Thimbles Week 14 Fanficflashfic
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Today I'm a cowgirl, or a farmer.
You're proud of what you're showing me. There's reverence in your voice when you say, "Do you feel that, Beth? Like a tremor or something?" I'm not Beth, but you don't know that. You'll have your daughter back tomorrow. An hour from now. My stay is always different.
I hope it lasts longer this time. You love your daughter and I want to soak that up, take it with me, but that's an impossibility I've learned to accept. It makes me sad. I want to keep this feeling you give so freely. It comes out in your voice and the way you look at me.
You ask, "What's wrong with you? You're acting so strange." And then you shake your head, laughing. I know how to speak, but saying what you are – Mom – feels odd on my tongue which earns another questionable laugh.
I glance back at our hands. Beth has the same, long fingers as you. If I had hands of my own I wonder if they'd look like another's. I move closer to you. The scent of honeysuckle, I think. I want to take that with me, too.