A Transplanted Lily Shall Bloom - intro
#1 of A Transplanted Lily Shall Bloom
Over a year ago, a friend of mine asked me to write them a story. I never did. Thanks to Facebook's "Remember the Day" feature, I was reminded of this request recently. I asked her if she'd still like a story and what she would like in it. She gave me some rough guidelines and set me loose. Lost Girl isn't exactly on hold, but I'm hoping to finish the story of Lilith quickly so Lost Girl isn't getting as much love. This story is for Tatsuru ;)
Lilith was a very wanted child. Her brother was eight years older than her and they had already wanted more children. Alas, her parents had never managed to have another child. After the doctors informed them that neither parent had the ability to help create a child, they chose surrogacy. They chose a sweet vixen as their surrogate and browsed the donor book for weeks before choosing a red haired doctoral candidate human.
Her birth was a joy, easy and quick. The family was completed by the tiny kitsunemimi with large ears, fuzzy sandy yellow fur with just a hint of red, and deep blue eyes. Her parents doted on her. Her older brother, well he was 7. He wasn't that interested in babies, but he agreed she was pretty cute. This continued for 3 years. 3 years of being the golden child. Then her mother got sick. She was sick every morning, but the little girl didn't mind. It always went away by midday.
Soon after that, her mother started getting bigger. The little girl was moved from the family bed to her own bed, and then suddenly to her own little room. She wasn't allowed in her mother's lap anymore. Finally, her parents told her that her mother was having another baby and she would need to grow up and help out around the house. Her mother always called it a "miracle baby" and "a baby of my own". Lilith didn't know why she felt so sad when she watched her mother rub her belly and coo and the unborn kit. She started acting out, trying to get the level of attention she'd had before, but it was no good. Her parents, unused to this behavior, took to shutting her in her room and, on several occasions, spanking her until the little fennec cried and cried.
Things didn't improve when the new kit arrived either. There was not one, but two "miracle babies": Malachi - a boy kitsunemimi just as red as his daddy and heavily favoring the fox's anthro genes and Ciera - a girl kemonomimi of some kind, mostly favoring her mother's human genes but with the ears, tail, and eyes of a wolf. Lilith couldn't figure out why neither of them looked at all like her. They had the same mother and father, right?
The sleepless weeks of newborn care that followed the birth proved rough on Lilith as well. Not only did both parents start putting more and more chores on the little fennec, but in a fit one night her mother informed her that she wasn't like the new babies because she was from another mother. It would be a few years before Lilith would truly understand that statement but she would never forget it.