Willow's Chromatober (Hosted by an angst queen Ranger :3)

October 22, 2023 | Grow

Day 22, Grow

Hmm this was a bit hard for me to come up with.... But- baby au :3?

RQ Au where Crystal Orange Steve is a child and Sabre has taken him in as his son :3!

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Sabre

I can't believe I did this... even now watching Orange Steve play with Gerald. After the Red Steve died and told me that he... this small baby was the most important thing in this world... it's been a ride of well... being something I never though I could be.

A Father.

I didn't know much about his kind at first... A Steve... and I had to rebuild the Red Steve's old house for us to live in. It was exhausting taking care of a few weeks old baby with powers... especially when I have non myself.... But we have been here for a long while now... five years now.

I watched the small little wrap baby grow into a young toddler who just loves to color and paint. I even got him the small little piglet I named Gerald. It keeps him company when I go off and hunt or gather supplies. We also aren't able to eat any pig meat since then, but I don't mind.

Watching him grow and learn how to speak.... It's been.... What am I doing?! I don't want to cry again. I have been teaching him the Steve language left behind by the Red Steve, I only speak on that language myself.

I was currently cooking in the kitchen, Crystal Orange Steve, I named him that since he likes crystals was playing with Gerald and painting him. He was getting his pig onsie all dirty again, but I didn't mind. As long as he stayed entertained long enough for dinner to be ready.

While I focused on cooking I felt something attached to my leg. I looked down to see Crystal hugging my leg.

"Daddy! Can we check can we check!" He cheers a bit with paint all over his fingers. He got it over my pants but all my pants are covered in paint stains at this point it doesn't even matter. I picked him up.

"But we checked yesterday." I explained to him. He gave me some puppy eyes.

"Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease." He begged I sighed and looks at the food I was making. It was almost done cooking. We would have enough time to check. We went to the door to the living room where we had little marks of how much Crystal as grown over the years. A day marked for each time he has. Once he leaned he could be taller than me... it's all he wants to check, to see how much taller he gets everyday.

He stand up against the pillar of the door and suprdinky was taller than how he was before, only to find that he still stood at a 3 feet and 6 inches. He was standing on his tippy toes.

"Come on you can't stand on your tipy toes, that's cheating." I tell him. He pouts at me.

"But it makes me taller!" He whines. I laugh a bit,

"It takes time to get taller really, I mean look at how much you have already grown." Looking back wt how small he used to be since the day he could stand made my heart ache. So much has changed in these five years and I think it's for the better.

"One day I'll be super tall!" He grins and runs off to find Gerald. I smile and went back to make food.
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