Holier than thou

They were The Hortons, Salem's royalty. Or at least that's what the general perception. Moments where members of family were petty, mean, disloyal, ungrateful and generally un-Horton-like.

I don't own Days or its characters because the show would be much more twisted.

Anne Midbauer generally liked her work. Sure, no one grew up saying they want to be a hospital administer but someone had to make sure the lights stay on every day and the payroll was done. She was very good at her job, so good no one notice that the job got done.

Until Jennifer Horton came to work at University Hospital. Anne had never meet Jennifer before, only vaguely remember an item in the Spector about her and fix elections results. Anne could appreciate someone bending the truth to get results, so she actually thought a person like that would be good for the hospital. A PR person who would get results.

She did not get that person.

Instead, she got a washed up journalist who was too busy straightening out her home life to do the job. What Anne needed was someone to take the day-to-day events of hospital press, so she could research grants to pay for more doctors, how to manipulate the insurance companies to pay bills and make sure that patients got the care they deserve. She got Jennifer Horton, instead.

Don't get Anne wrong; any help was welcome. It was just….well, Jennifer seemed to never run a PR office before. If she did, it was long before invention of the internet. And Jennifer didn't act like the job was important to her. Coming in whenever it please her, taking off for a personal crisis or thirty, and alternatively parading around like a damsel in distress or a proud peacock didn't exactly help Anne. Suddenly Anne was cast as the villain in Jennifer's soap opera of a life and frankly she didn't have time to deal with it.

So, yes, Anne might be a bit snappish with Jennifer, and yes, she did assigned Theresa Donovan to Jennifer out of pettiness. But understand this, her job is a hard one and she does it well. Anne wouldn't let anyone get in her way, not even a Holy Horton.