Fic: Itty Bitty
This is a short piece that fits into my Stepping Stones series. Click
It’s amazing…nearly to the point of impossible. Something so…perfect came from something so scared. Innocence and trust, oh you’re so full of it. So pure, so fragile, so…
I still haven’t figured out how you got here.
Oh, I know the basics. Boy meets girl, boy likes girl, boy looses girl to other universe, boy gets girl back, boy and girl…ummm…dance. Then simple-put-things mix and then poof! Suddenly two become four, four become eight, eight become sixteen, and so on until there’s too many to count. And then one day there’s something new and wonderful, a soft flutter of two heartbeats, steady, strong.
Thump…thubthub…thump…thubthub…
And in that moment I knew you were real, so real and so…so impossible. Someone told me once that I did 10 impossible things before breakfast, but with you I wasn’t even trying. You just were…there.
I remember the first time I felt you brush against my mind. Barely five months of existence and you simply ghosted in and filled emptiness that I had never expected to loose. You saved me, even before you knew who I was.
And then you decided that you needed to practice your gymnastics, you get that from your Mum by the way, and even the lightest flutter from you was enough to remind me of what I was. Not just a Time Lord anymore, no, so much more.
It wasn’t easy, you coming into the world. I nearly lost you before you even arrived. So small and so…well…loud, you get that from your Gran. But you know what? I wouldn’t have you any other way.
All itty-bitty - toes, fingers, hands, everything, promise me.
Don’t loose your innocence too soon. Don’t let my demons haunt you. Don’t let go of who you are. And mostly…
Ella,
Don’t grow up to fast.
It’s amazing…nearly to the point of impossible. Something so…perfect came from something so scared. Innocence and trust, oh you’re so full of it. So pure, so fragile, so…
I still haven’t figured out how you got here.
Oh, I know the basics. Boy meets girl, boy likes girl, boy looses girl to other universe, boy gets girl back, boy and girl…ummm…dance. Then simple-put-things mix and then poof! Suddenly two become four, four become eight, eight become sixteen, and so on until there’s too many to count. And then one day there’s something new and wonderful, a soft flutter of two heartbeats, steady, strong.
Thump…thubthub…thump…thubthub…
And in that moment I knew you were real, so real and so…so impossible. Someone told me once that I did 10 impossible things before breakfast, but with you I wasn’t even trying. You just were…there.
I remember the first time I felt you brush against my mind. Barely five months of existence and you simply ghosted in and filled emptiness that I had never expected to loose. You saved me, even before you knew who I was.
And then you decided that you needed to practice your gymnastics, you get that from your Mum by the way, and even the lightest flutter from you was enough to remind me of what I was. Not just a Time Lord anymore, no, so much more.
It wasn’t easy, you coming into the world. I nearly lost you before you even arrived. So small and so…well…loud, you get that from your Gran. But you know what? I wouldn’t have you any other way.
All itty-bitty - toes, fingers, hands, everything, promise me.
Don’t loose your innocence too soon. Don’t let my demons haunt you. Don’t let go of who you are. And mostly…
Ella,
Don’t grow up to fast.