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rivulet027 ([personal profile] rivulet027) wrote in [community profile] fandomweekly2019-01-13 05:28 am

[002] Abandoned (The Flash)

Theme Prompt: 002-Heartbreak
Title: Abandoned
Fandom: The Flash
Rating/Warning: PG, abandonment, references canon child abuse
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 495
Summary: Lisa’s mom leaves. Her father comes home from prison tomorrow and she’s locked in her house. She calls her brother.


Abandoned:

There are suitcases by the front door. Lisa frowns at them. There’s a taxi outside. She turns as her mom comes rushing down the stairs carrying a duffle bag.

“Where are we going?” she asks. Did her mom remember to pack her favorite Barbie and Kristi, her figure skating rabbit?

“Your brother will be here to pick you up at the normal time,” her mom reassures.

That’s hours away. Hours.

Her dad comes home from prison tomorrow, she knows, she checked the calendar twice. What if Lenny doesn’t come and she’s here all alone when her dad get home?

Lisa wails and stomps her foot, “I want to go to Lenny’s right now!”

She clings. She begs. She cries. The door is firmly locked with her on one side and her mom on the other. Lisa collapses in a heap, her sobs hiccupping slowly to a stop. She swipes at her face and yanks on the door with one last wail. She could reach the deadbolt with a stool, but she’d have to bring it all the way from the kitchen, and that doesn’t solve the other lock. She swipes at her face again. She swipes at her wet face with her sleeve again and with a huff heads to the kitchen. She stares at the phone, what if Lenny’s not home?

She stares at the calendar again, the one with the days crossed off and her dad is coming home tomorrow. What if Lenny’s not home?

She shudders.

Moving the stool from where she’d pushed it against the counter, so she could get her breakfast, over to the phone is exhausting. She collapses against the floor when she manages it. She huffs in frustration. Lenny has to be home, he has to be.

Maybe she should get Kristi? Maybe she’ll have better luck?

Lisa shakes her head and climbs up the stool and grabs the phone. She carefully punches in Lenny’s number. It rings and rings and rings. He’s not home. He’s not.

“What?”

Mick.

Lisa collapses against the wall in relief.

“She left. She locked me in. She’s gone and he comes home tomorrow.”

“Are you hurt?”

“No.”

“Do you know where your book bag is?” he asks.

“Yes.”

“Keep your schoolwork in it, pack anything essential, and meet me by the front door.”

“All my best stuff is at your place,” she reminds.

“Kristi, that Barbie you lug everywhere. Don’t leave those,” he instructs. “I’ll be there soon.”

After he hangs up she rushes to her room to find her backpack. She puts her favorite toys in, then looks over her clothes. All her best stuff is at Lenny and Mick’s. She hugs Kristi and waits by the door.

Mick uses his spare key to get in, squats down and accept it when she flings herself at him. He rubs her back and tells her Lenny is at work, then suggests, “McDonalds?”

Lisa nods against his shoulder as he picks her up.
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[personal profile] dray 2019-01-13 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oof, I'm glad this has a good resolution. :( Poor kid, that would be pretty scary.
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[personal profile] semperdormientes 2019-01-14 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
This yanks so good at the heartstrings. It was very good. Thank you for writing it.
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[personal profile] peaked 2019-01-15 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
The one thing I have to say is that I love how you've focused on a younger and more vulnerable Lisa and didn't make her narration and thinking so childlike and immature. I can see the Lisa from canon who is a little softer and dependent on her brother in this. I also like how you've added some depth to Mick and Leonard's relationship in this. The Snart family is a complex and fascinating one, and it's nice to go back in time and see how Lisa and Leonard made their own family with Mick involved. Nice work!
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[personal profile] iluvroadrunner6 2019-01-15 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
GOOD BOY MICK RORY.

But also poor Lisa. Life in the Snart home was never an easy one, but at least Lisa had Mick and Snart to have her back.

Lovely job here.
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[personal profile] badly_knitted 2019-01-15 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
What kind of mother would just abandon her kid like that? Hope she'll be safe now. Poor Lisa.
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[personal profile] etoile_noire 2019-01-15 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Poor kid. I like the end of it.
Thank you for sharing it.
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[personal profile] sarajayechan 2019-01-15 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
So sad. :c
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[personal profile] canadiandiamond 2019-01-16 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Very sad story indeed, I'm glad it had a happy ending though.