#mabel mortinson

[upontherisers]

hi cari, can i request #50 breaking the rules for lola and #53 keeping a secret for bobbie, please? — @shoshiwrites

a/n: making this a two for one special! these were such good prompts that i had to do them together! and i finally feel like i know these girls' voices! so meet lola and bobbie (and mabel [sorta] and dolores)

When Mabel Mortinson drops a pot of hot coffee in exhaustion, sending her and Helen to the infirmary during the middle of morning rush, Bobbie pulls Lola to the side while Tatty and Dolores mop up. 

“What’s his name?”

“I—I don’t know.”

Bobbie rolls her eyes and raises an unimpressed eyebrow.

“I don’t, honest!” Lola insists, and she’s serious. She assumes Bobbie would know with the way she watches the girls night and day, but Lola couldn’t keep the men straight yet. “All of those gunners look the same to me.”

“He’s a gunner?”

She starts worrying at her lip with her teeth. Uh oh. 

Sighing kindly, Bobbie steps closer. “Lola, we can’t afford anyone else getting hurt.”

She looks in the direction Helen and Mabel headed off in, her friends, her sisters-in-arms who've been tasked with serving the servicemen, who've given so much of their hearts to the sky, and who've taught her to do the same. Being down two girls in the middle of rush is unforgivable to Bobbie, she knows that. There are rules, uncompromising and infallible rules, but rules are made to be broken, as Mabel says. And giving her friend up, even if she could remember that gunner's name, would only cause more hurt in the long run.

And, in Bobbie's own words, we're here for morale, goddammit.

So, as the crew captain stares up at her with an expectant yet impatient countenance, Lola takes a deep breath, straightens her spine, lifts her chin, and adjusts a hair pin. "I don't know his name."

Bobbie's teardrop eyes narrow and her jaw tenses with irritation. "You're no good at keeping secrets, Mooreland."

"I'm getting better," she replies and notes the way her heart races at this act of semi-defiance.

Bobbie stalks off to the window to tell the soldiers outside that they're running behind, and Dolores lays a gentle hand on Lola's shoulder. "Keep giving as good as you get and I might stop callin' ya Sergeant Suck Up."

"Oh, yeah?" Lola asks, busying herself with the next pot of coffee. "What're you thinking?"

"Sergeant Says Nothin'."

[upontherisers]

every year, a group of girls' counselors at lake harding make a playlist. there are two rules: no bummers, only bangers. one song per counselor, so choose wisely. here are this year's tunes:

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mahalia summerton / hazel keene

isadora montgomery / ginny franklin

vera west / lola rosales mooreland

bobbie chambers / dolores chen

mabel mortinson / dellarose williamson