For The Love of a Daughter
If you had to choose between saving your daughter and saving your granddaughter, what would you choose? If you were in a sinking car, the only one conscious. Or maybe they're hanging off of a cliff. The possibilities are endless and you only have seconds to save them... What do you do?
I was forced to make that horrible life changing decision, and I'm always questioning if I've done the right thing.
I'll never forget that day...
"Ginny, put down your phone when you're driving!" I scolded from the passenger's seat of the car. Ginny, Lily, and I were on our way home from shopping and against my better judgement I let Ginny drive.
"Chill mum, I'm perfectly able to watch the road and my screen." She said rolling her eyes. "I'm not a kid anymore you know!"
I noticed a delivery truck speeding down the road right in front of us, in the wrong lane, making me scream. "Ginny, watch out!"
The next thing I knew we were in the river on the side of the highway and we were sinking, fast. Lily was in the back seat crying while Ginny was next to me with blood rushing down her head, she wasn't conscious.
I froze, what was I supposed to do? Luckily my window was down so I could safely get out, but who was I going to take with me? I didn't have time to get them both out.
Ginny looked pretty bad... And I knew she would never forgive me or herself if I choose her instead of Lily. But Lily... Lily was an orphan now, at fifteen months old she would've lost her father in the terrorist attack Vol De Mort applied to the London police department, and then her mother because of a tragic accident. It wasn't fair.
The anger that was growing inside of me was unbearable... Why was that driver in the wrong lane? Why was Ginny texting and driving? Why didn't I insist on driving?
I climbed in the back seat and scooped my granddaughter into my arms, but at that moment I wasn't sure if it was I blamed Ginny for what happened... Or because it was the right thing to do.
For The Hunger Games: Fanfic Style Competition II using the prompt write an AU and loosely using the prompt "You are not weak, just because your heart feels so heavy."
