A Second Chance, Round II

Notes: According to Cobra Kai wiki, Carmen's birthday is September 16, 1984 , though it also states that Miguel's birthday is June 2002. Implying she was actually seventeen when she got married and had Miguel. However, I have created a backstory for this loop.

Carmen got pregnant with Miguel whilst dating Miguel's father. She had Miguel, then married Miguel's father a few months later after her eighteenth birthday. Together the two of them moved in together into Miguel's father's house. Shortly after Carmen moved in with baby Miguel, that was when she discovered the truth about her new husband and how unsafe it was to be associated with him. So that was when she left him and both she, baby Miguel and her mother escaped Miguel's father and moved to the USA. ALSO, if anyone were to ask her or Miguel their age difference, they go with the age of 18 years apart, since Carmen's birthday was two months away from Miguel's birthday. AKA "Just around the corner" story.


Literally surprised about Miguel's reaction to not only learning that his mom was going to have a baby but also his reaction that his sensei was getting hot and heavy with his mother. We sat there in the Diaz living room, hours after telling Carmen's mother (who I guess she wasn't surprised either by this entire thing). We told him and first he was stunned but then sort of relaxed about everything. "Hey, that's cool I guess." I could see that smirk on his face. This kid is totally freak outed about his mom and sensei getting it on together.

The past couple of months he's been good at helping out here and there. I think him and LaRusso's daughter were back together so she was around a few times hanging out. But frankly, Carmen is a badass woman. Literally standing on her feet for more than ten hours a day, coming back to whatever house chores were left and killing it all carrying a kid inside her body? Not to mention she's one of those pregnant woman who looked hot and sexy with a baby belly.

I tried telling Robby a few times. Not directly at first. Just tried to get at his attention, but nothing worked. I tried his mother to talk to him but according to her, Robby is still pissed that she ratted him out to the cops. There was only one last person I could think of who I believe could at least send the message to Robby. I just need him to know. I need him to know that he is going to have a sibling and, mostly because of him, I will not fuck up with this kid.

"So, he got it. Right?" I asked LaRusso's daughter.

"I told Aisha just before school started, the same day that she'd go back to Cobra Kai." LaRusso's daughter told me. "But that's her last day in Cobra Kai. She's been caught up on everything and is coming to join us, so she'll give out the message."

"But...she got the message to tell Robby." The blue eyed girl nodded.

Never heard a peep from Robby.


We stayed in the same complex building, just a floor up from the Diaz place. A bit larger than the downstairs but not by much and still the same number rooms. Rosa had her own room, Miguel had his own room and then Carmen and I in our own. The baby would sleep in Carmen and mine's room. We sort of figured that by the time the baby was old enough to sleep in a room alone, like toddler aged or something, Miguel would be out of the apartment.

It's hitting me just exactly how insane this is. Like, fucking insane. A baby. My age, with a baby. I'm near grandfather age. Holy shit.

Didn't even occur to me until late August, just near Carmen's due date, that I've realized one thing; Sex. We were having a boy or girl? I just assumed boy because I've had a boy, Carmen's had a boy. So, like, a boy would happened. But now all I keep thinking about is that there's a chance that HE is a SHE. What am I suppose to do with a girl?


September rolled around. The Eagle Fang and Miyagi-Do students, who won the tournament months back, thankfully didn't have a blow out with the Cobra Kai students. Some, not all, but some joined the Eagle Fang Miyagi-Do. The one student who I wished came to Eagle Fang Miyagi-Do was Tory. She's toughly good enough to be badass and show mercy like Johnny Lawrence's Cobra Kai, she can be toughly good enough to be badass and show mercy in Eagle Fang Miyagi-Do.

Still no word from Robby. I've seen him, I've tried to talk to him.


September 16, 2019

Honest to Tommy, I didn't think that Carmen would give birth on her own birthday. Shit enough though she did. 5:30 AM is a real time that exists. Especially on Monday's.

I was there this time. Sort of. Sorta remember Carmen giving a final push and next thing I recall is the baby born—then I just blacked out myself.

When I came back to Earth from where ever I was, I was laying on a gurney next to Carmen's bed. She was just smiling at me the entire time. "You sleep well?" She asked. I only managed to make a random noise, a gurgle or something. "You want to meet our daughter?"

Girl. That was the only word running through my head. A girl. I sat up and swing my legs over to get closer to the main bed. Just close enough to get a glimpse of the small human in Carmen's arms. In seconds my heart was consumed and melted just by her tiny face.

She's totally and absolutely adorable. I can't believe that Carmen and I created this together.


Why in the hell did Carmen make me decide the baby's name? How? Why? I made a promise that I wouldn't fuck up this kids life and now I'm responsible for her name? I didn't even have the chance to name Robby so now I had to name my child? Shit, how was I supposed to find the perfect name for her that, in the years to get here, she wouldn't karate chop my balls off.

At least we agreed on her last name. Diaz-Lawrence. Carmen refused to tell me the middle name she had picked for our daughter. How was I going to pick a good badass name for her?

Diaz-Lawrence was in in my arms, rocking her the way Carmen showed me, sleeping away after Carmen breastfed her. I just stared at her tiny face, no taking my eyes off her for a minute. Shit. Well, what's to come with raising this one? Kicking ass, kicking ass in school, actually not being a bully. Not letting her mess up her life that's for sure. She'll do it on her own but she'll have Miguel on her side. Hopefully Robby too.

Not long after that Diaz-Lawrence fell asleep did Carmen's mother come in with food from home. Carmen's favorites, mostly the good stuff she didn't eat when pregnant. Watching her mother set up the food on the hospital table above he bed and the two talk among one another. I just sat there observing them share a conversation. Having been around the family for so long I caught onto a few words that they said. Share, baby girl, birthday, Johnny. Yep, I agreed. I glanced back to Diaz-Lawrence. "You got a good mom, kid. Grandmother too. Even the one not here."

That's it. Her name. My mother never had the chance to hold Robby just as she would with this one, but I plan on making sure that her memory isn't ended with me. If I never get the chance to have Robby carry on her legacy, little Laura would carry the legacy.

Laura Beatriz Diaz-Lawrence