Fanon:That's Life For You (Prologue)

I apologise if I mess something up, I'm not really good with wiki knowledge... I just wanted to write a story to keep myself occupied and to entertain others with my imagination. I will most likely come back and add pictures or details as I go, I don't have a lot of time right now because of life but I'll do what I can. :)

The Interview
Interviewer: Daniel, I want to first of all thank you for taking the time to sit down for this interview.

Daniel: No worries at all, it's not everyday we have somebody wanting to interview people in our little town.

Interview: Well I appreciate it. If you don't mind, why don't you tell me a little about yourself.

Daniel: What would you like to know? I'm an open book!

Interviewer: Hahaha! Anything, basics would be great -- family background, hobbies?

Daniel: Ah well, I was born in the 60s, late sixties mind you, I'm not that old. I had three sibings, my older sister Kim who was much older than me, she was born in 1950 and my younger brother Mitchell, he's was only younger by 3 or so years, we used to always get mistaken for twins. I also have a much younger sister named Sherrie, she is younger by I think 20 years? My parents were both immigrants, my father moved to Rosewood Heights in the 40s, like my mother. He was born in Britain, I think he was from Kent? I found it to be very difficult sharing a house with him sometimes, he was a hard man with little compassion for others. My mother was a lovely woman, I often wondered why she stayed with him, they just seemed so different. She was originally from South Wales but, I cannot for the life of me remember where from, somewhere starting with 'B'... I think.

Interviewer: Wow, that is a huge age gap.

Daniel: ... Yeah, it is.

Interviewer: How did your mother and father cope with having children at what I'm assuming was, must have been elder years?

Daniel: My father was astonishingly very fatherly at that point in his life which my siblings found to be quite ironically considering he was so distant our whole lives, my step-mother loved it, having a little girl, she adored her. My step-mother was a very kind lady, Daphne was her name.

Interviewer: Your parents divorced?

Daniel: No, my mother passed away a very long time ago. I know it seems silly but I still carry my parents wedding photo in my wallet just so I don't forget her face.

Interviewer: No, that's not silly at all. Can I see?

Daniel: Oh yeah sure, gimme a sec'.

Interviewer: Take your time.

Daniel: My parents hadn't even exchanged vows yet when the photo was taken, they weren't supposed to see each other but my father accidentally walked into the wrong room where my mother was getting ready and the wedding photographer took the photo to capture the moment I guess, kind of funny. My mother told me that story, gets me every time. Ah, here's the photo.

Interviewer: Wow, very attractive couple.

Daniel: Hahahaha, yeah everyone used to say that... Their names are Grayson and Martina.

Interviewer: If you don't mind me asking, what happened to your mother?

Daniel: ...

Interviewer: You don't have to answer if you don't want to Daniel.

Daniel: Oh no, it's fine. It's an interview about people in our town and it happened over 40 years ago. It was shortly after I left for university, my father called which was quite odd because, like I said he wasn't very close with myself or my siblings and when I picked up the phone he simply said "We're at the hospital, Martina is sick." It was at that point I could hear him start to break down over the phone, I asked which hospital, he told me and I skipped class for that day and went to see her. I had known my mother was sick before I left for university but I didn't think much of it, people in that time always got sick but we were strong, my mother being one of the strongest.

When I got to the hospital my sister was already there, she had just arrived with her then husband at the time, Joachim, nasty guy. A doctor pulled myself and my sister aside and told us that my mother had stage 4 cancer. I was livid, my sister started crying hysterically. It was two years after my mother passed that we found out that the hospital had mixed up my mothers test results with someone else meaning that if she had got treatment sooner she may have went into remission but unfortunately we were all none the wiser so my mother had her life taken at 50, way too soon. She never got to meet any of her grandchildren, which devastated my sister because they used to stay up all night planning baby names and where my sister would live so my mother could be the "active nanna" as she referred to herself. My sister got along so well with my mother, I remember when I was a young teenager I used to watch Kim, *stutter* my sister

Interviewer: I got it --

Daniel: -- and mother dancing around to Girls Just Want To Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper from upstairs *laughs* I used to laugh as they'd jump around on the couches lip syncing the song into hair brushes.

Interviewer: Hahaha! Classic family moments.

Daniel: ... Yeah, unfortunately those moments didn't last long. My brother mysteriously disappeared during his university and then after a year or so, he turned up dead. It tore the family apart, no one knows what happened, and we still don't know. By this point Kim's spiralled out of control, she just had a baby girl and then found out her husband of 7 years had been cheating on her for almost 4 years of their marriage. She kicked out Joachim, she didn't bother a reconciliation, I think all the cruel years had taken a toll on her, she just stopped caring. A couples weeks shy of Christmas there was a fire in their home, which... Claimed the life of both Kim and her daughter, my niece, Claudia. She was only 7. For what was left of the family we suspected foul play may have been the cause. The fire department ruled that out after they proved the Christmas tree caused an electrical fire. After Christmas my father passed of old age, Daphne followed a couple years after. At this point, I only had my adoptive sister Sherrie but I still felt alone. I had lost all my blood family, the ones who actually cared about me and were involved in my life. All taken early, I had nothing and I'm almost certain Sherrie didn't even know I existed, heck, I' wouldn't be surprised if she still didn't know who I was.

Interviewer: Wow, that's quite a story.

Daniel: Yeah, well, life is a never ending story book. Full of ups and downs.