Title: Take to the Sky
Author: bookdragon01
Genre: family
Rating: K
Word Count: 147
Summary: Amanda muses, watching her only son study the stars
Disclaimer: I own nothing
Written for the prompt:
One of these mornings
You're going to rise up singing
Then you'll spread your wings
And you'll take to the sky
But till that morning
There's a'nothing can harm you
With daddy and mamma standing by
(Summertime by George Gershwin)
Amanda watched her son studying the night sky.
She knew that if she asked, he would say that it was 'logical to familiarize himself with the stellar configurations of Vulcan's sky'. It wouldn't be untrue. His kahs-wan was only a year away (a thought that made her heart tremble). Walking the Forge at night he would have only those stars to guide him.
And when (not if) he returned, her son would no longer be a child. But she didn't think he would stop looking to the sky. Spock didn't need to spend each night surveying the stars to fix their positions in his near flawless memory.
Maybe it was her human imagination - her need to see something of herself in her so determinedly Vulcan child - but when she watched his face gazing up at those stars, Amanda thought she saw a glimpse of longing.
AN: I'm raising my own children in a culture/faith different from my own, so I feel a certain affinity for Amanda. This was written some time ago for a drabbleathon, but after reading VickyFromGreece's excellent 'Various Shades of Gray' (look for it in my favs), I was reminded that I'd never posted it here.
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