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Not A Teaser
Not A Teaser
#1
Just a fragment... (and let's see if I can make this work)

Rei looked at me curiously as I tucked the blankets around Sana.
We stepped out of the room and he closed the door softly behind
us before he turned to me and asked, "You don't have children,
do you?"

I studied him for a moment, resisting the urge to snatch those
stupid Raybans off his face. "No," I finally said, a bit more
sharply than I'd intended, but then, it was one of the few big
disappointments in my life. "No," I repeated. "My wife and I...
we've tried, but there were, are... complications."

Complications. Ha. That was putting it mildly. Between our
respective mutations, Maggie and I are almost two different
species. And that doesn't even count the Murphy factor of my
field. What little control I can exert over it is dependent on
more free concentration than I normally can muster in those
moments.

Rei nodded slowly. "For what it's worth," he said softly, "I
think you'd make a good father."

I blinked rapidly to hold back the sudden stinging in my eyes.
*Damn,* I thought, *I thought I'd gotten used to all that.*
"Thanks," I managed to reply without my voice breaking too badly.
"Thanks." I gave up and wiped at my eyes with the back of my
hand. "I love her like she's my own, you understand? Because I
don't..."

Rei clasped my shoulder. "I understand. I feel the same way."

We stood that way for a moment -- two frequent antagonists,
united briefly in their shared paternal feelings for a twelve-
year-old hyperactive fireball with a motormouth. Finally, I
quirked a tiny smile. "C'mon. We've got to find Mama."

He returned the smile with a sharp nod. "Right."


-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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#2
(smiles)

I think you made it work.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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Glancing Through This . . .
#3
. . . you just gave me an idea for my own stagger fic as a parting present for Doug from the Avalonians on Haida:  The means to actually help Doug and Maggie have a baby.
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it:  "This is a lighthouse.  Your call!"
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