Remember When?
Authors Notes: Short one-shot about Bloom's parents.
Disclaimer: I don't own Winx.
Vanessa Peters looked inside her adopted daughter's bed room as the fairy slept. Vanessa smiled, as she had a quick flashback to back when Bloom was a little girl. "Goodnight, Bloom." She blew a kiss and gently backed out of the bedroom.
It was nice having Bloom come home for a visit, ever since she had reconnected with her birth parents, Bloom had distanced herself from Mike and herself. Bloom; who now graduated from Alfea, lived on her home realm and spent her time getting to know the family she had lived almost her entire life not knowing.
Honestly, Vanessa couldn't balm Bloom one bit for wanting to know her birthparents as well as the life she could have had. But there was something that did truly bother both her and husband, she no longer called them 'mom and dad', now they where 'Mike and Vanessa'. Why can't she both call us both 'mom and dad'?
Vanessa sighed as she took a seat down on the couch in the living room. Seeing his wife was upset about something, Mike put down his news paper and joined her on the couch. He took a long look at her face, "Thinking about Bloom, huh?"
"Yes, she has changed so much…it seems like I don't even know her anymore." She began as she picked up a framed photo of her, Mike and a five year old Bloom at Christmas.
Mike put his arm around her, "I know, it seems like we have missed a lot."
"I knew that she would find out she was adopted sooner or later, I hate how we ended up telling her and about how she had her powers…why didn't we tell her sooner? Maybe if we had she wouldn't be pulling away from us."
Mike shock his head, "We wanted to wait until she was older, so she would understand. I found her in a fire, Vanessa, there is no way we could have given her any answers she wanted. At the time we didn't know anything about where her or her powers came from or what it meant."
Vanessa gave a soft smiled, "Then she meet Stella, Bloom was so excited her dream of becoming a fairy was reality." She turned to face Mike, she giggled. "And to think you wanted to call the cops."
Mike laughed nervously and throw his hands up, "I thought she was a nutcase, talking about fairies and magic!"
"Bloom always believed in magic and wanted to be a fairy more than anything. Who would have thought she was actually a real life fairy princess?"
Both parents continued talking, and even pulled out a few favorite photo albums. Then Bloom who was wrapped in a blanket came out into the living room. "Bloom sweetie, are you okay?"
"No I can't sleep, is it okay if I join you?" Vanessa and Mike looked at each other and agreed, they patted at a spot on the couch encouraging her to join them. Bloom took a seat in between both her parents. "What where you doing?"
"We were looking at some old photos," Mike explained as he picked up another photo album, reopening old memories.
Out of the blue, Bloom wrapped her arms around Mike and Vanessa, "I love you mom, dad."
Taken back, both parents wrapped their arms around Bloom. "We love you too Bloom."
The three stayed up late that night looking at old photos. No matter what happened, they could always look back and remember when.