[For Elvis]
Nov. 30th, 2017 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intheruinsGrief, as always, comes in waves. Not long after Edith's funeral, the newspapers stop talking about the Purge on the front page and slowly life seeps back into something like normality. At least, as close as anything can get to normality in a place like Darrow.
Serena settles back into her routine of working on bringing the house up to modern standards and teaching lessons at the stable, marvelling every day at the progress George is making. Before long, she's sure he'll be walking and talking, and all at once she fears the change and is desperate for it to happen. She doesn't know if she'll ever have a child again and lives with an awareness everything might be the first time for the last time, but she also wants to see everything the child she and Pemberton created is capable of.
Today, though, he's been with a sitter while Serena's been at the stables showing a young girl the basics of dressage. She picks him up afterward, still wearing her jodhpurs and a sweaty complexion despite the growing cold. Balancing a job and parenthood is more difficult than she ever imagined but also deeply gratifying, a reminder that she is more than one thing and always has been.
There aren't often visitors by the house nearby theirs so Serena's surprised to see a young man when she gets off the bus with George in her arms. Curiosity gets the better of her and she lifts her hand into a wordless wave.
Serena settles back into her routine of working on bringing the house up to modern standards and teaching lessons at the stable, marvelling every day at the progress George is making. Before long, she's sure he'll be walking and talking, and all at once she fears the change and is desperate for it to happen. She doesn't know if she'll ever have a child again and lives with an awareness everything might be the first time for the last time, but she also wants to see everything the child she and Pemberton created is capable of.
Today, though, he's been with a sitter while Serena's been at the stables showing a young girl the basics of dressage. She picks him up afterward, still wearing her jodhpurs and a sweaty complexion despite the growing cold. Balancing a job and parenthood is more difficult than she ever imagined but also deeply gratifying, a reminder that she is more than one thing and always has been.
There aren't often visitors by the house nearby theirs so Serena's surprised to see a young man when she gets off the bus with George in her arms. Curiosity gets the better of her and she lifts her hand into a wordless wave.
