What I have Been Through pt 2
Title:What I have been through...
Author(s): Whitelder
Fandom: The Devil Wears Prada
Archive: Ralst if she wants it, others please ask.
Notes: Confronting. This is just a tidbit, a teaser, it does continue.
The gasp that escaped from Miranda’s mouth was startling to both of them as Miranda doesn’t normally show any emotions. What Miranda was seeing and what Andrea had tried to cover up was a long red scar where Andrea’s breasts should have been, Andrea at some point had had a double mastectomy. Miranda’s hand came up tentatively as if she wanted to trace the scar but then dropped back to her side. Seeing Miranda’s hand come up then drop again Andrea said to her, “Miranda, if you want to touch its fine.”
With Andrea’s permission given, and the look on her face at the situation she was in, Miranda gently traced the scar with two shaking fingers.
Looking up at Andrea’s face and still tracing the scar she see’s the pain and memory flash in Andrea’s eyes. “What happened Andrea? Miranda asked quietly.
“I had a double mastectomy when I was 21, I was diagnosed with breast cancer at 20 years of age and it was resistant to chemotherapy and there was too much to remove, my only option was what you see before you, I normally wear fake breasts out and about but forgot to put them in this morning, my first lover was the person who found the lumps and went with me to my gynecologist who diagnosed me, however it was all too much hassle and responsibility for them so they left me. Nate was different, Nate saw me for me, not my missing assets, but now he is gone as well but not because of the lack of breasts. I came through the other side Miranda and am proud of it. I don’t miss my breasts but I still have the reminder of what I went through, it has made me a better person and before you ask I could not afford to have reconstruction, and their was not enough tissue left to make it viable.”
As Andrea talked Miranda watched her and the door simultaneously, it would not do to have someone barge into the office at this moment and see the fashonista appear to be fondling her assistant’s breasts.