An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Summary: Winona tried. Is trying. Jim and Sam are trying, too. Being a mom is hard. Family in general is hard.
Notes: so this is an incredibly self indulgent fic I wrote for two reasons: 1. i’m sick of fics villainizing Winona and find her to be an interesting and complicated character (even though we don’t know much about her lol) and 2. i love the genius jim trope/headcanon. so here’s this. enjoy.
Preview:
The thing is.
The thing is, Winona tries.
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Mommy gets sad sometimes. That’s what Sam says on the days when she stays in bed all day and the three of them eat cereal with replicated milk in silence for dinner. Sometimes, Uncle Frank comes over and makes them “some real food,” which Jimmy thinks is silly because cereal is real food. It’s food and it’s real. Replicated milk is still real milk.
Some days Uncle Frank comes over and they all have dinner, and then he shoos them away and follows Mommy into her room. Sometimes, things are quiet. Other times, they can hear Uncle Frank shouting. It makes Sam frown, but whenever Jimmy asks him about it he says it’s just a sibling fight, like when he and Jimmy argue over Mommy’s PADD.
It makes sense, but Jimmy doesn’t really think it’s like that at all.
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