The prompt for this was "What Yang does for Mother's Day."
Yang revved Bumblebee's engine and began to speed away from her house on Patch. But after just a minute of driving, she remembered what day it was.
Without hesitating, she turned the motorcycle off the path and into the woods. It wasn't entirely safe driving here, but Yang was a skilled enough rider to manage. She had never been known for her caution anyways.
She arrived at the cliff in minutes, and slowly dismounted the bike, walking over to stand before the grave.
"Hi... Summer."
She hesitated. She had stopped calling Summer "Mom" after finding out the truth of her parentage. She rarely visited her step-mother's grave and almost never spoke before it. It wasn't that she didn't miss Summer, it was just that she didn't believe the woman was listening like Ruby did. But at that moment it felt right to speak.
"I..." She thought of a few ways to finish the sentence, but it depended on what she believed Summer knew or could see from the afterlife. Considering Yang barely believed in one, it was a tricky question. She eventually decided to assume Summer knew everything because that way she didn't have to repeat all of the bad things that had happened.
"I wish you had been there when I was recovering. I remember when I was little and I got hurt, and you always made me feel better. Dad did his best, but he didn't really understand how I was feeling." Yang paused.
"Oh, but I'm feeling better now! I mean it, I feel like I'm going to be OK. I'm still a bit scared to go back out there. I don't know what'll happen if I run into... him again. But I'm leaving anyways because... because Ruby did. She's still fighting, and I can't let her do it alone. I know that she's scared too, but if she can stay strong, then so can I."
Yang smiled.
"You know, I never would have guessed if Dad didn't tell me. I could see that you and Ruby had a special bond, but you never made me feel left out." She started to tear up a bit. "I could always feel how much you loved me. I never would have known you weren't my real mom... I think when I was little I wanted to find Raven because I thought I could get back what I had with you."
She wiped her eyes and sighed.
"I know now that I can't. Raven isn't you, and everything I know about her tells me she wouldn't be happy to see me. I still want to meet her someday, but I'm not letting that search consume me. After all, I might not remember my mother, but I still got to have the best mom in the world. I love you so much."
Yang wiped away tears with her one biological hand. She turned away from the grave and got back on her motorcycle. She gunned the engines and sped off towards the docks, towards Mistral, towards her sister.
This was my first time doing something completely serious for WPW, and it was a topic I had been thinking about for a while. Summer is easily my favorite character that we've never met (not sure if that sounds like a meaningful title, but it matters to me), and I was pretty pissed when she didn't get so much as a mention in Volume 4. As someone who's pretty close with his mother, I definitely think Summer's relationship with Ruby and Yang deserves more attention. So here's what I came up with.
Thank's for reading!