"Adopted By" Oneshots!

All Grown Up

This is just plain adorable people, prepare for heart-melting fluff!

This is a crossover oneshot with all my Adopted By Broadway books, all the kids are in their 20s. And this is told in their parent's POV!

Catlynn

I miss when Sunshine was little.

No, I don't miss the trauma she went through. I don't miss the nightmares, the fear in her eyes when she thought her dad was out to get her.

What I do miss is her. Just her being there, a happy, innocent little girl just shy of thirteen. I miss the days when she was a kid. It's hard to not have her live at home anymore, I know she's happy with her wife and kids, but it's hard.

I remember when she would come home from school, bang the door open, and yell, "Mom! I'm home!" Sometimes she'd bring a friend with her. Some days it would be Astrid or Cesca, but most of the time it was Red.

It was so obvious they were dating, but the signs just went straight over my head...

I'm holding one of Sunshine's high school yearbooks in my arms. She looks so tiny in that picture, and she looks like a completely different person to how she looks now...

But even though I miss my little girl, I'm so, so proud of the woman she's become.

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Matilda

She made it.

Tilda made it to the big leagues.

When Matilda got a little older, all she talked about was being a professional derby player. She knew the dream was slightly unrealistic, she knew the risks. But what mattered was that she worked for it. She worked her ass off and paid the price, and she managed to live out her dream.

Flashback to Matilda's first meet as a professional. I remember wishing her good luck, and when she was skating around the track, I could see her get slightly shaken up and I saw tears line her eyes.

And I know exactly why. She was thinking about her best friend Lex, who died when Tilda was fifteen.

Truth be told, I miss Lex too. She was funny and really really nice, I can't even imagine what it must've been like for Tilda back then, her and Lex knew each other since kindergarten.

I smiled and looked at Matilda's derby trophies in her now-unoccupied childhood bedroom. She never bothered to take the trophies with her when she moved out, so they were mine to marvel out.

"God, I'm so proud of you, Tilly."

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Valerie

I can't believe my sweet little girl is 25 and married.

Well, about to get married. I'm at her wedding, waiting to walk her down the aisle so she can marry the love of her life, Reed Adler. It's hard to believe that Reed and Val have known each other and been dating for fifteen years.

I felt tears come to my eyes as Valerie smiles at me. "Hi Daddy."

I'm so used to Valerie being a sweet little kid. Over the past fifteen years I've known her, she's grown almost a foot, she's gotten so much more mature, and she's grown up right before my eyes.