So if you guys follow me on tumblr then you already know about The Divorce Verse. In case you don't follow me, I'll give you a brief description about it.
The Divorce Verse is an alternate universe that my readers and I both have created outside the canon universe that is the show. All the prompts I've received tie together and make somewhat of a multichapter story. Each chapter of this story is from a prompt that I received on tumblr. Please excuse any discrepancies and inconsistencies-this was never actually meant to be a story and some things might be a little out of place or untimely!
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Jo and Alex's five year old daughter overhears one of Alex and Jo's many arguments, before the divorce.
"You want some coffee? Yowah not a baby so you can have coffee, Tinkabell." I pick up the teapot and put some coffee in Tinkerbell's teacup. Tinkerbell's not five years old like me so she can have coffee. Lylas can't have coffee because Lylas are too little to have coffee and mommy says coffee has something called "cabine" in it and five year olds can't have have "cabine" so we can't have coffee and sometimes we can't have soda pop but daddy gives me soda pop sometimes anyway. "You weady to get yowah food? Heoh, I'll take yowah ordah." I pick up my notebook with Elsa and Olaf on it and get a piece of paper and a purple crayon while Tinkerbell tells me what she wants from the restaurant. "Fwench fwies owah um...um...salad?" Tinkerbell tells me she wants french fries and not salad so I have to go make her food now.
I putted my french fries in the frigerator cause mommy says french fries gotta be cold so I take them out of the fridgerator and put them on the stove to cook. Mr. Scalypants is asking for more coffee so while the french fries are getting hot, I go and give him more coffee. Mr. Scalypants drinks his coffee black like daddy does. Mommy puts cream and sugar in her coffee and daddy says it's better if you don't. "Heoh's yowah coffee Mr. Scalypants." I fill his coffee up to the top. "LyLy has to go fowah two seconds, guys." I put the teapot down. Tinkerbell waves her hand at me cause she has to tell me a secret and she says it in my ear. "Don't woahwy I'm not gonna burn the french fries. I'm just goin' potty." I walk to my door and turn the circle to open it and I go to mommy and daddy's bathroom cause my bathroom is still broken.
I turn on the bathroom light and go to the potty. I swing my feet while I sit on the potty and wait for my pee pee to come out. It's dark outside so I think it's time for my bath now. I always get my bath when it's dark outside. I get my bath then I play Barbies with mommy for a little bit. Then I get to eat a snack and mommy helps me pick out my outfit for school tomorrow. And then daddy reads me my story until I go to sleep. Me and daddy are reading Charlotte's Web and Wilbur just got sended to the farm. I can't wait to read tonight.
I take some toilet paper and wipe myself with it. Sometimes mommy or daddy has to wipe me but only when I go poopy. I like it better when daddy wipes my bum cause he uses wipies instead of toilet paper. Mommy always forgets to grab the wipies so she uses toilet paper and she hurts sometimes. I put my toilet paper in the potty and climb down. I pull up my undies and flush the toilet. I have to wash my hands now. Mommy and daddy always makes me wash my hands but I think it's just cause they is doctors and it's important for doctors to wash their hands all the time. Mommy and daddy are nutballs. I shake my hands free of water and use mommy's bath towel to dry them. Before I go back to the restaurant, I think I should tell mommy and daddy that it's time for my bath now. It's dark outside so it's definitely bath time.
"Mummy..." I hold on to the railing be careful when I walk down the steps. I runned down the steps the other day and I fell. I hurt my butt and daddy laid down on the couch and watched Cinderella with me to make me feel better. Mommy said that I learned my lesson from fallin'. She gived me a kiss though. "Mummy, I think..." I get to the end of the steps and mommy and daddy aren't in the living room like they was when I goed upstairs to play. "Mummy..."
"NO ALEX, LET ME TALK!" Mommy is standing next to daddy. Daddy's sitting down at the kitchen table looking at his hands. I put my head against the wall and wait for them to shut up so I can talk. "EVERY FUCKING TIME, ALEX...EVERY TIME." Mommy covers her eyes with her hands and puts her head down. "I don't understand you...I don't understand the kind of person you think I am. You're expecting me to just forgive you when I can't." She takes her hands away and her face is all red. "You keep trying to fix everything but you can't...you can't fix this..."
"That's because you're not even trying to let me, Jo! I screwed up, but I'm trying to fix it! Throw me a frickin' bone here, Jo!" Daddy stands up out of the chair and walks over to mommy. "You don't put forth an effort. I'm doing all I can, here. Can you at least try?!"
"WHY SHOULD I HAVE TO?!" Mommy throws her hands up. "I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO TRY TO FIX ANYTHING WITH YOU! EVERY TIME I TRY TO FIX SOMETHING WITH YOU, YOU GO OFF AND FUCK IT UP AGAIN!" That's a bad word. Mommy shouldn't say that. "GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON WHY I SHOULD TRY AND FIX THIS? I'M DONE, ALEX. I'M SO DONE. BETWEEN MEREDITH AND THE HOSPITAL AND ARIZONA AND NOW HER?! I DON'T HAVE ANYMORE ENERGY LEFT TO FIX ANYTHING ELSE." Mommy turns away from daddy and puts her head down again. "I let a lot of shit go with you, Alex...and you know I do. But I can't let this go. Do you have any idea what you're asking me to forgive?"
"It wasn't sex, Jo." Daddy touches mommy's arm and mommy pushes him off her. "I didn't have sex with her...and it didn't mean anything. It was a drunk night...it wasn't anything. It was just oral...that's all. It was just head...it was like a handshake."
"A handshake? What the fuck, Alex?" Mommy never says this many bad words. What's wrong? Daddy touches her arm again. "Don't touch me." She snatches her arm away. "...I'm done with this. I'm done with you, done with this marriage..."
"What about for better or for worse, Jo? What ever happened to that?"
"It went out the window...right along with fidelity." Mommy starts cleaning up the oven from dinner. "I'm so done with this. I'm sick of trying to fix everything. Alex, I want a divorce."
"...A divorce? Jo, no. You can't do that."
"I can and I will."
Daddy crosses his arms. "Well I'm not signing the papers."
"...Of course you won't. You look for any way possible to be an asshole." Mommy scoops the meatballs and gravy into a red container. "I'm not willing to go to counseling with you. I DON'T WANT YOU ANYMORE ALEX. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?"
"YEAH, BECAUSE EVERYTHING THAT WENT WRONG IN THIS MARRIAGE IS MY FUCKING FAULT, RIGHT JO? RIGHT?!"
"YOU'RE RIGHT! I'M NOT THE ONE THAT PUTS MY FRIENDS BEFORE MY WIFE AND MY FIVE YEAR OLD! I'M NOT THE ONE THAT DOESN'T CONSULT YOU WHEN I DO SHIT! I'M NOT THE ONE THAT WOULD RATHER SPEND TIME WITH MY FRIENDS THAN MY WIFE AND KID AND MOST OF ALL, I'M NOT THE ONE THAT WENT AND FUCKED SOMEBODY ELSE! EVERYTHING IS YOUR FAULT, ALEX."
"...Mummy? Daddy?" They have to stop yelling at each other. They are not using their inside voices and yelling is not nice. I got in time out once for using my outside voice in class. Maybe mummy and daddy need a timeout. "Inside voices..." I go into the kitchen all the way but they don't even see me. "Hey!" Am I invisible to them?
"BECAUSE YOU'RE SO PERFECT, JO. YOU DO NOTHING WRONG." Daddy just keeps yelling.
"I DON'T! NAME ONE THING I'VE DONE WRONG, ALEX! ONE THING!"
"You're a raging bitch, for one." Mommy stands up straight and hits daddy across his face. She hit daddy! Why she do that? Daddy holds his face and bites his lip.
"No hitting..." I tell them but they still don't listen.
"...Get out, Alex. Just go." Mommy runs her hands through her hair and sighs. "I need a break from you. Don't come back." She telled daddy to go? Daddy sits down in the chair and holds his head. "I SAID GET OUT!"
"NO! THIS IS MY HOUSE TOO!"
"NOT ANYMORE IT ISN'T! GET OUT!"
"YOU'RE NOT KICKING ME OUT WHEN MY DAUGHTER IS HERE."
"ALEX, GET THE HELL OUT!"
"NO!"
I walk all the way into the kitchen and stand next to the oven. "HEY!" I yell at both of them. No hitting and no yelling and use inside voices and stop saying naughty words! Both mommy and daddy look at me. Mommy's eyes are crying and daddy's cheek is all red and now, LyLy's crying too. Why they have to yell like that? And mommy told daddy to leave...I don't want him to go. "Daddy..." I rub my eyes. "Don't go, daddy..."
Mommy picks me up and puts her hand on my head. "Lyla..." She makes me lay on her shoulder and she rubs my back. "We're sorry, ladybug." She kisses my cheek. "Mommy and daddy were just talking. We didn't mean to bother you, baby girl. We're sorry."
"Daddy stay..." I hug mommy's neck and put my thumb in my mouth. Daddy comes over to me and mommy and picks me up from mommy instead. "...Daddy..."
"Daddy's not going anywhere, pumpkin." Mommy wipes my face clean from the tears.
"Like mommy said, we're sorry." Daddy gives me a kiss. "We were just talking about something." He rubs my back too. "Come on...let's go get you a bath and then we can read two chapters of Charlotte's Web...that sound good?" I nod my head. They shouldn't have been yelling to talk about something and mommy didn't have to hit daddy and they shouldn't have been saying bad words.
But I'm just happy cause daddy don't have to go.