Who: Bev Marsh and open! Where: The lounge When: Morning of May 9th What: Having a smoke after a nightmare. Status: Open, ongoing. Warnings: Mentions of a nightmare involving abuse by Bev's father.
Bev never liked mother's day. Without her memories, she had chalked it up to society's pressure for her to be a mother when she never would have brought children into her mess of a marriage to Tom. Since the events in Derry, she had remembered the real reason that she hated the day. In her dream, she had re-lived it. Her father spraying her with her mother's perfume and telling her of how she reminded him of her mother, implying things no father should think. At the same time, he would blame her for her mother's death, trying to make her feel guilt for situations far beyond the control of a child.
Bev has gone down to the lounge after she woke up from that dream. She sat in one of the chairs and lit a cigarette, enjoying the smell - so different from the perfume in her dreams, different than everything her father had wanted her to be. When she finally brought into her lips and started to smoke, she could feel the anger from her nightmare fading. As simple as it was, smoking had always relaxed her and given a sense of control.
Another person walked into the lounge and she glanced up at them. "Hi. The smoke's not bothering you, is it?"