Title: Silent Prayer
Author: Emily L.
Email: lavennyfic@gmail.com
Category: Drama

Sequel To: Italiano Song

Rating: PG (adult themes)

Het/Gen/Bi: Het

Parts: 1/1

Spoilers: None.

Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me, they belong to Paramount. Don’t sue me - I might cry.
Pairing: LDF/LK
Distribution: I’m keeping my fic on here for now. E-mail me if you have any requests.

Authors Notes: For Missy

Setting: Milwaukee-era, in New York. Post “The Festival”
Summary: Laverne and Lenny visit New York with their daughter in tow.

 

 

10-year-old Alice stood at the headstone of the woman she was named after, with a handful of fresh violets.

 

Laverne, still emotional two years after Aleesia's death, clings to Lenny, her tear-stained face dampening his thin  sweatshirt. She leaves a single rose by her grandmother's name and slowly walks towards the tree several yards away. Lenny stays behind to say a silent prayer and places fresh daisies beside his wife's offering. Slowly, he joins her by the tree.

 

Numb to the sensation of knowing her great-grandmother has passed away, and not being particularly close to her, Alice still feels a heavy feeling in her heart knowing that she's not in her city town house slaving over a pot of tomato sauce that tasted so good it could have come straight from Italy.

 

Alice knows that without her great-grandmother's influence, she might not be here today. Her parents, both forward and honest with one another, had once denied their love. But with the help of Laverne's grandmother that fateful summer, they formed a romantic relationship that would last forever.

 

She crouches down to run her hands over her ancestor's name, and gently places the violets between her parents' flowers.

 

Wiping an invisible tear, and heading towards the open arms of her beloved parents, Alice mutters a few words that would mean to world to her namesake: Thank you, Nona. For everything.