Summertime Blues 9, Nile Green 14: Grudge

[bookblather]

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.

Comments

[finch]

I like how tempered and realistic Isobel's bitterness is here.

[bookblather]

Thank you very much!

[kay_brooke]

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.

[bookblather]

Pretty much. Also, those are Isobel's children. I'm surprised she didn't shank Nancy.

Thank you.

[isana]

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.)

[bookblather]

Hehehehe I thought so. Isobel is Not At All sorry that her in-laws are dead.

Thank you!

[shipwreck_light]

AND NO ONE BLAMES YOU.

NO ONE.

NOT EVEN IF YOU SMOTHERED HER WITH A PILLOW.

[bookblather]

I don't think she did. And let me tell you internets that was a hard decision for her to make.

Thank you!

[whitemage]

I really love this.

[bookblather]

Thank you!