I was reading around and realized something
a lot of people try to put Nova in the "motherly" category
probably cause she's the only girl
but it's never clicked for me
it's just not quite right
so I decided to write...
so yeah...
-grungekitty
the team had just come back from getting cupcakes
Nova hadn't said anything
of course, it had SPRX worried
but Nova wasn't really in the mode for the game they both play
so she bolted straight for her room
Nova couldn't even remember the comment that was said for the life of her
but it had her thinking
aren't girls suppose to have all that "maternal instincts"
and here was a kid, put right in her care
nothing!
she never thought of any "motherly behavior"
she felt a little bad
Antauri was the only one "raising" Chiro
Otto wasn't quite adult enough to do it
Gibson was far too busy to do much
and SPRX was... well SPRX
but they all had contributed in some form or another
what had she done? teach him how to fight!
what kind of a "mother" teaches her kid to fight and nothing else!?
Nova felt pathetic
Nova decided to try and help
maybe she just needed a "maternal instincts kinckstart" or something
"ok...what do mom's do?" Nova said
this felt awkward...
"ok, what does Antauri do?" Nova tried
Nova thought for a minute
"checks on him! that's easy!" she blurted out
Nova jumped up and dashed down the hall to Chiro's room
she knocked
"yeah?" Chiro said, obviously distracted
"it's Nova!" Nova said
she could hear Chiro put whatever down and get up
then the door opened
"yeah?" Chiro asked in a soft tone
Nova looked up at him
it's really hard to baby someone that's got two and a half feet on you
"just checking on you" she said
"everything ok?" Chiro asked
"yeah, just making sure you were ok" Nova said awkwardly
"ok, um...any particular reason?" Chiro asked suspiciously
"um...no" Nova stuttered a bit
"ok then" Chiro said, obviously not satisfied
then Nova left
"that...was really bad..." Nova said as she placed her head on her wall "really bad!"
this was going to be harder than she thought
it was so easy to play mommy with her toys... that "don't exist"!
Nova stood there
her head against the wall, mentally scolding herself
then and alarm went off
...
"ok, SPRX, Antauri, you take sector three! Gibson, Otto, you take sector 2! Nova, you're with me in sector 4!" Chiro commanded
oh yeah, it's also REALLY hard to baby "your boss"
then the team split up
Nova sighed as she tried to figure out what to do about her situation
BANG!
Nova called herself every bad word she knew,
she let herself get distracted in a fight, what if Chiro got hurt?
"Nova! you ok?" Chiro said from torso tank 1
"yeah I'm fine, just ran over something I should have" Nova said from foot crusher 6
BANG! CRASH! THUD!
"scratch that, not ok, I'm surrounded-AH!" Nova said as her cabin shook
"I'm on my way" Chiro said
Nova was really pissed at herself now
she tried to take a couple out before Chiro got to her, but her enemies were smart and took her cannon function out
Nova sat there
what else could she do?
if she went out there, she'd get malled!
CRASH!
Nova jumped at the sound
BANG! BANG! RIIIIP!
Nova was curious about that last sound
but before she got turned around, she was ripped right out of her seat and pulled through a scary looking hole that was just made in her hull
Nova kicked and screamed
but Chiro wound up saving her
she was so embarrassed as she watched him take all the other foes out
ending and a typical, cocky, show boating, camera ready, pose
but Chiro dropped it when he saw Nova
a lot of blood on her leg
Chiro rushed over to her side
Nova pushed him off
"it's fine! I must of just cut it on some metal when I was pulled out of my foot crusher" Nova said quickly as she started to stand
her thigh stung like nothing she'd never known
"Nova! stop! it'll get infected!" Chiro said as he pulled her back down "I'm gonna call Gibson, he'll know what to do!"
then Chiro got up
and turn right back around toward Nova
she was crying
"hey! Gibson'll fix it" Chiro said reassuringly as he lowered himself back to her side
"no! I can't do anything right!" Nova sobbed
"hey, we all get hurt, it comes with the job" Chiro smiled jokingly
"I can't even take care of you right!" Nova said
"take care of me? WHAT? Nova, what the heck are you talking about?" Chiro said
"well everyone else does something to help take care of you! I'm suppose to have some kind of 'maternail instincts' right? to just know what to do when I'm handed a kid! and here you are, a kid I was just handed, and I have no clue what I'm doing" Nova cried
"hey!" Chiro said softly as he hugged Nova "where'd you get that idea? I may be a kid, but that doesn't mean you're not!"
Nova looked up, confused
"you guys are my family, and you take care of me, but has it ever occurred to you that maybe sometimes I'm the one taking care of you guys?" Chiro gently laughed
Nova lightly smiled back
it made sense
maybe instead of a "mother" maybe she was more of a "little sister"
she just stayed quiet and tried to steady her breathing
how many times has Chiro hugged her?
no, how many times has she hugged him!?
when she's scared, really scared
Chiro's there
When it was really important, Chiro was the one babying her!
when Mandarin had made their worst fears come true
Chiro was the first on there
he even yelled at Gibson because he was scaring her!
when Nova's anger problems came up
she had thought it was just curiosity, but thinking about it, Chiro was genuinely concerned
he wanted to know what was hurting her! not just what she was hiding!
Nova had watched everyone baby Chiro
and I guess that they had just all made him out as "the kid"
so it never really occurred to anyone that he'd ever be "parenting" one of them
normally Nova would hate being babied, she didn't need it!
but the fact that Chiro had done it for this long without her even noticing, let alone with her being annoyed with it, made it fine for her
he was there when she needed him
and not when she didn't
it was weird to think of Chiro as the older brother
but really, when Mandarin left, everyone had been left with their own scars
no one really realized the role Chiro played
yes, they loved him
but they had always thought of it as them being there for him
they had never realized just how much he had given back
"Thank-you" Nova said quietly
it needed said
no one had ever thanked him for just being there
Chiro was pretty good about it
he never over steps the line
ever
but he's there the second that line moves back
after sometime of Nova slowly calming down
the radio broke the silence
"are you two ok? you haven't checked in" Gibson said
Chiro sat up
"um...no actually, Foot crusher 6 is really damaged and Nova's injured" Chiro said
then he looked down
Nova was asleep!
Chiro didn't know whenever to be happy at the adorable sight
or frightened at the dangerous warning
she he chose both
"um...Nova's passed out, I don't know if she's just tired or if it's blood loss" Chiro said
"we're on our way" Gibson said
in the end, Nova's wound wasn't too bad and the damages to foot crusher 6 were easily fixed
Nova was happy that she got her and Chiro straightened out
now she had time to play her and SPRX's game
ending!
ok, I need to go to sleep
thank goodness for "late-start-Wednesdays"
and I think I realized a couple of things myself
I love it when I do that ^v^
-grungekitty