Primeval fic: Covered mirrors
Title: Covered mirrors
Word count: 100
Rating: PG
Characters: Emily/Henry, OC
P100 challenge 316: Black and blue
Warning: Character death
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She lived six days. Tiny, perfect baby wrapped in blue for the Virgin Mary. She had dark hair and rosebud lips. They called her Alice. And sweeting. And poppet.
And buried her in her blanket. Under a summer sky.
Emily did not go.
Black dye sloshed from tin tubs over the tiled floor. The household mourned. Of course, Henry insisted that the crepes be bought new. Only the best, spare no cost, my dear.
Think how much worse if she had been a boy.
A curl tied with ribbon.
Nine months of mourning.
Nine years would still not be enough.
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