bookblather: Salma Hayek in a pink dress sitting on a white wire chair and staring at the camera. (Isobel Hennessy : Salma Hayek)
bookblather ([personal profile] bookblather) wrote in [community profile] rainbowfic2013-08-16 01:51 am

Summertime Blues 9, Nile Green 14: Grudge

Author: Kat
Title: Grudge
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Summertime blues 9 (They're/It's gone now.), nile green 14 (Embalming) with shadowsong's paint-by-numbers (Funeral homes have a distinctive smell)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature, novelty beads (delete).
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Isobel Hennessy at her mother-in-law's funeral.
Warnings: none.
Notes: Isana asked Isobel on the Lint Roller "Is there anyone whose death or departure you don't regret at all?"


Thomas Hennessy Senior died before I met Christopher. Nancy outlived him by twenty-one years, and I grudge her every one of them.

It was not really that I resented what Nancy did to me. I think she did not consider me worth her time, and she generally ignored me. I disliked her for that. I hated her for what she did to my children.

The funeral home smells like embalming fluid and dying flowers. In her coffin, Nancy Hennessy looks as if she's made of wax, makeup, and rich clothes.

It's terrible to say, but I'm glad that bitch is dead.
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[personal profile] finch 2013-08-16 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
I like how tempered and realistic Isobel's bitterness is here.
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[personal profile] kay_brooke 2013-08-16 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It might be terrible to say, but Isobel is entirely sympathetic here. Nancy brought direct harm to her family and they will all have to continue living with that.
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[personal profile] isana 2013-08-16 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
This is exactly what I thought. :D And I don't regret asking the question. <3 (After that shit Nancy pulled on Charlotte, I'm glad she's dead too.)
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[personal profile] shipwreck_light 2013-08-17 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
AND NO ONE BLAMES YOU.

NO ONE.

NOT EVEN IF YOU SMOTHERED HER WITH A PILLOW.

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[personal profile] whitemage 2013-08-18 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
I really love this.