Title: where your worries go
Fandom: Wiseguy (tv)
Content notes: none
Challenge: Gentle
Length: 100 words

Summary: Carlotta Terranova, and the weight of a mother's concern.

Some men carry the devil inside them. Not by nature – all souls can be saved – but by choice. All the thousands and thousands of tiny decisions that build a life, twisting ever more to cruelty and anger.

Sonny Steelgrave is such a man.

Carlotta touches her rosary where it hangs beneath her blouse, an automatic gesture after so many years. Mr. Steelgrave isn't the first such man she's met, nor the worst. But he holds her son's life in his hands, and that weighs on her.

May Jesus bless him, she prays, and turn his heart to a better path.