Title: Navy Girlfriend
Author: LM Simpson (Kady the Red Panda)
Pairing(s): Donald/Daisy
Rating: K
Warning(s): None
Disclaimer: I write on this website for a reason. Otherwise, this would have been in a cartoon or a comic. That is all.
Other tidbits: Another Donald/Daisy drabble I wrote for the 100_women community. It should be uploaded on LiveJournal soon.
Prompt #90: Comfort
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The term "army wife" was inappropriate for Daisy Duck. Daisy Duck would never be an "army wife—"not as long as she was unmarried, and not as long as Donald was still in the navy. But because it was tedious and complicated to clarify her situation to every neighbor and passerby, she reluctantly settled on it.
Daisy cried the day Donald left, and she cried at least once every day since. It is always hard to move on from something you've invested so much of your life into, and she had invested a lot in Donald. She still had her secretary job, and her family, and her home, that was for sure. But without Donald around it was like something was missing from her, like she wasn't whole, like she was a boat that sprung a leak.
Every time the "army wife" received a package or a letter from her sailor beau, the hole inside her was temporarily patched, the leak temporarily stopped. For awhile, as she read of his adventures in Panama and seeing his pictures of his navy buddies and him, she felt Donald was in the same room as her. She couldn't have him physically, but she could have him emotionally.
One day Daisy lounged on the couch as she tore open and read his latest letter. Her eyes widened line by line (was he really-). She checked and checked the date on his letter (is he really-). She jumped in delight as she heard him call her name outside (oh he really-).
The hole was permanently repaired.