The Child Who Fell To Earth, by Laura
**takes the plunge**
Title: The Child Who Fell To Earth
Author: laurab1
Rating: G, all ages
Size: 530+ words
Challenge: Childhood
Summary: An alien child's first minutes in a strange place
Characters: Els, Kents and Luthors
Disclaimer: None of these people are mine, more's the pity
The Child Who Fell To Earth
by Laura
The child climbs out of the crashed ship. He does not know his name, or exactly where he is. He does know that he is not where he once was.
He sees another crashed object, the colour of which somehow reminds him of where he used to be. He walks towards it. There are two...people, his mind somehow supplies, inside. They seem unable to get out, and they are not the right way up. One speaks the word, “Martha”, and Martha smiles at the child. Martha’s hair also reminds the child of where he used to be. The child smiles back.
The child watches the people get out of the crashed object. This seems to be a difficult task. Martha gets a large soft item from a storage compartment, and wraps the child up in it. Martha holds the child tightly in her arms. Being held by a soft person with a soft voice is vaguely familiar to the child.
They walk about. The people speak more words that the child does not really comprehend. Martha calls the other person “Jonathan”. Then they see his ship. Martha says, “We didn’t find him, he found us.” She smiles at the child again.
He is content. He knows these people will protect him and his ship.
Jonathan goes off. The child thinks he is looking for a less damaged object, to take the three of them somewhere. Jonathan has found something. The child watches Jonathan lift his ship onto the back of an object that is the colour of this place’s...sky, his mind again inexplicably supplies. Martha and the child climb into the sky-coloured object. Jonathan joins them, and activates it.
They go past things that with their colour also remind the child of where he used to be. The things are damaged; flattened and crushed by something.
Another person appears. This person seems...distressed. Once again, the word comes to the child without much thinking. Jonathan goes off with the person. They return with another person, who is nearer to the child in size. These two new people also climb into the object.
They go past more flattened and crushed things. The new person holds the older child securely. The child sees that the other child is damaged and scared. In a half-remembered gesture, the child reaches past Martha, and passes his hand over the other child’s head and cheek. This seems to calm the other child, who looks at him, before closing his eyes and falling asleep.
This pleases the child. He smiles to himself and settles back into Martha’s hold.
Neither of the children will remember this meeting.
***
Thirteen years later the children meet for what neither of them know is a second time. Once again, there is a crashed car. Once again, the older child is damaged. And once again, the younger child is unscathed. Instead of sending him to sleep, this time, the younger child revives the older one. The older child coughs and splutters and looks up at the younger one with what can only be described as love.
The phrase goes, “Love at first sight”.
For these boys, although they are unaware of it, it is love at second sight.
-End-
Title: The Child Who Fell To Earth
Author: laurab1
Rating: G, all ages
Size: 530+ words
Challenge: Childhood
Summary: An alien child's first minutes in a strange place
Characters: Els, Kents and Luthors
Disclaimer: None of these people are mine, more's the pity
The Child Who Fell To Earth
by Laura
The child climbs out of the crashed ship. He does not know his name, or exactly where he is. He does know that he is not where he once was.
He sees another crashed object, the colour of which somehow reminds him of where he used to be. He walks towards it. There are two...people, his mind somehow supplies, inside. They seem unable to get out, and they are not the right way up. One speaks the word, “Martha”, and Martha smiles at the child. Martha’s hair also reminds the child of where he used to be. The child smiles back.
The child watches the people get out of the crashed object. This seems to be a difficult task. Martha gets a large soft item from a storage compartment, and wraps the child up in it. Martha holds the child tightly in her arms. Being held by a soft person with a soft voice is vaguely familiar to the child.
They walk about. The people speak more words that the child does not really comprehend. Martha calls the other person “Jonathan”. Then they see his ship. Martha says, “We didn’t find him, he found us.” She smiles at the child again.
He is content. He knows these people will protect him and his ship.
Jonathan goes off. The child thinks he is looking for a less damaged object, to take the three of them somewhere. Jonathan has found something. The child watches Jonathan lift his ship onto the back of an object that is the colour of this place’s...sky, his mind again inexplicably supplies. Martha and the child climb into the sky-coloured object. Jonathan joins them, and activates it.
They go past things that with their colour also remind the child of where he used to be. The things are damaged; flattened and crushed by something.
Another person appears. This person seems...distressed. Once again, the word comes to the child without much thinking. Jonathan goes off with the person. They return with another person, who is nearer to the child in size. These two new people also climb into the object.
They go past more flattened and crushed things. The new person holds the older child securely. The child sees that the other child is damaged and scared. In a half-remembered gesture, the child reaches past Martha, and passes his hand over the other child’s head and cheek. This seems to calm the other child, who looks at him, before closing his eyes and falling asleep.
This pleases the child. He smiles to himself and settles back into Martha’s hold.
Neither of the children will remember this meeting.
***
Thirteen years later the children meet for what neither of them know is a second time. Once again, there is a crashed car. Once again, the older child is damaged. And once again, the younger child is unscathed. Instead of sending him to sleep, this time, the younger child revives the older one. The older child coughs and splutters and looks up at the younger one with what can only be described as love.
The phrase goes, “Love at first sight”.
For these boys, although they are unaware of it, it is love at second sight.
-End-