Call the Midwife - FF 100, 36/100
Universe - Canon
Series 2 spoilers - None
The Very Stuff of Life
Prompt: Enemies
Sometimes it seemed to Sister Julienne that the only real enemy the people of the East End had to fear was poverty.
She heard the young girls rail against them. How the mothers did not care enough and how the men were rude, bad tempered and over worked.
But would they be like that if they had clean houses, if they had the reassurance their sons and their daughters were going to live to a ripe old age, if they were sure where the next pay check was going to come from?
She guessed they'd be a different set of characters all together.
As Sister Julienne rode through the community she had served and would serve, God willing, all her life long, she simply understood. She knew when to ask questions and when she should just smile. She understood if a hug or a pray would be more welcomed. She knew when to stay and when to go.
She did not think there world was made up of good and bad people. Even if she did she would have no right to judge them.
All she could do was to task she had been set... and if she got the chances to eradicate poverty where she found it... well, as far as she was concerned, that was a bonus.
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