http://bane-6.livejournal.com/ (![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
bane-6.livejournal.com) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
31_days2009-03-05 10:52 am
bane-6.livejournal.com) wrote in 31_days2009-03-05 10:52 am
[March 5] [The 10th Kingdom] Questions Asked of Herself
Title: Questions Asked of Herself
Day/Theme: 5. home is no longer a thing with walls of stone and windows of glass
Series: The 10th Kingom
Character/Pairing: Virginia/Wolf
Rating: PG
What had he done to her? All of her old dreams were gone. She had spent her whole life putting those into place. She had been so sure what she wanted. How he taken all of that away?
Virginia didn’t care about all those things anymore. And even little things, not even dreams, but little, ordinary, day-to-day things that she had been sure she couldn’t live without, they were all gone. They didn’t even register anymore. Something had crowded them all out and filled up that empty space so well that she didn’t even care that everything had been important to her was gone.
That something was presently eating a whole pig’s worth of bacon sandwiches and looking inordinately pleased that she was wearing some snug blue jeans. The thought of introducing him to her Grandma toe-danced mischievously through her mind, leaving a trail of sparkling evil glee behind it.
Grandma had sneered at her own son-in-law for being low class and he had had a successful business and a nice home and a plan for his future. A grandson-in-law with no home, job, money, or interest in any of things except how they related to Virginia’s happiness with him personally would give the old society dame some sort of coronary. He didn’t care that Grandma was rich or important, in fact, the last time he had informally met her, he had trussed her up and plunked her in a baking pan with every intention of eating her.
Virginia had been appalled at the time. Now, she thought it was funny. And it wasn’t as if she had any other family members to tell about her new love. She could tell her old waitress friends, maybe. and let them be happy for her for a little while. It didn’t really matter, and that left a vague feeling of surprise.
It was her whole life up until recently, and it didn’t even matter. That should be crushing. She should be at least a little angry at him for taking everything she had ever even imagined as vital and exposing it as meaningless fluff, so meaningless that she didn’t even want it back the way it used to be.
The apartment overlooking the park was an empty hole. All her plans of being a chef in her own restaurant felt dull and lonely now. Her very place in the universe had been erased so easily that she wondered why she had mattered to anyone. She mattered to Wolf, though. He had seen her, even she had been doing her best to be invisible. He had taken everything she had ever wanted from her and given back everything she hadn’t known she was missing.
Day/Theme: 5. home is no longer a thing with walls of stone and windows of glass
Series: The 10th Kingom
Character/Pairing: Virginia/Wolf
Rating: PG
What had he done to her? All of her old dreams were gone. She had spent her whole life putting those into place. She had been so sure what she wanted. How he taken all of that away?
Virginia didn’t care about all those things anymore. And even little things, not even dreams, but little, ordinary, day-to-day things that she had been sure she couldn’t live without, they were all gone. They didn’t even register anymore. Something had crowded them all out and filled up that empty space so well that she didn’t even care that everything had been important to her was gone.
That something was presently eating a whole pig’s worth of bacon sandwiches and looking inordinately pleased that she was wearing some snug blue jeans. The thought of introducing him to her Grandma toe-danced mischievously through her mind, leaving a trail of sparkling evil glee behind it.
Grandma had sneered at her own son-in-law for being low class and he had had a successful business and a nice home and a plan for his future. A grandson-in-law with no home, job, money, or interest in any of things except how they related to Virginia’s happiness with him personally would give the old society dame some sort of coronary. He didn’t care that Grandma was rich or important, in fact, the last time he had informally met her, he had trussed her up and plunked her in a baking pan with every intention of eating her.
Virginia had been appalled at the time. Now, she thought it was funny. And it wasn’t as if she had any other family members to tell about her new love. She could tell her old waitress friends, maybe. and let them be happy for her for a little while. It didn’t really matter, and that left a vague feeling of surprise.
It was her whole life up until recently, and it didn’t even matter. That should be crushing. She should be at least a little angry at him for taking everything she had ever even imagined as vital and exposing it as meaningless fluff, so meaningless that she didn’t even want it back the way it used to be.
The apartment overlooking the park was an empty hole. All her plans of being a chef in her own restaurant felt dull and lonely now. Her very place in the universe had been erased so easily that she wondered why she had mattered to anyone. She mattered to Wolf, though. He had seen her, even she had been doing her best to be invisible. He had taken everything she had ever wanted from her and given back everything she hadn’t known she was missing.