"Tell me a story."
Sora blinks at his mother, curled in her favorite chair by the window, looking up at him. He remembers being a child, footsie pajamas flopping against the ground with every step, begging the same thing of her. But she doesn't mean a story about little boys running off to be pirates (though he has a few of those), she means stories from the past three years. This is how she watches him live his life, through secondhand snippets, and comments here and there, from conversations that everyone else has had with her son. There is a whole three years of him that she doesn't know.
"Are you sure?" Sora needs to know. He's got happy stories, sure, happy stories about flying through the air and swinging across vines and learning to breathe underwater, but he's also got those stories that aren't very happy at all, and while he won't share those with her, she needs to know that they're there. She needs to know what she's getting herself into.
Lilly nods, mutely; she's aware of the bad parts of her son's past. In fact, the first time that she saw the majority of his scars (and that one really bad scorched line across his shoulder) she almost didn't want to let him out of the house.
"Well...did I ever tell you what happened the second year I was gone?"
Something that made me forget you, she thinks, but there are stories that she keeps to herself, and that is one of them.
"Not really, no."
He begins his story as if it's going to be epic, but it falls dramatically short. Something about not remembering, and waking up in a pod...
Lilly interrupts him, for the first time, to say, "Wait. You slept for a whole year?"
He nods.
"Why does that not surprise me?"
0-FIN-0
Because I'm bored, and mourning the loss of my computer, which may never turn on again. This broken laptop pales in comparison.
Just a little idea I had; it didn't turn out as wonderfully as I planned, which probably has something to do with a sudden lack of Windows Media Player. *sigh*
But I plan on posting here again, with as many Motherhood drabbles as I can crank out. Which is a staggering number, believe it or not.
Note: If you've never read my story 'Motherhood', I'd suggest it to you now--it's how I introduced the trio's mothers to the fandom. But it isn't required to understand what's going on here.