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[#021] My Silence is My Self-Defense (The InBetween)
Theme Prompt: #021 – Blessings in Disguise
Title: My Silence is My Self-Defense
Fandom: The InBetween
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes.
Word Count: 558
Summary: Cassie’s mother says her final goodbyes before passing out of the InBetween.
Notes: Cassie’s mother hasn’t been given an actual name yet, so that’s why I don’t use it! It’s an experiment, I’m rolling with it.
This is the first time in a long time she’s been sober.
She doesn’t have a choice – being dead has a way of forcing you onto the teetotaler side of the scale whether you want to be or not. Being dead also draws a lot of things into a very sharp relief, a kind of sharpness she thinks would be present whether or not she had spent the last few years of her life in an alcoholic haze. Either way, the InBetween has her now, once and for all, just like it claims everything else, and all those ghosts that she’s been trying to drown out for years are going to be beating down her daughter’s door now.
It’s not fair, that her daughter is forced to bear this curse. It’s not fair that Cassie can’t just have a normal life, be a normal kid, and never have to deal with the dead again.
Blessing in disguise, her mother used to say. As her eyes roam around the bare walls of Tom and Brian’s apartment, she doesn’t understand it. The two men, her two best friends, sit there contemplating what they’re going to do with Cassie, if they can take her in, knowing all that they know, if they’re really the best home for her – all decisions that she, Cassie’s mother, should be making, she can’t help but scoff.
“Blessing in disguise, my ass.” The two men don’t acknowledge her presence. Being dead has it’s downsides that way. She strides closer before slamming her hands down on the table next to them. “You two better take damn good care of Cassie, or I will come back and haunt your asses myself.”
And they know she will. They don’t have to hear it to acknowledge it.
She leaves and drifts up to the room where her daughter sleeps, wrapped tight in Tom’s leather jacket. She shifts, letting herself lean against a doorway that she knows isn’t supporting her, and just watches Cassie sleep through clear eyes for the first time in a long time. Her daughter is beautiful, the best thing she ever did, and if anything is a blessing in disguise, it’s her. She just hopes that Cassie learns to handle the weight of their powers better than she did.
“You’re in for a world of pain, baby girl. And you’re not going to have me to help you.”
Mediums don’t get to linger, as much as they may like to. They know the damage all too well of having lingering with unfinished business, and she’s not going to do that do her daughter, as much as it may hurt Cassie in the long run. She makes her way closer, crouching down next to the side of the bed as she watches her face sleep, completely unaware that she’s there – at least for now.
“Remember that you’re stronger than they are. You can push them out if they get too rough. And don’t forget me.” She swallows hard. “Don’t forget that I’m what you don’t want to be.”
She gets to her feet, a warm light resting on the other side of the doorway that once led back to Tom and Brian’s living room, and smiles as she turns to go step through it.
“I love you, Cassie. We’ll see each other soon.”
Just hopefully not too soon.
Title: My Silence is My Self-Defense
Fandom: The InBetween
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes.
Word Count: 558
Summary: Cassie’s mother says her final goodbyes before passing out of the InBetween.
Notes: Cassie’s mother hasn’t been given an actual name yet, so that’s why I don’t use it! It’s an experiment, I’m rolling with it.
This is the first time in a long time she’s been sober.
She doesn’t have a choice – being dead has a way of forcing you onto the teetotaler side of the scale whether you want to be or not. Being dead also draws a lot of things into a very sharp relief, a kind of sharpness she thinks would be present whether or not she had spent the last few years of her life in an alcoholic haze. Either way, the InBetween has her now, once and for all, just like it claims everything else, and all those ghosts that she’s been trying to drown out for years are going to be beating down her daughter’s door now.
It’s not fair, that her daughter is forced to bear this curse. It’s not fair that Cassie can’t just have a normal life, be a normal kid, and never have to deal with the dead again.
Blessing in disguise, her mother used to say. As her eyes roam around the bare walls of Tom and Brian’s apartment, she doesn’t understand it. The two men, her two best friends, sit there contemplating what they’re going to do with Cassie, if they can take her in, knowing all that they know, if they’re really the best home for her – all decisions that she, Cassie’s mother, should be making, she can’t help but scoff.
“Blessing in disguise, my ass.” The two men don’t acknowledge her presence. Being dead has it’s downsides that way. She strides closer before slamming her hands down on the table next to them. “You two better take damn good care of Cassie, or I will come back and haunt your asses myself.”
And they know she will. They don’t have to hear it to acknowledge it.
She leaves and drifts up to the room where her daughter sleeps, wrapped tight in Tom’s leather jacket. She shifts, letting herself lean against a doorway that she knows isn’t supporting her, and just watches Cassie sleep through clear eyes for the first time in a long time. Her daughter is beautiful, the best thing she ever did, and if anything is a blessing in disguise, it’s her. She just hopes that Cassie learns to handle the weight of their powers better than she did.
“You’re in for a world of pain, baby girl. And you’re not going to have me to help you.”
Mediums don’t get to linger, as much as they may like to. They know the damage all too well of having lingering with unfinished business, and she’s not going to do that do her daughter, as much as it may hurt Cassie in the long run. She makes her way closer, crouching down next to the side of the bed as she watches her face sleep, completely unaware that she’s there – at least for now.
“Remember that you’re stronger than they are. You can push them out if they get too rough. And don’t forget me.” She swallows hard. “Don’t forget that I’m what you don’t want to be.”
She gets to her feet, a warm light resting on the other side of the doorway that once led back to Tom and Brian’s living room, and smiles as she turns to go step through it.
“I love you, Cassie. We’ll see each other soon.”
Just hopefully not too soon.
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