Rourke's Kid
Chapter 6
So, due to my inability to choose who should adopt Lily, I'll be writing two endings. This is ending #1.
"Lily, I think you should go with Sweet if he wants to adopt you. He's a good guy and he genuinely cares about your wellbeing. And if what you told me is true, then we would be able to see each other more." Helga said as she French braided my dark brown hair and I nodded. "I agree, but would it offend Milo and Kida if I go with Sweet instead?" She tied off the braid and hugged me. "Milo is naïve but kind and Kida is a kind woman. They won't mind."
"If it's ok with you Lily, I was hoping to adopt you." Sweet said as he rebandaged my stomach and I smiled at him. "I've been wishing for a long time that you were my dad." He looked at me, smiled and hugged me tightly.
As soon as we got back to the surface, Sweet filled out the paperwork to adopt me and my name changed from Lily Rourke to Lily Sweet. To this day, I still love my last name. Dad started training me to be a doctor just like him. He's a great teacher to, teaching through kindness rather than brutal strength and fear.
Epilogue
"Dr. Sweet, your husband and child are here to see you." I grinned and brushed my arm across my forehead, wiping away the sweat gathered there from the last surgery I did. I had nearly lost my patient. "Mommy! We brought you lunch!" My six-year-old daughter yelled and jumped into my arms. Thank goodness, I was prepared, unlike last time. "Thank you, Helga. I was just getting hungry too." She smiled her beautiful smile and I felt the tension I had been carrying all morning loosen. "Helga, why don't you get some plates from Miss Katy for us?" My husband of ten years, Lyon, said. As soon as she ran out of the room, Lyon came over to me and hugged me, rubbing my back and I silently cried into his shoulder. "I know baby, I know. You did great, she's going to be fine." He said while Miss Katy distracted Helga with a new toy. Helga from the expedition had cried when I asked her to be godmother and she and the other former members of the expedition were constantly at the house. Audrey had even broken in a few times, bearing sweets. When she learned how crazy little Helga got when she had sugar though, she stopped bringing sugar. I had long given up on trying to find locks she couldn't break through. Baby Helga was already an incredible artist and I was planning on getting her a new sketchpad and a set of paints for her birthday. I spoiled her so much but I didn't mind. She would have a better childhood than I had, of that I was certain. She had no idea that my adoptive father wasn't her real father. Maybe I would tell her when she was older but I saw no reason to bring that monster back, even if it was only his memory. Some things should stay dead.