Mother's Day ficlets
I realize I'm early, but won't be able to get to a computer this weekend. Happy Mother's Day to all the moms! =)
Title: One Day
Character: Selina Kyle
Rating: PG
Word Count: 179
Disclaimer: DC owns.
Love didn’t exist. Not for her. She always said she didn’t know the meaning of the word and she’s wasn’t lying. Wasn’t being dramatic either.
First man that treated her right was Ted. They had fun. Lots of fun, but she was too young and despite his age, so was he. They weren’t ready for anything more than the fun times they shared.
She cared about Stark, but they both knew they would never put the other ahead of their individual well-being. That’s just the type of people they were then.
She cared about Slam, but he put her before anything and anyone else. She couldn’t do the same.
She still cares about Bruce, but he couldn’t show her what the word meant either.
It really wasn’t that important. She knew one didn’t need to know love to understand compassion or sympathy because she had both, but she secretly hoped, as she ran her hand over her swollen abdomen, that the child she carried inside would be able to teach her what no one else had been able to.
Title: Mother’s Day
Characters: Roy Harper, Lian Harper, Ron
Rating: PG
Word Count: 412
Disclaimer: DC owns.
Lian burst through the door running straight to her room. She’d wanted to play with her toys all day. Well, she had not wanted to think of other things and her toys brought her comfort.
Ron walked in behind her and placed Lian’s backpack on the couch.
“Thanks,” Roy said walking out of his room.
“Sure thing. See you tomorrow,” Ron waved and closed the door as he left.
Roy walked over to Lian’s room. She was lying on her belly, busy playing.
“How was school today?”
Lian shrugged, “Fine.”
But she didn’t look fine, “Something happen?”
She sat up and looked at him, “Well, today we had to make…Mother’s Day cards…”
He’d been so busy with the League lately, he had forgotten what month he was in, let alone the date. Her eyes were downcast and Roy sat on the bed next to her, wrapping his arm around her little shoulder, “Etai yazi…”
“I know, daddy.” She sighed, “Ms. Patty ‘splained it to me.”
“She did?”
“Yeah, she said not everyone always live with their mommies.”
“What else did she say?” Roy asked, stroking her arm gently with his thumb.
“She said sometimes you can have an aunt or a big sister or a grandma that are nice like mommies are ‘posed to be.”
“That’s true.”
“Really?” Lian looked up at him with hopeful eyes.
Roy nodded, “Yup.”
Lian smiled. She jumped off her bed and ran out of her room. Roy followed.
She was searching madly through her backpack. She pulled out a pink card, “I made this for Aunt Dinah. Do you think she’ll like it?”
Roy looked at the pink construction paper folded in half with a red heart on the cover and a picture of Lian taken a few days ago placed in the middle of the heart, “She’s going to love it!”
“Really?” Lian’s smile covered most of her small face. Roy sat on the couch and watched as she picked up her backpack and started digging through it again. She pulled out another similar looking card, “This one’s for you, daddy.”
“For me?”
“Yeah.” Lian handed it to him, kissed him on the cheek, then ran to her room feeling much better.
Roy looked at the card. The outside was similar to Dinah’s. He opened it and there in Lian’s painstakingly careful handwriting it said:
Daddy,
You’re the best mommy ever.
I Love You,
Lian
Roy traced the crayon written letters and tried to hold back the tears that threatened to fall.
Title: One Day
Character: Selina Kyle
Rating: PG
Word Count: 179
Disclaimer: DC owns.
Love didn’t exist. Not for her. She always said she didn’t know the meaning of the word and she’s wasn’t lying. Wasn’t being dramatic either.
First man that treated her right was Ted. They had fun. Lots of fun, but she was too young and despite his age, so was he. They weren’t ready for anything more than the fun times they shared.
She cared about Stark, but they both knew they would never put the other ahead of their individual well-being. That’s just the type of people they were then.
She cared about Slam, but he put her before anything and anyone else. She couldn’t do the same.
She still cares about Bruce, but he couldn’t show her what the word meant either.
It really wasn’t that important. She knew one didn’t need to know love to understand compassion or sympathy because she had both, but she secretly hoped, as she ran her hand over her swollen abdomen, that the child she carried inside would be able to teach her what no one else had been able to.
Title: Mother’s Day
Characters: Roy Harper, Lian Harper, Ron
Rating: PG
Word Count: 412
Disclaimer: DC owns.
Lian burst through the door running straight to her room. She’d wanted to play with her toys all day. Well, she had not wanted to think of other things and her toys brought her comfort.
Ron walked in behind her and placed Lian’s backpack on the couch.
“Thanks,” Roy said walking out of his room.
“Sure thing. See you tomorrow,” Ron waved and closed the door as he left.
Roy walked over to Lian’s room. She was lying on her belly, busy playing.
“How was school today?”
Lian shrugged, “Fine.”
But she didn’t look fine, “Something happen?”
She sat up and looked at him, “Well, today we had to make…Mother’s Day cards…”
He’d been so busy with the League lately, he had forgotten what month he was in, let alone the date. Her eyes were downcast and Roy sat on the bed next to her, wrapping his arm around her little shoulder, “Etai yazi…”
“I know, daddy.” She sighed, “Ms. Patty ‘splained it to me.”
“She did?”
“Yeah, she said not everyone always live with their mommies.”
“What else did she say?” Roy asked, stroking her arm gently with his thumb.
“She said sometimes you can have an aunt or a big sister or a grandma that are nice like mommies are ‘posed to be.”
“That’s true.”
“Really?” Lian looked up at him with hopeful eyes.
Roy nodded, “Yup.”
Lian smiled. She jumped off her bed and ran out of her room. Roy followed.
She was searching madly through her backpack. She pulled out a pink card, “I made this for Aunt Dinah. Do you think she’ll like it?”
Roy looked at the pink construction paper folded in half with a red heart on the cover and a picture of Lian taken a few days ago placed in the middle of the heart, “She’s going to love it!”
“Really?” Lian’s smile covered most of her small face. Roy sat on the couch and watched as she picked up her backpack and started digging through it again. She pulled out another similar looking card, “This one’s for you, daddy.”
“For me?”
“Yeah.” Lian handed it to him, kissed him on the cheek, then ran to her room feeling much better.
Roy looked at the card. The outside was similar to Dinah’s. He opened it and there in Lian’s painstakingly careful handwriting it said:
Daddy,
You’re the best mommy ever.
I Love You,
Lian
Roy traced the crayon written letters and tried to hold back the tears that threatened to fall.