Fic: Le Femme
I wrote this one for a fanfic100 prompt a while back, but I wanted to repost it here because it very much fits in with SHH Rita, I think :).
Title: Le Femme
Rating: G
Prompt: Black
Characters: Rita, Stella, their parents.
Summary: When she was eight years old, Rita's parents took her to the cinema.
When she was eight years old, her parents left Stella at home with the babysitter and took her to the cinema.
The muggles made the pictures talk, Daddy said, and they told stories with them. Rita didn’t think that was very special - she’d seen how wizard pictures moved loads of times, but she wanted to see the muggles.
They bought her an ice cream and a drink called Coca Cola that made bubbles go up her nose, and she sat between them in a big, dark room. There were muggles eating popcorn and laughing before the pictures started, and Rita thought they didn’t look very different from wizards really.
The pictures were black and white, and on the screen it always seemed to be night time (film noir, Daddy said; that’s French). There was a man who did things and talked over the top of them like he was thinking, and sometimes she didn’t know what he meant. But lots of times he was talking about a woman.
And then there was a picture of her.
She was beautiful. She walked slowly and smiled in a way Rita had never seen before, smoking a cigarette and making the man fall in love with her. Her clothes were perfect, and Rita thought maybe she was dangerous, because at the end of the movie the man died, and she was still smiling.
I want to be her, Rita told Stella later, but Stella was only four and didn’t understand. There had been nothing but black and white in the pictures, but Rita imagined the brilliant colours of the woman’s dresses - blue and green and red and purple. She would have red lips and nails that matched.
Rita wanted to be like that when she grew up. She wanted to smile like that, and make men fall in love with her, and walk past them when they fell down and laugh as she smoked a cigarette.
Title: Le Femme
Rating: G
Prompt: Black
Characters: Rita, Stella, their parents.
Summary: When she was eight years old, Rita's parents took her to the cinema.
When she was eight years old, her parents left Stella at home with the babysitter and took her to the cinema.
The muggles made the pictures talk, Daddy said, and they told stories with them. Rita didn’t think that was very special - she’d seen how wizard pictures moved loads of times, but she wanted to see the muggles.
They bought her an ice cream and a drink called Coca Cola that made bubbles go up her nose, and she sat between them in a big, dark room. There were muggles eating popcorn and laughing before the pictures started, and Rita thought they didn’t look very different from wizards really.
The pictures were black and white, and on the screen it always seemed to be night time (film noir, Daddy said; that’s French). There was a man who did things and talked over the top of them like he was thinking, and sometimes she didn’t know what he meant. But lots of times he was talking about a woman.
And then there was a picture of her.
She was beautiful. She walked slowly and smiled in a way Rita had never seen before, smoking a cigarette and making the man fall in love with her. Her clothes were perfect, and Rita thought maybe she was dangerous, because at the end of the movie the man died, and she was still smiling.
I want to be her, Rita told Stella later, but Stella was only four and didn’t understand. There had been nothing but black and white in the pictures, but Rita imagined the brilliant colours of the woman’s dresses - blue and green and red and purple. She would have red lips and nails that matched.
Rita wanted to be like that when she grew up. She wanted to smile like that, and make men fall in love with her, and walk past them when they fell down and laugh as she smoked a cigarette.