hyel (hyel) wrote in multi_fiction, @ 2009-01-14 18:46:00 |
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Entry tags: | anne green gables, au, gen, rated: general, weekly promotion challenge |
Wishes Are No Horses, part 4 (Anne of Green Gables)
Title: Wishes Are No Horses, part 4
Author's Name: Hyel
Disclaimer: Anne of Green Gables (c) L.M. Montgomery.
Warnings: AU angst.
Ratings: general
Summary: The Keith twins have no-one to take them, now. 300 words.
Author's Note: Here we go.
'There's nothing for them but the orphanage,' was the final word, when the Keith twins were put to bed after the day of their father's death. There was no more money and no more relatives willing or able to take them. Another week saw the truth of those words.
There was a square of asphalt in the back of the orphanage for a playground, narrow hard beds in the boys' and girls' halls with thin blankets, and days that were spent in scrubbing floors in between meager lessons and even less substantial meals Davy spent many days locked into broom cupboard, his backside smarting.
No-one was more unkind than necessary, but no-one was kind, either. Davy ran wild with the other boys. Dora scrubbed, and learned, and underneath it her heart was breaking. Davy fought anyone who bothered her, even hitting a girl for pulling her hair. On occasion, when no-one was looking, he'd hold her close while she cried for a lost home.
After two years, Dora, pale and thin and no longer pretty, was adopted by a couple from Boston. She went quietly, grasping her brother's hand and promising to write to him, while he cried and howled and threw such a tantrum he was smacked and closeted every day for a week.
She did write, dutiful good letters about Boston and the Carmodys, until a few years later the last letter came, telling him calmly that her parents didn't want her to write anymore, not after Davy was caught pick-pocketing and had only been saved from punishment by the Carmodys' own interference.
Davy learned very little in the orphanage school, but to fight and steal and take what he wanted, and to see the world outside the fence for what it really was.