Fic: Leavings; justprompts
Talk about your relationship with your parents.
Remy watches her mother waste away and die. It takes a long time. Years. It starts with muscle twitches and ends when her mother doesn't even recognize her, dying only a few days later. She catalogues the symptoms, filing them into her memory so she can recognize them in herself if she needs to.
She goes to college, goes to med school, graduates both too quickly and starts adulthood too young. She does this because she worries that she won't have enough time to experience life before the disease takes it away from her.
If she has it.
She doesn't get tested. It's an easy test, but she won't take it.
People ask her why. Is she afraid to know the truth?
A little. They don't understand and she doesn't explain.
Remy watches her mother waste away and die, but she also watches her father disappear. That takes a long time, too. It starts with longer nights out and ends when there's no one left to hold Remy's mother's hand but Remy.
"Rema," he says, the day he leaves, using the name her mother chose that both he and Remy hate. He always looks at her as if he's expecting something, as if he's waiting. She knows what he's waiting for.
He leaves.
She never gets tested.
[Author's Note: This has been retconned by information from the episode "Joy", in which Remy states that her dad "was great" after her mom died. I keep it here for archiving purposes, but don't consider it part of either her canon or fanon.]
Remy watches her mother waste away and die. It takes a long time. Years. It starts with muscle twitches and ends when her mother doesn't even recognize her, dying only a few days later. She catalogues the symptoms, filing them into her memory so she can recognize them in herself if she needs to.
She goes to college, goes to med school, graduates both too quickly and starts adulthood too young. She does this because she worries that she won't have enough time to experience life before the disease takes it away from her.
If she has it.
She doesn't get tested. It's an easy test, but she won't take it.
People ask her why. Is she afraid to know the truth?
A little. They don't understand and she doesn't explain.
Remy watches her mother waste away and die, but she also watches her father disappear. That takes a long time, too. It starts with longer nights out and ends when there's no one left to hold Remy's mother's hand but Remy.
"Rema," he says, the day he leaves, using the name her mother chose that both he and Remy hate. He always looks at her as if he's expecting something, as if he's waiting. She knows what he's waiting for.
He leaves.
She never gets tested.
[Author's Note: This has been retconned by information from the episode "Joy", in which Remy states that her dad "was great" after her mom died. I keep it here for archiving purposes, but don't consider it part of either her canon or fanon.]