[Drabble] Faking it
TITLE: Faking it
AUTHOR: nicis_anatomy
CHARACTERS: Jenny Shepard
GENRE: Gen, Angst
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 300
SUMMARY:Jenny and her mother always had their problems getting along well … - for prompt #20 ‘Every Time’ at 24_times and challenge #168 “Family” at ncisdrabble100 (and the special holiday prompt at madame_director).
DISCLAIMER: I don't own these characters (although I'd love to own Action Figure Gibbs), nor am I making any money from them. If I would Season 5 would have ended different. Violet, however, is mine (But I’m sure Jenny won’t mind to get rid of her).
WARNING: not beta’d.
The thing about family disasters is
that you never have to wait long before
the next one puts the previous one into perspective.
~Robert Brault
~*~*~*~*~
What was supposed to be a quiet Christmas, had turned out to be her biggest nightmare in a long time.
It all started with a yellow cab, stopping in front of her townhouse, and it ended in the exact same way.
It wasn’t a problem that Jenny and her mother hardly ever agreed on things.
It wasn’t a problem that Violet hated Jenny’s decision to choose her career over a family.
It wasn’t a problem that Violet desperately wanted grandchildren to spoil.
It wasn’t even a problem that Violet couldn’t accept that her girl had grown-up and lived her own life.
No, what really killed the high spirits Jenny had been in, before that yellow cab had stopped in front of her house, was the fact that her mother just couldn’t admit that she had a problem - with her daughter’s life, with the choices she made … with almost everything.
Violet never complained - not with words. Jenny never saw her mother not smile. She always pretended everything was fine. And still Jenny could feel that everything was, in fact, awfully wrong.
Her mother was the most unsatisfied person in the world, and she was the reason why.
She’d tried to talk to her, to understand; she’d asked about the problems … but all she ever got in return where lies that everything was fine. She’d even tried to change; for her mother, for her own peace …
Thirty years of trying, of pretending, and then suddenly, everything had changed. Her father’s death had left her alone with a fight she was destined to lose.
Maybe it was time to try something else; beat Violet at her own game.
“It was nice to spend Christmas with family,” Violet said, getting into the cap.
“Yes, it was.” Jenny smiled brightly, her fingers crossed behind her back.
- The End -
AUTHOR: nicis_anatomy
CHARACTERS: Jenny Shepard
GENRE: Gen, Angst
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 300
SUMMARY:Jenny and her mother always had their problems getting along well … - for prompt #20 ‘Every Time’ at 24_times and challenge #168 “Family” at ncisdrabble100 (and the special holiday prompt at madame_director).
DISCLAIMER: I don't own these characters (although I'd love to own Action Figure Gibbs), nor am I making any money from them. If I would Season 5 would have ended different. Violet, however, is mine (But I’m sure Jenny won’t mind to get rid of her).
WARNING: not beta’d.
The thing about family disasters is
that you never have to wait long before
the next one puts the previous one into perspective.
~Robert Brault
~*~*~*~*~
What was supposed to be a quiet Christmas, had turned out to be her biggest nightmare in a long time.
It all started with a yellow cab, stopping in front of her townhouse, and it ended in the exact same way.
It wasn’t a problem that Jenny and her mother hardly ever agreed on things.
It wasn’t a problem that Violet hated Jenny’s decision to choose her career over a family.
It wasn’t a problem that Violet desperately wanted grandchildren to spoil.
It wasn’t even a problem that Violet couldn’t accept that her girl had grown-up and lived her own life.
No, what really killed the high spirits Jenny had been in, before that yellow cab had stopped in front of her house, was the fact that her mother just couldn’t admit that she had a problem - with her daughter’s life, with the choices she made … with almost everything.
Violet never complained - not with words. Jenny never saw her mother not smile. She always pretended everything was fine. And still Jenny could feel that everything was, in fact, awfully wrong.
Her mother was the most unsatisfied person in the world, and she was the reason why.
She’d tried to talk to her, to understand; she’d asked about the problems … but all she ever got in return where lies that everything was fine. She’d even tried to change; for her mother, for her own peace …
Thirty years of trying, of pretending, and then suddenly, everything had changed. Her father’s death had left her alone with a fight she was destined to lose.
Maybe it was time to try something else; beat Violet at her own game.
“It was nice to spend Christmas with family,” Violet said, getting into the cap.
“Yes, it was.” Jenny smiled brightly, her fingers crossed behind her back.
- The End -