Disclamer : Little House on the prairie belongs to its rightful creators and owners.
Summary : What fascinated Percival about Nellie was how much she had changed for the best in such little time.
Author's note : English isn't my first language, it's French. If you spot any mistakes or weirdness, please feel free to notify me ! This is also a translation from a drabble I wrote last year.
This story is part of the writing month challenge from TheWritter1996: Write a one-shot per day and share it for an entire month. For more challenge, I decided to go one different fandom per day.
The incarnation of change
Percival Dalton was losing sleep because of how much he was thinking about it.
If, one year ago, he had been told that he would have married a spoilt young woman, because she wasn't so bad deep down, because she needed someone like him to let the jewel she was shine through, he would not have believed it.
If, one year ago, he had been told she'd expect their first child just a few months after their wedding, he wouldn't have believed it either.
But he had learnt something since then:
Everything that he had thought impossible became possible and was actually realized with Nellie Oleson.
Nellie was the incarnation of the miraculous change.
From an unsufferable brat, she had turned into a respectable woman, hardworking, dignified, a true lady, because she had been moved by how honest he was and if she had been clumsy sometimes, he had always realized that it had never been out of malice, never since she had apologized to him sincerely and asked him a second chance, a chance he granted her, a chance he never regretted giving her.
He was even surprised by how strong their feelings were, they seemed so different, yet he dared state he had one of the happiest marriage in the whole town of Walnut Grove, because Nellie and him listened to one another, respected one another, and were equals in their marriage.
Nellie was still going under some change.
Her body was getting rounder, making space for their unborn child. The woman was tranforming into a mother, a scared mother, worried as to not recreate the mistakes her own mother did with her. Mrs Oleson wasn't a bad woman, but she had caused Nellie quite some issues with her education.
The only thing that still surprised him with Nellie Oleson was that overwhelming craving his pregnant wife had for pickles.
The End