Fic: Catherine was Great

[dragonyphoenix]

Title: Catherine was Great
Fandom: BtVS
Rating: Teen
Character: Catherine Madison
Concrit: Please, in comments
Disclaimer: They aren't mine, not yet, but they will be ... once I've taken over the world. Bwah-ha-ha!
Word Count: 100
Note: Written for a prompt at Open on Sunday: silence

Words were power once. Words had been a wintery wind binding her life to that one perfect moment, preserving her glittering past. The wind had betrayed her, trapping her in a cage as cold as ice but as glittering as the sun, trapping her in the hollow shell of the only thing she'd ever wanted, trapping her where the screams raging in her mind echoed around her as little more than muffled whimpers, a dissonant din, a faint shade of the shrieking storm that only she could hear.

Fire came as a relief, allowing her to sink, finally, into silence.

Comments

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

wow. I really love this.

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

Love this! Excellent look at the forgotten Catherine!


Gabrielle

[clockwork-hart1.livejournal.com]

Brilliant idea!

I never would have thought of this, and it's so good. You've caught the fanatic obsession and the maddening entrapment stunningly.

Fantastic!

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Guess Graduation marked the end for more than just the first high school. Great use of the prompt. :)

[baudown.livejournal.com]

Totally original. Excellent.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I missed this one! As Most people did I forgot about Catherine after the episode (except for Oz's one reference in S2); her fate is meant as a sort of traditional fairy tale (or Christian?) let the punishment fit the crime sort of deal, but I remember being horrified watching the ending of the Witch. Yes she did horrible things to her daughter but still... and that was in S1 so it's still being played for laughs on some level.

I never thought about her watching S3 and this is really tremendous. Wow.