23/3/21

prisca: (faculty - Casey&Zeke)
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Title: Marie
Character: Casey Connor, Zeke Tyler
Challenge: Bingo - baby (FFFC), love (ficlet zone), adoption (creative challenges)
Word Count: 354
Finished: 23.03.2021

Note: This story is part of my 'Homeland' universe, where Casey and Zeke are married and have adopted a little boy / two children. All stories can be read as a stand-alone ones.

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Zeke sneaked into the room, watching Casey sitting at their son's bed. The little boy had closed his eyes, still a sappy smile on his face. „So, he's finally asleep,“ he whispered.

Casey shut the book and placed it onto the nightstand. „Lasted only some minutes today; he was pretty tired after the day with my parents. My dad did build a treehouse with him.“

Zeke chuckled. „They spoil him too much.“

„That's the right of grandparents. Especially when they had already given up hope ever to have some.“

After turning the light down, Zeke followed Casey into the livingroom. Dropping down onto the couch, he said: “Adopting Jason was a good decision, wasn't it?“

„The best one,“ Casey agreed. „He has turned our life around but in a good way.“

„Have you ever thought about a second baby?“

„Hmm?“ Casey glanced at his husband and grinned. „Okay, spit it. What are you thinking about?“

„Her name is Marie. Six months old. She has had a pretty rough start in life. Her mom drug-addicted, works as a prostitute since she is fourteen. Father unknown, of course. I did my best to help her, but some days after giving birth, she vanished.“

„Kinda sad.“

Zeke sighed. „Always the same story, so often these kids are not able to accept help. But Marie...“
He smiled. „She is a sunshine. Though her first months were so hard; first, we weren't even sure if she would make it. But she's a fighter.

Yesterday the doc told me that despite some issues, she's stable enough now to move into a foster home.“

„Understand. Guess we will have to do some shopping tomorrow, make the guest room more homely for a little girl. Paint the walls in a light green or yellow. Maybe I could ask my mom to make some fitting curtains for the windows. And...“

Zeke laughed. „So, you don't mind if we take her home?“

„Tiny little feet tripping through the house again? For sure not! And Jason will be a proud big brother for her.“

Placing a kiss on his cheek, Zeke murmured: „I love you!“
prisca: (general - fandom love)
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Title: To know you is to love you
Character: Nyota Uhura, mention of Spock
Challenge: Fandom Battle - Star Trek Movies
Word Count: 314
Finished: 23.03.2021

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Nyota Uhura cringed inwardly though she was smiling. It was hard to let the man she loved so much go, not knowing if he would come back again. One last fleetingly kiss, and she could read it in his calm, dark eyes that he was barely aware of it. His brilliant mind was already preparing for his dangerous mission; there was no room for anything else.

Then he was gone, and she turned back to her control panel. Being together with a special guy like him for almost a year already had taught her that it was better to keep her feelings for herself. He would not understand her angst like it sometimes felt that he didn't understand her love.

Though he was only half a Vulkan, he had learned early enough to put logic over emotions. In the world he was grown up, feelings were weakness. The only one who was ever emotionally close to him as a child had been his human mother. He had respected, adored, loved her.

Not being able to save her when his whole planet got devoured by an artificial black hole must have been almost unbearable for him. But even then, he had only allowed her a short moment to hold him before he turned away with a stony face, continuing with his work.

Sometimes, when she was alone in her quarter, Uhura thought about how it would be to leave him; maybe she would get over it one day, being open for another, more healthy relationship. But then: no man she had ever met, and she had met some of them at the academy, smart, good looking, funny, and openly flirting with her, had ever made her feel like he could. The first moment she saw him, she had lost her heart. And there was no way that she would ever get it back in one piece.

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