What if?
Rating: PG-13
Summery: What if something went on more than was led to believe between Jesse and Winnie during the water scene? What if Winnie and her family went away for another reason? What if she went back to the spring?
Disclaimer: (snorts) oh yeah, I own them, I also happen to be the reincarnation of Nerfertiri and Nefertiti. Not.
Note: Always happy to hear if I should quit while I'm ahead, so tell me if this sucks, but do it nicely or I'll have to go Hannibal on your ass. Oh yeah, I doing this from the movie version and seeing how they never said how much time passed, I'm thinking at least a month after they rescued Mae.
Oh yeah, I this story confuses any of you please let me know, and I'll do something, I don't know what but I'll try. Also if you happen to be one of the people who like to work the math on the years in movies or fics, I think I'm either a year or a couple of months off. Because by the time Winnie had Mae she had to be sixteen, so if the math is off please excuse it.
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"Mom?" She looked at Winnie worry in her eyes. She knew this would be hard for her mother, the last time she had been in Treegap, she was fifteen and she was at least a month pregnant with her. And said mother was looking out the shuttle window on the way to the car rental place. She had returned to reading her book when she decided to ask, or attempt to ask her a question.
"Mom? Why was it so important for us to return here?" She was going to keep bugging her until she got an answer but she saw Winnie's hand move and then she saw the flash of silver. She reached over and removed the object form her mother's hand. It was the flask that held the water, the spring water. She remembered when she learned about the water; she was fifteen years old, the same age as her mother when she learned about the spring form her father, Jesse.
She remembered that day as if it were yesterday, on her birthday that was a few months before the Depression.
***
March 17, 1929 New York
She looked around at the mess that her friends had left behind when the party was over. She ran a hand through her dark bob and went to find her mother to see if she needed help. She saw her mother sitting on the window seat with a frown and a scared look on her face.
She grabbed the strand of pearls that she wore and twisted them around her hand and then untangled her hand and started to swing them. She didn't like that look, Winnie had been wearing a worried look on her face for a couple of days and she didn't know if it had to do with the rumors about the stock market or what. They didn't have anything in the Market but from what she overheard it could be nasty for the rest of America.
She shrugged her young shoulders, well its what you get if you decided not to do right with you work. She sat down next to her mother and pulled the pearls off and started lacing them through her fingers. "Momma?" She asked. She watched as Winnie's big blue eyes made the trek to her face and a small smile broke out causing her eyes to crinkle on the edges.
"You look like your father." She said quietly. She looked at her mother in surprise. Her mother barley talked about her father, but when she did she always said that he had to leave for his safety and hers. And that she loved him very much and she still did. But she hardly ever said things like that. One time she had asked if she had any of her father in her, Winnie had left the room with tears gathering in her eyes.
"Do you remember that I told you that your father left for his safety?" She nodded. Winnie continued, " Do you ever wonder where you got your name form?" This time she nodded her head quickly. Winnie always said she was named after someone she loved and looked after like a mother. " I named you after your father's mother, her name is Mae Tuck." Mae felt happiness in her heart. Her mother was finally opening up about who her family is or was.
Winnie took a deep breath; she didn't know how to explain it to her daughter without her sounding like a lunatic. Winnie took a deep breath and rubbed her eyes and looked into her daughter's eyes, eyes so much like hers. " When I turned fifteen I meet your father, in the woods behind my house..." Mae looked at her mother varying emotions crossing her face make it hard for her mother to read her face. Like Miles, she thought wistfully.
" They can't die? They just live forever?" Mae asked, she looked skeptical. Everybody dies; the preacher said so, the Bible said so and now she was learning that her father and his family would get to live forever and never die. "Yes. When I found out that I was going to have you I went back to the spring. And with me I brought one of my father's flasks and I filled it with the spring water. On my eighteenth birthday I drank the water." Winnie waited for her daughter's reaction.
" You drank the water? Why?!" Mae was more than upset down she was furious. Her mind was going all over the place, that was not the question she wanted to ask but well what are you gonna do? Her mother had kept it a secret, her father, her uncle and her grandparents a secret and she even kept the spring a secret. She looked up at her daughter her heart in her eyes as she answered. "Because, I have to walk the Eiffel Tower with him and I told him that I wanted to be with him forever. Honey, I tired over the years to get over him, I even dated a few times to see if I could fall in love with them and I can't."
She watched her mother stand up, her dress white and sparkly styled in the latest fashion, she saw her mother bring up her hand to her head all her bracelets making a loud metallic sound as they hit each other. " Any way, that was not the reason I told you this story, the reason I told you is because I want to give you the same choice that I had. Your fifteen now and I want to give you the option of drinking the water, and when your turn eighteen I want you to give me your answer."
***
Mae now drove the rental car to the hotel, as her mother was still distant. It wouldn't last long, it never did. As they reached the hotel she turned on the radio and a song by Live came on, it was a good song she had heard before, it was called 'Forever May Not Be Long Enough'. Mae gave a silent snort at that; it fit her parents' situation really well.
She looked over at her mother and realized that she had fallen asleep, Mae reached over and grabbed her mother's hand and held it tight. She prayed everything would be okay.
Rating: PG-13
Summery: What if something went on more than was led to believe between Jesse and Winnie during the water scene? What if Winnie and her family went away for another reason? What if she went back to the spring?
Disclaimer: (snorts) oh yeah, I own them, I also happen to be the reincarnation of Nerfertiri and Nefertiti. Not.
Note: Always happy to hear if I should quit while I'm ahead, so tell me if this sucks, but do it nicely or I'll have to go Hannibal on your ass. Oh yeah, I doing this from the movie version and seeing how they never said how much time passed, I'm thinking at least a month after they rescued Mae.
Oh yeah, I this story confuses any of you please let me know, and I'll do something, I don't know what but I'll try. Also if you happen to be one of the people who like to work the math on the years in movies or fics, I think I'm either a year or a couple of months off. Because by the time Winnie had Mae she had to be sixteen, so if the math is off please excuse it.
***
"Mom?" She looked at Winnie worry in her eyes. She knew this would be hard for her mother, the last time she had been in Treegap, she was fifteen and she was at least a month pregnant with her. And said mother was looking out the shuttle window on the way to the car rental place. She had returned to reading her book when she decided to ask, or attempt to ask her a question.
"Mom? Why was it so important for us to return here?" She was going to keep bugging her until she got an answer but she saw Winnie's hand move and then she saw the flash of silver. She reached over and removed the object form her mother's hand. It was the flask that held the water, the spring water. She remembered when she learned about the water; she was fifteen years old, the same age as her mother when she learned about the spring form her father, Jesse.
She remembered that day as if it were yesterday, on her birthday that was a few months before the Depression.
***
March 17, 1929 New York
She looked around at the mess that her friends had left behind when the party was over. She ran a hand through her dark bob and went to find her mother to see if she needed help. She saw her mother sitting on the window seat with a frown and a scared look on her face.
She grabbed the strand of pearls that she wore and twisted them around her hand and then untangled her hand and started to swing them. She didn't like that look, Winnie had been wearing a worried look on her face for a couple of days and she didn't know if it had to do with the rumors about the stock market or what. They didn't have anything in the Market but from what she overheard it could be nasty for the rest of America.
She shrugged her young shoulders, well its what you get if you decided not to do right with you work. She sat down next to her mother and pulled the pearls off and started lacing them through her fingers. "Momma?" She asked. She watched as Winnie's big blue eyes made the trek to her face and a small smile broke out causing her eyes to crinkle on the edges.
"You look like your father." She said quietly. She looked at her mother in surprise. Her mother barley talked about her father, but when she did she always said that he had to leave for his safety and hers. And that she loved him very much and she still did. But she hardly ever said things like that. One time she had asked if she had any of her father in her, Winnie had left the room with tears gathering in her eyes.
"Do you remember that I told you that your father left for his safety?" She nodded. Winnie continued, " Do you ever wonder where you got your name form?" This time she nodded her head quickly. Winnie always said she was named after someone she loved and looked after like a mother. " I named you after your father's mother, her name is Mae Tuck." Mae felt happiness in her heart. Her mother was finally opening up about who her family is or was.
Winnie took a deep breath; she didn't know how to explain it to her daughter without her sounding like a lunatic. Winnie took a deep breath and rubbed her eyes and looked into her daughter's eyes, eyes so much like hers. " When I turned fifteen I meet your father, in the woods behind my house..." Mae looked at her mother varying emotions crossing her face make it hard for her mother to read her face. Like Miles, she thought wistfully.
" They can't die? They just live forever?" Mae asked, she looked skeptical. Everybody dies; the preacher said so, the Bible said so and now she was learning that her father and his family would get to live forever and never die. "Yes. When I found out that I was going to have you I went back to the spring. And with me I brought one of my father's flasks and I filled it with the spring water. On my eighteenth birthday I drank the water." Winnie waited for her daughter's reaction.
" You drank the water? Why?!" Mae was more than upset down she was furious. Her mind was going all over the place, that was not the question she wanted to ask but well what are you gonna do? Her mother had kept it a secret, her father, her uncle and her grandparents a secret and she even kept the spring a secret. She looked up at her daughter her heart in her eyes as she answered. "Because, I have to walk the Eiffel Tower with him and I told him that I wanted to be with him forever. Honey, I tired over the years to get over him, I even dated a few times to see if I could fall in love with them and I can't."
She watched her mother stand up, her dress white and sparkly styled in the latest fashion, she saw her mother bring up her hand to her head all her bracelets making a loud metallic sound as they hit each other. " Any way, that was not the reason I told you this story, the reason I told you is because I want to give you the same choice that I had. Your fifteen now and I want to give you the option of drinking the water, and when your turn eighteen I want you to give me your answer."
***
Mae now drove the rental car to the hotel, as her mother was still distant. It wouldn't last long, it never did. As they reached the hotel she turned on the radio and a song by Live came on, it was a good song she had heard before, it was called 'Forever May Not Be Long Enough'. Mae gave a silent snort at that; it fit her parents' situation really well.
She looked over at her mother and realized that she had fallen asleep, Mae reached over and grabbed her mother's hand and held it tight. She prayed everything would be okay.