Title: Strange Little Girl
Author: Michelle K.
Site: http://glimmershine.tripod.com
Rating: PG
Challenge: Tori Amos titles
Pairing: Catherine/Sara
Word Count: 124
Summary: You've never changed.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Don't sue.

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Growing up: gap-toothed loser with hippie parents. With your family: the uptight one least likely to crack a smile. In college: the perfectionist loner with an obsessive streak. At work: same as in college.

You think you would've gotten used to being the peculiar one by now. Failed to be insulted as they pulled away from your brusque manner. Let them be unimportant. But they matter.

Especially her.

Catherine, the perfect, beautiful one, who lied down with dogs and woke up wiser and smelling sweet. You want that -- to be normal to the point of perfection. You want to be a woman instead of an odd girl.

But you think you'd settle for being an odd girl with a woman of her own.

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