Forbidden Fruit (1/1)

[msgenevieve]

Title: Forbidden Fruit (1/1)
Fandom: Prison Break
Characters: Sara Tancredi
Pairing: Implied Michael/Sara
Genre: Het, canon, pre-series
Length: 1,881 words
Summary: Addiction comes in many, many forms. Spoilers for Season One. Not fluffy or cheery in any way, shape or form.
Rating: PG-15 (adult themes involving bad things)
Author's Note: For

Comments

[nefeliciousss]

wonderfull and so in character...
I really enjoy reading it... good job!

[msgenevieve]

Thanks so much!

[jolietjones]

Oh the guilt! I remember it so well. You have it down just right. How different her life may have been if her mother had caught her in the act of taking the first chocolate? How dangerous it was for her that she got away with it.

I especially love the way she so carefully disposed of the red foil. That's just like something I would do.

This was well done.

[msgenevieve]

I especially love the way she so carefully disposed of the red foil. That's just like something I would do.

Oh, yes. The paranoia of a child who is afraid of being caught in a lie isn't all that different to that of an addict trying to keep up appearances, now that I think about it. You get back to that basic "if I just get rid of this, no one will ever know' mentality.

Thanks so much!

[lizparker6]

There is a touch of inevitability in this one and that sad and brilliant all the same.
I think you described her childhood pretty good. Always expecting to be caught but never being, looks like she was the responsible one out of many in her home, while no one say payed any attention to her.
Kind of miracle she can thank herself for she still turned up the way she did.

The end was so great, loved the thought that lying still makes her sick, she truly seems like a persons who hates to lie because she suffers by being too over-resposible.

Also, was absolutely stunend by this sentence, I could, sadly enough, never express myself this accurately as well as beautifully - Almost every day for the last three months, she’s walked through those gates afraid today will be the day that someone realises how she feels about Michael Scofield. That someone will discover something she’s said, something she’s done, and it will be all laid out for everyone to see

[msgenevieve]

*blushes*

Thank you so much. I think her childhood would have been very comfortable on a material level, but between the hints we were given about her parents' relationship and her mother's drinking, it wasn't an easy one. It makes me wonder exactly when she and her father started drifting apart.

[lizparker6]

I would say the gap between frank and sara started later, maybe in her college years, maybe when she grew old enough to see that what happened to her mother was something she could blame on her father for not being around and care much. Maybe it was when she realized there were other parents, other fathers, who cared after their children differently, spent more time with them that she realized that something in THEIR relatioship was off, was different and at some level worse.

At that time,s he probably started being stubborn, oposing her father, testing their limits with each other of sorts.

Its hard to tell, but I would go with this probably. As a child, she certainly was a very obedient daughter who didnt really undertood what was going on at her home. She also, as in your story, was probably a person who had to look after herself. On the emotional level that it.

Nevertheles, your portrayal of her childhood was in my view brilliant. with so little information you did so much. *sighs* Got how I envy you...;)

[msgenevieve]

Your thoughts mirror mine quite a bit here. I've thought a lot about Sara and Frank's relationship (I guess that happens when you write a lot of Sara fic, lol!) and I've always been very intrigued by the contradictions in their relationship. They loved each other very much, and yet when we met them, every moment together was a power struggle both of them were determined to win. She's spent her life alternatively trying to please and defy him, and it really, really makes me wish that Frank was still alive and kicking.

[anonymous]

i really like this piece. it shows so much emotion to sara that we don't see enough of in s1. i hope you'll write more michael/sara pieces. :) i am in dire need of some good misa reading :)

[msgenevieve]

Thank you. I'm planning to write something tonight, but not sure if it will be M/S or not yet. :)

[purplemoongrl]

Simply beautifully written. I love your writing style so very much that it feels like a warm, bath. The moment I start reading one of your stories, no matter how tired or stressed I feel, it always relaxes me right away.

The way that you describe addiction, like it is something that is beyond her control and the danger of giving in when stress, loneliness or boredom setts in is so very to the point. Sara is somehow invisible to her parents because they are wrapped up in their own problems so she learns from early on (with her mother as an example) to escape.

There's nothing she can do to take back what she's done, she tells herself as the feel of the morphine vial replaces the imprint of the doorhandle on her palm, but maybe she'll be able to sleep while she waits to be caught.

That overwhelming feeling of insignificance, that she felt as a child, comes back the night of the escape IMO and all she wants to do is numb the pain.

It has been years since I had one of those cherie liqueur chocolates but I can remember exactly how they

[msgenevieve]

The way that you describe addiction, like it is something that is beyond her control and the danger of giving in when stress, loneliness or boredom setts in is so very to the point.

Thank you. I just think she might have had this strain, for want of a better word, running through her from an early age. Once she got a little older and starting tugging on the restrictions I'm sure her father would have placed on her, it was all too easy for stolen chocolates to give way to something more dangerous.

That overwhelming feeling of insignificance, that she felt as a child, comes back the night of the escape IMO and all she wants to do is numb the pain.

God, and it just makes me so SAD for her. Wah.