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darnedchildSummary: Fandom Christmas in July 2020 drabble: July 9 - prompt "December birthday"
Rating: T
A/N - One of thirty-one prompts for the thirty-one days of July. I plan to fill as many of them as I can with two hundred word drabbles.
After a (brief) google search, I haven’t been able to find a birthdate for Harlan Thrombey so I’m just going to make one up to fit today’s prompt. Let’s say… the ninth of December because it’s the ninth prompt.
The Ninth of December
9. Prompt – December birthday
Fandom – Knives Out
Ship – Gen
Title – The Ninth of December
There were three Thrombeys that were still welcome to visit after the final details of Harlan’s estate were settled and Marta and her family officially moved in.
Meg would stop by two or three times a year to catch up on gossip (and pick up her latest tuition check).
Great Nana would appear out of nowhere, and no one would know how long she’d been there or where she’d come from. Marta stopped trying to figure it out after the fourth or fifth time, and started to make sure Great Nana’s favorite teas and foods were stocked in the kitchen again.
And then there was Linda.
Linda who mourned her father while the other Thrombeys continued to mourn Harlan’s millions. Linda who came once a year—on December ninth, Harlan’s birthday—to spend a few quiet hours in the house, surrounded by her father’s things.
Marta always offered to let Linda stay the night and Linda always politely declined.
Only once, that first year, had Linda agreed to a cup of coffee. They had shared some of their favorite memories of Harlan well into evening.
They weren’t friends by any stretched, but Marta thought that they finally understood each other.
Rating: T
A/N - One of thirty-one prompts for the thirty-one days of July. I plan to fill as many of them as I can with two hundred word drabbles.
After a (brief) google search, I haven’t been able to find a birthdate for Harlan Thrombey so I’m just going to make one up to fit today’s prompt. Let’s say… the ninth of December because it’s the ninth prompt.
The Ninth of December
9. Prompt – December birthday
Fandom – Knives Out
Ship – Gen
Title – The Ninth of December
There were three Thrombeys that were still welcome to visit after the final details of Harlan’s estate were settled and Marta and her family officially moved in.
Meg would stop by two or three times a year to catch up on gossip (and pick up her latest tuition check).
Great Nana would appear out of nowhere, and no one would know how long she’d been there or where she’d come from. Marta stopped trying to figure it out after the fourth or fifth time, and started to make sure Great Nana’s favorite teas and foods were stocked in the kitchen again.
And then there was Linda.
Linda who mourned her father while the other Thrombeys continued to mourn Harlan’s millions. Linda who came once a year—on December ninth, Harlan’s birthday—to spend a few quiet hours in the house, surrounded by her father’s things.
Marta always offered to let Linda stay the night and Linda always politely declined.
Only once, that first year, had Linda agreed to a cup of coffee. They had shared some of their favorite memories of Harlan well into evening.
They weren’t friends by any stretched, but Marta thought that they finally understood each other.