Eva's Pov
They stood together near a flowery blue meadow, the baby in her arms, as they both looked at him with utter affection and adoration. "He's beautiful," Aikka said.
"Yeah but he does look like you, don't you y'think?" He nodded, but he has his mother's eyes. At this, she blushed, and as Aikka came nearer to her, he was about to say something, only for baby Christopher to bawl his lungs out. Both stopped dead in their tracks as they stared at the baby, utterly worried. "What's wrong honey, daddy's here." Aikka cooed as he took his son into his arms and tried to comfort him. This made the baby only bawl harder until in a bold move Aikka came over and kissed the baby's stomach blowing at it. Christopher then began to giggle, as Aikka smiled at this. Good, I'm glad you're happy."
"I think he likes you doing that." Eva giggled as Aikka simply stared at her for a moment and then simply smiled. "Yes, I think you're right, earth princess." At this old nickname, Eva blushed. Before Aikka then stared at her with an intensity she was unaccustomed to. "Aikka."
"Molly, I need to know," Aikka said still staring at her with all the intensity he could allow. Eva simply gulped. "Do you still hate me?" At this Eva looked at him, gently before touching his hand, "Aikka, I don't hate you, never have never did." At this Aikka looked relieved before guilt, touched him once again. "But what I did to you. was unspeakable and wrong, I know, But Aikka, I could never hate, especially since I know you didn't mean to do what you did."
"Molly I, shh don't speak anymore." At this Aikka just smiled, and that smile made Eva just want to go over and kiss him, staring at him with such an intensity that she even began to daydream about it. "Eva is something wrong? "Aikka woke her from her fantasy, "No nothing." How could she tell him she had just been daydreaming about kissing him, when suddenly and the alarm rang. "Shoot I better leave, or else Don Wei will kill me." At this Aikka began to grab his hilt. "It's a figure of speech." Aikka then relaxed his grip and smiled, "See you tomorrow?"
"You know it." She didn't see Aikka smile at her fleeing back, nor did she know he had also fantasized about kissing her."
At the earth team module, Eva could hear a woman's and man's voice angrily shouting. "Don we're your parents and we know what's best for you!"
At this, she jumped and her curiosity was piqued, so being the not so nosy person she was, she decided to wait by that door, and decided to eavesdrop. She was about to hear only a few more interesting tidbits "Don, we love you and we think," Only for the door to open and a very angry middleaged woman opened the door, followed by a frowning man who looked to be the same age. She turned around slowly, before standing back up and smiling nervously, "Hello folks." She smiled in a nervous giggle, "You what the hell do you think you're doing, "Uh, well." Only for the woman to grab her roughly and rather angrily, All Eva could do was scream. "Mom, stop that's your grandchild!" Eva simply looked shocked at the man who said that.
Don's Pov
He sighed as he listened to his parents, nag him as he could have sworn he heard Rick say, "Well that's Karma for you. He'd get back at him, he'd make sure of it. But he sighed as he put a hand on his forehead, not being able to ignore the throbbing pain that was growing. "And you had such a bright future ahead of you, being able to earn your master's in politics and business. You were going to take over the family legacy and you threw all away. And for what? A cheap whore who regularly shamed you by dressing like a slut?" That was all Don could take before he screamed: "Don't you dare insult the woman I love!"
They looked at him for a moment before screaming "Don We're your parents and we know what's best for you!"
"What's best for me?" He practically laughed. "You want me to marry some girl I don't even love!"
At this, his parents looked at him shock then hurt, "Don, we love you and we think."
It was then they heard the shuffling of feet, as his mother stormed over to the door and angrily saw a 15-year-old girl eavesdropping. Don looked at her shocked. His mother angrily grabbed the girl's arm, twisting it in a painful way before Don found his voice and shouted: "Mom, Stop that's your grandchild." Both looked at him shocked. His mother gave him a look, how can you be so-
"There's a birthmark on her, with the sign of a Wei in it!" His mother scuffled Eva's shirt, before finding that birthmark, hidden by the strap of her sports bra. His mother released his daughter looking shocked as Eva gave him a look of hurt before running away. Don chased after her. "Eva, Eva wait!"
Unbeknown to the two Aikka had come over carrying baby Christopher as he exclaimed: "Molly, our son needs his special stuffed bunny." "Eva, Christopher needs, only for him to run into Don's angry parents. Looking at him with utter loathing and disdain.
Don, sighed as he checked under the star Racer for his daughter, but to no avail, She wasn't there, only for him to hear a voice say "Up here." He sighed as he climbed the racer, his daughter was there, crouched over in a fetal position as she told him: "I've imagined this moment for a long time, You would hug me, and all those last years would be forgiven, but now that it's happened, I don't feel a thing." All Don could do was feel the pain in her words, but he knew he had deserved, them as he looked at her, filling all the shame in the world. "There is so much to explain to you Eva, and so many reasons why you must hate me. " At those words, Don looked at his daughter shocked but accepted it. "After your mother's terrible crash." At this, he could hear his daughter gasp. "I completely fell to pieces," as he remembered himself completely broken. My world was destroyed, Maya was the love of my life, she was an amazing Pilot."
" I pushed her to compete in the first intergalactic competition. He then remembered the day of the opening of the intergalactic race, her smiling and waving to the crowd. thanking a little girl who was about 8 as she graciously accepted the flowers, as Don told her, they had to go, she gave him a look as he gave her another. She sighed as she left, then as if to get back at him, she stopped and waved to the crowd. He was amused at this. "In just a few years, she had become a legend, the first pilot ever, to win all three major league titles, I knew this would be the crowning moment of her career, "She was quite simply the best." Eva then looked at him, he simply smiled at her, sadly.
"She made it through the finals, totally oblivious to the dangers around her, that was her charm." He should know, he fell for her because of that. His parents hated her because of that. "But the race took its toll, I could feel it, the other finalist was an alien, one of these strange polymorphic creatures. " "Spirit", his daughter said, looking at him, He had the reputation of being a very aggressive pilot" He remembered as he looked on, at the emergency center getting the other racer, looking at spirit who then looked at him. "I had misgivings about that race, a dark premonition of what was to come. "
And then remembered warning Maya, "Naturally she wouldn't listen," For she told him,"As long we can fly we still have a chance."He nodded, remembering those words over and over, for she must have told him that at least a hundred times. It was one of the reasons he began to suspect "Molly", she said the same thing, no doubt hearing her mother say that to him. "I failed to stop her. And he remembered that crash, of his wife's explosion and the moment he died inside. "I couldn't have you near me, I couldn't risk harming you as well." He remembered looking at his daughter and remembering Maya, "You reminded me too much of Maya," There was only one thing to do" And he remembered that day, Eva was so scared of that woman as she hid behind him, no doubt expecting him to protect her, but he didn't and he could never forget that shocked look in that 5-year-old's face as he drove away. "It was the hardest thing, I've ever done, But I did it for you, Eva."
It was then she asked him a question he was hoping to avoid, "Why didn't you ever call me?. Why didn't you ever write?" He looked at the ground ashamed, His daughter then looked at him. "Why didn't you ever visit me." She stood up, hands clenched, "Why?!" He looked at his daughter, "It was impossible I wasn't myself anymore, I was a complete shadow of myself." He remembered as he walked around the world completely disheveled. A complete drifter. But his daughter wouldn't buy it, "A few years later, that shadow managed a racing team, the best on Earth, You think I didn't know?" He bit his lip, "Everybody knew? Why didn't you contact me then?" He looked at her, "I'm sorry I still couldn't face you, I was the one who destroyed your mother and our family." His daughter growled, "I saw your face so often in the magazine, I just told myself you were to busy to visit." At this Don felt incredible guilt, his daughter had believed in him, she said so herself, as she told him he was the reason she wanted to be a pilot, and then "The other children thought I was an orphan, and they were right, I had no one." He felt so much shame, "I'm so sorry Eva." Then his daughter reminded him, He hadn't even recognized her when they met, again in 10 years. He regretted that, as his daughter told him "I risked my neck for you for seventeen races before you finally figured it out, What a joke to you I was dead, I didn't exist." It was then a clapping interrupted their thoughts as his parents came. "I think we've heard enough. Don pack your bags, we'll take care of the race thing later, we're going home. And you, his mother said looking at Eva are coming with us." And with that Don felt himself teleport as Eva simply screamed, He then opened his eyes and found himself in a luxurious mansion, servants waiting at every corner. He sighed disgusted, it was his childhood home.
