Captain Marvel: My Mother (BOOK I)

Chapter 18

" Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."

- Charles Dickens

(TWO MONTHS LATER: VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA) 

The Kree-Lizard hybrid and his new companion, Nancy Johnson, had formed their special friendship, more mutual than ever.  Somehow, his infatuation grew fonder every time they spent their days together as street rats. On the other hand, Nancy enjoyed and developed her feelings for him, however both of them were ashamed to express themselves.  There were days and nights which they spent talking and finding food from elsewhere aside from hiding away from the invaders. Nancy began sharing her stories to him before she became terminally-ill which the boy got interested to hear more.  Sometimes, she made jokes for him to ease the pain of his dreadful memories from 682 as the boy loudly laughed at lot. 

For him, he developed something within him. It was growing and glowing inside his heart which he has been longing and desiring for: LOVE. That state began to let him realize how he had to care and respect someone unconditionally. The late Captain Mar-Vell had already explained to him of how he could love someone despite of his ugliness and purity. The hybrid somehow understood it well. Thus, it applied to his blossoming relationship to the woman he saved at the hospital in Seattle. He sleeplessly spent thinking in the couple of days of how to treat and repay her for he had no idea of how to make it up to her. Until that day,  he intently saw a rusty street poster of a man giving flowers and chocolates to his special someone. The boy thought of doing the same thing to Nancy as he smiled. 

" Maybe, this should do the trick, " he said to himself  and pondered. " But where and how I would get those things to give them to her? I really want to repay her kindness to me. " 

The boy started searching on his own to find flowers or chocolates on the cold and abandoned streets. He went everywhere from the destroyed establishments to the ghost shops. Unsuccessfully, he found nothing and wasted his time to do it. He heavily sighed and sat on the corner. Then, he looked up in the blue skies and clouds.  

" I can't do this! " he furiously thought. " I want to give something special to Nancy, but I failed. Is there a way to find them?! I don't want to make her downtrodden and  empty-handed! " 

Looking behind, there was a nearby park with bushes and flowers of different colors. Finally, this had solved his courtship dilemma. The hybrid boy immediately stood up and walked over. He began picking up those flowers, but he wasn't careful enough and crushing them. Even, he did it several times, it's still ruined into pieces of broken petals and leaves. 

" Why I couldn't get it right?! " he sadly sighed and thought. " I want to give these colorful things to her! It turned out to be unpretty! I'd better get this done and perfectly, so she will be happy to see them. " 

He never gave up in picking the flowers, until he found a bunch of Rock Roses with small circular pink and white petals. The Kree-Lizard boy tried his best to take them as he was very slowly and carefully picking them one by one. At last, he took a bunch of beautiful flowers for Nancy when he got satisfied. The boy got himself back on the streets looking out for his friend. The young woman was peacefully sleeping at the corner. He carefully placed the bunch of Rock Roses beside her when he sat down.