Elementary Fic: Fastening Your Seatbelt
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kitmerlot_1213This is a 185 word Elementary drabble for the Weekend Challenge at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
1_million_words and my drabble was inspired by this Gone With the Wind quote: After all, tomorrow is another day!
In her former life, the life where Kitty wasn’t a rape survivor, she’d been a huge fan of the cinema.
She would see a show at least once a week and she especially liked to watch the classic Hollywood films of the 1940’s and 50’s. Her parents encouraged her love for the black and white classics and they would often make recommendations of some of their own favorites.
But after she escaped her rapists’ dungeon, Kitty found it difficult to sit in a room filled with strangers in pitch darkness, so she’d immersed herself in watching the old movies on TV.
It was through watching these strong women living life on their own terms that helped her face her fears and find her own strength.
Kitty loved it when Bette Davis’ Margo Channing told of the double crossing ingénue Eve and when Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett O’Hara refused to back down from Rhett Butler.
There were countless scenes of women not taking crap from anyone and Kitty yearned to have that type of freedom and five years later, she was finally there.
Tomorrow was another day, indeed.
1_million_words and my drabble was inspired by this Gone With the Wind quote: After all, tomorrow is another day!In her former life, the life where Kitty wasn’t a rape survivor, she’d been a huge fan of the cinema.
She would see a show at least once a week and she especially liked to watch the classic Hollywood films of the 1940’s and 50’s. Her parents encouraged her love for the black and white classics and they would often make recommendations of some of their own favorites.
But after she escaped her rapists’ dungeon, Kitty found it difficult to sit in a room filled with strangers in pitch darkness, so she’d immersed herself in watching the old movies on TV.
It was through watching these strong women living life on their own terms that helped her face her fears and find her own strength.
Kitty loved it when Bette Davis’ Margo Channing told of the double crossing ingénue Eve and when Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett O’Hara refused to back down from Rhett Butler.
There were countless scenes of women not taking crap from anyone and Kitty yearned to have that type of freedom and five years later, she was finally there.
Tomorrow was another day, indeed.
