Female Brain (EN)

More Than Words / Epilogue

It had already been a year and a half since Charlie was born, and six months since they'd made attempts to get the blonde pregnant. She was on hormones and it was driving them crazy to see no results yet.

So they decided to make an appointment for IVF. It wasn't the price of the sperm units that bothered them, it was that they didn't want their children to have a big age difference, and above all they wanted the same donor and there weren't many units left in the sperm bank from that particular donor.
Not to mention the fact that Maya was tired of being on hormones for six months without seeing herself get pregnant.

However, seeing Maya on hormones and being very emotional was still quite funny, she was the opposite of her usual self.

She had only worked for eight months between her recovery from her accident, the time it took to do the physiotherapy sessions, and their first attempt. Charlie was eleven months old at the time, and Maya had burst into tears when she saw their daughter take her first steps.

The brunette, usually the more sensitive of the two, had shed a few tears of joy when their daughter took her first steps, but the blonde had broken down in tears, saying that Charlie was growing up too fast.
Her wife had just found it too adorable.

The little girl came up to her and hugged her, chirping 'mama mama', which made her cry all the more.

So it was December and they had their first appointment for IVF.

The first stage lasted fourteen days, but there was no big difference for them as the blonde had already been on hormones for six months.

During the appointment and the pre-appointment tests they had to do, they learned that the blonde had a hostile uterus. Her wife had joked that even her uterus was hostile to men's seeds, but the captain had started crying, saying she wasn't normal.

Shortly after New Year's Eve, they had an appointment at the doctor's for the final injection to trigger ovulation, and two days later they had an appointment at the hospital for the collection of her oocytes.

A few days later, they returned to the hospital after the eggs had been fertilized. Two embryos were re-implanted in Maya's uterus.
The rest of their embryos had been cryogenized.

It was only ten days later that they were able to take the pregnancy test.

Taryn had come to take Charlie so that the girls could rest easy. She went for a walk with the little girl and Ford.

/Flashback/

It was Charlie's first Christmas, the little seven-month-old was adorable. She looked more and more like Carina, to Maya's delight.

The only difference was that Charlie had blue eyes. A characteristic of their donor, their shape however, was all Carina. But she was sublime and the Italian loved the fact that their daughter had that in common with her wife.

Maya had returned to their home on Christmas Eve. They had wanted Christmas to be just the three of them, and the captain had worked during the day.

The blonde had arrived at eight o'clock with a package in her hands. Charlie was sitting on the floor on an exercise mat, surrounded by cushions, and the brunette was in the kitchen, one eye on her and the other on the dishes she was preparing.

-"How are the two women of my life?"

- "I'm fine, but your daughter has two bottom teeth and she's been in pain all day. She's been a bit grumpy".

The cardboard box Maya had placed on the floor had moved, as the blonde had gone to check on her daughter.

- "what is going on my baby?"