Post by Lane Kent on May 26, 2005 19:30:59 GMT
LOVE AND DECEIT - When Mike Met Penny
Please note this story isn't just about these characters, it involves many past and present from Coronation Street.
This story is inspired by people commenting on various sites about the lack of background story regarding Penny King and Mike Baldwin. We know little of their past relationship. Nor do some people understand how they can have a future relationship when Mike just treats Penny as a spare part. Also some find Penny a pointless, boring character. Until Monday 9th May 2005 Mike had shown no indication of having any true feelings for Penny as she disappeared from our screen for months at a time. Then suddenly in a move that is totally out of character he has declared his love for this woman and asked her to move in? Does Mike genuinely have feelings for Penny or is there more to it than meets the eye?
Prologue Written Wednesday, 11 May 2005
10 May 2005 – Penny King was the happiest woman in the world. After months of wondering if it would ever happen, her boyfriend Mike Baldwin had asked her to move in with him. Penny was gleefully unpacking and arranging items around Mike’s flat when she came across a box dated June 1975. It was full of baby items and a photo of a baby. The caption read “Mary.” Penny looked at the photo for a long hard while before placing it back in the box. “Why had she bought this with her” she asked herself. It was her past. It had no meaning to Penny now. The future was what mattered, her future with Mike.
Penny lifted the box up and carried it outside to the universal dustbins that served all the flats in the complex and just tossed the box and all its contents away. However if Penny King thought for just one minute you can throw your past away in a second, then she was very much mistaken. The past never goes away as she soon was to find out.
It was the summer of 1974 when soon to be eighteen year old Penelope Harris arrived in London. Leaving her home in the North-West of England behind her, she hankered for the lights and big city and the future promise of fame and fortune that London offered romantic teenage dreamers like herself.
While Penny had not grown up well off, her family had been far from broke. Her parents were proud of the fact they owned their own 2 up and 2 down in the Manchester suburb of Weatherfield. Her father George had started off down the mines like his father before him, and then he had applied for a job on the railways in his early 20s where he would stay employed for the rest of his working life. Penny’s mother Gladys was a good honest woman who had been the perfect housewife and kept home for her husband and their two daughters. Gladys had no ambition and was totally subordinate to her husband’s every command and she wouldn’t have had it any other way.
Penny was a pretty, slender girl with beautiful strawberry blonde hair and green eyes. Many a lad had taken a fancy to her, however Penny was a good girl and had not had her head turned yet. She had always been her parents favourite, so she was determined not to let them down. Her elder sister Evelyn had upset them greatly by marrying the local bad boy Raymond Sykes. They had almost disowned Eve over it as her new husband already had a criminal record and served time in prison. Penny’s parents only comfort was Eve’s marriage had not been a shotgun affair. To the Harris’s way of thinking good girls did not have sex before marriage. So they managed to take some comfort that rebel Eve had at least not done this.
Penny however had always wanted far more than her parents had and was determined to make it big. No way was she going to be a small housewife taking orders from some man and now she had watched her sister fall into the same trap. However while Eve had married young and was taking orders from her husband, Eve’s husband Ray Sykes couldn’t be more different from George Harris if he tried. While Penny and Eve’s father George was hard-working and honest, Eve’s husband Ray was the scum of the earth through and through and hadn’t done an honest day’s work in his life.
Just before Penny left for London, 20 year old ginger-haired, plump Eve had turned up on the Harris doorstep pleading with her parents for help. Ray was in jail again and she was pregnant. Reluctantly George and Gladys allowed their prodigal daughter to move back home.
So it was with a determined heart Penny left for London shortly after, promising her father that she would not make the same mistakes as her sister.
PART 1 BELOW
Please note this story isn't just about these characters, it involves many past and present from Coronation Street.
This story is inspired by people commenting on various sites about the lack of background story regarding Penny King and Mike Baldwin. We know little of their past relationship. Nor do some people understand how they can have a future relationship when Mike just treats Penny as a spare part. Also some find Penny a pointless, boring character. Until Monday 9th May 2005 Mike had shown no indication of having any true feelings for Penny as she disappeared from our screen for months at a time. Then suddenly in a move that is totally out of character he has declared his love for this woman and asked her to move in? Does Mike genuinely have feelings for Penny or is there more to it than meets the eye?
Prologue Written Wednesday, 11 May 2005
10 May 2005 – Penny King was the happiest woman in the world. After months of wondering if it would ever happen, her boyfriend Mike Baldwin had asked her to move in with him. Penny was gleefully unpacking and arranging items around Mike’s flat when she came across a box dated June 1975. It was full of baby items and a photo of a baby. The caption read “Mary.” Penny looked at the photo for a long hard while before placing it back in the box. “Why had she bought this with her” she asked herself. It was her past. It had no meaning to Penny now. The future was what mattered, her future with Mike.
Penny lifted the box up and carried it outside to the universal dustbins that served all the flats in the complex and just tossed the box and all its contents away. However if Penny King thought for just one minute you can throw your past away in a second, then she was very much mistaken. The past never goes away as she soon was to find out.
It was the summer of 1974 when soon to be eighteen year old Penelope Harris arrived in London. Leaving her home in the North-West of England behind her, she hankered for the lights and big city and the future promise of fame and fortune that London offered romantic teenage dreamers like herself.
While Penny had not grown up well off, her family had been far from broke. Her parents were proud of the fact they owned their own 2 up and 2 down in the Manchester suburb of Weatherfield. Her father George had started off down the mines like his father before him, and then he had applied for a job on the railways in his early 20s where he would stay employed for the rest of his working life. Penny’s mother Gladys was a good honest woman who had been the perfect housewife and kept home for her husband and their two daughters. Gladys had no ambition and was totally subordinate to her husband’s every command and she wouldn’t have had it any other way.
Penny was a pretty, slender girl with beautiful strawberry blonde hair and green eyes. Many a lad had taken a fancy to her, however Penny was a good girl and had not had her head turned yet. She had always been her parents favourite, so she was determined not to let them down. Her elder sister Evelyn had upset them greatly by marrying the local bad boy Raymond Sykes. They had almost disowned Eve over it as her new husband already had a criminal record and served time in prison. Penny’s parents only comfort was Eve’s marriage had not been a shotgun affair. To the Harris’s way of thinking good girls did not have sex before marriage. So they managed to take some comfort that rebel Eve had at least not done this.
Penny however had always wanted far more than her parents had and was determined to make it big. No way was she going to be a small housewife taking orders from some man and now she had watched her sister fall into the same trap. However while Eve had married young and was taking orders from her husband, Eve’s husband Ray Sykes couldn’t be more different from George Harris if he tried. While Penny and Eve’s father George was hard-working and honest, Eve’s husband Ray was the scum of the earth through and through and hadn’t done an honest day’s work in his life.
Just before Penny left for London, 20 year old ginger-haired, plump Eve had turned up on the Harris doorstep pleading with her parents for help. Ray was in jail again and she was pregnant. Reluctantly George and Gladys allowed their prodigal daughter to move back home.
So it was with a determined heart Penny left for London shortly after, promising her father that she would not make the same mistakes as her sister.
PART 1 BELOW
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