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Call the Midwife - FF 100
Universe - Canon
Series 2 spoilers - None
The Very Stuff of Life
Prompt: Sky
Jenny Lee's favourite sky, she realised after a year of working in Poplar, was the summer one. She had arrived as the last summer had turned to autumn, and she had then lived through the hard winter that 1957 had brought to them all. She would remember it as the year of smog and snow. And yet 1958's summer was different, brighter than any she was able to remember.
It warmed her, and shone her back, pushing her towards the next delivery and the next new life coming in to the world. There were more days when she delivered a baby than when she did not, and she could not help but smile at the thought that, maybe, just maybe, every child would have a sunny nature due to the season they were born in.
Or so said Sister Monica Joan.
It brought more smiles to her face to see the sun shone through the pillars and the windows of the convent, bringing light to dark places, showing her the route to breakfast in the morning or to her cell after a long night labour.
She loved the way it danced into the kitchen, reflecting off of Mrs B's pots and pans, as she sat down with the other nurses for lunch. Her friends and Jenny teased one another, whether it be Chummy's attempts to be the perfect housewife, Trixie's latest beau, or Cynthia's newest worry, knowing that when they went to the next dance, taking jackets was the last thing they would have to worry about.
But the colours in the evening sky were her favourites. The red, the purple, the pinks that contrasted with the grey of the docks. The royal blue coming in as she cycled home, passing the men who were going home to their wives and babies. It seemed to bring, peace quiet, to the whole East End - or at least her East End.
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