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Drabble: A Final Rapture

Oct 31, 2006 02:41

Title: A Final Rapture
Rating: PG
Character: Merope Gaunt
Disclaimer: Not mine
Word Count: 100

( A Final Rapture )

Comments 8

alphatauri3791 October 31 2006, 09:38:06 UTC

At least he doesn't look like his grandfather and his uncle from his mother's side.

I like it. There's a wild, violent quality to it that shows what poor Merope's mental state could have been after Tom left. (Uhm, not sure it makes sense).

What's wrong with delivering a baby crouching? If anything, it should be easier than doing it lying on you back with the legs in that awkward position.

onehundredmoons October 31 2006, 14:58:03 UTC

Thank you! :) Poor girl; what a nasty life. I worried it was too frantic, knowing what happened next in canon, but I'm glad it works for you.

Oh, there's nothing *wrong* with it; on the contrary, it's the ideal way to deliver (since gravity helps) but I thought that the sterile sorts of the early 20th century, when hospital birth was just becoming popular, would be appalled. Merope knew what she was doing, though!

siriusmoonlite October 31 2006, 12:09:02 UTC

Wonderful imagery.

Nearly cried reading this. Poor Merope. Her broef happiness in life over, she was hoping for the child. Thank the fates that she was able to see him, her beautiful baby who looked like the man she loved.

onehundredmoons October 31 2006, 14:58:54 UTC

Thank you very much! Those emotions after giving birth are so intense, I imagine that could have done her fragile spirit in. :(

westwardlee October 31 2006, 12:59:56 UTC

This is awesome - I love the way she's animalistic, just like the caged girl she was when she was living with her father.

And her happiness at seeing that the baby looks like his father - a little bit of her that has escaped the horrid Gaunt world.

Little did she know what would become of him, yeah?

onehundredmoons October 31 2006, 14:51:13 UTC

Thanks so much! Her life was so terrible; it's too bad she only had one moment of honest happiness!

magik_muggle October 31 2006, 13:19:06 UTC

If only the dear girl could have tapped into that animalistic subconscious years earlier
great drabble!

onehundredmoons October 31 2006, 14:49:52 UTC

Thanks! I feel like this might have too energized a feel for moments before her demise, but childbirth brings on unexpected energy!