Post by FicWriter on Jan 31, 2009 9:46:41 GMT 10
One Hope
by JD
(a ficlet written for the community Theatrical Muse on Live Journal.)
I want to take Abby home to Croatia to meet Tata. I want him to see that I have been able to find love again. I want to introduce Joe to his Djed, I want to see the joy in his face as he holds the grandchild I'm sure he thought he would never know. When Jasna and Marko died, I know he saw his line dying with them, but with Joe's birth that line will go on.
There's another reason I want to take Abby back to Croatia, a reason I need to go back, I need to put a closure to my past and I can only do that by returning to Vukovar. For the first time since the war, since that cold fall day when I buried my wife and children, I want to go back to that City that took so much away from me. I think it's important for Abby to see those places that played such important parts in my past. The place where our apartment stood, the hospital where I worked, the cemetery where my family was laid to rest.
It's not just for Abby that I need to go back though, a part of me knows that I feel like I have to have Danijela's blessing to really move on, that I have to introduce Abby and Joe to her and the children. It's time, for them, for me...for us.
by JD
(a ficlet written for the community Theatrical Muse on Live Journal.)
I want to take Abby home to Croatia to meet Tata. I want him to see that I have been able to find love again. I want to introduce Joe to his Djed, I want to see the joy in his face as he holds the grandchild I'm sure he thought he would never know. When Jasna and Marko died, I know he saw his line dying with them, but with Joe's birth that line will go on.
There's another reason I want to take Abby back to Croatia, a reason I need to go back, I need to put a closure to my past and I can only do that by returning to Vukovar. For the first time since the war, since that cold fall day when I buried my wife and children, I want to go back to that City that took so much away from me. I think it's important for Abby to see those places that played such important parts in my past. The place where our apartment stood, the hospital where I worked, the cemetery where my family was laid to rest.
It's not just for Abby that I need to go back though, a part of me knows that I feel like I have to have Danijela's blessing to really move on, that I have to introduce Abby and Joe to her and the children. It's time, for them, for me...for us.
