#anyway Marielle your sweet little NPC is getting mother figured now

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ok down the line for another Cora fic :3c ? Taga

YIPPEE WAHOO, god bless I think about them so much. I haven’t touched this one in AGES so it may be super rough

(Taga is the one scientist that was always nice to Cora, sneaking her nice things. This takes place when Cora is maybe 6-8?)

The cell always got a bit chilly at night. The thin layer of peach fuzz across Cora’s body was hardly enough to keep her warm when night fell. Their smaller body didn’t seem to radiate enough heat on its own to fight the chill away. They found that tearing the sheet from their bed (a glorified cot really) and wrapping it around themselves as many times as possible provided the best protection against the cold, but it still wasn’t comfortable.

She had complained to Dr. Nova once. She had asked in a small, sheepish voice if the temperature could be adjusted to be warmer at night. The doctor had merely scowled and said something about “adapting.”

The air from the vents was even more frigid that night.

Many of Cora’s pleas and requests to Dr. Nova fell upon deaf ears—but there was a light in the dark, and it took the shape of soft chocolate brown eyes framed with crows feet and salt and pepper hair that was beginning to grow lighter with age. That light in the dark, who she later found was named Taga, provided warmth, in more ways than one.

Cora could have cried for joy the day Taga snuck her in a blanket. It was the first kindness between them—and certainly not the last.

On another day, Cora found herself hurting and exhausted from a long day of experimentation, some new serum pumping through her veins and leaving them sick and drained. Dr. Nova had insisted on their usual routine of exercises and they had almost passed out at the end.

But once again, Taga eased the ache. There was a glass of water on the table by Cora’s cot, beside which a pair of pills was set out with a note signed simply “T.”

(Bonus line I hadn’t placed yet. This is the fic where Taga gifts them their teddy bear, Arlo! So this would come sometime after)

She dreamt that night of being wrapped in the warm, soothing arms of a mother. She wore Taga’s tusked smile.

#Cora Shepard #she is EVERYTHING to me #anyway Marielle your sweet little NPC is getting mother figured now #test tube baby was given the tiniest bit of care from Taga and immediately claimed her #thank youuuuuu for letting me share Emmie :3 #lo’s wips