Three Wishes
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intheheartTitle: Three Wishes
Rating: PG
Summary: Three wishes Summer didn't quite make and the one that came true.
Warnings: none.
Notes: This has been in the works for a while.
1) to be neurotypical
Summer doesn't think that she's broken. She's just wired differently, and she likes herself. She likes that she's smart. She likes that she can talk with people so much older. She likes learning everything about something.
What she doesn't like is how people treat her. Kids at school calling her a freak. People looking at her sideways when she talks, or yelling at her when everything overwhelms her. Her family understands, but she can't always be with them. It would certainly be easier, being neurotypical-- she's just not sure she wants it.
Still, she could do without the sensitivity issues.
2) to go home
She is violently homesick for the first five months of graduate school.
Summer's never lived alone. Even in college she commuted from home, and did her homework in her childhood bedroom. Now she has her own apartment, bed, bath, and kitchenette, and no one breathing in the room beside hers, and sometimes she cries herself to sleep.
Then she goes home for Christmas and it's like putting on an old sweater, too tight and itchy and loud. She loves her family, and she always will, but she's more glad than she ever imagined to get back to her quiet apartment.
3) to be married
It's not the ceremony that she wants; she's had that, white dress and all. It isn't the reality of it either, because she has that too, her boys snoring in bed or bickering in the kitchen or folding themselves around her while they all watch TV. It's the recognition that she wants, a marriage certificate with all three names.
But what does that mean? A marriage certificate is a piece of paper. It's a few legal niceties. And yes, her sister fought for years for the same right, but...
Summer doesn't know how to wish for it without being unfair.
+1) to have a family
Thomas is born at three-thirty on a November afternoon. It's a Tuesday, which is why Summer is so surprised when her entire family arrives by seven. Mama and Papa are retired, but her brothers and sisters, they all have jobs and children and lives, and that's not even counting Felipe and Zack's familes. So many people crowding the wards and waiting rooms! She's grateful her boys acted as bouncers; she couldn't manage everyone at once.
But they love her, so much, and they love Thomas, though they've just met him.
It's everything she ever wanted, and she can't stop smiling.
Rating: PG
Summary: Three wishes Summer didn't quite make and the one that came true.
Warnings: none.
Notes: This has been in the works for a while.
1) to be neurotypical
Summer doesn't think that she's broken. She's just wired differently, and she likes herself. She likes that she's smart. She likes that she can talk with people so much older. She likes learning everything about something.
What she doesn't like is how people treat her. Kids at school calling her a freak. People looking at her sideways when she talks, or yelling at her when everything overwhelms her. Her family understands, but she can't always be with them. It would certainly be easier, being neurotypical-- she's just not sure she wants it.
Still, she could do without the sensitivity issues.
2) to go home
She is violently homesick for the first five months of graduate school.
Summer's never lived alone. Even in college she commuted from home, and did her homework in her childhood bedroom. Now she has her own apartment, bed, bath, and kitchenette, and no one breathing in the room beside hers, and sometimes she cries herself to sleep.
Then she goes home for Christmas and it's like putting on an old sweater, too tight and itchy and loud. She loves her family, and she always will, but she's more glad than she ever imagined to get back to her quiet apartment.
3) to be married
It's not the ceremony that she wants; she's had that, white dress and all. It isn't the reality of it either, because she has that too, her boys snoring in bed or bickering in the kitchen or folding themselves around her while they all watch TV. It's the recognition that she wants, a marriage certificate with all three names.
But what does that mean? A marriage certificate is a piece of paper. It's a few legal niceties. And yes, her sister fought for years for the same right, but...
Summer doesn't know how to wish for it without being unfair.
+1) to have a family
Thomas is born at three-thirty on a November afternoon. It's a Tuesday, which is why Summer is so surprised when her entire family arrives by seven. Mama and Papa are retired, but her brothers and sisters, they all have jobs and children and lives, and that's not even counting Felipe and Zack's familes. So many people crowding the wards and waiting rooms! She's grateful her boys acted as bouncers; she couldn't manage everyone at once.
But they love her, so much, and they love Thomas, though they've just met him.
It's everything she ever wanted, and she can't stop smiling.
