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rainbowfic2014-12-05 11:53 pm
bookblather) wrote in rainbowfic2014-12-05 11:53 pm
White 4, Hills of Iowa 4: Winter
Author: Kat
Title: Winter
Story: In the Heart
Colors: White 4 (the white album), Hills of Iowa 4 (It wasn't worth the pain my death would cost so I was not lost or found.)
Supplies and Materials: Canvas, miniature collection, fabric (this), stickers (A turtle headache is something you get when you wake up in the morning but want to go back to sleep, so you pull the duvet over your head. It's caused by a build-up of carbon dioxide and an inadequate supply of oxygen.), pastels (this challenge, overly bundled up for the weather), bichromatic.
Word Count: 300
Rating: PG
Warnings: hints of suicidal ideation.
Notes: none.
Winter was Olivia's least favorite season, because it was so freaking cold, especially at night. Her dad laughed at her, saying fifty degrees wasn't cold, but she had been born in California and she'd lived here all her life, and if fifty degrees wasn't cold then she didn't want to know any colder.
"Hold my hands, daddy," she would tell him, when she was little, "they're cold," and her father would laugh and hug her close and wrap her small hands in his big ones.
She was too big for that now, but at least she could wear cute sweaters.
--
Winter in Massachusetts is colder than she could ever have imagined.
It's so bad those first few months that Olivia goes to sleep in two pairs of socks and a sweater over flannel pajamas, under two layers of blankets with a pillow muffling her ears. She pokes her nose out into the freezing morning, then pulls the blankets over her head, because it's too cold and she just can't.
And sometimes she thinks, if it weren't for Gina... but it is for Gina, and she always has to get up sometime.
She buys a pair of earmuffs, and suffers through.
--
Winter in New York will be worse than California, but better than Massachusetts. Her apartment will be better heated than her dorm room, and she'll have Jake, to tuck her body under and around. He'll hold her hands when they're cold, cuddle her in the freezing nights.
Her father will send her mittens, and ask her if she knows what real cold is now, laughing down the phone lines. Her friends will go shopping for winter coats with her.
Sometimes, sleepy on winter nights, she'll stare out the window at the stars, and wonder how she ever got so lucky.
Title: Winter
Story: In the Heart
Colors: White 4 (the white album), Hills of Iowa 4 (It wasn't worth the pain my death would cost so I was not lost or found.)
Supplies and Materials: Canvas, miniature collection, fabric (this), stickers (A turtle headache is something you get when you wake up in the morning but want to go back to sleep, so you pull the duvet over your head. It's caused by a build-up of carbon dioxide and an inadequate supply of oxygen.), pastels (this challenge, overly bundled up for the weather), bichromatic.
Word Count: 300
Rating: PG
Warnings: hints of suicidal ideation.
Notes: none.
Winter was Olivia's least favorite season, because it was so freaking cold, especially at night. Her dad laughed at her, saying fifty degrees wasn't cold, but she had been born in California and she'd lived here all her life, and if fifty degrees wasn't cold then she didn't want to know any colder.
"Hold my hands, daddy," she would tell him, when she was little, "they're cold," and her father would laugh and hug her close and wrap her small hands in his big ones.
She was too big for that now, but at least she could wear cute sweaters.
--
Winter in Massachusetts is colder than she could ever have imagined.
It's so bad those first few months that Olivia goes to sleep in two pairs of socks and a sweater over flannel pajamas, under two layers of blankets with a pillow muffling her ears. She pokes her nose out into the freezing morning, then pulls the blankets over her head, because it's too cold and she just can't.
And sometimes she thinks, if it weren't for Gina... but it is for Gina, and she always has to get up sometime.
She buys a pair of earmuffs, and suffers through.
--
Winter in New York will be worse than California, but better than Massachusetts. Her apartment will be better heated than her dorm room, and she'll have Jake, to tuck her body under and around. He'll hold her hands when they're cold, cuddle her in the freezing nights.
Her father will send her mittens, and ask her if she knows what real cold is now, laughing down the phone lines. Her friends will go shopping for winter coats with her.
Sometimes, sleepy on winter nights, she'll stare out the window at the stars, and wonder how she ever got so lucky.
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But I think Olivia and Amy Breaker need to get together to commiserate about the cold. :)
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Second of all- from her father and the mittens to snuggling with Ivy to the calls and the love and ALL OF THE FRIENDS has a wonderful movement to it, like a snowflake wafting down.
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