#bart foxworth/Sheffield whatever

[evansbby]

this is so niche but

[dollanganger-in-the-attic]

Ok I mentioned Cathy’s psych ward arc in the tags then went to sleep bc im messy lol

So in one of the unpublished manuscripts for Petals on the Wind, there are various alternate endings. One of wich involves Cathy ending up in a psych ward instead of Corrine!

To summarize; toward the end of Petals, as Foxworth mansion is burning down, Jory is stuck inside an adjacent barn trying to save his pony. Bart Winslow runs into the barn to rescue Jory but neither make it out. In her distress, Cathy slips on ice and the fall causes a miscarriage of her unborn child with Bart Winslow.

Cathy bleeds a lot and almost dies. When she’s recovered she can’t accept Jory’s death and becomes violent towards anyone who tries to tell her the truth- even Chris.

Also nobody’s sure if Cory is actually dead or not because Corrine has a man named Gary as an adopted nephew who she claims is actually Cory whom she had dropped off at an orphanage back when she claimed he had died, and later had Bart Winslow’s sister adopt him. This Gary has no memories of his childhood and Cathy doesn’t believe he’s Cory, but Chris IS convinced, and that causes a big rift between Cathy and Chris. Because if Corrine is indeed telling the truth then that means she never meant to kill any of them and was only trying to help them escape.

Cathy also lashes out at Paul when he visits, and she tries to shred her own face with the thorns on the roses he brings her (but they’ve been snipped off) Paul suspects Cathy is only pretending to be “crazy” as an excuse not to have to forgive her mother.

Corrine has been paying for Cathy’s rehabilitation in the psych ward and eventually comes to visit her. Corrine is nervous but Cathy lets her brush her hair. Corrine tells Cathy that while the fire department tried to put out the barn fire they let Foxworth mansion burn to the ground- with Olivia inside. Incidentally, when it came out that Corrine had four children, everything in her father’s will reverted back to Olivia. And Olivia left everything in her will to Cathy- as an apology.

Cathy doesn’t care and tells Corrine to just take everything herself- after all, she’s earned it. (Ohh burn!) Corrine tells Cathy she’s sure had Bart lived he would have left her for Cathy because Corrine couldn’t give him a child even now due to a hysterectomy.

Once again Corrine tries to convince Cathy that Gary is actually Cory and whatever she may think, she never tried to kill them with the arsenic. She claims if she had known what her parents had in store for them she’d had rather worked as a prostitute than go to that house. Cathy doesn’t buy it because Gary is a tall man, and Carrie had not grown tall so why would Cory? And when Gary had visited Cathy in this hospital he was unable to provide proof or information that only Cory would know. So she kicks Corrine out and doesn’t want to see her again.

When Cathy is released from the psych ward she returns to Pauls house. After he proposes to her, he reveals that she actually DIDN’T miscarry. But she was so grief stricken by Jory’s death that she kept trying to kill herself and her unborn baby. So the doctors lied and told her she had miscarried in order to protect the baby. In her confusion and state of psychosis she didn’t even believe her baby was alive when she gave birth to him and the doctors showed the baby to her.

So for three months her baby was being cared for by Corrine. Corrine shows up to hand off the baby to Cathy and tell her she knows its her husband’s child but she isn’t mad at her. Cathy doesn’t much care and doesn’t even invite her to the wedding lol

Cathy and Paul name her baby Bart Scott Sheffield and call him Chip. They live together with Chris and his own three children. Gary had gone off to become a famous musician, but because he never sings songs with Cory’s lyrics Cathy remains unsure if he actually is Cory and therefore unsure if she can forgive Corrine.

And thats how it ends! Pretty crazy huh

Thinking about how in the original Flowers in the Attic manuscript, the kids were locked up for SIX years 💀💀💀

Cathy from the time she was 10 to 16

The twins from the time they were 3 to 9

[cindydoll]

headcanon #1

cindy is a pistol. she’s rebellious, but not in the aggrevating way. she doesn’t like to make her parents upset. her rebellion is silent, she does things in a way that cathy and chris will never know about - most of the time. the exception is with bart. openly, robustly, cindy is rebellious with bart. but more on that, later. cindy, in one of her various ways, is romantically rebellious behind her parents back. not only will cindy lie and claim she is sleeping at a girlfriend’s house when she’s really spending the night with whatever boytoy she happens to be entertaining at the moment, but she always uses the term ‘girlfriend’ extremely loosely with chris and cathy.

cindy is bisexual, with a heavy preference towards females. this, in her teen years, she had never been open about to cathy and christopher because she could use it to her advantage. cindy is able to trot off to a ‘girlfriends’ house for the weekend, or even for the week during summer or break, and cathy and christopher are under the simple illusion that she’s spending time with a good friend. in reality, it happens to be who cindy is currently dating or hooking up with at the moment. 

‘“she’ll be coming soon,” i called back. “right now cindy is visiting a girlfriend’s home [...]”’ -cathy

while her brother bart may have suspicions, he never voices these aloud that cindy is aware of. he says nothing to their mother about this. cindy, on the other hand, would very much let her suspicions be known if it concerned bart. cindy has also used this tactic to get away with bringing home her girlfriends to stay at the sheffield house, and she takes pride in the fact that she can keep very quiet while others are around so they don’t suspect a thing. much like her brother jory, she uses the attic to sneak up to with her girlfriends and cathy and chris are never the wiser about either. it isn’t until the episode at foxworth hall, for bart’s birthday celebration (and soon before christopher’s death) that cindy opens up to her parents and tells them that she is bisexual - but she does not tell them about all the times she has deceived them.

[moteloleander]

Bart is my favourite Dollanganger (Foxworth, Sheffield, ffs, whatever.) A lifetime of barely justified vengeance, religious hysteria, hypocrisy, hookers, septicaemia, frigidity, overreaction to petty disappointments, attachment to unwise authority figures, childhood trauma turned into a perpetual state of victimhood and excuse-making, pursuing personal success just to rub other people's noses in it. He even makes a hearty stab at the grand family tradition of balling somebody with whom you share a parent or two. He is a consummate slimeball and I says Gor'bless'im, guv'na.