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Reality
Slowly I scanned the angles of his small face as if waiting in disbelief for the world to shift to reality. Scientifically speaking, miracles like this one happened everyday. Yet as I gently felt his unbelievably tiny hand curl around my finger it seemed to me that I may never recapture my breath. He was so small...so helpless...so completely at my mercy. Yet in his presence I felt exactly the same way. My heart couldn't quite understand, or even recognize, every emotion that was building inside of me. It was all far too wonderful to be real...but just like his mother he was...
His frail eyes, so new at seeing the world, seemed almost ready to surrender to the sleepiness gathering on his face, but some form of stubborn curiosity pushed him to keep gazing up at me. I smiled down at him a little playfully, as if to apologize for just how much stubbornness he was surely doomed to have inherited.
Hesitantly his green eyes slowly closed as he finally gave into the weariness he'd been fighting. It couldn't have been easy examining earth for the very first time on his own. I imagined it must have been a tiring job. And I knew already that I'd be inundated with questions as soon as he was old enough to ask them. My smile softened as the thought brought back a million different memories. From stars, to water, to the emotions she felt within her own heartbeat, Aelita had asked all the questions and more that he one day would.
But even as exhausting as I remember her string of questions to be, each and every-time I watched her face fill with amazement at my answers, I was forced to believe that all my efforts had really been enough... All the sleepless nights and missed meals...the days I was confronted with one set back after another... Somehow together we had overcome them, and she was as truly real as I aways knew she was. Her human life was undeniable proof of that. And now...
Gently I felt two arms wrap around my neck from behind me. I didn't need to question who it was as I faded away into her embrace. She was silent as she simply gazed over my shoulder at his peaceful sleeping face. He was a very small person...but such amazing evidence that in spite of everything...we had survived. And so much more than that... We were, and would always be...truly real.
FIN
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