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Title: Blood Ties, Blood Baths
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Characters: Vala, Adria
Prompt: #052 Mother
Word Count: 331
Rating: T+
Summary: Vala had never intended to mother a child.
Notes: Written for

100_women. 2008-2009ish.

Vala had never intended to mother a child. She had thought about it plenty of times as most did and had even picked out a name or two in the case that it ever happened, but she hadn’t expected to actually get pregnant. That it had become a reality was a surprise to her as much as it was to anyone.

It was not unwelcome, but did not entirely sit well with her either, especially considering the very special circumstances around the birth of her daughter and who it was she was supposed to become.

It had happened though and the why’s and how’s no longer mattered – though she had a pretty solid idea on the answers to both of those questions. She couldn’t change the past as a part of her so desired and that was final. That kind of technology was one that had not crossed her path before.

She couldn’t help but love her daughter anyway and if she did get a chance to undo her existence, she didn’t know if she’d have the heart to. She didn’t think she’d be strong enough.

Despite her true origins, Adria was her flesh and blood. It was human nature to wish nothing but happiness and safety upon her and it was all Vala could do to not run off in search of her to ensure that she truly was okay.

Even as those thoughts and emotions chased each other through her day by day, she knew she couldn’t let them get a hold of her. She was mother to one of the most powerful beings to ever come into existence, to her knowledge, and she’d never truly have the relationship she desired with her daughter in this lifetime or the next.

They were tied to each other by blood, but blood having a density such as it did could never give them the sort of bond that would last for eternity. They belonged on opposite sides of a raging battle.