Title: Take These Broken Wings
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Don't own them; just borrowing.
Summary: There's always been something a little different about the boy...
Spoilers: through Whatever Happened, Happened
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There's always been something a little different about the boy, but she's never been able to pinpoint exactly what. He's just quiet, too quiet. There's something about his eyes. But he's her flesh and blood, and that means something, enough that she ignores what's different. He's been through enough. And then --
"Look! Watch this!" His voice from the other room, and she goes to him because he sounds so animated, like she rarely hears him.
She follows his pointing finger in time to watch a sparrow pause mid-flight – spiral into the window – fall to the dirt below. Still.
He smiles. Carole screams.
"Aaron!"