Sense of Smell

Smell is one of those things that can trigger powerful memories or images for people. It's also used to recognise one another, tell each apart by scent. It's a primitive and base thing, it's instinctual.

So what happens when someone doesn't smell the same any more? Someone who has been around all your life, who has always smelled the same. Someone who is moving on with an old family. A family that they had before you existed. A family with a little girl that may or may not be theirs. A little girl who makes alarm bells blare in your mind, who makes your every instinct scream that she is theirs. Because this person is a known liar, a hider, a planner. And because it "feels like coming home after popping out to the shop."

I'm tempted to tell them to go. To leave and go back 'home'. But leave EVERYONE they had here. Because they don't belong in that world. And because the past 23 years may as well be erased.