Three AB drabbles

[mhalachaiswords]

Crossposted to abvh100, and all for fanfic100. I'll get to 100 yet!

Title: Card
Fandom: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (master list here)
Characters: Anita
fanfic100 Prompt: 04 - Insides
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: Laurell K. Hamilton owns all things Anita Blake. Only the story is my own.
Rating: PG
Note: A nine-year-old Anita tries to reach out on Mother's Day

Comments

[jaydeyn_sitari]

Ooh, ouch. Card just hurt - I've done stuff like that, the feeling of rejection is heart-rending. Very nice with the JC - Asher having a hissy fit again? :D

And I'm in on the Zerbrowski-love. He's a fantastic character and one I miss in the later books. *g* Now if only LKH would subsitute some of the sex with a little Z-time... that would be great!

But cops didn't say talk about that is that a double up on concept there or am I just not able to read after my incredibly long day?

By the by, that's something that really needs to be addressed with Anita - the burn out factor/PTSD...

:)
Jaydeyn

[mhalachaiswords]

Card was supposed to hurt. I do really mean things to my girl sometimes. Poor kid.

Asher havinga hissy fit? Never!

And oops yeah, a total misspelling. *scurries to fix*

Funny you mention the burnout factor. I'm going to touch on that in Switchback at some point. It's a valid observation.

[alydhe]

You keyed me up with the Inevitable update and then smashed my heart with Anita angst. Poor darlin'.

Asher can say all he wants that he doesn't know why Jean Claude puts up with her but he's just as taken with her.

BTW, I know you don't usually read the comments once you've posted a new journal entry, but I'm really curious if I got the hint right in Inevitable. Any chance you could glance at my comment there?

[mhalachaiswords]

Anita has such a hard time of it. Poor kid.

Asher is taken with Anita, but he doesn't really understand her. If he did, they wouldn't have had so many problems getting together in the first place.

I'll get to your comment in a bit. Such a busy day, but I do try and respond to comments like that!

[alydhe]

Thanks!

Angsty

[dulcenoir]

You must Be feeling angsty today

Re: Angsty

[mhalachaiswords]

You betcha. One of those days. o_O

[thekams]

Oh man, the mother's day one killed me. Little!Anita is so cute, and I feel so bad for her. She really does have issues stemming from back then. I'd love it if LKH gave some insight into her childhood, and those of the other major chars.

JC is...JC. He loves Anita, and sometimes, I wish she'd give him the benefit of the doubt. She doubts him too often, wondering if he's being truthful or just wantsa something from her. I don't think he does, or, if he did, he doesn't anymore.

Oh, Zerbrowski. He really does care, and no one ever takes him seriously. If he had his way, I think he's stick Anita in a bed with some chicken soup and never let her leave. Well, at least until she was in perfect health and had gotten at least 24 hours sleep! LoL

These were just awesome, much ♥

[mhalachaiswords]

I'm so mean to little Anita some times. Heck, I tend to give big Anita hell. You can get little hints of her sense of loss and abandonment in the books. Not an easy life.

I wish she'd give him the benefit of the doubt.
She doesn't doubt him (well, okay, she does, but not like that); she doubts herself to the point where she can't let anyone in. At least, not in those early books.

Zerbrowski is love.

[thekams]

she doubts herself to the point where she can't let anyone in.
Yes, exactly. And it ends up not only hurting herself, but those she loves and those who love her.

[dharkapparition]

The first one just broke my heart. Sigh

[mhalachaiswords]

It's really sad that Anita has just a hard time in her life, with her abandonment issues going back to far (she can claim it's her college fiance all she wants, but her issues are so much deeper than that).