West actually hadn't intended on coming to do this. He'd figured he just wouldn't and would say he did. Who wanted to be traumatized by fears anyways? Maybe if he knew what he'd have to confront it might be different but West couldn't even think of what it could be. Sure there were things he found unsettling or whatever but there wasn't anything he could think of that made him sweat with fear and his heart speed up and all of that sort of thing. No phobias.

Right?

If it was boring he'd just make something else up. Like... hmm. Clowns maybe. Mo had a fear of clowns, West knew that. He wasn't sure he could fake a fear of spiders or snakes or lizards or anything creepy or crawly. Nobody would believe it.

So he was kind of skeptical about how it would all work see? He couldn't think of any fears, nothing that actually terrified him off the top of his head. Wand at the ready though, West went ahead to the trunk thing and eyed it up. With nigh-contempt he kicked it open and stood back, WAITING for something to happen.....


......


Nothing?

.... really what was going on? Nothing? Was there even a boggart in there? Nothing was happening. West looked around in confusion and then back at the trunk... except it wasn't just a trunk anymore, it was his father and his sister! Well, it was them from behind, their backs. Just standing there with their backs to him.

Puzzled by this West shifted uneasily from foot to foot. He knew that was a boggart there and not Aspen and his dad... but...

... he took a step towards the boggart!family, unable to help the instinct that propelled him.

.... and they, in unison, took a step away.

West's heart started speeding up, and even knowing it was a boggart he swallowed roughly and took another step forward.

They stepped away again.

He broke and darted after the Boggart!family, and it moved just as fast as he did, away, always away.

"...no....no-nonono.." His voice cracked and he wasn't sure if the voices were just the memories in his head or if they were out loud...

... Westie, mummy isn't coming back...

...I have to go away for work...

....I'm going to Hogwarts, you have to stay here...

...The Wizarding World needs me, I have to go undercover...

....I'm going to Brazil...

"DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE!" It was pure anguish. He tried to run around them but what should have been their fronts were their backs too. Panicking now, West triedtriedtried to bring his wand to bear, but he couldn't and the boggart!family was moving further and further away....

The fourteen year old collapsed to the ground arms around his knees and sobbing. He just couldn't do it.