Drabble: Not Just For Mums

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Title: Not Just For Mums

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Meriel, mentions Jack and Ianto.

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 395: Mother at tw100

Spoilers: Nada.

Summary: Meriel’s Mother’s Day card is a bit different from the other kids’.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

Teacher said Mother’s Day was a special day to show your mum how much you loved her. Unlike the other kids, Meriel didn’t have a mum; she had two daddies instead.

While her classmates made cards for their mums, Meriel made one for her Daddy and her Tad, decorated with flowers, glitter, and a picture she’d drawn of the three of them. Across the top, she wrote in big, wobbly letters, ‘Happy Mother’s Day, Daddy and Tad.’

Meriel didn’t know why her teacher was sad for her. Although she didn’t have a mum, she wouldn’t swap her daddies for anything.

The End

Comments

[sagrario martínez castro (from livejournal.com)]

Why sadness? With parents like Jack and Ianto Meriel is most luckiest girl in the world!

[bk_forever]

She is, and she knows that, but her teacher doesn't understand.

Thank you.

[raynewton.livejournal.com]

Better two same sex parents that love their children, than 'conventional' couples who kill them. So many such cases in recent years. So sad. Meriel is lucky.

[bk_forever]

Being loved and cared for is so much more important tan being part of a conventional family. Some people should not be allowed to have kids, there are so many awful instances of abuse and murder, it breaks my heart every time I hear of another one and makes me so angry when people say a child is better off with a mother and father, because evidence proves that's just not true.

Thank you.

[owensheart.livejournal.com]

Teacher shouldn't be sad for her she has a lovely family.

great drabble.

[bk_forever]

She does, she just wrongly believes that little girls need mums.

Thank you!

[m-findlow.livejournal.com]

She's got more than enough love to make up for it, lucky girl.

[bk_forever]

She really isn't short on love, that's true. Her parents dote on her, she has a Fluff for a best friend, and an extended family in the Torchwood team.

Thank you!

[black59.livejournal.com]

Meriel has reason!

[bk_forever]

She's a smart kid, takes after her daddies.

Thank you!

[too-beauty.livejournal.com]

Of course! better daddies in the whole universe!

[bk_forever]

Meriel doesn't need a mum, she has aunties if she needs a woman to talk to but she knows she can talk to her daddies about anything anyway.

Thank you!