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A Daily Mail Exclusive [open/closed]
Apr. 21st, 2016 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
protagonized#herodog trended in the UK for a grand total of forty-eight hours in early March, long enough to spark several articles about the incident in various local tabloids and newspapers, a fifteen minute segment about it on BBC Breakfast (complete with an animal behaviour expert), and two @herodog and @londonherodog Twitter parody accounts. Then the world turned and the sensation died down and few people remembered Maria Mitchell's little brush with fame.
Except Maria herself, of course.
She had been at a low point, but the hero dog ended all that when it dragged her off the tracks and away from danger after she'd drunkenly fallen off the platform, right in the path of an oncoming Circle Line train. The dog had done more than save her life, she'd tell her friends. It had given her purpose, a reason to stop drinking and start living.
She became obsessed with finding the London Hero Dog. If she could find it and thank it, or--well, they obviously shared a bond so maybe she could give it somewhere to live for the rest of its life! Right! The universe was telling her she was meant to adopt this dog.
She just had to find it first. And maybe look at some cell phone video she'd drunkenly recorded later that night...
( i - No Good Deed Goes Unpunished (18 April - Open to Previous CR) )
( ii - How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? (21 April - Open to Hillingdon House) )
( iii - The Statute of Secrecy (29 April - Closed to Guardians) )
Except Maria herself, of course.
She had been at a low point, but the hero dog ended all that when it dragged her off the tracks and away from danger after she'd drunkenly fallen off the platform, right in the path of an oncoming Circle Line train. The dog had done more than save her life, she'd tell her friends. It had given her purpose, a reason to stop drinking and start living.
She became obsessed with finding the London Hero Dog. If she could find it and thank it, or--well, they obviously shared a bond so maybe she could give it somewhere to live for the rest of its life! Right! The universe was telling her she was meant to adopt this dog.
She just had to find it first. And maybe look at some cell phone video she'd drunkenly recorded later that night...
( i - No Good Deed Goes Unpunished (18 April - Open to Previous CR) )
( ii - How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? (21 April - Open to Hillingdon House) )
( iii - The Statute of Secrecy (29 April - Closed to Guardians) )
