TITLE: Summer on the Vineyard
AUTHOR: Elanor G
RATING: G
CATEGORY: 155 Words
SPOILERS: Oh, none, really. Pre-XF.
SUMMARY: It would be longer than the story.

The little boy was brown except for his green-gray eyes, brown with the flawless
suntanned skin of childhood, and grimy with sand and salt. She loved him so much her
chest ached.

They walked home from the beach laughing and holding hands, and she forgot her
loneliness.

They came back to the house to find him standing there, waiting for them on the
porch and smoking.

"Teena," he said quietly. "It's been a long time."

"Go inside, Fox," she said. Fox gave the visitor a curious look before running
inside and upstairs.

Afterwards she crept into Fox's room. He was asleep, worn out from the beach. She
stroked his brown back, his sun-warmed skin. She wanted to be strong for him, but
her loneliness was overwhelming.

For a long time she sat with him, wondering at the new life growing within her, and
feeling her strength to resist diminish with every passing moment.

End

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