Continuity: Polite Acrimony
Length: Ficlet
Pairings: 4xD
Prompt: Social Proof?"Everybody's doing it."
Teaser: "And that, my dear children, is why the murder was wholly justifiable and-"
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5424671/5/Polite_Acrimony
Disclaimer: GW = not mine.
Author's Note: Pardon the shortness. I felt that this length was appropriate.
Polite Acrimony
by mistress amethyst une
Social Proof?"Everybody's doing it."
Dorothy was prone to liberal interpretation.
"The beautiful queen decided that she simply couldn't let her stepdaughter surpass her in beauty," she narrated to her captive audience. The book she had been reading from had long been tossed aside and completely forgotten. "Besides, the little girl must have been a bit of a brat. Of what use was a beautiful young brat? A plaything for a passing prince? At best, the queen could have just married her daughter off in a political maneuver that might not have borne fruit and then where would the kingdom be? No, she probably wanted to get rid of the girl before she came of age to take the crown away. The queen considered herself a far more capable leader. Why give it up? Oh...and of course, there's the whole matter of envying the child's beauty and whatnot but I'm sure that wasn't her primary motivation."
Reading to children for good PR was a common trend for CEOs and politicians. Relena did it well. Quatre did it well. Surprisingly enough, in a stint of philanthropy for Preventer, even Heero did it well.
Dorothy?
Not so much.
"And that, my dear children, is why the murder was wholly justifiable and-"
At this point, Quatre had no choice but to take her by the arm and haul her away. If one of those children grew up to commit genocide...
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Dorothy definitely is not "everybody."
