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Shorts Series: Alternate Universe - Kai’s What If - 2037/2038

Back to this world we go

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She hated herself for saying them, for… potentially reopening wounds she knew hadn’t even begun to heal.

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She didn’t hesitate. She slid closer to him, wrapping her arms around his hunched frame, holding him tightly as if she could physically keep him from shattering.

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For a long moment, she didn’t let go. She just held him, her cheek resting against his shoulder, trying to anchor them both in the moment. She felt him tremble slightly beneath her touch, and her own chest ached with an emotion she couldn’t quite name. Grief? Guilt? A mix of it all.

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“No mother should have the chance to meet their child taken away…” Her hand drifted instinctively to her stomach, fingers brushing against the fabric of her shirt as a ghost of a memory surfaced—her own loss, the child she never got to meet.

Jess…

She never got to meet hers… but she gets to live…
Skye never got to meet scarlet… and scarlet has to grow up ever getting to meet her

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It didn’t matter. Right now he did.

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Without a word, she left the room, her mind already made up about what she needed to do.

When she returned minutes later, Scarlet was nestled in her arms, her tiny features peaceful in sleep.

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And I know you… I know you’re going to be an amazing dad to her, darling.”

He just doesn’t know how to be yet

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She watched him as his arms adjusted automatically to hold Scarlet securely. There was something different in his expression—fragile, but a flicker of something beyond the grief. Maybe hope? She hoped it was… Either way, whatever it was, it made her chest ache in a way she couldn’t explain.

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And I’ll be here until you’re okay enough to do it alone. I promise. My home is your home

And he needs that, desperately