MEME: test drive

[citycouncil]

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[adifferentlife]

Mary... How horrible. [She slips her hand around her sister's squeezing it gently. It's an awful thing to have learned, and worse to have it happen to someone she cares for so much.]

I'd ask you if you were alright, but that's a horrible question, isn't it? What are you supposed to say to that? I hope you two were happy.

[storm_braver]

We were. Quite happy, for a while.

I have a son now. His name's George.

[adifferentlife]

That's something then, isn't it? To have a son and to have been happy?

Mary, might I ask you something? Thomas mentioned something about my future. About Branson, that we eloped. Is it true?

[storm_braver]

Oh, is it! I thought you were going to send Papa into an early grave. He did approve, in the end, but barely, and you and Tom went off to Dublin, at least for a time.

[adifferentlife]

I- I don't know what to say to that. He'd told me his feelings of course, before I went off for nursing. I never thought anything would come of it.

Do you suppose we're happy?

[storm_braver]

I think so. You always seemed like it to me, at any rate, though I won't pretend I understand how you could have been happy with a life like that. I do know that you loved him. You honestly don't remember any of that?

[adifferentlife]

No, none of it. But I think I can see it, perhaps? I don't know. It seems so odd, knowing of my future but not really knowing it.

Life here is nothing like Downton, Mary. I love it, though. I miss you all horribly, but I have friends, my work, and there is someone rather special to me here.

[storm_braver]

I'm sure it is. If someone told me when the war had just broken out how everything would wind up, I'm sure I wouldn't have believed them. Having it happen like this must only make it stranger. I am glad, though, that you're happy here. You should get to be.

Is there? Do tell me about him. Is he someone else the family would disapprove of?

[adifferentlife]

I don't know that I'm that much more deserving than anyone else that we know. Edith would eiher enjoy it or detest it, I can never make up my mind.

He's French, so Grandmother would have something to say. He's studying to be a doctor.

[storm_braver]

Come to think of it, Edith might just enjoy it here. She's been writing a weekly column for a newspaper in London. Fallen head over heels for her editor, poor thing, but at least she has something good going for her. She's always better-tempered when she does.

Is he? I think I met him, then, just before you came along. He gave me something of a shock, I'm afraid, mentioning you, but he did seem to think highly of you.

[adifferentlife]

Edith is writing for a newspaper? What did Papa say?

A shock? That I'm here, you mean. It is an odd thing, I know, but it seems to happen that way for some people.

[storm_braver]

He tried to stop her, of course. You know Papa. But she wouldn't have it.

So I've been hearing. It's just a very different thing, hearing about it rather than experiencing it. Had I not seen you with my own eyes, I'm not sure I ever would have believed it.