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alliancesjr) wrote2006-06-09 02:46 pm
alliancesjr) wrote2006-06-09 02:46 pm
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Character piece - A Mother's Fears
The second of the writing challenges that I set for myself. The theme - fear - was selected randomly by a second party.
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A Mother's Fears
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Anywhere you look, mothers have concern over the same thing: their children’s safety.
Of course, Kathy Zendrake would acknowledge that she had responsibility for a few more children than her own, and there were plenty of...special circumstances...that she had to account for, but it all boiled down to the same thing in the end.
Sure, other women might not have to be afraid of terrorist attacks being specifically targeted at themselves, or the children under their care. And other women might not have to be afraid of their own children accidentally killing their friends or family – or even themselves.
She’s been shot at, blown up, and flung into various objects. She’s been accidentally stabbed, scraped, and bitten. She’s played counselor to children who have seen more death and destruction than most of the United States Armed Forces.
But more than her own safety, she is afraid for those same children under her care. They are her responsibility; though she may only be biological mother to one Aberrant, she sees them all as hers.
She is worried when they are sent out on missions. She grieves when some of them don’t make it back.
So she is afraid. Not as a doctor with multiple patients. Not as a government agent in a secret program. Not because she is a “mere” human surrounded by Aberrants.
She is afraid because she is a mother. And that gives her more strength than anyone else in Section III.
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A Mother's Fears
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Anywhere you look, mothers have concern over the same thing: their children’s safety.
Of course, Kathy Zendrake would acknowledge that she had responsibility for a few more children than her own, and there were plenty of...special circumstances...that she had to account for, but it all boiled down to the same thing in the end.
Sure, other women might not have to be afraid of terrorist attacks being specifically targeted at themselves, or the children under their care. And other women might not have to be afraid of their own children accidentally killing their friends or family – or even themselves.
She’s been shot at, blown up, and flung into various objects. She’s been accidentally stabbed, scraped, and bitten. She’s played counselor to children who have seen more death and destruction than most of the United States Armed Forces.
But more than her own safety, she is afraid for those same children under her care. They are her responsibility; though she may only be biological mother to one Aberrant, she sees them all as hers.
She is worried when they are sent out on missions. She grieves when some of them don’t make it back.
So she is afraid. Not as a doctor with multiple patients. Not as a government agent in a secret program. Not because she is a “mere” human surrounded by Aberrants.
She is afraid because she is a mother. And that gives her more strength than anyone else in Section III.