All Flowers Keep the Light (1/6)
France, 1967. After a hurried wedding due to the birth of her son, Emma and her new husband, Neal Cassidy, move to the quiet French countryside for a fresh start. With Neal working late at the psychiatric hospital next door, it is left to Emma to find her own way to settle in to her new life. Desperate to find a way to pass the time, and to find meaning in her life outside of being a mother, Emma takes it upon herself to revive the facility’s neglected greenhouse. But when a handsome blued eyed patient offers to help her look after the plants, everything in Emma’s world changes.
Rated: M for mature themes, brief violence, and smut (not that bad, but I cover my bases)
A/N: Setting inspired by the book “Let Me Tell You About a Man I Knew” by Susan Fletcher, though this fic shares little to no resemblance to it plot wise. Beta’d by the phenomenal @wellhellotragic, who patiently watches me disregard word count caps and is objective when I can’t be. Updates on Mondays!
Tagging: @hollyethecurious, @captainswanandclintasha, @meremere94, and anyone else that would like to be tagged :)
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It had taken several days of sorting through boxes to find the small french press that she had packed away at the last minute weeks ago. It had nearly been left behind, it’s presence in the cramped kitchen as inherent as the yellowed cupboard doors or the leaky faucet that Emma had become accustomed to over the years. Neal had insisted on leaving it behind, arguing that they wouldn’t have need of such an old relic at their new cottage, but Emma had insisted. If she was having to leave everything she had ever known to move into the middle of the French countryside, she was going to have her favourite coffee press with her. No compromises. An eye roll and a muttered complaint later, and the machine had been packed away at the top of the nearest box.
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