#davidbuddedit

“I am David. And I... I need some help.”

... Inside the envelope is a series of images that at first he doesn’t understand. A rugged up figure on the street, sitting on a park bench in a coat, hat and glasses. There aren’t enough details in the photos to identify their location. It could as easily be New York, Edinburgh or Paris as London. And the woman looks unfamiliar to him. A sad, angular sort taking short steps and keeping her head lowered. Only with the final photo does the shape of her start to make sense. She sits on a wooden bench, dead leaves at her feet and dark glasses in her lap. Her face is drawn. She doesn’t seem to be wearing makeup and her eyes look sunken, her cheekbones sharper. Beneath her hat, her hair is dead straight, a little longer, hiding her neck and grazing her shoulders. Her shoulders hunch and her boots are muddy but her nails look perfectly manicured.

The longer he looks at the image, the more the scattered pieces fall into place. It’s not wishful thinking. It’s not a mirage. It’s her. He’s convinced of it. Not a her he ever knew. These photos don’t fit into the life she once lived. No time stamp has been provided but they could only have been taken recently. They could only indicate a new life, a new phase, however wretched.

David shuffles back through the collection of images, examining each one in turn. The photos don’t show the Right Honourable Julia Montague, Home Secretary and future PM. This is a different woman. This is a bombing victim struggling to put herself back together. This is a fugitive in fear, in flight. This is a ghost trying so hard not to exist. ...

We are going to tag:

#budddavidbudd

#bodyguard bbc

#davidbuddedit

#juliamontagueedit

from now on.

@mindibindi I'm so sorry if we haven't rebloged anything from you so far🙁.

We use to search the tags and there is this new 'problem' that if you post something new, your work (my edits and creations as well) didn't use to appear under the general tags for a few hours. Some use to delate and re-post them, I use to do that too.... until I realized that I need to wait a half day or more and than my work normally use to appear in the general tags.