A/N: This is chapter two of "Backlit". See if you can guess who it is before the end of the chapter. (This is fairly obvious.)
Disclaimer: Len Cariou is the awesomest Sweeney ever.
Moon
The clouds have rolled aside for once,
Exposing the luminous moon.
She stares up at it.
She used to pretend
(when she was younger)
that she was the daughter
of the glowing orb
outside her window,
that she was only passing through London
on her way to a palace in the sky.
You couldn't blame her really;
her father
(she had been told)
was a hardened criminal,
and her mother was a lunatic.
Her adoptive father
a frightful man
who stared at her in ways
that made her uncomfortable.
So she told herself that she was a starchild,
That none of these people
were really connected to her in any way.
She knows better now,
and she is even more frightened
of the man she called "Father".
But now there is nobody
but her sailor she was taken away from.
She looks out of the window of the asylum
And wishes that
she could believe her fairytales again,
that Johanna Barker was related to nobody
but the moon.
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