Amnesty Challenge: "Missing Pages" by Luzula (Diary Challenge)

[luzula]

*pounces on the Amnesty Challenge* I don't know what's come over me. This is the second flashfic I've written in a week's time...

Title: Missing Pages
Author: Luzula
Characters: Fraser and Caroline gen
Rating: PG
Length: 1000 words
Notes: This idea hit me over the head a couple of days ago. For the Diary Challenge. Thanks to primroseburrows for the beta!

Comments

[equusentric]

This is beautiful, and I adore worried/protective Dief. ♥

[luzula]

Thank you! Dief is love. &hearts

[akamine_chan]

6th September, 1958

A little bird flew into the windowpane today. I thought it was dead at first, but I wrapped it in a scarf and put it on the kitchen table just in case. When I came back from visiting with the Siksik's, it was flying around the cabin, and it took me half an hour to coax it out through the door.

The leaves are beginning to turn red and gold already. I always forget how beautiful it is, and then every year, it takes my breath away.

At the bottom of the page there was a pencil sketch of a chickadee.

Oh, L, I loved this. Caroline's voice, so strong and clear. And the sketch...

And then this: Dief licked his face again. Fraser slid down on the floor beside him and leaned his forehead into Dief's fur. "All right," he whispered. "It isn't...unmixed with grief."

Fraser being able to admit to the grief...

Lovely, lovely, lovely! Great job. *hugs*

[luzula]

I'm so glad you liked it! It was one of those ideas that came to me really strongly. And I maybe cried a little while I was writing it.

[podfic_lover]

There was the oddest prickling sensation inside him, as of blood coming back to a limb that had been asleep, or of cold toes warming up before a fireplace. What a wonderful metaphor.

And I love the idea, that Fraser gets to know his mother like this, her life and thoughts in her own words. Thanks for sharing!

[luzula]

I'm glad you thought the quoted part worked! And I've always thought it was unfair that only Bob got to leave his words behind.

[green_grrl]

Oh, I'm so glad Fraser gets time with his mother's journals! And that he has Dief there for company. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

[luzula]

I'm so glad you liked it! (And thanks for all the hearts! &hearts)

[keerawa]

What a wonderful idea, Fraser getting to know his mother through her journals the way he did his father. You have an excelletn voice for Caroline, as always.

"It isn't...unmixed with grief." is where I started bawling my eyes out.

[luzula]

Thanks! The idea just came to me really strongly. And I think I started crying when I wrote "Sometimes we cry because we're happy."