Ficlet: "Bump In The Night"
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twispiteficTitle: Bump In The Night
Author: Neva
Fandom: Fifty Shades trilogy
Rating: PG
Word Count: 480
Inspiration: Chapter Five of Fifty Shades Darker, and Gehayi and Ket Makura's sporking of same, in which they provided "spoilers from the future" about Christian Grey's bodyguard and his family situation. Thanks, ladies.
Warnings: None
Summary: Seven-year-old Sophie Taylor listens to voices from the grown-up world.
Bump In The Night
Sophie lies awake, with her bedroom door open just the tiniest bit, and listens to the voices from downstairs. Her parents haven’t shouted at each other like this since before her father moved away.
“Don’t try to tell me that I’ve crossed a line,” Mommy is saying. “Not when you’re still running those little errands for Grey.” Then she’s talking too quietly for Sophie to hear, but one of the words sounds a lot like “jail.”
“Nobody here is going to jail.” Daddy’s heavy footsteps pace back and forth, back and forth. “And I’m tired of listening to you tell me what a monster Christian Grey is. I know what I signed up for.”
None of that makes much sense to Sophie. For one thing, "errands" are what Mommy does when she goes to the bank and the grocery store and the post office, and sometimes they stop at the candy store or the library on the way home. She didn’t know that you could go to jail for doing any of those things. For another thing, she’s a big girl, and she’s not supposed to be afraid of monsters in the closet or under the bathroom sink. She knows that there are plenty of scary things in the world already, like hospitals and needles, and being too sick to walk or talk.
But her mommy is bigger than big, a grown-up, and if she thinks that somebody’s a monster…
“Would you rather he hadn’t saved Sophie’s life?” Daddy’s voice is getting louder. “Because he’s made it perfectly clear that –“
“That what? Has he threatened us? Threatened her?”
“Laurie, you’ll wake her up. Please…”
Sophie realizes that she’s curled up into a ball and her face is buried in her knees. She tries to think of something that will make her happy, like ice-skating or superheroes or her daddy taking her out to dinner tonight, just the two of them. When he brought her home, before she went upstairs, he gave her a gigantic hug and kiss, and said that he’d call her in a few days. He told her to be a good girl.
Now, she wishes that she hadn’t left the door open and tried to listen to the confusing grown-up world. She wishes that she could go back to before anybody had mentioned Grey. She doesn’t know if he’s a monster or not, or what it meant that he saved her life, but she knows how Mommy looks and sounds whenever Daddy says his name: like she wants to yell or cry or hit something, like she sounded just now when she said the word “threatened.”
Quickly, before her mother comes upstairs and catches her, Sophie climbs out of bed, tiptoes across the room, and makes sure that the door to the closet is tightly shut, just in case was wrong about the monsters, after all.
Author: Neva
Fandom: Fifty Shades trilogy
Rating: PG
Word Count: 480
Inspiration: Chapter Five of Fifty Shades Darker, and Gehayi and Ket Makura's sporking of same, in which they provided "spoilers from the future" about Christian Grey's bodyguard and his family situation. Thanks, ladies.
Warnings: None
Summary: Seven-year-old Sophie Taylor listens to voices from the grown-up world.
Bump In The Night
Sophie lies awake, with her bedroom door open just the tiniest bit, and listens to the voices from downstairs. Her parents haven’t shouted at each other like this since before her father moved away.
“Don’t try to tell me that I’ve crossed a line,” Mommy is saying. “Not when you’re still running those little errands for Grey.” Then she’s talking too quietly for Sophie to hear, but one of the words sounds a lot like “jail.”
“Nobody here is going to jail.” Daddy’s heavy footsteps pace back and forth, back and forth. “And I’m tired of listening to you tell me what a monster Christian Grey is. I know what I signed up for.”
None of that makes much sense to Sophie. For one thing, "errands" are what Mommy does when she goes to the bank and the grocery store and the post office, and sometimes they stop at the candy store or the library on the way home. She didn’t know that you could go to jail for doing any of those things. For another thing, she’s a big girl, and she’s not supposed to be afraid of monsters in the closet or under the bathroom sink. She knows that there are plenty of scary things in the world already, like hospitals and needles, and being too sick to walk or talk.
But her mommy is bigger than big, a grown-up, and if she thinks that somebody’s a monster…
“Would you rather he hadn’t saved Sophie’s life?” Daddy’s voice is getting louder. “Because he’s made it perfectly clear that –“
“That what? Has he threatened us? Threatened her?”
“Laurie, you’ll wake her up. Please…”
Sophie realizes that she’s curled up into a ball and her face is buried in her knees. She tries to think of something that will make her happy, like ice-skating or superheroes or her daddy taking her out to dinner tonight, just the two of them. When he brought her home, before she went upstairs, he gave her a gigantic hug and kiss, and said that he’d call her in a few days. He told her to be a good girl.
Now, she wishes that she hadn’t left the door open and tried to listen to the confusing grown-up world. She wishes that she could go back to before anybody had mentioned Grey. She doesn’t know if he’s a monster or not, or what it meant that he saved her life, but she knows how Mommy looks and sounds whenever Daddy says his name: like she wants to yell or cry or hit something, like she sounded just now when she said the word “threatened.”
Quickly, before her mother comes upstairs and catches her, Sophie climbs out of bed, tiptoes across the room, and makes sure that the door to the closet is tightly shut, just in case was wrong about the monsters, after all.
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Date: 2013-09-01 01:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-01 02:00 pm (UTC)I also don't think that it's a coincidence that Grey asked after Taylor's daughter directly after he effectively kidnapped Ana off the street. Almost as if to say, "There is absolutely nothing suspicious about Ana's presence here, Taylor, and if you want your daughter to be safe and healthy, you won't even suggest otherwise."
...and now I've creeped myself out even more. o_O
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Date: 2013-09-01 04:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-01 04:36 pm (UTC)Thanks for reading!
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Date: 2013-10-14 01:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-04 11:50 am (UTC)Nicely done! <33
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Date: 2013-09-04 02:13 pm (UTC)Based only on the excerpts/recaps on
Thanks for coming over and reading and feedbacking, dearest! <3
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Date: 2013-10-14 01:53 am (UTC)*Kicks Grey repeatedly with an iron boot.*