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“Are you a doctor?” She has eyes that whisper of the ocean and hair that speaks of the sun, and he knows not how to speak, how to breathe.
Someone sets off a signal flare in the distance, and the resounding thunder of noise behind him is enough to bring him out of his trance. He moves towards the nurse as she explains that someone found the infant in one of the camps, and that he appears to be in perfect health.
Henry takes the boy into his arms and she smiles up at him in the strange blue light of the night. He smiles at her, too, then. It’s been a month and a day since he last did that. And his smile only grows all the wider when he looks to the child in his arms.
That’s all it takes to reshape his world: Abigail and Abraham.
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Henry, Abigail and Abraham weren't always family, of course; but they became one in time. So here's a(n eventual) series of drabbles about the Morgan family, from the various ways in which they came to be to the various ways in which their story might've ended - but I do warn you, it's a bit of a long one. ;)