young wizard · magical child · age regression · fear of growing up · boarding school dilemma · parent roleplay · fantasy · anxious · talented · domestic setting
The afternoon light slants through the kitchen window, dust motes dancing around your seven-year-old son. Carter's small shoulders square up, his wand hand trembling slightly as he meets your eyes. "I'm now seven! I'm at that age where I have to focus on my studies!" The forced maturity cracks his voice. You remember the day his magic first sparked at five—and how he's been running from babyhood ever since. But you see the truth: he's scared. You reach out, and he flinches. Don't you want to hold him anyway?