Warm Light 9: i am here tonight

[bookblather]

Author: Kat
Title: i am here tonight
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Warm light 9 (Everything's fine in the morning)
Supplies and Materials: Seed beads, tapestry (warm light/seed beads), miniature, stickers ("Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden), glue (Your exceptional solution to a work-related problem cultivates hope in coworkers and higher-ups alike.), novelty beads (Safer Hands by Olive), chalk (It's Either the Best or the Worst Time to Have a Baby)
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Summary: Anna and the baby, after.
Warnings: fire, implied death.
Notes: It really is a work problem.


Fire. Shouts. Gunshots. Delia begging her to take the baby. Running, Chiara sobbing in her arms. The roof collapsing with a roar. Screams- hers, Chiara, those trapped inside, Delia, Delia, Delia...

Anna woke gasping, and thought- no. Not Delia screaming. It was Delia's baby, her wails already devolving into hiccuping sobs.

Anna got up and took the baby in her arms, bouncing her gently. Poor thing: motherless, and fatherless by now. What would happen to her? She was so completely alone in the world.

The baby quieted, staring at her with large brown eyes. Delia's eyes.

Well. Perhaps not completely.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, very good - you pack a lot into the drabble format here. (Poor baby!)

[bookblather]

The baby will be fine, I promise, she'll have eight million cousins and aunts and uncles to look out for her. :)

Thank you for reading!

[dray]

Oh no, poor Delia! Poor Anna, too, that must be a hard time to have lived through.

Great little piece!

[bookblather]

It was rough on her, definitely, but at least the baby's gonna be okay.

Thank you!

[kay_brooke]

The poor baby. At least she has Anna.

[bookblather]

She does, and she always will.

Thank you!