Orphans Beloved: "Experiencing 'Vertigo'…"
Summary: Like my Immortal Beloved and Sheldon Swifties bits in my Buffyverse and Sheldonverse, these are fragments and short bits, some longer…Just to fiddle with ideas, possibly forming longer tales later.
Disclaimer: No copy write infringement intended…
Mrs. S' living room…
"So, you really wanna watch this…?" Sarah stared.
"Sestra? This is classic film. I saw part years ago in film palace in Italy." Helena noted. "You should watch too, broaden horizon."
"My horizon's been broadened enough these last y ears, thanks." Sarah frowned…But stared at the screen.
"Italy?"
"You don't want to know…" Helena sighed, munching at the popcorn Mrs. S had kindly microwaved for her, not feeling Helena was quite experienced enough with the use of a microwave when she'd casually asked if hers was the kind that exploded "sometimes".
Shrinking a bit at Sarah's glance…
"Mama has forgiven me…" sheepish tone.
"Yeah, in your cell…While you and the kid(s) were in Paul's and the military's charge." Sarah frowned a second but relented. "I know she did…Amelia would." She noted kindly to Helena's distressed look.
"Sarah…"
"It's ok, meathead. I meant that. Mama forgives you, I know it. And I'm really sorry that Jesse turned out to be Dyad."
"He was only doing for sick wife…Not truly evil guy…"
"Not truly good, either…He could have told Donnie or one of us the truth when Donnie looked him up." Sigh. "Well, maybe I'll take a look for a bit, ok?"
"Hok, yes!" beam… "Come, sit."
"Then with a long sigh…She's back…" Tom Helmore's Gavin Elster noted to Jimmy Stewart's Scotty Ferguson on screen.
Sarah eyeing screen… "He'll never buy that…"
"Watch and see…" Helena noted calmly.
Well…Two hours till Cal and Kyra call in…May as well indulge…
"So Hitchcock made…"she got on floor beside Helena who had curled up on a blanket carefully cushioning her swollen belly on a couple of pillows.
"Shhh…Yes…"
One hour later…
"I get it…" the hard-faced young woman bearing an uncanny resemblance to Fergusen's late charge and beloved Madeline sneered at a hapless Scotty in her hotel doorway on screen.
"Tell me this isn't some old sci-fi version of…Us." Sarah noted, staring.
"Shhh…This is after I had to leave, before…" Helena whispered.
In Italy before you…Sarah kindly did not say…
"…I remind you of someone you used to be madly in love with, but then she ditched ya for another guy and you been carrying the torch for her ever since…" the girl, sarcastic tone.
"You're not far wrong…" Scotty noted, wan smile.
"I heard that before too…So you can just beat it." But the girl stares at his sad, broken face.
Sarah blinking…
"Gee…You have got it bad, haven't you?" the girl stared. "She…She's dead, isn't she?"
Helena blinking…
As Scotty looked away, tears in his eyes…
"Pardon I haves to go to toilet…Pause, please." Helena struggling up, Sarah lending arm.
"Yeah…I gotta call Fee."
…..
"Helena?" Art looked at his phone. "What's…Just a second…"
"Sarah?"
