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storypaint) wrote2010-05-16 02:21 am
storypaint) wrote2010-05-16 02:21 am
[Dead Like Me] Act (Daisy gen)
Title: Act
Fandom: Dead Like Me
Length: 257 words
Prompt: Transfic Mini-Fest: Dead Like Me, intersex!Daisy, layers.
Pairing: Daisy gen
Other: Intersex!Daisy as per prompt. Abrupt ending.
Excerpt: When Daisy was born, she was almost named Devon. But the doctors said it would be easier to operate in the other direction, to make her more feminine, so the Adairs nodded and looked at each other, and Mr. Adair mentioned an aunt named Daisy, and that was that.
When Daisy was born, she was almost named Devon. But the doctors said it would be easier to operate in the other direction, to make her more feminine, so the Adairs nodded and looked at each other, and Mr. Adair mentioned an aunt named Daisy, and that was that.
They never told her, but Daisy always knew she was different. She was her mother's beautiful girl and her dad's pride and joy, but something was just a little off. She tried not to think about it.
She was a good actress, pretending to be Daisy all the time, and she was drawn to handsome men, so perhaps it was inevitable, the person she became.
She didn't learn who she was, really, until after she died.
*
She wasn't sure what possessed her to steal her medical records. Like many Reapers, she was clutching at the person that she'd lost. Everyone grieved differently, and grieving for yourself was wildly personal in any case.
If she'd actually thought about it, flirting with the doctor that had delivered her would be a little creepy, but she'd always liked older men. She only had to hint around a little, make up something about birth parents (she saw it in a movie she was an extra in), and he was handing her the file.
There it was, in plain black text: born hermaphrodite.
She scribbled down her parents' names and left the office without hearing anything else the doctor said.
She stepped into a bookstore and found a dictionary. The definition wasn't very clear.
She'd figure it out, though.
Fandom: Dead Like Me
Length: 257 words
Prompt: Transfic Mini-Fest: Dead Like Me, intersex!Daisy, layers.
Pairing: Daisy gen
Other: Intersex!Daisy as per prompt. Abrupt ending.
Excerpt: When Daisy was born, she was almost named Devon. But the doctors said it would be easier to operate in the other direction, to make her more feminine, so the Adairs nodded and looked at each other, and Mr. Adair mentioned an aunt named Daisy, and that was that.
When Daisy was born, she was almost named Devon. But the doctors said it would be easier to operate in the other direction, to make her more feminine, so the Adairs nodded and looked at each other, and Mr. Adair mentioned an aunt named Daisy, and that was that.
They never told her, but Daisy always knew she was different. She was her mother's beautiful girl and her dad's pride and joy, but something was just a little off. She tried not to think about it.
She was a good actress, pretending to be Daisy all the time, and she was drawn to handsome men, so perhaps it was inevitable, the person she became.
She didn't learn who she was, really, until after she died.
*
She wasn't sure what possessed her to steal her medical records. Like many Reapers, she was clutching at the person that she'd lost. Everyone grieved differently, and grieving for yourself was wildly personal in any case.
If she'd actually thought about it, flirting with the doctor that had delivered her would be a little creepy, but she'd always liked older men. She only had to hint around a little, make up something about birth parents (she saw it in a movie she was an extra in), and he was handing her the file.
There it was, in plain black text: born hermaphrodite.
She scribbled down her parents' names and left the office without hearing anything else the doctor said.
She stepped into a bookstore and found a dictionary. The definition wasn't very clear.
She'd figure it out, though.