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Xuân Coy Manh sighed in peace as she watched her daughter play with her wife. She couldn’t think of any other place where she would rather be then with her wife and daughter. What could be better then being in the company of the family that truly loved you, and you them?
Surely nothing… Xuân mused. Then again spending your time ravishing the one you truly loved was better.
She loved watching Kitty interact with their daughter. It reminded her of how much trouble it was to be together with Kitty, and their struggle in adopting a baby. Even though it was much easier being a mutant now than it had been ten, twenty years ago, there were still those regular humans who assumed mutants were still bad.
Xuân thanked the heavens when she and Kitty had happened upon a woman who was both with child and a mutant herself. The woman Lily Rmar, who is considered an aunt now to her child, had been close to having a nervous breakdown about becoming a teenage mutant mother. When Lily had confessed Xuân her feelings, Xuân silently sat there for a few moments as the information progressed. Kitty entered the room at the moment, and while sharing a smile with her, Xuân turned her attention back to Lily. She told Lily of her and Kitty’s story together and how they wished they could have a child together. By the end, Xuân knew Lily understood the reason she told her.
Before she knew it, Lily had given birth, and the adoption papers were signed. With only one condition, Lily would always be there for her baby – as an aunt and a godmother. But Kitty and Xuân didn’t mind one bit, they were too excited in trying to find the right name for the baby. The first name had no trouble to be decided upon. The girl would be named Carmen, after Kitty’s father. However, her middle name couldn’t seem to be decided on. But then Xuân brought up the Vietnamese name Xuan. It meant spring, and it fitted their baby just perfect since she had been born in spring.
And on May 26, only a day after their adopted-child was born, Xuân and Kitty brought home to their small three-bedroom house Carmen Xuan Manh…
A shout of joy interrupted Xuân’s train as thought. “Mommy!”
Catching her four year daughter, Xuân kissed Carmen’s forehead, “Hello sweetie, whatcha you doing?” Xuân put her down gently on the floor.
“Playin’! Momma’s playin’ with me too… come on! Let’s play with Kurt some more! All of us together!” Carmen excitedly told her mother, as she held up the blue stuffed up furry elf that was of Kurt Wagner, Carmen’s favorite “uncle.”
Laughing, Xuân joined her wife on the floor and followed suit in playing with the stuffed elf.
THE END.
