Title: Escape
Rating: K+
Pairing(s)/Character(s): Lisa Turpin
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Don't own 'em - not making any money off 'em. Dern it.
Word Count: 444
Summary: Lisa Turpin feels like she's stuck.
Notes:
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry: Astronomy Class - I would like you to wrote about a downtrodden/ oppressed female character.
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Competition: Advanced Arithmancy Studies - Prompts Used - dad, rapid, assorted, ubiquitous, safe, party, library, hollow, perpetual, spring
More than a Name Challenge: Character Used - Lisa Turpin
1991 Challenge: Character Used - Lisa Turpin, Prompt Used - Scream
365 Days of Drabbles Challenge: Prompt Used - Haunted
Lisa wanted to scream. She felt like she was being haunted by her dad's words, words she wanted to forget she heard. She tried to forget them, but they were ubiquitous – everywhere – and she felt like she was going to lose her mind.
Right now, she felt like the only safe place in all of Hogwarts was the library, but even that was rapidly losing its truth. Instead of hearing the words spoken out loud or reading them in a letter, they became a party in her head, leaving her feeling useless and hollow. She was in perpetual despair and no longer had a spring to her step.
She looked through her assorted textbooks, trying to figure out what class she should do homework for when she remembered her last real conversation with her dad.
"What is it, dad? I'm studying."
Her dad shook his head, making sure his only daughter saw the obvious disappointment in his eyes. "Stop all of that nonsense."
Lisa stood up from her desk and nervously fiddled with a page in her book. "Nonsense? How is school nonsense?"
"You should be more worried about making yourself attractive to a future husband. Your hair's a mess, your clothes look ratty, and you don't even wear makeup. You take no pride in your appearance. However where you entice an attractive wizard?"
"I'm not really looking to get married anytime soon," she admitted, feeling like now wasn't a good time to be telling her father that she had no interest in wizards, and in fact, witches were much more appealing to her.
Even without knowing Lisa's hidden truth, her dad glared at her. "The only thing your good for is finding a man from a good, upstanding family. You will be a housewife, a stay at home mother. You don't need good grades for that."
"I want a career, though!" Lisa cried.
"What you want isn't what you're going to get, so get those frivolous notions out of your head."
After that, Lisa did her best to avoid her family for the rest of the summer. And now even school wasn't a safe haven, not with the letters her father took to writing her when he realized she wasn't following his orders.
She hated feeling like this, like she had no choice at all in what to do with her life. Like her future was completely out of her own hands. She felt like her father's tool. She wished he would treat her like a daughter and not a means to an end.
It was a horrible existence she found herself in.
Now only if she could figure out an escape plan...