My Mother Was...

Title: My Mother Was...
Author: L0C
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Beka thinks about her mother.
Disclaimer: Andromeda is property of Tribune.

My mother was such a sweetheart. A godsend. An angel.

At least that's what Dad said.

At least, that's what she'd have to be.

I never met her, of course. All I knew of her were in the flexis and holographs stowed away on the ship. She was pretty, though. Well, beautiful. She'd have to be that, too, though, knowing my father.

I knew my mother from stories Dad would tell, when he wasn't hiding from us or yelling or tripping out. He was her rock, it seemed, the only time he was truly happy was when he remembered her. He said she had a no-nonsense attitude about her, she refused to take any bullshit from anyone and was never hesitant to stand up for what she believed in. I must've gotten that from her.

She was tough, too, he said. She could kick his ass any day. She was a mean shot and a hell of a pilot. I must have gotten that from her, too.

There are lots of things I would like to think I got from her, my mother, the one I never met. The one who may not actually be like the stories or the flexis, but who makes up half of my genetic code and must be in me somewhere. I didn't get much good from my father- my hair, the Maru, my inability to adapt to planet life, my...susceptibility to Flash.

But my mother...my mother knew what was best for her. I shudder to think of myself making the decision to leave a child the way my mother did. That takes will power. That's the most horrible decision any mother would ever have to make. She saw her life going nowhere and did something about. She didn't stand by and watch someone else throw her life down the drain. Who knows, maybe she meant to come back for Rafe and I one day. It takes strength to make that kind of decision, too. Guts. Confidence.

I think she must have been where I got that from. Most everything good in me, from her.

Thanks, mom.

To L0C's Fan Fiction
Home