Way Back Home

by Clickgeniera

This story is more dramatic than the ones I usually write. An improvised plan has quite disastrous consequences. The main characters are not as perfect as in the series, which was aimed at a family audience, here they are more human and sometimes things go wrong for them.

6. November 23rd (3)

November 23th(3)

Diego nodded. "He would have taken care of you even without knowing that you were really his family. That's just like him. I'm glad to know that in the worst case you would have had his help." he said touched.

"He wanted us to be a family and asked me to try to make it legal. I told him that Zorro had promised me marriage and given me a ring, and then your father suggested that we say it was you and ask Father Benitez to marry us. I thought it was wrong, because it was forcing you to be married to me if you survived, but your father said that Zorro had died trying to save you, and that giving his child a home was the only thing we could do for him. He finally convinced me after you said we should do it, even though I didn't know someone could get married while nearly unconscious."

"Wedding In Artículo Mortis." whispered Diego. "But it takes a doctor to certify that the sick person can give consent even if it is not in full use of its faculties."

"Yes, your father knew, I think he was looking at your law books before he proposed it to me. Padre Benitez also said so when we asked him. It took a lot of convincing even though you told him yourself that you wanted to. I showed him the ring as proof, and when your father saw it, he realized what was going on. Padre Benitez didn't quite believe what I was telling him, and wanted to make sure that we weren't forcing you in some way, and that's when Felipe intervened. Seeing the look on Felipe's face, I also knew why you wanted us to get married."