Tauriel had always known that she wanted to be a mother.

Of course, when she was younger (a little girl, to be more precisely) she wanted to become a ballerina, then (when she was a teenager) a writer. Or a photographer. Maybe both. Finally, when she had to really choose a career, she decided to become a teacher (although she continued her ballet lessons, wrote poetry and prose in her free time and took a lot of pictures on her hiking trips).

But her wish for a child was always there, in the back of her mind, without her acting on it. She usually told herself that she still had time. To be honest, she was bad at romantic relationships.

And then, one day, she turned thirty, without having a steady boyfriend, a potential husband and father to her children, in sight. Of course, she still had her job, her teaching position, and it wasn't difficult for her to fill her free time with a lot of activities, like reading, writing, meeting friends, travelling, learning new languages. But it wasn't enough to fill the void within her. Also, she was very ambitious, always wanted to do her job perfectly, so that she didn't really have time to meet new people, especially men.

But becoming a mother without a man is not that easy.

Therefore, she informed herself about her options. Of course, she could always go to a sperm bank in order to get impregnated. But that option was not really appealing to her, she preferred to have a real relationship, to have a real father for her child, not only a number from the register (although she didn't really dismiss that option, maybe in a couple of years, when she was older, when she had no other possibility left, she would do that, but not now, she was still young).

And then, per chance, she stumbled across this website where men and women expressed their wishes to become a parent. It didn't mean that they were looking for a romantic relationship, it was only about becoming parents.

So, women were looking for sperm donors and men offered to donor their sperm, often including something which was called co-parenting, so that they could help raising the child, having an active role in the child's life without being involved in a romantic relationship with the mother.

The more Tauriel thought about it, the more this option appealed to her.

Then, one Friday night, she was browsing through all the profiles, looking for a suitable father for her child, sipping a glass of wine. Next to her, on her desk, was a huge pile of students' papers she had to grade, but that could wait. Her mind was set on something else. She knew that for her a mere sperm donor would not be enough. She wanted the father to play some part in her child's life.

And then she found their profile.

Two brothers, looking different but similar at the same time, one blond, the other brunet. She was intrigued. (Frankly, whereas some women always seemed to fall for the same type, preferring only blond or brunet men, she liked both.)

While reading the details of the brothers' profile she was relieved to find out that they did not only want to donor their sperm, but were also interested in being a co-parent. And they preferred that the potential mother of their child wanted to be impregnated by the two of them (either by insemination or naturally), that they would share all rights and obligations equally.

Furthermore, they claimed that they had tested negative for STDs (including HIV and Hepatitis as well as Chlamydia, HPV, Gonorrhoea and Syphilis) and the test results were not older than three months. (Other profiles lacked that information completely or only mentioned negative test results for HIV and Hepatitis, the results being six moths old.)

For Tauriel it was clear that she wanted to try with them and she wanted to try with both.

That is, if they were interested in trying with her. She was older than them, after all. Lionheart (that was the blond one's user name) was almost two years younger than her, LittleWolf (that was how the brunet called himself) more than six. There was only one way to find out: She had to send them a private message.

She took another sip of wine to find her courage and wrote to them, introducing herself, telling them about her wish for a child and why she opted for a sperm donor (or two in that case) and co-parenting. Afterwards she was having second thoughts, but the deed was done, her message was on its way, there was nothing she could do now except from waiting for a response.

Tauriel finished her glass of wine and went to bed.