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storypaint) wrote2010-07-14 11:28 am
storypaint) wrote2010-07-14 11:28 am
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[Dresden Files] be to her virtues very kind (Molly and Charity gen)
Title: be to her virtues very kind
Fandom: Dresden Files
Length: 264 words
Prompt: Awesome Ladies Ficathon: Dresden Files, Molly and Charity Carpenter, telling true fairy tales.
Pairing: Molly and Charity gen
Other: Religious themes.
Excerpt: Molly grows up on true fairy tales - Queen Esther, Ruth, Rahab, Mary and Elizabeth. These women are inspirational. They are queens and mothers, obedient to God and headstrong to men.
Molly grows up on true fairy tales - Queen Esther, Ruth, Rahab, Mary and Elizabeth. These women are inspirational. They are queens and mothers, obedient to God and headstrong to men. They risk and they pray and they act. Molly loves the stories. By the time that she is ten she knows that she can't stand being conventional.
Charity encourages this, in her way. She gives Molly chores and responsibilities, fills her head with all these dreams, and she prays that her daughter matures into someone even more powerful than she is. Charity has never wanted to be more than a mother, a shaper of the next generation, but Molly can be more. Molly will be more.
Molly turns out to be pink-haired and sullen, unable to repress her magic, and fear slices Charity to the bone. Suddenly all of Molly's options are changing - decreasing and shifting, stapled to Dresden's. Michael might trust Harry with his life, but Charity has different standards.
"I'll be okay, Mom," Molly says, and she bites her lip and steps out into a war that isn't hers, a war Charity can't even see. Charity's heart pounds and her instincts scream protection, and she just has to have faith. She believes in Michael, she believes in Jesus, and now she has to believe in her daughter, in the girl she bathed and held and comforted, the girl who doesn't even want her anymore half the time. She hopes she's given enough.
It's time for Molly to write her own story.
Fandom: Dresden Files
Length: 264 words
Prompt: Awesome Ladies Ficathon: Dresden Files, Molly and Charity Carpenter, telling true fairy tales.
Pairing: Molly and Charity gen
Other: Religious themes.
Excerpt: Molly grows up on true fairy tales - Queen Esther, Ruth, Rahab, Mary and Elizabeth. These women are inspirational. They are queens and mothers, obedient to God and headstrong to men.
Molly grows up on true fairy tales - Queen Esther, Ruth, Rahab, Mary and Elizabeth. These women are inspirational. They are queens and mothers, obedient to God and headstrong to men. They risk and they pray and they act. Molly loves the stories. By the time that she is ten she knows that she can't stand being conventional.
Charity encourages this, in her way. She gives Molly chores and responsibilities, fills her head with all these dreams, and she prays that her daughter matures into someone even more powerful than she is. Charity has never wanted to be more than a mother, a shaper of the next generation, but Molly can be more. Molly will be more.
Molly turns out to be pink-haired and sullen, unable to repress her magic, and fear slices Charity to the bone. Suddenly all of Molly's options are changing - decreasing and shifting, stapled to Dresden's. Michael might trust Harry with his life, but Charity has different standards.
"I'll be okay, Mom," Molly says, and she bites her lip and steps out into a war that isn't hers, a war Charity can't even see. Charity's heart pounds and her instincts scream protection, and she just has to have faith. She believes in Michael, she believes in Jesus, and now she has to believe in her daughter, in the girl she bathed and held and comforted, the girl who doesn't even want her anymore half the time. She hopes she's given enough.
It's time for Molly to write her own story.