Tolerance an Alternate Arthur Universe Fic

by JC Rose

In an interspecies AAU world where the citizens are told and promoted to get along with each other, the same cannot be said for relationships and marriage, breeding of which Francine and Sue Ellen fall victim to,enduring prejudice and bigotry alongside their boyfriends Arthur and George. Set in 2009, four teenagers change the nation all of which began as one girls idea to pursue it

1. Words that changed a nation

Tolerance

Rated T for racial themes and language.
Its made up slurs, however.

Dont crticize the grammar, each character is making a proper speech.

2018

Washington DC.

AAU Alternate Arthur Universe

Francine Read aged 25 yrs of age stepped up on to the podium. Crowds from across the nation had gathered to hear her, Arthur and her two closest friends and comrades speak.

"My name is Francine Alice Frensky Read" "I am Married to Arthur Timothy Read" "he is an Aardvark and as you can plainly see" she drew in a breath. "I am not." "The interspecies legislation has been an uphill battle" "we would not stop, fighting with everything within our heart's and souls to see a Country where a very famous man once said " He had a Dream." "Do we choose to live together?" "Are we told to associate with people who are different?" "Yes" she replied.

"Yet we are not encouraged to Marry them." "We are told to steer clear of our emotions and stand on them until they are under our feet" "Our feet are now aching from walking on our desires for love" "For acceptance." "That is all."

"Thank you for being here with us tonight" She smiled in front of the crowd. "This is not about Tolerance, its is about acceptance."

"This is ours". " To live in a land where all creatures are free" "Free to walk down the street and stand up for yourself without fear of punishment for doing so" "That our children will not be mocked, harmed or bullied because their two parents are not of the same genetic make up"

"As singer songwriter Emeli Sandé sang, " We've got the words to change a nation but we're biting our tongues " "we've spent a lifetime spent in silence afraid well say something wrong"

"This is our time to sing, to scream and to shout" "Dont be afraid"

She stepped down and a massive round of applause followed. Sue Ellen Armstrong Lungdren took to the mic.

" My name is Sue Ellen Armstrong Lungdren" "My husband is a well known entertainer and like myself, an advocate of interspeciel rights"
"Shakespeare put it best when he wrote
"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If
you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?"
And if you wrong us, do we not revenge?
If we are like you in the
rest, we will resemble you in that?"

"Having this bill passed means more than simple, freedom to marry, it is freedom in itself. Freedom to be a mixture of breeding and cultures without fear of persecution, discrimination or physical and emotional abuse that has been accepted for too long." "Our future generations will look back on this day, on this year and those that have befallen us in pride" she said. "Knowing that four teenagers from Elwood city decided enough was enough"

Another round of applause followed as Sue Ellen left the stage and held Francine s hand.

George stood to speak and was immediately greeted with cheers and chanting.

"My name is George Lungdren". " I am an entertainer for the children s show Puppet world and as many of you know, a composer of musical tunes that have taught values to our children" "the children growing up in the now" "living in the present, walking to school with thoughts of equality on their minds".

He pressed both hands firmly on the podium stand.

"If history has taught us anything it is this, we have a choice", "As a nation we chose NOT to be ostracized for our beliefs" "We tolerate colour, we accept rights for both men and women" "Our nations law is " That we get along with each other" "and yet, wars have been fought, countries have been destroyed and millions have died at the hands of vicious dictator's due to interspecieal marriage, partnership's and cultures" "Children have been murdered, babies have been slaughtered and creatures of all species and both genders have been herded into cattle trains, to march in death camps and to face the wrath of anti integration" "why is this?" "When the world has allowed men and women to live equally for over four hundred years" "and rightly so" He added.

"Why is it that in a country as vast as ours do we accept religion and philosophy?" "So freely and open are we to beliefs after years of fighting I might add" " So now its our turn, this is our fight, our freedom, our voice ".

Massive applause was heard as the neatly dressed moose stepped off and let Artgur take the stand.

Drawing on his own memories and past discrimination had led him to take to the streets with his girlfriend in protest.

"My name is Arthur Timothy Read" "I am Married to Francine Alice Frensky Read", my wife and former girlfriend who started this movement in 2009", alongside her friend Sue Ellen Armstrong Lungdren," "for the rights and freedoms of inter species partnership, Marriage and relationships".
"When I was sixteen years old, Francine had been severely angered by what she witnessed everyday at the hands of our teachers, our peers and in some cases even our families".

"We worked hard but failed all our classes" "we were accosted, assaulted, openly mocked by our own classmates and scolded by our teachers for pushing the racial discrimination against us aside and standing against it."

"This bill has been almost eight years in the making" He declared. "The words you have heard this evening are all from the hearts of our own personal thoughts and views" "they are the words for those who cannot be with us because they lost their lives fighting against racial holocausts" "for the martyrs in history who stood up and declared that we all bleed the same, despite our appearance", " for the many women who have been subject to sexual abuses and verbal slurs because they chose not to conform to societies wishes" "for the men who fought and died in their own personal battles on the fields of their own states. For those whose cries echo from the graves in the cemeteries of California, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, along the mighty Mississippi and more" "For our grandparents who perished in camps and were shot during campaigns for equal rights and opportunities for inter species" "we speak for these many brave souls, that our pleas don't go in vain".

"I thank my wife, my friend and my soul mate for having the courage of a lioness, and the heart of a fighter to start this movement" He said proudly, looking in Francine direction.

Applause was heard. She smiled warmly and held his hand.

"After all" he said, "Are we not ALL the children of God?"

A standing ovation was given when Arthur took his place beside all three of his closest friends and companions.

The bill was passed two weeks later.

Four teenagers who had spoken out in Elwood city had made a difference.
There words managed to change a nation.

Lets however, start at the beginning...

Shakespeare Quote taken from

Hath not a Jew eyes?

Words "Read all about it Pt II by Emeli Sande

TBC

IF this story gains attention, then I shall continue, otherwise I will just leave the first chapter here.
I like the idea of a different type of freedom in an Alternate Universe. Someone reviewed an Arthur story stating that They should all be paired with the same species? CRAP!

The idea was also inspired by TUC's Squidward out of water Fanfiction.
Please give it a read.