Summertime Blues 17, Quill Grey 6: Mommy's Little Girl

[bookblather]

Author: Kat
Title: Mommy's Little Girl
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Summertime blues 17 (It’s still not done), quill grey 6 (I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. - James Michener) with kana's paint-by-numbers (Some voices stay with you forever)
Supplies and Materials: Fingerpainting (back to your regularly scheduled fucking obnoxious first person), pastels (ghosts/hauntings/afterlife), glitter (What’s holding you back?), brush (rowel).
Word Count: 150
Rating: PG
Summary: When I was a little girl, there were two things that people said to me, all the time.
Warnings: none
Notes: Jack asked Olivia on the Lint Roller, "Is there something you were told as a child that you suspect is true even though everyone tells you it isn't?"


When I was a little girl, there were two things that people said to me, all the time. The first was "Oh, what a lovely smile!" It's one of the things I've inherited from my father, my smile. I'm proud to acknowledge it.

The second, though, was "You're so much like your mother!"

I think you can understand why that might disturb me, now.

They say it's not true—my father, Joanna, Jake, Gina. They tell me I'm like my father, or that I'm my own person. They tell me I'm different from her. Better.

But. Well, here's the thing. Every time I bat my eyes, or smile at someone, or act sweet so someone will give me something I want.

Every time I manipulate someone, and I do that more often than you would think, looking at me.

Every time, I wonder if I'm just like her after all.

Comments

[isana]

Oh, God, I can see how that would freak out Olivia, after spending so many years with Yvonne the Horrible. Poor girl.

[bookblather]

SO much freakout. She doesn't really understand that even quite good people like her father will sometimes manipulate others, for various reasons, especially since her whole life, the only person she's seen manipulating people is her mother.

Thank you.

[finch]

Oh, Olivia, honey, no. I'm almost sorry I asked, just for hearing her say it.

[bookblather]

Well, I'm not sorry you asked, I learned things. :D Thanks!

[shipwreck_light]

This gave me the toe-wiggling chills. But, you are the master of those.

My toeeeeeeeeees.

[bookblather]

Should you like slippers? I have Winnie the Pooh slippers.

Thank you.

[dark_kana]

Oh... Poor girl...

[bookblather]

Yeah. Thanks.

[kay_brooke]

Oh, poor Olivia. Of course she would wonder and question, but that's why she really is better.

[bookblather]

Pretty much. She questions what she does enough that she's unlikely to manipulate for the same reasons or to the same extent that her mother does.

Thank you.