Octarine 30, Spring Green 18: Precious

[bookblather]

Author: Kat
Title: Precious
Story: Shine Like it Does
Colors: Octarine 30 (The truth is too precious to die for.), spring green 18 (you're all the world to me)
Supplies and Materials: Canvas (infant Miranda), miniature, novelty beads (a happy baby), brush (ingenuous)
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Summary: Christopher and his newborn daughter.
Warnings: none.
Notes: none.


His baby daughter was perfect.

Christopher knew, intellectually, that every new parent felt that way, but not every new parent was faced with a child as inarguably wonderful as his. No other baby had the same little crescents of fingernails, or the soft small wrinkles that marked tiny knuckles, or the same feathering of dark hair.

His mother had said to him once, in a rare moment of affection, that she knew she could die for him the moment she first held him. He understood the impulse, but he'd prefer to live.

Some things were too precious to die for.

Comments

[p_cocincinus]

Falling in love with your newborn is like the hardest punch to the gut; it makes you realize that love at first sight is really a thing and every other crush you've ever had was fortuitous infatuation. Great voice.

[bookblather]

Thank you very much! I don't have kids myself, so knowing I nailed it is a really nice feeling.

[novel_machinist]

Really well done. The ending line was perfecto.

[bookblather]

Inspired completely by the prompt. Thank you!