Kiddy Grade Time Mess
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter)
"What?... How… How old is she?" Éclair asked swallowing thickly as her eyes widened at that information.
"94 next week… but for the memories you have…she'd be 24." Dvergr answered in a heartbeat and making Éclair narrow her eyes in thought.
"When you suddenly vanished one day and didn't come back…" Éclair said trailing off and making Dvergr nod her head.
"That's when I learned I was pregnant. Please Blesk. I promise… I'll explain everything to you but for now we need to find out what he did to our baby and Lumi and fix it." Dvergr said her voice pleading at the end and earning a serious nod from the golden eyed beauty.
"Now I have two more reasons to shoot you where you lay. Better start talking and give me one reason not to." Éclair said darkly as she glared down at the pale and trembling man who now had to deal with two very pissed off mothers, after he had attacked their children.
"I can't reverse it! That was my last sample of the water from the Fountain of Youth!" Farnum said trembling and looking terrified of the two women while Éclair frowned.
"Fountain of Youth? That annoying thing is still around? Could have sworn I blew it up after what happened last time." Éclair said causing Dvergr to look at her surprised and in disbelief.
"You mean you believe him?" Dvergr asked earning a nod from Éclair who glanced behind her at Alv and Lumiere.
"Of course. This isn't my first run in with the damn thing. Lumiere was originally a girl I found on the streets as a ten year old and raised her as my little sister. Then one day we're in a fight with Veronica while hanging out with Quant and Lumi gets blasted into this pool of water and weird looking fountain during the fight. By the time we were able to run Veronica off and get her out of there, Lumi was just a baby and I had to raise her all over again. I could have sworn I blew that damn thing up though." Éclair said with a frown and causing Farnum to look shocked.
"You're the one who broke the statue and blocked most of the water? Do you know how much of a hassle it was to clear that!?" Farnum demanded causing Éclair to look back down at him and dig her gun into his skin a little more.
"Problem with that?" Éclair asked causing the man to eep a bit and shake his head.
"So then…they're going to be getting younger…" Dvergr said her voice soft as she glanced at her daughter who was indeed getting smaller.
"That's what happened to me just now remember? That's why I don't remember 70 years if what you say about my age is true. Although because I have a high regeneration rate, it doesn't affect me as much as it does anyone else which is why I'm not a child or baby." Éclair said in agreement while Lumiere seemed to have woken up with a wail, causing Éclair and Dvergr both to look at her alarmed.
"Why does she always end up as a baby? That's twice now." Éclair said barely batting an eye at the sight of the squalling infant while Dvergr immediately moved to pick up and sooth the baby.
"Mommy?" A young voice asked as Dvergr rocked Lumiere and gently hushed her crying.
"Alv." Dvergr breathed out looking at her daughter and seeing a little two year old version of her baby look back at her.
"Éclair…knock him out and put some cuffs on him. We'll take him back to the Chief, for now the children are our priority. There's no telling what side effects this could have on them." Dvergr said looking at Éclair who nodded and pistol whipped the man across the head, blocking the sight of the violence from Alv, before she put the cuffs in her pocket on him.
"Mommy who that?" Alv asked looking up at Lumiere curiously and making Dvergr smile as she kneeled down to show her daughter the now quiet baby.
"Alv this is your new baby sister…if that's alright with you Éclair." Dvergr said suddenly looking back at Éclair as she realized that technically Lumiere was Éclair's daughter not Dvergrs.
"More than. I was hoping that you would have been her mommy back before you vanished." Éclair said with a smirk as she hoisted Farnum up over one shoulder as if he were a sack of potatoes.
Dvergr blushed a bit at that and averted her eyes back to Alv who stared at the baby for another minute curiously.
"Her name is Lumiere but we're just going to call her Lumi okay sweetheart?" Dvergr asked causing Alv to reach forward and poke Lumiere's cheek.
"She's tiny." Alv said making Dvergr smile and adjust her grip so that she was holding Lumiere in one arm while the other reached out and snagged her daughter into a hug.
"You were this small too not that long ago." Dvergr said pressing a kiss to her daughters head and causing Alv to giggle before looked over and up at Éclair.
"Mommy who that?" Alv asked looking wide eyed at Éclair and causing Dvergr to hesitate a bit, unsure of what to tell her two year old daughter that didn't seem to have any of her memories of when she had been older.
"Hey there little Elf. My name is Éclair." Éclair said dropping Farnum for the moment as she kneeled down to be closer to Alv's eyelevel, smiling softly at the little girl.
"I…well….I'm your papa I suppose." Éclair said shrugging a bit at the end and earning a snort from Dvergr.
"There's no suppose about it. You are her 'father' as it were." Dvergr said making Alv's eyes widen and she began beaming at Éclair.
"Papa? Really?! Where you been?" Alv asked causing Éclair to swallow a little heavier at this while Dvergr looked away almost guiltily. Maybe she should have told Éclair back when she learned she was pregnant? Éclair certainly seemed to have no problems being the papa.
Éclair however was facing a small dilemma. How do you tell a two year old that you didn't even know they were born until a few minutes ago? How did you explain that you didn't know that this sweet little blue haired girl with the happy and eager face was your child to the girl?
In Eclairs mind…you didn't.
So she came up with a quick excuse instead, scanning her memories of the rough time frame she had of when Alv would have been born and this age.
"Well there was this really big fight going on and papa had to go help fight to help people. Papa's sorry she wasn't here earlier but papa is here now." Éclair said giving Alv a weak smile and causing Alv to grin wider as she ran over and near tackled the taller woman to the floor with a hug.
"Papa." Alv said burying her face in Eclairs shoulder as she hugged Éclair as best as she could. Éclair was tense and surprised for a quick second before she softened up and wrapped her arms around Alv.
Dvergr looked guilty and had to wipe away her tears with her free hand. Éclair seemed to be so genuinely happy about Alv being her daughter. Even though Éclair never knew that Dvergr, her fiancée back then, was pregnant she was so happy to know that they had a child together.
If only those scientists hadn't had ruined everything for Dvergr…Alv would have had her papa from the start.
Éclair just gave a smile as she hugged Alv close, pressing a kiss to the childs hair.
"That's right little princess. Papa."