Her parents were going to be furious, and she didn't really care. It was time that they started taking her seriously, and there was no way that was going to happen if they couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that she wasn't a little girl anymore and that she could make decisions for herself.
She knew that getting a tattoo was not the best way to go about gaining the respect of her parents, but Daphne also knew that even after ten years of being awakened from the sleeping spell, her parents still hadn't gotten out of the habit of treating her as much younger than she really was. She had tried talking to them about it several times, and every time it worked for about a day, and then it was back to how it was before.
It wasn't as though she had proved herself to be irresponsible; she always helped out around the house, she did her homework, she didn't break things, she behaved when she was out. All of this, and yet it was always "Daphne, do this, Daphne, be careful with that, Daphne, remember that when you hold the baby you have to support his head." The last one was one of the most annoying—she knew how to hold a baby, and even Briar didn't seem to have the need to constantly remind her how to hold her cousin, and she was his mother.
Then she realized something.
Her parents didn't treat her like a child because she did things wrong.
Her parents treated her like a child because she never did anything they hadn't told her to do at least once.
They needed to see that she could choose to act on her own, and to make them see that, she would have to do something that no one had told her to do, something that they wouldn't expect. So she decided to get a tattoo.
The day after she got it, her mother spotted the dark vine around her daughter's wrist. "Daphne, I thought I told you not to write on yourself."
"I didn't," she calmly replied. "It's a tattoo."
A/N: As always, reviews are appreciated. Oh, and I thought I would mention the wiki addiction I've recently acquired. sistersgrimm(dot)wikia(dot)com if you're interested. It needs a lot of work.