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Futures Lost To Time: Baby Blue Eyes

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“Where’d she get those eyes from?” York wondered softly, smiling down at the precious bundle in his arms. The newborn gazed up at him, her blue eyes wide and wondering.

“What do you mean, ‘where’d she get them’?” Carolina’s tired voice came from the bed he sat beside. Her red hair, darkened with sweat, was plastered against her forehead, and her startling green eyes were heavy with exhaustion, results of the hard labour she had just endured.

“Her eyes are blue,” he replied. “There are no blue eyes in my family, and I’ve never seen any in yours. Is there something you and North aren’t telling me?”

Her laughter was soft in response. “York, all babies are born with blue eyes.”

“Really? Even me?”

That elicited more laughter. How he loved that sound. It was so lighthearted, so happy.

Green eyes met brown, her’s still crinkled in mirth. “Yes York, even you.”

“Oh good,” York processed the new information. “Then I hope her’s are green, as beautiful as yours.”

“Weren’t you telling Wash just the other day how if the baby was a girl you wanted her to be ugly so, and I quote ‘no disgusting pigs would think of touching my baby girl’?”

York shrugged, careful not to upset the infant in his arms. “Yeah, but then I remembered I was a space marine and I can scare off any hoodlums.”

There was that beautiful laugh again. How fortunate he was to be able to hear it.

And soon, he thought to himself as he looked back down at his newborn daughter, I’ll be fortunate enough to hear your laughter too.
This is the first, of what I plan to be a collection of one-shots about the futures the Freelancers were never able to have. The first few pieces I have planned are connected, or at least exist in the same continuity, but others may have no connections at all.

Being me I couldn't resist starting with York and Carolina, but I plan on touching on all the Freelancers at some point.

Other parts of Future's Lost To Time can be found here:
Mission Objective: Groceries
Just Superficial
Colourful Mishap
By Your Side
Guy's Cafe
Help Needed
Family Ties
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Myconilie's avatar
I teared up at the last line. Knightly, stahhhp youre gift for writing is too much
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