Alice Blue 16

[geena]

Author: geena
Color: Alice Blue 16. you're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.
Supplies and Styles: Seed beads, miniature.
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Story: Polyfaceted (Index~Timeline); the title of this story is Normality.
Summary: Lena and Karen, on an average morning
Notes: Lena is Johnny and Michael's adopted daughter, while Karen is her signifcant other.

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Lena usually wakes up first-- she doesn’t sleep much. Slipping carefully out of bed, she heads to the kitchen to start the tea kettle, then putters over to the medicine cabinet to arrange that day's pills. Antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication for the both of them, followed by Lena’s mood stabilizer and Karen’s triptan for her migraines. Later, Lena will gather her sleep aids, but that can wait until the evening.

She makes toast, steeps the tea when the water is boiled, and prepares a tray to take back to the bedroom.

Lena hates that their normality requires a little assistance.

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Comments

[subluxate]

This one's sadness. Oh, Lena. It's okay, sweetie. A little help is okay.

I love this, though. It says a lot about both of them with not many words. Well done.

[geena]

You know Lena wishes more than anything that she was like other people-- it breaks her heart that she's not.

Thank you!

[sarcasticsra]

Aw, sad. It's all right, Lena. *hugs her*

Really well done.

[geena]

Lena will always be the one that I most want to give milk, cookies, and cuddles.

Thank you!

[walkwithheroes]

So, first you made me smile (with the piece about the boys)and now you make me feel all sad. But, it the most brilliant way. Thank you for sharing.

[geena]

I try? No, really, I'm glad to hear this had that sort of impact, yaaaay.

Thank you!

[bookblather]

Awww, Lena, it's okay. It's just help, and there's nothing wrong with reaching out for help when you need it.

Lovely little story, with just this faint overlay of sadness. Great job.

[geena]

Lena just really, really wants to be like other people, and it kills her to know she never will be.

Glad you enjoyed it, really.

[shipwreck_light]

I can smell the tea and hear the morning ambient noise.

It's just like every other day, but it's not.

[geena]

I adore Lena so much, so knowing her differences are breaking her heart is a little shattering to me.