A/N: This entire collection is written for the Flt Event, event 1: "write a series of drabbles or flash fiction pieces that together tell a larger story. Bonus points if your drabbles are written out of chronological order/follow a nonlinear timeline, or if they aren't plot-compliant with each other but still tell a cohesive story (by sharing the same theme, etc.). The drabbles/flash fictions should each be between 100 and 400 words long."
Also, this particular poem is written for the Freeverse Frenzie competition on the HPFC forum, poem 16, and for the 5,10,20,50,70,100 fandoms challenge, fandom 52.
Their Tender Little Child
1. Her Baby, Their Baby
He was such a tender little child
in her arms
And she didn't want to let
him go.
It was laughable, really –
oh how she could laugh
had she been
back in her college days
where the mere thought
was nothing but a crazy little dream
Amidst a larger dream
of finding another world…
But dreams did come true,
or were coming true
Because she was well set
upon that goal,
in the smallest world there was:
smaller than the atoms themselves
that sped about
and turned a larger world
But there were other worlds as well,
and it was that which she now held,
her papers left at work
For her husband had left his desk
as well that day
To welcome the tender little bundle
called their son.