This story is actual a fanvid I made. I was listening to the song "Paradise" by coldplay and just had to make an OOTB video for it. Then I thought of the backstory and this is what spilled out. Nothing fancy and no real effort put into it. I just had such a story for the video that I had to share this. Reviews are always appreciated. Enjoy!
She had never done anything extraordinary. She had never gone anywhere exotic. She once thought she had married the man she loved but even that turned out wrong. Her whole life was wrong. As a young girl she had dreamt of what her future would be like. She wanted adventures, excitement. She wanted the life she read about in books, a life where she was loved and even looked up to.
But it wasn't meant to be. No, Helen Druitt was completely ordinary, living a life without purpose.
It wasn't until her separation from her husband that she began creating a world worthy of her childhood dreams. It started out simple enough. She thought up a house, well more of a castle, where she lived with her daughter and best friend. She would day dream for hours about the days she had with her imaginary daughter. They often went on adventures. They had treasure hunts, went to museums, and to the zoo. Helen didn't like the zoo. She didn't like seeing the creatures locked up when they could roaming free in their natural habitat. She especially didn't like the idea of the animals being put on display for the pleasure of others.
Even after she left her dream world the zoo stuck with her. Then she had an idea. What if she took in creatures that were so abnormal in society's eyes that they were mistreated and killed simply because they were different? What if her house could also serve as a Sanctuary?
This idea took off and she spent hours thinking of names for the creatures of her fantasy. Nobody in her real life cared because she didn't have anyone. The only living thing that she loved was her cat, Henry. She would tell him about the world she created and even told him of her adopted son she had created. A werewolf type creature she had named Henry.
Helen thought up new friends and old friends. She even included her neighbors in her fantasy. The Helen in her dreams, Helen Magnus, was an abnormal herself and had known some of the most famous people in history.
And for the first time in a long while, Helen Druitt was happy.