Title: Return To The Old
Fandom: Planet Of The Apes
Rating: T
Length: 290
Content notes: Slight spoilers if you haven't seen the second movie yet
Author notes: Set during the second movie of the reboot, so spoilers if you haven't seen it yet.
Summary: In which Caesar unexpectedly returns to his first home with company.


The sun is high in the sky when they find the old house, now more overtaken by Nature than it had been when he had first visited it and found his father's body.

As they carry him through the doorway, he feels a stab of nostalgia and sadness in his heart as layers of dust and memories are disturbed within the old house. Perhaps in some part of his mind this is where he wants to die.

To die in the place where his father had died. To die with the memories of his early life in the house stirring to life around him. He wonders where his family is now, what happened to them after he fell from their home into water.

There's new smells now clinging to the house now that he slowly breathes in, as the humans struggle to get him into the house and lay him down on the old, dusty couch. He find that there is a sort of simple relief in him that the smell that had been in the house when he found his father's body.

As he settles into the couch, he can hear the humans whispering over him as though they think that he is not listening to them. He turns his head away from them and doesn't watch as Malcolm departs through the old rotting doorway, behind his departure comes the sounds of the other humans moving around as they settle down to wait for the man's return.

Turning his head slightly to watch them through lidded eyes and blinks his slowly dimming vision in an attempt to see clearly. In his mind, he finds himself wondering if he has passed through the old rotting doorway for the last time.