(DWP) Paris
Title: Paris
Fandom: The Devil Wears Prada
Author: jackiejlh
Rating: G
Character(s): Emily Charlton
Pairing(s): None
Warning(s): None.
Summary: For Emily, everything always leads back to Paris. | Written for the dvlwears_prada community ABC challenge prompt of 'Youth'.
It begins in Paris.
Her father sends her there every year to visit his sister and her family. Emily dreads the visits because her cousins are all boys (they always want to do the most boring things) and her friends are far away. But her father says that she has to go because there’s no one at home to stay with her, not since Mum left.
The vacations aren’t entirely bad; Emily learns French, and her aunt takes her shopping in all of the best stores. She’s not allowed to tell her father because he wouldn’t approve. He says that the Charltons don’t need charity, and that the clothes he buys for his daughter are more than suitable, and besides, no eight-year-old needs dresses that cost more than he spends on food most months. Emily almost points out that her father must not be above accepting charity because he’s fine with using his sister as a free nanny every year, but can’t quite bring herself to say the words.
Emily falls in love with fashion. Paris stops being a chore, and becomes a goal-it calls to her, draws her in, and she spends most of every year waiting for summer. And when she turns seventeen, she spends her first winter in Paris and decides to stay.
Years later, when she takes a job at American Runway and moves to New York, she still dreams endlessly of Paris. She wants nothing more than to go back.
Fandom: The Devil Wears Prada
Author: jackiejlh
Rating: G
Character(s): Emily Charlton
Pairing(s): None
Warning(s): None.
Summary: For Emily, everything always leads back to Paris. | Written for the dvlwears_prada community ABC challenge prompt of 'Youth'.
It begins in Paris.
Her father sends her there every year to visit his sister and her family. Emily dreads the visits because her cousins are all boys (they always want to do the most boring things) and her friends are far away. But her father says that she has to go because there’s no one at home to stay with her, not since Mum left.
The vacations aren’t entirely bad; Emily learns French, and her aunt takes her shopping in all of the best stores. She’s not allowed to tell her father because he wouldn’t approve. He says that the Charltons don’t need charity, and that the clothes he buys for his daughter are more than suitable, and besides, no eight-year-old needs dresses that cost more than he spends on food most months. Emily almost points out that her father must not be above accepting charity because he’s fine with using his sister as a free nanny every year, but can’t quite bring herself to say the words.
Emily falls in love with fashion. Paris stops being a chore, and becomes a goal-it calls to her, draws her in, and she spends most of every year waiting for summer. And when she turns seventeen, she spends her first winter in Paris and decides to stay.
Years later, when she takes a job at American Runway and moves to New York, she still dreams endlessly of Paris. She wants nothing more than to go back.