Wilby Wonderful snippet: "Harbor"

[luzula]

Title: Harbor
Fandom: Wilby Wonderful
Characters: Sandra and Duck
Rating: G
Length: 281 words
Prompt: "worn down by strangers; all you need's a friend"
Summary: see prompt.
Notes: For the snippet tag at dsc6dsnippets, again. I've been tempted by this prompt ever since I saw it, but no idea came to me. Until suddenly I realized I should try it in a different fandom. I am proud to present my second-ever Wilby Wonderful snippet! \o/ Thanks to andeincascade for beta reading.

"Oh, shit!" Sandra said, as the coffeepot overturned, breaking into pieces and splashing coffee all over the floor. It was the last straw.

Irene Miller had been nasty to her at lunch, she had tons of paperwork for the newly-bought diner to fill in, and she was worried about Emily's first day at school.

Sandra didn't know why she'd thought Wilby would be some sort of paradise. It wasn't like it'd been paradise before--she'd left it, after all--but it had been tucked away in a safe corner of her mind all those years among strangers. It was home.

But now everyone here felt like a stranger, too, even people she'd known before she left. She sighed, staring down at the mess on the floor.

"Need a hand with that?"

Sandra looked up. And stared, and then threw her arms around the man's neck. "Duck! I thought you'd moved away."

"Whoa, there." But Duck was smiling. "Well, I came back. Just like you."

He put his arms around her and hugged back, and Sandra held on a while longer before reluctantly letting go.

"God, am I glad to see you," she said.

Duck had more lines on his face, and he seemed more solid, but he had the same spiky hair as in high school. She remembered the time they'd sat down by the shore, and he'd told her he was gay. Not that she hadn't already guessed that, but it meant something that he'd told her.

Duck smiled again, grabbed the broom and started sweeping up the glass. "I'm glad you're back. This place can do with some shaking up."

Sandra went to get the mop. "It's good to be back."

And I tag hazelwho!

Comments

[lamentables]

Aaaaaawwwww. Perfect fit for the prompt and the characters.

In conclusion, write more WW!

[luzula]

Thank you! I'd love to write more WW, but I don't often have story ideas for it.

[helens78]

Nawwww! Duck and Sandra = BFFs! Yay! :D

[luzula]

Thanks! I do like to think of them being friends.

[how_obscure]

Aww, I liked this.

[luzula]

Thank you!

[hazelwho]

Aww, I love this Duck and Sandra friendship! Excellent use of the propmt.

[luzula]

Thanks! I'd been looking around for how to use that prompt for a while, and suddenly this came to me.

[thursdaynext_27]

Wonderful use of the prompt!

[luzula]

Thank you! That prompt really called to me, and I wanted to write something about Fraser first (as I mostly do), but then this came to me instead, and I'm glad it did.

[exbex]

Lovely.

[luzula]

Thank you!

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

*\O/* I think this was posted before I'd watched the movie. (Notice that Sandra is Duck's flaming heterochick bff.)

[luzula]

Thanks! I do like to think of Duck and Sandra as BFF:s.

[ardyforshort]

Amazing use of the prompt, and I do love the thought of them as BFFs very much.

[luzula]

Oh, thank you! I love getting comments on older things. : )

[ardyforshort]

:) I may or may not be trawling the snippet comm for fic and inspiration tonight...

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Wonderful elevenses treat, this! I was contemplating move coffee vs being able to go to sleep tonight, and this did the job without the caffeine.

Julia, do believe I'll watch WW tonight, because this reminded me of how much I like Sandra

[luzula]

Thank you! I love Sandra, and Emily, too. If I could find the inspiration, I'd love to write a longer story about them.