(DWP) Family
Title: Family
Fandom: The Devil Wears Prada
Author: jackiejlh
Rating: PG
Character(s): Miranda Priestly, Andrea Sachs, Caroline, Cassidy
Pairing(s): Miranda/Andy
Warning(s): None
Summary: Every year, we pose for a portrait. | Written for the dvlwears_prada community ABC challenge prompt of 'Portrait'.
Every year, we pose for a portrait.
In the first one we’re babies. Mom holds Cassidy, Dad holds me. Everyone looks happy. In the next picture our parents stare straight ahead. They look worlds apart, even though their shoulders touch.
In the third we’re on Mom’s lap, and in number four everyone's standing. The fifth portrait has a new person, Gregg, but by the eighth, it’s back to three of us.
Stephen only lasts for two portraits. We make Mom promise that if she ever remarries, her new husband can't pose with us. We’re tired of reminders that our family’s been broken so many times.
Then Andy comes along. She doesn't mind that we don't ask her to be in the portrait, but sometimes Mom looks at the picture wistfully, as if she thinks something’s missing. Sometimes we think something’s missing, too.
Cassidy and I decide to make a new one. It’s a full month before we finish, and it’s still not very good, but we do the best we can. While Mom and Andy are out, we take down the professional portrait and replace it with one we've made, and wait for them to come home.
When they see the new portrait, with Mom and Andy in back and us in front, and everyone looking happy, they stop and stare. Andy starts to cry.
"Girls, where did-” Mom starts to ask.
"We made it," I say. "The other one’s wrong. It doesn't have the whole family."
Fandom: The Devil Wears Prada
Author: jackiejlh
Rating: PG
Character(s): Miranda Priestly, Andrea Sachs, Caroline, Cassidy
Pairing(s): Miranda/Andy
Warning(s): None
Summary: Every year, we pose for a portrait. | Written for the dvlwears_prada community ABC challenge prompt of 'Portrait'.
Every year, we pose for a portrait.
In the first one we’re babies. Mom holds Cassidy, Dad holds me. Everyone looks happy. In the next picture our parents stare straight ahead. They look worlds apart, even though their shoulders touch.
In the third we’re on Mom’s lap, and in number four everyone's standing. The fifth portrait has a new person, Gregg, but by the eighth, it’s back to three of us.
Stephen only lasts for two portraits. We make Mom promise that if she ever remarries, her new husband can't pose with us. We’re tired of reminders that our family’s been broken so many times.
Then Andy comes along. She doesn't mind that we don't ask her to be in the portrait, but sometimes Mom looks at the picture wistfully, as if she thinks something’s missing. Sometimes we think something’s missing, too.
Cassidy and I decide to make a new one. It’s a full month before we finish, and it’s still not very good, but we do the best we can. While Mom and Andy are out, we take down the professional portrait and replace it with one we've made, and wait for them to come home.
When they see the new portrait, with Mom and Andy in back and us in front, and everyone looking happy, they stop and stare. Andy starts to cry.
"Girls, where did-” Mom starts to ask.
"We made it," I say. "The other one’s wrong. It doesn't have the whole family."