finish this but now I’m gonna focus on the rest of the ego’s for the ego weeks and Marvin’s birthday and another One-Shot. And I am also sorry about the lack of lists I don’t know what happened but I just suddenly crashed so hopefully I can start getting those up again. Also during the part Yancy sings, it’s Yan’s POV.
These are the Outfits they wear because I was procrastinating. Anti and Liru, Robbie and Yan
(Word Count: 3796)
I have no Idea how to write Yancy’s accent.
Yancy awakens to the sound of small shoes running energetically down the hallway, standing out from the sound of rain hitting the ground outside the window. He grunts annoyed and rubs his eyes slightly sitting up and looking out to the lit up hallway a bit confused on why the light is on so late at night. The shoes get closer and closer and just as Yancy stands up a blur of pink, black, tan and red runs by before stopping also a second later. He jumps a little when it runs by and goes to approach when a child with unnatural red hair shuffles to in front of the cell looking up at with interest before stopping in front of him.
He looks over the child, girl obviously. She can’t be older than five, tan skin with blood red wavy hair that went down to just above her chin and… Magenta eyes? While also wearing a pink dress with black leggings and sweater and pink sneakers. She tilts her head staring up at him and the only thing the inmate can do is stare back.
“Hello!” She chirps happily with a bright smile on her face that reminds him so much of his kids' smiles that it makes Yancy want to laugh and cry at the same time but instead he chokes out and awkward, “Uhh, hi?”
She laughs and bounces in her spot saying to him, “Your accent is funny!” His mouth twitches slightly, threatening to turn into a smile as she watches her rock back and forth on her heels.
“W-” He clears his throat when his voice catches, “What are youse doin heres kiddo.”
“‘M explorin.” She smiles again, her oddly colored eyes twinkle with mischief.
“Uh-huh.” He shifts slightly before crouching down to her height but doesn’t move any closer. He doesn’t want to scare the poor kid. “What’s yous’ names kiddo.”
“I’m Yan!” She states proudly puffing out her chest a little. He can’t stop the small smile that spreads across his face watching her. “What's your name mister?”
“Yancy. Nice ta meet ya Yan” She giggles, “Nice to meet ya too!” He smiles softly at the small child, watching as she continues to rock back and forth.
“Hey Yan, can I ask yous a question?”
“Mhm!” She nods, smiling and still rocking.
“Wheres are youse parent’s?” He’s glad to see she lights up at the mention of them, good, he doesn’t know how intimidated they would be by a man who's behind bars but he was prepared to give them a piece of his mind if he had to.
“Mama and Papa are with the bald man with glasses.” She stops rocking before bringing her hands up and making circles around her eyes while looking at him.
“The Warden?” He asks. She nods in confirmation, dropping her hands at her sides and begins rocking again “Robbie’s with them too!”
He raises an eyebrow at that, an uncle perhaps? Officer? “Who’s Robbie.”
“My big brother! He has purple hair.” Well he wasn’t expecting that or the hair thing but he guess it wouldn’t be that weird that the kid’s parents dyed their other kids hair.
“Purple hairs huh?” She nods with another “Mhm!”. It’s quiet for a few seconds as Yancy thinks of something to say before Yan breaks the silence with an odd question,
“Do ya sing?” He’s a little taken aback by the question, wondering where that came from before he slowly nods, “I do’s. Why?” She grins and jumps and claps, squealing a little as she does before Yancy quickly shushes her.
“Hey, hey hey keep it downs, everyone else is asleep alright?” She giggles and stops as she begins to sway,
“It’s okay they can’t hear me!” Yancy just chuckles slightly, assuming that it was just another kid thing not knowing how literal she was being. He moves so he’s sitting and just wraps his arms loosely at the top of his needs as he watches her.
“So why did youse wants to know if I’s could sing?”
“If you sing me a song I’ll tell you!” Oh? A little bargainer in the making he sees.
“Promise?”
“Mhm!” He looks at her, his eyes playfully narrowed while she grins happily and playfully back.
“Well alright, then. Yous gotta song in mind?” She gains a thinking face, which he finds absolutely adorable with how her nose crutches up and pursers her lips as she stares off into space for a few seconds before he can practically see the light bulb above her head go off.
“A Dream is a Wish!” She nearly shouts before Yancy shushes her again which she responds with a grin, seeming unfazed by it.
“Are youse sures?” He asks, a little hesitant to sing that song in particular but she just nods making an “Uh-huh,” sound as she leans against the bar’s, which now that she is, he can see how easy it would be for her to slide in through the bars. It makes him a little uneasy that someone so small was wandering the penitentiary all alone. Maybe he should have a… talk, with her parents. He takes a deep breath and focuses on the wall behind her before he begins to sing.
“A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you’re fast asleep.”
His voice is low, melodic and soft and Yan loves it, it’s like their Papa’s! They wonder if he can sound like her Mama's too!
“In dreams you will lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for, you keep,”
Oh that sounds sad, they wonder if he’s missing someone. Oh! Idea! They can ask Mama and Hosty to find them!
“Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling through
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true,”
Yan watches the man who looks like he’s a thousand miles away, looking as though he’s lost. It reminds them a lot like their parents when Robbie went missing for the week. Their Mama was really angry when she found out grandma took him.
“A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you’re feeling small
Alone in the night you whisper
Thinking no one can hear you at all,”
OH! They know what it is! He has his own Yan and Robbie! But then, where are they? Why isn’t he with them instead of being here? Hmmm.
“You wake with the morning sunlight
To find fortune that is smiling on you
Don’t let your heart be filled with sorrow
For all you know, tomorrow
The dream that you wish will come true,”
Yan slips through the bar still watching the inmate that’s nice to them and not in a weird way like others were in the past. They walk a few steps before sitting down criss cross and grabbing their ankles as they do, swaying with the song.
“A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you’re fast asleep
In dreams you will lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for, you keep,”
They begin to hum along quietly, finding his voice relaxing enough to be able to.
“You wake with the morning sunlight
To find that fortune that is smiling on you
Don’t let your heart be filled with sorrow
For all you know, tomorrow
The dream that you wish will come true,”
Looking up at the man, they hope their Mama and Papa will take him in.
“No how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true
Come true.”
As he finishes the last of the lyrics it’s like a flip switches and suddenly he’s focusing on the world again rather than his memories only to see the little girl sitting inside the cell with him. Inside the cell. What the FUCK!
“Uhhh, kid? How dids youse get in here?” He hopes he manages to keep his voice level and calm because right now he’s trying not to freak the fuck out.
“I went through the bars!” She says as if she were proud of it. Well… he guesses she is small enough to slip through the bars then.
“Alright then.” He replies awkwardly, not sure on what to do in this position. Yan, not noticing the awkwardness, smiles up at him, “Thank you for singing for me, you sounded like my Papa!”
Well he wasn’t expecting that, but he’ll take it. “Well… thanks youse I hope.”
She gives him a toothy grin beginning to rock in place, “I like it when Papa sings.” Well that’s good.
Just then the sound of people walking down the hallway grabs his attention and the little girl seems to vibrate with excitement before jumping up. The quickness of the action startled him, nearly making fall over before she turns to the bars and slips through them.
‘Guess that must be her parents.’ He thinks as she runs down the direction of the quiet voices while he stands.
“Mama! Papa!” He hears her shout and the sound of a woman greeting the child. He hears them talking but he doesn’t listen, intending to just go back to sleep if he can. Just as he sits on his bed the little girl runs and stops in front of his cell and points at him and being’s excitedly speaking in a language he doesn’t understand,
“Eem! Eem mak di unce sec fato ni!” A woman is the first thing to come into view and holy shit if she’s not the prettiest person he’s ever seen then he doesn’t know what could be. She has the same tan skin of the child and soft roundish almond eyes that are the deep blue of the night sky, slightly squinted from her smile and a small dimple at the corner of her mouth from it.
“Now Yan,” Yancy’s heart flutters at the sound of her voice, soft, smooth and kind, “It’s rude to point at people like that.”
Yan smiles sheepishly up at the woman grabbing the sides of her dress and bouncing in place a little as she laughs before turning to him, “Sorry mister!”
The woman smiles down at her daughter before turning her attention to the inmate sitting on the bed.
“Now then you shouldn’t go bothering the prisoners,” Comes the warden’s voice almost startling Yancy, “They need to be sleeping.” He says as he steps into view giving Yancy a look. Yancy feels his face heat up from embarrassment, it’s not like he was expecting to wake up to a little kid running down the hall and then singing for said child.
He suddenly hears a new voice with an Irish accent mutter something as another man comes into view, just as pretty as the woman with dark forest green hair on top and a darker shade of brown on the side’s that seemed to be shaved, pale skin that honestly reminds him of a star and beautiful multicolored eyes, one a bright almost glowing green and the other a beautiful blue that reminds him of that Lapis Lazuli ring that he had stolen from his mom when he was younger. He’s shorter than the woman maybe by 3 or so inches but it’s noticeable enough to be kinda adorable if you ask him.
He notices that the new man is holding a pale child with purple hair, watching him with… purple eyes? That's odd. That must be Robbie then which most likely means the gorgeous man with green hair is his and Yan’s father which mostly likely mean that he’s married to the gorgeous woman and looking at their hands he can see them both wearing wedding rings. The man with a gold and ruby snake wrapped around his finger and the woman with a green and black ring on the hand resting on a diamond(?) top cane.
The woman turns to Yancy and smiles, “Hello there, thank you for entertaining my child.”
“Uh, no problem?” It sounds more like a question and his heart jumps to his throat at the adorable little laugh that leaves the man. The warden behind her looks exasperated,
“Now miss-”
“What's your name?” The woman interrupts, ignoring the warden's rather annoyed look and watching Yancy.
“Yancy,” He says almost hesitantly, but the way the woman’s eyes light up makes his cheeks heat up as he stands up and steps towards the bars.
“Picani?” She asks and his stomach flips from fear this time, how does she know his name?
“Yes,” The answer is much more hesitant and quiet.
“Oh good,” Her face is very similar to the way Yan’s lights up, “You’re who we’re here for!” Yancy freezes, suddenly confused. Out of the corner of his eye he can see the green haired man's face flicker to confusion that disappears as quickly as it appears, replaced with a small smile. The warden however, begins to sputter out protests.
“Now you can’t just come here and-”
“Anti, Angel,” She says cutting the warden off whose face turns the color of a ripe tomato while she faces the green haired man who is apparently named Anti, “could you take the kids and you and the warden bring up the paperwork needed?”
Anti nods a little, the small smile never leaving his face while she reaches into her pockets and produces to plushes, handing a small purple zombie lama to Yan and a black an yellow cartoon character in a dress and horns to the little boy, Robbie if he remembers correctly. Yan takes it eagerly and giggles hugging it to her chest while the boy who is chewing on something purple that hangs around his neck by the way, takes it and hugs it to his chest still leaning against his father.
“Now listen here-” The warden cuts himself off when she turns to him, going from red to ghostly white and terrified. Yancy almost doesn’t want to know the look she gave him with how he looks.
“F-Follow me, I’ll bring up the paperwork right away.” He quickly walks off with Anti following him after giving a glance towards the woman then to Yancy making his heart jump into his stomach flip. Yan looks up at her mom with a questioning look and she smiles down at her, the two of them seeming to have a silent conversation before the little girl smiles and giggles holding the stuffed animal to her chest and running off after the warden and her father.
Turning to Yancy the woman smiles before speaking warmly, “It’s nice to meet you Mr. Picani your kids talk a lot about you.”
Yancy tenses and can feel fear and… hope(?) boiling up. “What are youse talkin about?” His voice comes out harsher than he intended but the woman does nothing but smile softer.
“Your kids, I see them almost everyday and they always talk about you,” She then frowns, “They haven’t been under the best care until recently.”
Yancy feels a boiling rage overcome that he had to refrain from punching something. The only reason he’s in this fucking place to begin with was because his kids were getting hurt! The woman watches him, leaning black a little while looking rather surprised but it quickly turns into a sharp smile which only increases his rage until what she says next causing it to be replaced with confusion,
“Well, I’ve never seen someone turn red and that hot that fast before.” She tilts her head to the side a little as she eyes up and down, “But that's beside the point, as I said they were under less than pleasant care until recently where my husband and I adopted them.”
Any rage dies with his confusion as the feeling of despair takes over him and he quickly blinks back tears, refusing to cry in front of this woman. The woman frowns now and mutters “Blue…” under her breath.
“What do you want.” He hates how defeated he sounds while he leans against the bars on the bed. He’s looking at the floor, not wanting to look at the woman anymore.
She tilts her head watching the man with a frown. “I’m here to take you with me to your children.” His head snaps up at her suddenly confused again and feeling something akin to hope before it quickly dies again.
“This isn’t funny youse knows?” He wants to be angry, he really does he just feels nothing but despair after hearing what happened, “Even ifs youse were really here to do’s that, youse think they’d let me out? Do youse have any idea what put me in here?”
The woman narrows her eyes as he pushes off the bed frame and approaches the bars in front of her. “Even ifs youse were here for what youse say, they wont let me out. Can you guess what I’s did? I deserve to be ins here.”
She smirks her head tilting only a little this time as she looks at him and annoyance and frustration begin to boil in his chest. “Of course I know.” She puts her hand through the bars, palm face up as she looks at him expectantly while the inmate back up a little, looking from her hand to her face, confusion clearly written all over his face before he reluctantly sets his hand on hers. She grabs his hand in a tight but painless vice as Yancy freezes, watching as veins of space fly up his arms from underneath her finger and dancing purple and red flowers move up her hand and under her sleeve.
“I used to live next door to you and your parents,” His heart drops before her grip becomes gentle, gently pulling him back towards her. And with a soft glow and a feeling of a lover's hug, her mark settles from part of his back up to right below his right eye. And from beneath her coat and shirt he can see a red glow bloom on the opposite side of her heart before disappearing.
“I heard everything as it happened,” He desperately digs through his memories, trying to remember anything about a blonde girl that lived next door when a faint memory of a girl, probably around 10 when he was around 13, pops into his head. She had her back turned to him and she was talking to and green and black blurry blob(?) of something that vaguely resembled a person. He barely remembers the blob talking, remembering that it had a distinctly Irish accent talking to her.
The woman tucks her cane under her arm with her free hand before pulling his hand through the bars towards her. Flipping his hand so his palm is facing upwards, she grabs his wrist softly, rubbing her thumb in small circles on it and taking three fingers and gently dragging them across his palm to his own finger tips in a way that's strangely intimate and so gentle that Yancy wants to cry, although from what he is unsure of. The touch almost burns at the unfamiliar feeling of being touched after so long of not being. “They deserved what happened to them.”
Her voice is quieter, but far from shy or meek, if anything she holds a protective tone as she watches their hand while he continues to try and rack his brain for her name. He knows he’s heard it before, he’s had to have to if he lived next to her for so long.
“And besides,” She turns his hand over again, holding it with both hands before bringing it up to her mouth and kissing no softer than a butterfly's wings as she looks him in the eyes. Oh, that's what the feeling is, she cares about. Even though they haven’t seen each other in almost 5 years, even then they barely knew each other. She cares. She gently sets his hand down before letting go and Yancy yearns for her to hold it again and to never let go.
“I’d be a hypocrite if I let you rot in here for killing them.” Her smile gains a mischievous feel to it before it goes back to be soft of the look of shock and horror on his face. “No need to look shocked honey, they deserve what happened to them. After all they are, or were actually, no better than your’s was.”
He feels a little sick at the thought of the sweet and shy little girl that used to live next to him being abused the same way he was. A sick part of him wondering what finally pushed her over the edge and wondered how she got away with it. The admission manages to shock his brain for a second, bringing up an old memory from almost ten years ago before whispering out in disbelief that the regal woman in front of him was the shy little girl that would always talk to animals or that blob. “Liru…”
She smiles widely and nods, “I’m glad you remembered, it’s nice to finally see you again now we’re no longer separated by thorn bushes and a fence.” Her tone is playful as she watches him and Yancy suddenly feels very bare in front of her as the reality of who she is, one of his soulmates. How many does he fucking have.
“I can’t imagine how confusing this must be so I’ll leave you alone for now,” Yancy’s anxiety spikes as his hand shots through the bars grabbing her wrist in what he hopes isn’t a bruising grip. She appears surprised for a few seconds before she relaxes and smiles. She grabs his hand again with her free one, the burning sensation that brings a sense of fulfillment and joy, unhooking it from her wrist and bringing it up to her mouth and kissing the knuckles softly.
“It’s alright honey,” She looks at him lowering their hands while reaching one through the bars and cupping the cheek with the soulmark. Her soulmark, Yancy doesn’t think he would ever get used to the feeling if the way his skin heats up to her touch. “We’ll be back tomorrow, and then we can go home and you can finally see your kids again. Alright?”
He swallows nervously, at a loss for words before nodding quickly. She smiles before pulling her hands away leaving Yancy yearning for more.
“We’ll be back, I promise. But for now,” She looks him in the eyes as she puts her cane back on the floor, a loose grip on the stop, eyes changing from blue to space, “You should get some sleep.”
And the next thing Yancy knows, he’s dreaming of a better tomorrow.
Translation:
“Eem! Eem mak di unce sec fato ni!” = Him! He’s the one who sang for me!
Liru’s eyes turned to this.
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