#Its Laszlo angsting hours (sorry Laszlo)

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There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow

Chapter 18: Slipping Through My Fingers All the Time

Franny dropped him without a second thought.

In a fraction of a second, Franny’s anger changed to confusion. She took a step back, trying to understand what was going on.

With nowhere to run, the stranger slumped to the floor and seemed to curl in on himself. Only then did Franny notice the cord and guard attached to the gun she was holding.

“Mom?” 

Franny jolted when the door opened and Wilbur began to walk in. 

“Mom, are you okay? I heard something break.” Franny frantically motioned him out. “Stay in the hall! Don’t come in!” Despite looking startled and confused, Wilbur obeyed.

“What’s happening?” He called.

“I don’t know yet, just stay there! And shut the door!”

Wilbur did so. He waited in the hall for a minute. 

Suddenly there was the sound of something getting knocked over in another room. Who’s there…? 

Wilbur headed towards the noise in the darkness of the house.

Back in the storage room, Franny blindly felt around the walls until she found a lightswitch. 

The light came on, and even without the helmet and goggles, Franny recognized him in a heartbeat. He may be her nephew, but from the moment his mother abandoned him and his sister, Franny and Cornelius stepped up, and he became like another child to her. She didn’t know whether to be relieved to find him or upset that she had attacked him.

“Laszlo! I’m so sorry, I had no idea it was you!”

He didn’t look up at her. Instead he stayed with his face buried in his knees, breathing heavily. She suddenly realized he was having a panic attack. 

For the third time in two minutes, she went into mother bear mode.

Franny kneeled by him. “Honey, look at me.”

A choked sob escaped his throat, and he hugged himself tightly. “Shoot,” she muttered. This is a bad one. He doesn’t have his medicine, that's still in the future. She looked around. His goggles. That might be why he wouldn’t look up. It was discovered a few years ago that when Laszlo was anxious, his goggles always helped.

Franny retrieved them and tried again. “Lasz, look at me. It’s okay, I have your goggles.” Slowly, Laszlo glanced up at her with tearful eyes. He looked at the goggles in her hand and gently reached out to take them. Franny rubbed his shoulder lovingly. He was shaking like a leaf. “It’s okay...”

Laszlo slipped the goggles over his eyes, and Franny could tell almost immediately that they were calming him down. His breathing began to slow, and his shivering lessened. He sniffed and wiped away a couple stray tears that slipped from his eyes. He struggled with anxiety almost all his life, so Franny always knew what to look out for.

She also always knew what helped. 

Gently as a mother could, she pulled him into a warm embrace.

“I-I’m sorry, I didn’t.. I just… I… I thought…” His voice cracked and broke.

“Shh... just take a second and breathe.”

Franny began to sing quietly, the same way she did when he was little. 

When Petunia first abandoned him. 

 As she sang, he closed his eyes and listened, calming down enough to understand that he was safe, and that nobody was going to hurt him. Not here. By the time the song had finished, he was doing much better. Franny’s music could help anyone in times of need.

“I’m sorry, I thought you were somebody else. There were some men that tried to kidnap me. If it wasn't for Buster and Uncle Art, I don't know where I'd be right now. Usually I can bounce right back from situations, but for whatever reason this one just really got to me. I just… yeah.”

Franny’s eyes widened. “Wait, hang on. Someone tried to kidnap you?! Who?!”

“I don’t know who they were. Some men creeping through an alleyway. Their faces were just… so creepy. I can’t stop thinking about them.”

Franny felt like her heart fell through the floor. Her brothers. Her family. Cornelius.

Someone’s trying to hunt them down.

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Do u have any wwdits fic recs 👀

ok ok so this took me soooo long to answer and i’m so sorry for that i’m just bad looking at my inbox but here we go

Closer by mauzz; this was soooo good god i think about this fic like ten times a day, it has colin x nandor friendship which is simply a must for me in fanfic and the build up to nandermo is sooo good, it also has a bit of guillermo backstory in it so yknow it fucks hard

friendship forged in pale moonlight by eldritch_beau; nadja x guillermo friendship supremacy !!! it’s also in nadja’s pov which you don’t get much so this was a treat to me

they will find me in your arms by ellienerd14; theres not a lot of laszlo x nadja fanfics that are just straight up pure fluff so this has become my comfort fic, i think about it once and i’m smiling for the next five hours

it was you, breathless and tall by singing_to_shipwreck; this, GOD this, is so short but it’s so GOOD it’s guillermo-centric which always fucks with me but this just takes a part of my brain and rolls it up like a blunt and smokes it

waste away the year by readandwritesilver; this is just pure fluff, it’s so sweet my teeth are rotting just thinking about it. it’s also from readandwritesilver and they NEVER miss

getting it right by sapphicjasper; CANON CANON IDC ITS CANON IN MY EYES

over your head by seashores; this is just guillermo being dumb for 1,029 words and i eat it up every time i revisit it

but the sun will rise again by oskgratya; pain. that’s it.

sick city by kyrilu: wellness center angst!!! (TW for eating disorders, vomiting) the characterization of nandor in this is sooo spot on and i get chills thinking about it

a proposal by fellasisitgay91219; another fic about guillermo just being stupid.

forever is the sweetest con by sunflowrs; the nandermo dolls get the ending they deserved!!!

heaven knows i’m miserable now by redvineshark; MEG X GUILLERMO FRIENDSHIP!!! 100/10 guillermo characterization, think about 20 times a day

feel your hands with dignity by kaspbr; this IS shameless self-promo and yknow what? i don’t care! i’m proud of this one and i will promote it !

it’s a terrible habit by rainbow smite; this motherfucking fic,,,, GOD its soooo good. the characterization of nandor is so on point and it makes me sooo insane. (rainbow if ur out there pls update this fic, this is not a joke this is my life)

everybody leaves if they get the chance by singing_to_shipwreck; TIME LOOP TIME LOOP!!! this is an older fic but the ending is SO satisfying and guillermo is so on point

there’s definitely more but that’s all i could think of so far, i’ll try to update if i think of any more <3