Breaking the Glass

**Summary:** Lucius recalls the end of his old life—and wonders what comes after.

**Note: This one features a song, as most webisodes tend to these days. This particular song is Path to Isolation. I don't own it, and I never will. Probably.**

**(We open up on Victoria-era London, inside a small house. A young woman with honey-blonde hair and bright green eyes is walking through the house, calling for someone.)**

**Yvonne Stoker:** Jasper? Jasper? You there, honey?

**(Beat.)**

**Yvonne Stoker:** *\*sigh\** Jasper, come on. This is stupid.

**(Beat.)**

**Yvonne Stoker:** ...Well! I guess this means I *\*smiles knowingly\** have to eat the trifle I made *all by myself!*

**(There's a gasp, and then the cabinet door creaks open. The head of a six-year old boy with fluffy hair and violet eyes pokes out.)**

**Jasper Stoker:** Y-you're not really going to eat the entire thing, right, Mommy?

**Yvonne Stoker:** I won't if you come out from your hiding place.

**(Beat, then Jasper bursts into tears and scrambles out of the cabinet into the waiting arms of his mother.)**

**Jasper Stoker:** *\*tearfully\* I'M SO-O-RRYYYYYYY!*

**Yvonne Stoker:** It's alright. It was an accident. I'm not mad.

**Jasper Stoker:** *MISS BENNETT DOESN'T THINK SO! I DIDN'T MEAN TO BREAK HER LEG!*

**Yvonne Stoker:** *\*firmly\** That's nonsense. You are not a "cursed child". You're just a kid.

**Jasper Stoker:** *\*sniffling\** I-I'm b-bad luck, a-aren't I...

**Yvonne Stoker:** No. Mrs. Bennett is just throwing around wild accusations.

**Jasper Stoker:** B-but all the kids at school say—

**Yvonne Stoker:** I don't give a damn what the other kids say, you're not cursed, or bad luck, or *anything.* You are nothing more than Jasper Stoker. Understood?

**Jasper Stoker:** *\*sniff\** Okay...

**Yvonne Stoker:** *\*smiles\** Good. Now then... *\*picks him up\** You were saying about the trifle?

**Jasper Stoker:** *\*perks up\** Yay!

**(Yvonne giggles, then carries her son off-screen. Cut to Lucius Shadow, lying in bed. He sighs and sits up.)**

**Lucius Shadow:** Not these again...

**(He walks over to his roommate, Areti Virtue, and pokes him in the cheek.)**

**Lucius Shadow:** Areti.

**Areti Virtue:** Zzz...zz-z— *\*groans and blinks eyes open\** Huh? Wha?

**Lucius Shadow:** Do you know where I can find the dream medicine?

**Areti Virtue:** The... *\*rubs eyes\** The wha?

**Lucius Shadow:** Growing up, I used to have dreams of a boy called Jasper. Father gave me these slimy black pills to ward off the dreams. They tasted like rotten teeth, but they got the job done nicely as long as I took one every night. Of course, I live here now, and didn't think to bring any of them with me.

**Areti Virtue:** I don't... *\*blinks, then sits up\** I don't think there *is* "dream medicine" in Ever After High. I mean, you could head to the town tomorrow and see if any are in stock there—

**Lucius Shadow:** Alright then. I will go there.

**(He walks to the window and opens it, then perches on the windowsill. Areti's face pales and his eyes pop open, and he leaps to his feet.)**

**Areti Virtue:** H-hey! What are you doing?!

**Lucius Shadow:** Getting the dream medicine, of course.

**Areti Virtue:** B-but there are brambles! It's past curfew! You won't make it!

**Lucius Shadow:** Is that so? ...I'll just jump over them.

**Areti Virtue:** L-Lucius! You can't—!

**(He runs to the window, but is too late.)**

**(Lucius leaps from the windowsill, perfectly clearing the wall of brambles. Areti stares out the window, jaw dropped.)**

**Areti Virtue:** ...okay then. I guess you can.

**(Cut to Lucius, walking down the empty street of Book End.)**