Call the Midwife - FF 100, 35/100
Universe - Canon
Series 2 spoilers - None
The Very Stuff of Life
Prompt: Fixed
"It ain't much girls but the three of us can make the most of it," said Fred as he brought it the last of their belongings to the new house.
Between the three of them they had four suitcases. He had never been a rich man, but in the thirties they had had more than this. And they were going to have more again, he swore it.
Smiling, he saw it was Dolly who was most able to match his own. The two of them were always quite similar. The same temperament...
Marlene, in spite of always being her pa's girl, was much more like her mother in her character. She was nervous and a little reserved about new things.
She didn't like change. Which was why the past six years had gone so hard with her... First she had been without her father for a stretch. And then she had lost her mother for good. When the war had begun she had been one of five siblings. Now she was one of two.
To top it all off she now had to move into a new house...
"Come on, Marl, it'll be home before long."
She looked about the room with the wallpaper peeling off and the damp. It was a palace compared to what some people were living in. She knew she had no right to be so ungrateful.
She summoned a smile. "Course, pa."
"Let's go see the kitchen," Dolly suggested. She had a feeling she was going to be doing the majority of the cooking now.
"It'll take some fixing up, dad," she said on sight of it. She didn't need to look closer to know it was broken.
Her sister took her hand. "Are we going to be ok?"
There was so many questions in her mind. Were the three of them going to be ok? Was the house going to be okl? How were they ever going to cope without their mother?
"Fine, ducky," said her sister with more confidence than she felt. "We'll get it all fixed up."
The East End was good at patching things up. And so was their dad.
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