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Enrollment
Title: Enrollment
Author: sagaluthien/donbury-fic
'Verse Donbury
Claim/Characters/Pairing: Original general characters; Annie Vaughn, Linda McKay mention of Eva and Liam Rice, Simon McKay
Rating: G
Warnings (inc. Spoilers): None that I can think of
Word count: 693
Disclaimer/author's note: This story includes my own characters and as such I would appreciate that nobody uses them without my knowledge. Any similarities with real people or well-known fictional characters is unintentional.
The story will also be translated to Swedish with some alterations.
This is also written for comment_fic, wish any fandom, any character, "you call this a cup of coffee - Link here. And also for letter E of stories_a_z , Link to table here or here.
Mission-insane Table/Prompt: 1 Food - 2 Emotions 8 - Cream
Table for all tables
Summary: Linda meet Annie at the day-care as she will start working and her son need to be somewhere during that time.
The clock had just passed five and the last two children - Eva and Liam had been picked up by their father. Annie went around the room, picking up the toys so it would be ready for the next day. Then she waited until half six for her meeting with Linda McKay. She'd been approached two weeks earlier that they had a little boy who needed to start at the daycare. What she learned so far was that they were about to move to Donbury and Linda would start working at Sleeping Beauty, while her fiancé would continue working in Castleton.
There was no problem for letting Simon begin as soon as Linda wanted. There was no longer a queue to be accepted to the daycare's program. For some years there had not been enough children to fully fill the daycare's age groups. Annie felt sorry about the situation was, but there was nothing she could do about it.
Linda arrived on time, but without her son. Annie welcomed her and started to inform her about how the daycare worked. She showed Linda the rooms and playground. When the daycare was on schoolground, so they had access to a lot. Being a small town, it'd been way cheaper to have them all at the same place.
"That's one of the advantages of not being a large city." Annie confided.
Linda looked pleased. She asked a few questions, and the answers had convinced her that it was a good place for Simon and he would probably thrive there.
After the tour of the place Annie took Linda to the staff room. There were a few papers she needed to fill out and after that would everything be ready for Simon to begin at the daycare.
"Would you want some coffee or tea to drink?"
"Coffee, please."
Annie showed with her hand that she could sit in one of the couches, while she went to the kitchen counter. Annie took a clean cup from the rack, filled it with coffee from the coffee maker. For herself, she took a glass of juice; she rarely drank coffee at work.
"You want something in it?"
"Black, would probably work."
Annie went and sat down opposite her and took up the papers, which she laid on the table. Linda took and drank little coffee. Annie watched her grimace.
"You call this a cup of coffee?" Linda put down the mug, with a joking smile.
"I do not know. For the most part I don't drink coffee here."
"It's probably a good idea. This is like tar. I need some cream in it."
"I will see if there is any in the fridge." Annie stood up and pushed the papers closer to Linda. "Could you please fill out these papers? I don't see a problem to enroll Simon on Monday, if that was what you wish."
In the refrigerator Annie saw that there was cream, so Linda was lucky. Back to the table Annie raised the creamer asking to serve her, with Linda nodding she started pouring in a little, and stopped when Linda nodded again.
"Thank you," she took a sip. "Definitely better."
"You're welcome."
Annie sat quietly until Linda put down her pen.
"It will be fun to get a new little guy." She said. "We don't get many new children."
"Is it so that because so many young people have moved from here?" Linda asked.
"There are a few, and then it's more like they commute, so they have their children in daycare centers close to their jobs. Also, some are at home and only come in once a week or so."
"I have not seen many my age here, so it is understandable, and as you said the town isn't that big."
"I think it's just the right size. But of course compared to Causton, Manchester or London, then yes, it's small."
They sat and talked for a while longer before they said goodbye. Annie went back to her desk with the papers. She would enter the data the next day. Now it was highly time for her to go home to her little four-legged darlings.