It was too much to ask to meet his apprentice in a normal fashion, whatever that might be. In the crazy life of Van Rook, nothing is ever normal, specifically the people who choose to follow him everywhere. (Not shippy, and with unspecified, noncanon characters)
Marik is the son of a farmer. He has an average life until his house burns down killing his livestock and his father. With nowhere to stay, he is sent to live with another family of farmers; the Bakuras. Will be mainly Thiefshipping. (A rewrite of my previous story under the same name)