It may have sounded awkward to an outsider, but they still considered themselves a family, and every year Lucy got Christmas dinner with all three of her parents.

She loves her daughter more than she's ever loved anyone, and that's why she hates herself for sometimes thinking that a piece of her has been lonely for 24 years.

(Set in Shelter. Flack is and_dontgetcute, Danny is i_dont_cuddle, Jay is bdifferent, Haley is hel_hathnofury, and Lucy is an NPC revised slightly from canon. Warning for sexual content ahead.)

I have been alone for a very long time. I'm locked up in a room and I can't get out. Because I've been locked up in this room so long whatever desires are arising in me are rampaging around everywhere as ( Read more... )

It may have been the result of a bad decision on her and Danny's part, fueled by alcohol and reminiscing, but she considered that keeping her baby was the best decision she had ever made.