Alone, alone. I don't really know where the world is but I miss it now. I'm out on the edge and I'm screaming my name like a fool at the top of my lungs...
- Jason Walker, Echo
"I did it for you, Nora, and I lost everything because of that goddamned baby! You didn't even keep it! But maybe it's better that way, you would've made a horrible mother, anyway!"
Tears swelled up in her crystal clear blue eyes as Nora thought back to the hateful words Tate had said to her, only a few hours before. It distressed the older woman greatly to know he thought this way about her, and she desprately tried to will her thoughts to think of something else. Someone else. But, of course, the words only continued to echo through her mind. She hadn't meant to make him sad, but finally getting a baby made her realize something; she already had her baby. Tate.
The more Constance had pushed him away, the more Nora had loved him. She didn't want a baby, a noisy little monster, she wanted a child; and that's what Tate would be to her. Forever a child, forever her child. She watched him grow, she watched him cry and when the house scared him at night she would crawl in to bed with him and make him feel safe until he fell asleep in her motherly embrace.
The day Tate was killed she had come up to his room, and was going to console him. Tell him to forget about Constance and forget about Larry, and that he only needed her. She was going to tell him "Yes, I'll be your mommy", a phrase she had refrained from saying all those years ago when she had saved him from Thaddeus, out of respect for the Constance and her chance at motherhood. But everything changed when she saw the treatment him and his other (more unfortunate) syblings got, and no longer cared about the selfish woman; she wanted Tate to know he did have a mother. It had been too late, the S.W.A.T. team had already killed him, and by the time his ghost came back she had lost all reason to tell him. She was really regretting not taking the chance, now.
She mused over her thoughts a moment longer, before looking around the room and whispering, "I'll always love you Tate, and yes...I'll be your mommy." She hoped he could hear her, and if he couldn't, they still had eternity to fix things.
This was just something short and sweet because I'm having writers block on my other story. Although I do ship Nora/Tate (is that weird?) I wanted to write Nora as having motherly love for Tate. I loved Nora's character, and I hated what they did with her in the Finale. Oh well...
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