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Day 4: Education, It's A Sin, Jill, Lucy
Feb. 10th, 2023 01:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tellshannon815Title: Knowing Then What I Know Now
Fandom: It's A Sin
Characters: Jill, Lucy
Rating: PG
Summary: Lucy attends one of Jill's sexual health education talks.
Times have moved on since Jill first lived at the Pink Palace, and for every talk that she gives on the subject of sexual health, although she never expects to know, she hopes that the education she’s giving people manages to save at least one person. Yet at the same time, she still feels angry and frustrated at the fact that it had taken so long for as much to be known about HIV, for medication to be available; if there had been more knowledge around back in the 1980s, Ritchie and Colin might still have been with them today.
As Lucy Tozer sits at the back of the hall, where Jill’s unlikely to see her, she also wishes there had been more education like Jill is providing back when Ritchie was still alive; if Lucy had been more open and accepting at the time, maybe Ritchie would have felt able to talk to her (she had suspected for a while that Ritchie was gay, but had never felt able to say anything to him, not helped by the fact that she had some idea how their parents would have reacted if they’d known earlier). They all should have been better educated back then; maybe then Ritchie would have talked to his family, maybe it wouldn’t have ended as it did with Valerie overriding his wishes and not letting his friends see him one last time; maybe he would never have contracted the virus at all.
Fandom: It's A Sin
Characters: Jill, Lucy
Rating: PG
Summary: Lucy attends one of Jill's sexual health education talks.
Times have moved on since Jill first lived at the Pink Palace, and for every talk that she gives on the subject of sexual health, although she never expects to know, she hopes that the education she’s giving people manages to save at least one person. Yet at the same time, she still feels angry and frustrated at the fact that it had taken so long for as much to be known about HIV, for medication to be available; if there had been more knowledge around back in the 1980s, Ritchie and Colin might still have been with them today.
As Lucy Tozer sits at the back of the hall, where Jill’s unlikely to see her, she also wishes there had been more education like Jill is providing back when Ritchie was still alive; if Lucy had been more open and accepting at the time, maybe Ritchie would have felt able to talk to her (she had suspected for a while that Ritchie was gay, but had never felt able to say anything to him, not helped by the fact that she had some idea how their parents would have reacted if they’d known earlier). They all should have been better educated back then; maybe then Ritchie would have talked to his family, maybe it wouldn’t have ended as it did with Valerie overriding his wishes and not letting his friends see him one last time; maybe he would never have contracted the virus at all.
