In a Traditional Mother/Daughter Relationship
Vala – "You do realize that in a traditional mother/daughter relationship, I'm supposed to be the bossy one."
In a traditional mother/daughter relationship, I would have been able to hold my daughter after giving her life. Instead nursemaids took her way. It would be days of pleading before I even saw what she looked like.
In a traditional mother/daughter relationship, I would have been there for her first smile, her first tooth, her first word, her first everything. Instead, I missed those things. My first meeting with my child was when she looked about three or four.
In a traditional mother/daughter relationship, I would have been there to kiss and hug her. I would have been there to hold her when she cried or soothe her when she got hurt or to answer all the questions she might've had. Instead, she healed me, she hugged me, and she had all the answers she would ever need – thanks to the Ori.
In a traditional mother/daughter relationship, I would have been there to go shopping with her, to share new experiences or to give her advice. Instead, we go looking for Merlin's weapon, a weapon that could destroy her faith. We don't share any new experiences and she spends her time trying to convert me.
In a traditional mother/daughter relationship, she would have called my friends aunt and uncle. She would have played with them and she would have been spoiled by them. She would have learned so much. Instead, she's the one trying to 'teach' them, or more specifically convert them. Her idea of playing is torturing them and her 'aunt and uncles' spend their time trying to spoil her plans for taking over the galaxy.
In a traditional mother/daughter relationship, I would be the one to die first. She would sit near my bed and cry with me about how unfair it is. Instead I sit by her deathbed, afraid to feel anything. – not even sure if there is something to feel.
In a traditional mother/daughter relationship, she would have been happy after I died. She would take comfort in knowing that I was causing trouble in whatever afterlife I ended up in. Instead, I'm glad she's gone, wherever she is.
In a traditional mother/daughter relationship, I would have been a lousy mother who screwed up her kid royally. Yet she would know she was loved and I would have done anything for her. Instead, she was screwed from birth and she died knowing I would have shot her to save my friends.
In a traditional mother/daughter relationship, we would have been together, growing together. Instead, we weren't together and we both grew apart from each other. There was no comfort, no helping, and no caring.
In a traditional mother/daughter relationship…We never had a traditional mother/daughter relationship and we never will.