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Fic: Daughter
Posting a little late, but here is the fic I wrote for the Be the First Flash Round:
Daughter (6143 words) by geri_chan
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: What I Carry - Jennifer Longo
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Muiriel (What I Carry), Francine (What I Carry)
Additional Tags: Family, Families of Choice, Foster Care, Post-Canon, Adoption
Summary: Muiriel has been in foster care all her life, and after two failed adoption attempts, all she wants is to age out of the system and be independent. But her final foster placement offers her a chance for a permanent family and home if she's not too scared to take it.
What I Carry is a novel about a teenager named Muiriel who has lived in the foster system all her life after being abandoned as a newborn. After being rejected by would-be adoptive parents as a young child, she decides that she will never go through that pain again, refusing any other adoption offers and changing foster homes whenever she feels like she's getting too comfortable in one place. While most foster kids fear aging out of the system, Muir is determined to age out and become independent as soon she turns eighteen.
She just needs to stick it out for one more year in what is supposed to be her final foster home with Francine, a longtime foster parent who intends to retire after taking in one last kid as a favor to Muir's social worker. But contrary to Muir's plans and best intentions, she starts to care about Francine, and about her newfound friends Kira and Sean, and she has to decide whether to keep running or to stay in place and trust that she's finally found a true home with people who won't betray her.
I loved this book so much! I really felt for Muir and all the pain she went through, and I was rooting so hard for her to be happy at the end. It was pretty much perfect, but I still wanted a little post-canon fic to wrap things up neatly with an extra-happy ending, so that's what I wrote for this round.
Daughter (6143 words) by geri_chan
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: What I Carry - Jennifer Longo
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Muiriel (What I Carry), Francine (What I Carry)
Additional Tags: Family, Families of Choice, Foster Care, Post-Canon, Adoption
Summary: Muiriel has been in foster care all her life, and after two failed adoption attempts, all she wants is to age out of the system and be independent. But her final foster placement offers her a chance for a permanent family and home if she's not too scared to take it.
What I Carry is a novel about a teenager named Muiriel who has lived in the foster system all her life after being abandoned as a newborn. After being rejected by would-be adoptive parents as a young child, she decides that she will never go through that pain again, refusing any other adoption offers and changing foster homes whenever she feels like she's getting too comfortable in one place. While most foster kids fear aging out of the system, Muir is determined to age out and become independent as soon she turns eighteen.
She just needs to stick it out for one more year in what is supposed to be her final foster home with Francine, a longtime foster parent who intends to retire after taking in one last kid as a favor to Muir's social worker. But contrary to Muir's plans and best intentions, she starts to care about Francine, and about her newfound friends Kira and Sean, and she has to decide whether to keep running or to stay in place and trust that she's finally found a true home with people who won't betray her.
I loved this book so much! I really felt for Muir and all the pain she went through, and I was rooting so hard for her to be happy at the end. It was pretty much perfect, but I still wanted a little post-canon fic to wrap things up neatly with an extra-happy ending, so that's what I wrote for this round.