~017 - [VIDEO] - all grown up
Jan. 20th, 2011 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intofireforever[The video feed turns on to show Laura standing in front of a mirror. This mirror reflects not only Laura, who appears to have aged up considerably, but a very nice bedroom as well. There's a framed photo on the bedside table that she hasn't noticed yet--it's of this older version of her and Miss Parker, smiling and posed together with a little girl. Oh dear. Feel free to point this out, anyone who notices!
Laura touches her face incredulously, and when she speaks, it's in a whisper.]
I got...old.
[After a little while of just staring in absolute shock, she picks up the communicator and starts exploring the house. The next room she stumbled across...is a child's. A little girl's, by the decor. Now she's really confused and more than a little troubled.]
Miss Parker...? Paddy...?! [She picks up a teddy bear, looks at it, and then just...lets it fall to the floor. She's having trouble processing the fact that she has, quite impossibly, become an adult, and a parent to boot.]
Laura touches her face incredulously, and when she speaks, it's in a whisper.]
I got...old.
[After a little while of just staring in absolute shock, she picks up the communicator and starts exploring the house. The next room she stumbled across...is a child's. A little girl's, by the decor. Now she's really confused and more than a little troubled.]
Miss Parker...? Paddy...?! [She picks up a teddy bear, looks at it, and then just...lets it fall to the floor. She's having trouble processing the fact that she has, quite impossibly, become an adult, and a parent to boot.]
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Date: 2011-01-21 02:26 am (UTC)[Then, more panicked:]
Do I have a kid, Paddy?!
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Date: 2011-01-21 02:34 am (UTC)Laura?
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Date: 2011-01-21 02:37 am (UTC)You couldn't tell? Do I really look that different?
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Date: 2011-01-21 02:39 am (UTC)No... not really.
I mean. Can you tell Nathan and me are pretty much the same bloke? Same kinda thing right. You're a load older.
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Date: 2011-01-21 02:42 am (UTC)[Laura nods and wipes her eyes on her sleeve. This is a lot to handle.]
Where are you?
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Date: 2011-01-21 02:45 am (UTC)I'm in the pub. There ain't many around here, and I am the barman at one.
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Date: 2011-01-21 02:52 am (UTC)I'm not sure who I'm supposed to be. A mom, I think--but do I stay at home, or do I have a job? Am I a single mother or do I have a husband?
[Oh Laura. Neither. She laughs, and it's high and panicky.]
I'm not supposed to have this kind of life!
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Date: 2011-01-21 01:01 pm (UTC)And... what do you mean, you ain't supposed to have it? I mean... sure, you never got to have it, but that don't mean you ain't supposed to.
[Awkward]
Oh, and Laura, if you need me, I'm in the local pub. Easy to find.
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Date: 2011-01-21 11:25 pm (UTC)[She rubs her face.]
I'll come see you. Later, okay? Once I've figured things out.
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Date: 2011-01-22 12:04 am (UTC)