From Pemberley to Manhattan [COMPLETED]

Chapter 48

INTERVIEW WITH NAT

NATHALIE: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that , that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are .

AGENT DUPIN: Ma'am, we–

NATHALIE: That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it–

AGENT DUPIN: Ma'am, we are very familiar with the Declaration of Independence.

NATHALIE: Oh, are you really? So you are intentionally acting against it and its values?

AGENT DUPIN: Ma'am, we–

NATHALIE: Do you consider me some kind of idiot? Calling me "madam", or "ma'am", or even "Your fogging Highness" won't deny the fact that you are a bunch of racists! Don't you think I know why my family and I have been taking here? Unjustly and by force, if I might add!

AGENT DUPIN: Miss Estevez Brown, please allow me to explain–

NATHALIE: I'm here because of my ancestry! You think I deserve to be here because my grandma is British and my Dad was born in Mexico! But I'm American! And they deserve respect! We all do!

AGENT DUPIN: Ma'am, we–

NATHALIE: We pay American taxes!

AGENT DUPIN: Please, just hear–

NATHALIE: We hire American employees!

AGENT DUPIN: Just listen to what–

NATHALIE: And we spend American money!

AGENT DUPIN: The reason you and your–

NATHALIE: So I don't give a cheat if you and your government want to build a wall between the USA and Mexico (which was the stupidest idea ever, by the way).

AGENT DUPIN: We need to ask you about–

NATHALIE: You've got no right to treat me like that! I'm going to the papers! To television! I'm telling everyone in this country what you're doing to honest, hardworking–

AGENT DUPIN: Thishasnothingtodowithyourancestry!

NATHALIE: What?

AGENT DUPIN: This. Has. Nothing. To. Do. With. Your. Ancestry. Ma'am.

NATHALIE: Why the fog am I here, then?

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