Prompt Post - Part Five [CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS]

May 02, 2011 22:39


THIS PART IS NOW CLOSED. YOU CAN CONTINUE POSTING FILLS, BUT PLEASE PROMPT ALL NEW THINGS HERE.

Part one here!

Part two here!

Part three here!

Part four here!

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Re: Runaway Child Pt1c thingamawhatsit June 23 2011, 02:59:03 UTC
Your name is Wally Davis Jackson. You’re eleven. The oldest foster kid in the house.

Mr. Jackson scares you. You don’t know why but you know something about him is wrong. You do your best to keep the others safe, little Emily and Josephina. You teach them about being siblings like Jake taught you and most of all you stress not to make Mr. Jackson angry.

The day you find out what’s wrong with Mr. Jackson is a blur. You remember walking in on him with Emily and Emily crying. You remember your mind going silent and your body tingling. You remember making Mr. Jackson mad, making him hit you, making him ignore Emily. You don’t remember the hits you took. You don’t remember where the scissors came from but you remember the feel of them going into Mr. Jackson’s leg. You remember the distinctly out of place thought that the blood coating your hand was warmer than you would have expected.

You grab Emily and you run outside.

The police take you down to the station. You’re put in a room with a mirror that they can see through and you wait, the light harsh and glaring in your face. A blonde man comes in wearing a white lab coat. He takes your clothes and takes pictures of the bruises blossoming on your skin before he gives you new ones. He scrapes underneath your finger nails and takes a molding of your teeth. (You didn’t even realize you had bit him, you hope it gets infected.) The whole time he talks to you in calming matter of fact way. He tells you everything he’s doing and why he’s doing it and when you ask him questions, about chemicals and procedures, he smiles at you and starts explaining the science behind his actions as well. He tells you to call him Barry instead of Mr. Allen and he thinks you did a very brave thing.

Your case worker disagrees. She says this shows you have a “violent personality.”

You spend a week in juvenile detention.

When they let you out, a long time before you ever thought they would, Mr. Allen, Barry, is there with two other adults.

“Wally,” he says, “this is my brother and sister in law Rudolph and Mary West. They’re going to be your new foster parents.”

Your name is
Wally Hayes
Wally Sullivan
Wally Bailey
Wally Cooper
Wally Sanchez
Wally Murphy
Wally Crawford
Wally Freeman
Wally Webb
Wallace
Wally Rivera
Wally Davis
Wally Jackson
Wally West

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Re: Runaway Child Pt1c OP thingamawhatsit June 23 2011, 03:36:58 UTC
thank you for writing this, it's really good, you capture the emotions and events that children in foster care go through.

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Re: Runaway Child Pt1c OP thingamawhatsit June 25 2011, 02:37:35 UTC
You are so welcome. I'm glad I've been able to do it justice so far.

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Re: Runaway Child Pt1c thingamawhatsit June 23 2011, 03:51:35 UTC
This is lovely (not the content since such events [minus the section end/Jake/protective!Wally] never could be, but the way the content is handled).

Please write more soon.

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Re: Runaway Child Pt1c thingamawhatsit June 25 2011, 02:47:01 UTC
:D Thank you for the lovely comment. I've been trying really hard to frame the contents as best I can and I'm very happy to know the work has paid off. That said, slow and steady seems to be the pace for this fill so I'm currently giving it a rough estimate of updating once a week.

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Re: Runaway Child Pt1c thingamawhatsit June 23 2011, 04:08:32 UTC
THIS IS BEAUTIFUL/TRAGIC, THINGAMAWHATSIT :O

I am entranced. Wow.

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Re: Runaway Child Pt1c thingamawhatsit June 25 2011, 02:52:07 UTC
Thank you for the comment. There will definitely be more tragic to come and hope I can also provide you with a little more beauty. I'm glad you're enjoying.

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Re: Runaway Child Pt1c thingamawhatsit June 23 2011, 21:42:48 UTC
BRB. SOBBING. SO HARD.

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Re: Runaway Child Pt1c thingamawhatsit June 25 2011, 02:53:23 UTC
*hands anon box of tissues*

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Re: Runaway Child Pt1c thingamawhatsit June 24 2011, 04:46:37 UTC
Stunning. Thank you so much for sharing this.

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Re: Runaway Child Pt1c thingamawhatsit June 25 2011, 02:54:30 UTC
You're very welcome. Thank you for commenting <3

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