Chapter 22. Future Possibilities |
Date Posted: 01.06.2006 |
Summary: An epilogue of
sorts.
“Mommy, mommy, mommy.”
The raven-haired beauty’s eyes automatically turned
to the door, seeking out the one calling out to her.
Seconds later a child….her child slipped from
between the barely parted halves, his cubby face
twisting in an adorable frown as he stopped to fix
the upturned lapel of his coat, his pink tongue
sticking out from the corner of his mouth as he
mimicked his father’s actions.
“Good work Master Thomas,” he muttered to himself,
repeating the praise that his grandpa-butler-Alfed
showered upon him whenever he did something good.
Satisfied with the results, he looked up to find the
love filled eyes of his mother looking down at him,
her lips curved in a full smile, one that lit up her
eyes. It had been almost four months since the
mother-son officially met each other. His
father explained to him that his mother had been
under a magical spell that made her forget
everything and everyone and that the spell cancelled
out when she saved them from the bad-lady. Already
liking her from when he met her at the party and
then the next morning, Thomas soon overcame the
hesitancy, progressing from Alfred’s Miss Diana, to
Mommy Miss Diana, to Mommy Diana and finally to
Mommy in a matter of weeks. Although, still a
Daddy’s boy he soon warmed up to his mother, a
seemingly magical link forming between the two.
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“Hey Master Smarty-pants,” rosy cheeks turned a deep
crimson at the complement Barbara Gordon sent his
way.
“You are going to knock ‘em all dead,” piped up Kara
Kent, aka Supergirl.
“Huh,” the young child gasped in horror. He did not
want to hurt anyone, leave alone knock them dead.
“Kara!” Diana mock admonished the Kryptonian
teenager, opening her arms for her son, who shirking
from the knocking-talking red and blue clad
lady immediately ran into her embrace.
“Mommy, I don’ wanna hurt anyone,” he mumbled as he
nuzzled into the crook of her neck, turning his face
away from Kara, but keeping a corner of the eyes
gaze on her.
“I know my dear,” Diana whispered to him, as if
speaking just for his ears and not the five other
women in the room, Kara Kent, Barbara Gordon,
Shayera Stewart, Cassandra Cain and Dr. Leslie
Thompkins. “And no one is going to hurt you too.”
“P’owmis?” Thomas looked up at her, his bottom lip
quivering slightly. Although he had recovered from
the torture he had to witness at the hands of Circe,
he still had occasional flashbacks. Luckily, for
him, he had now not one but two parents to take care
of him.
“Promise,” Diana repeated with a gentle kiss on his
impeccably combed hair, her smile reflected in the
one that her son flashed at her, a smile that was an
exact miniaturized version of his dad’s. ‘Kara is
right,’ she mulled silently at the heartbreaker he
was going to be one day. ‘Not if his mother can help
it,’ the Amazon in her chimed up. No child of her
was going to do anything against woman, not even be
a billionaire playboy. Anyways, one of those was
enough in a household, and theirs already had one,
even if he was on retired status now.
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“Ooh, ooh, I gotta give you sumthing’,” Thomas piped
up, wiggling in his mother’s grasp, his actions
demanding that he be set down.
As soon as Diana lowered him to the ground, he
reached into his coat pocket to draw out a thin
rectangular box, which he promptly held up to Diana.
Her brow creasing in expectant confusion, Diana took
the box, a shiver running down her spine at its
familiar design.
“Diana,” Shayera caught onto the sudden change in
her friend’s demeanor. “What is it?”
“Its-its….” Diana fumbled with the cover, her eyes
widening at the contents inside it.
The next moment she off was and towards the door,
which she yanked open forcefully, her face
expressing all the emotions churning up inside
her…..surprise, anger, hurt….and most of all love.
Seeing the person standing before her, she said just
one word.
“Mother.”
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Earlier,
“Your majesty,” Hippolyta turned to face the guard
at the door, her regal eyes literally showing their
two millennia plus age.
“Yes,” she gathered herself as she responded, her
left hand tightly grasping a child’s dress between
her fingers. It was HER dress, just as it was HER
room….Her little sun and stars, her daughter, Diana.
The daughter she had wronged…..failed….betrayed. If
only she had given into her mother’s instincts and
not her queen’s, she would not have discarded the
child, her as she had. Given that he was a male, he
was still innocent, having done no wrong to anyone.
‘Except being born in your domain,’ the mother
inside her accused vehemently. It wasn’t for the
first time in the last four years that this inner
voice had risen up against her, and unlike before,
the queen had no words left to speak against it.
“There is a man on the shores of the island,” the
guard informed warily. “He says you know him…calls
himself Batman.”
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Present,
“Diana,” Hippolyta returned softly, her eyes
brimming with tears at the sight before her. Dressed
in a flowing shoulder less wedding gown, an
intricate mixture of traditional Greek and modern
design cues, Diana looked every bit the
warrior-princess-bride she was.
Both women stared at each other, no words coming
forth from either of them as their eyes did all the
talking. It was only when Thomas peeked out from
behind Diana’s gown did Hippolyta’s gaze waver,
traveling down to the nearly three foot tall
male-child, his facial features telling of his
parentage….as if the way he clung to Diana wasn’t
signal enough.
Diana knew that this day would come. Both Bruce and
Alfred had prepared her for this, although
truth be told, it was Alfred’s brainchild. Although
Bruce knew about the souring of relations between
Diana and her mother, he did not broach upon the
topic, not until Alfred urged him to. Unlike Bruce,
who left things on Diana, Alfred wanted relations to
improve and be like they were before between Diana
and her Queen Mother. He told Bruce as such and the
boy, who lost both his parents at the young age of
eight, understood the importance of parents in a
child’s life and vice versa. He had then spoken to
Diana about it, even going to Themiscyra to invite
the queen herself.
Now they stood face to face, silently regarding each
other, until unable to bear it any longer, both
broke down simultaneously and rushed into each
other’s arms.
It wasn’t a case of all forgiven and
forgotten….after all they were Amazons and warrior
and it just wasn’t the way of the warrior. However,
it was atleast the first step in the right
direction.
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“Mommy,” Thomas called out softly, his face
expressing his confusion at seeing his mother cry.
Today was a happy day, everyone had told him so.
Dickie and Timmy even had a party planned for later,
with a special surprise for daddy and mommy. So, why
was mommy crying?
“Thomas,” Diana broke away from her mother’s embrace
and turned around to reach for her son, dabbing way
the tears that threatening to screw up Zatanna,
Dinah and Barbara’s carefully done masterpiece of a
makeup…..well a masterpiece according to them
anyway. “Come here. I want you to meet some….” She
stopped mid-sentence, correcting herself. “Meet your
Grandmother.”
“Gran’mother?” Thomas took a couple of small steps,
not stepping away from the safe confines of his
mother. Maybe it was seeing how his mother cried
after meeting the strange woman, or just that
Hippolyta’s traditional Grecian robes reminded him
of Circe, but the otherwise friendly Thomas didn’t
quite take to the new relation.
“Yes,” Diana gently took his hand and urged him
towards the Amazonian Queen, or atleast in front of
her. “She’s mommy’s mommy.”
“Mommy’s mommy,” the young child rolled the words
over his tongue and his mind, taking a few seconds
to make the connection, his eyes lighting up as he
reached the appropriate decision. Like grandpa Alfed
was daddy’s-butler daddy. “She’s grandmommy?” He
looked up to his mother for her confirmation,
getting it in the form of a silent nod.
Turning back to the strange blonde haired woman, he
stepped forward with renewed confidence. “Hi,
grandmommy,” he wished with a smile, offering his
hand for a handshake, just like daddy taught him.
“My name is Thomas Wayne, but only mommy and daddy
call me that. It was my grandpa’s name too. You can
too if you like it.”
All her apprehension gone at the innocence of the
child, Hippolyta’s nearly fell to her knees as she
enveloped the young male in a maternal embrace.
“Thomas is a very good name. I’d be honored to call
you that.”
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“Dearly beloved, we have gathered here…..” the
priest started addressing the gathering, especially
the two people standing before him, the bride, Ms.
Diana Prince, a new secret identity for Diana, and
the groom, Bruce Wayne, CEO of Wayne Enterprises.
Present were, besides the immediate Wayne-Bat family
were the members of the Justice League and their
spouses and other close friends of the Wayne family,
namely Dr. Leslie Thompkins and her date, Mr. Alfred
Pennyworth, the gentleman who has walked the glowing
bride down the aisle and Mr. Lucious Fox, Wayne
Enterprises’ President and his family.
Thomas was firmly ensconced between grandpa-butler-Alfed
and his new grandmommy, his mommy’s mommy, Queen
Hippoi’ta. He had run forward and stood next to
daddy, just like Dickie was standing right now.
Grandpa-Alfed told him that Dickie was the best-man,
something he did not agree with. In his eyes, his
daddy was the bestest man and his bestest daddy too,
just like his mommy was the bestest mommy…..not that
he was going to argue with grandpa-Alfed about it.
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Standing before the gathering, with everyone yet
just alone with each other, were the bride and
groom, their hands firmly meshed with each others.
They had gone through a lot of ups and downs to get
here, as they would do from now own.....except now
they would have each other, together, for always.
“I do.”
“I do.”
Note: I had ended this fic
with the previous chapter and had planned on doing a
sequel sometime in the future. However, got a few
reviews asking for a proper epilogue….so here it is.
Hope you liked it. Please review and let me know!!
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