writers_muses - adore
Immediate family is immediately backstage following the premiere performance of The Tempest at the Metropolis Playhouse. A nearly sobbing Martha Kent leads an overemotional group of parents, husbands, wives, children, and siblings back to the long hall of dressing rooms behind the stage. Martha stops short when she reaches her destination, the crowd rushing past her to find their own. Her daughter’s dressing room is small, she can tell, but it has her name on it.
Grace Kent.
It gives her chills to see it. Perry has to lean past her to knock on the door as Clark nudges her to give reality another shot. Grace opens the door, her costume still half-on, her face caked in makeup. Perry and Clark get to her first, both knowing without question that once Martha gets her hands on her daughter neither of them will stand a chance. Grace has a hug for each of them before Martha latches onto her, which is always an interesting sight given that Grace is a good three inches taller than her mother.
“Mom.”
“You were so beautiful…”
“Mom.”
“And poised and graceful and...charismatic.”
“Mom, could you…"
“Oh, let me have this please!”
“….Okay, fine.”
Perry and Clark stand to the side, in a rare moment of silent alliance, both pursing their lips and putting forth enormous effort to keep from laughing. Grace glares at them over Martha’s shoulder.
“I’m so proud of you.”
“Thanks, Mom.”
Onstage lover and soon-to-be offstage boyfriend Jason has to come knocking on the door in order to get Martha to extract her claws. Jason has dropped by, also still half in costume, to inform them - in hopes of scoring much-needed points - that there will be wine at the after party. An obviously intelligent young man, Jason just became Martha Kent’s personal hero.
“Love you,” she says to Grace, kissing her on the cheek. “And we’ll leave you two alone.”
Drawn in the direction of wine, Martha drags a more than willing Clark and a skeptical Perry out of the dressing room. “Such a charming boy.”
Martha Kent
Smallville
344
Grace Kent.
It gives her chills to see it. Perry has to lean past her to knock on the door as Clark nudges her to give reality another shot. Grace opens the door, her costume still half-on, her face caked in makeup. Perry and Clark get to her first, both knowing without question that once Martha gets her hands on her daughter neither of them will stand a chance. Grace has a hug for each of them before Martha latches onto her, which is always an interesting sight given that Grace is a good three inches taller than her mother.
“Mom.”
“You were so beautiful…”
“Mom.”
“And poised and graceful and...charismatic.”
“Mom, could you…"
“Oh, let me have this please!”
“….Okay, fine.”
Perry and Clark stand to the side, in a rare moment of silent alliance, both pursing their lips and putting forth enormous effort to keep from laughing. Grace glares at them over Martha’s shoulder.
“I’m so proud of you.”
“Thanks, Mom.”
Onstage lover and soon-to-be offstage boyfriend Jason has to come knocking on the door in order to get Martha to extract her claws. Jason has dropped by, also still half in costume, to inform them - in hopes of scoring much-needed points - that there will be wine at the after party. An obviously intelligent young man, Jason just became Martha Kent’s personal hero.
“Love you,” she says to Grace, kissing her on the cheek. “And we’ll leave you two alone.”
Drawn in the direction of wine, Martha drags a more than willing Clark and a skeptical Perry out of the dressing room. “Such a charming boy.”
Martha Kent
Smallville
344