"It's like in the great stories... The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why."
aldiara on May 15th, 2011 07:47 pm (UTC) Re: Nanny-Cam
Oh, this is beautiful. I always love me some Reichensiblings, and the insights into them as kids here are just lovely - I especially like the bit about Tom needing focus because he only knows where NOT to put his energy, and something about the nanny slipping little Izzie cake makes me go all "awwww, yeah!" Cake makes everything better!
One of my favourites so far! *pets*
(lol, also I may have unintentionally written something where I gave Tom the fire part of the prompt. We can pretend he does both, y/y? *g*)
winterlover on May 15th, 2011 08:05 pm (UTC) Re: Nanny-Cam
Actually I did read it like they both change between fire and ice with Isabelle usually being the "colder" one and Tom burning with his passionate convictions buth this changing when things went wrong I love this mixture/crossover (whatever the correct word for Überkreuzung is)