Character: Meredith; Rating: K; Prompt: Bath
Summary: There's this memory she has. About sitting in the bathtub when she was a very little girl.
There's this memory she has. About sitting in the bathtub when she was a very little girl.
She thinks there was a rubber duck. Yellow. With blue eyes, and a beak that curved (freakishly, in retrospect) in a happy smile.
But maybe she's making it up. It doesn't seem to fit her childhood really well.
Because the memory she has? It's her, stranded in cold water in a bathtub too high to climb out of; trying not to cry, but crying anyway; uselessly mouthing mommy.
And maybe she's making that up too. Except it seems to fit her childhood perfectly.