Kate Beckett (katebex) wrote in shipslog, @ 2017-09-28 17:53:00 |
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Entry tags: | ^ network post, jadzia dax | star trek: ds9, kate beckett | castle, katie bell | harry potter, lucifer morningstar | lucifer, richard castle | castle, rose hathaway | vampire academy |
Once, a girl far younger and smarter than I told me her life's motto. She was all of 15 at the time, brimming with that self-confidence and excitement that I think is innate to every teenager. You're invincible at that age, ready to conquer the world and vanquish the demons. To be the hero and all of that.
When she said it ("Do the thing that you fear the most."), sitting in a coffee shop sipping an espresso and nibbling on a cookie, I thought it was a sweet sentiment. It was the sort of thing that I would have also said at that age, but that the experience of life and all of the pain that comes with it eventually knocked out of me. That girl eventually became my step-daughter, though it's not quite a mother/daughter relationship between the two of us, and several years into her 20s, she's still living that motto. Fear never stopped her from doing anything.
Alexis has been on my mind for a few different reasons as of late. I find myself wondering what she's doing at home, if she got into that summer internship program she was gunning for, or if she's finally asked out the lab partner that she had been flirting with for most of her spring semester. Is she happy? Is she still barrelling through life with her father's charm and her grandmother's spirit? We've got no way to know here and it makes me sad.