Prompt Challenge Ten: Well-Behaved Women, Eclipse

[senmut]

Welcome to the tenth prompt for Half a Moon 2020!

Today's prompts are:

Well-behaved Women

and

Eclipse

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ACD - Mary Morstan

[senmut]

Mary had no interest in becoming famous. The small bit that had come to her husband as the chronicler of the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes was almost more than she cared for. To live in their home, see to John's needs, and help manage the affairs of his practice were all she cared for.

Nor did she begrudge her husband his brushes with danger and adventure alike, seeing it as a trait common to most men in some fashion. So long as he came home to her, she encouraged his pursuits at Holmes's side.

She had all she wished for.

Not Going to Make History - Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Willow Rosenberg

[cmk418]

“Well-behaved women seldom make history” was a saying that Willow’s mother quoted often. She said that, but still purchased her teenaged daughter clothing more suitable to the first grade than to freshman year of high school and emphasized the importance of studying and good grades to get ahead.

When exactly was Willow going to find the time or inclination to do anything other than behave well?

Maybe, cultivating a bit of a bad girl vibe would turn a few of the boys’ heads, but what then? The same thing that happened now. Absolutely nothing. She wasn’t the type to wear leather pants and smoke cigarettes , no matter how many times she’d watched “Grease” and envied Sandy her ability to change. (And really, to change that drastically for a man seemed the opposite of history-making.)

She was lucky enough to have two good friends in Xander and Jesse and they didn’t expect her to be anything more or different than who she was. She might not make history, but she was okay with that.