tailor_made: when by the Wizard, you're acclaimed (and all of Oz has to love you)
Hester ([personal profile] tailor_made) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains 2021-07-16 12:54 am (UTC)

[Yeah, kinda sucks! The real Hester meanwhile has been getting progressively closer, with a little experimental hesitation, rests her cheek on Janis's shoulder.

After my picture fades
And darkness has turned to gray
Watching through windows
You're wondering if I'm okay]


...I'm having a nice time, Janis.

[The next one is another short glimpse: Hester slow dancing the same way she is now, cheek resting on the upper arm of someone taller than her. It's impossible to tell what they look like, only that they're wearing a black suit jacket. Her partner steps back and twirls her, slowly and a little awkwardly into-]

If you're lost, you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting
Time after time


[A new memory and this one feels somehow final. Hester is standing at a brightened street light, a lit-up train schedule above her head. The time on it reads 11:45 pm. She has a single suitcase next to her and is staring at her feet with apprehension. But...the scene almost seems to glitch- suddenly she has several people around her. The man from before, not quite the picture of health but looking better than he was, is wearing a red flannel. He leans in to plant a kiss on top of Hester's head and she hiccups, wiping her eyes before throwing her arms around him in a hug. The others look to be some other teens about Hester's age, a blurry-looking couple with an even blurrier child between them and another figure in a black and grey flannel.]

You said, "go slow"
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds


[Another glitch and Hester is alone again. She looks back and forth, like she's looking for someone, before she checks the time again. Glitch. Hester is hugging the small family and gives the child's hair a ruffle before she moves on to the other teens. She stops at the person in the monochrome flannel, rising up on her toes while they lean down to kiss them. They wrap her in a hug, picking her up off the ground momentarily, before setting her back down. There are fresh tears now and her foster father comes over once more to hug her a final time.

Glitch.

If you're lost, you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting
Time after time
If you're lost, you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting
Time after time


[A train has pulled up. Both Hesters simultaneously pick up their suitcases and start to step onto it, glancing back one more time- one at the people she's leaving behind and one at empty air- before stepping onto the train and vanishing.

Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
]

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