Rock Valley

“What’s on your mind love?” Cat asked softly. She hated when Kay looked so concerned, she wished she could take all the worries away from her.

“Cat, I love you, and I love your children. You know that, don’t you?” Kaylin said.

Cat looked surprised. Where was this coming from? Of course she knew Kaylin loved her kids.
“I know Kay, and I am happy you do, I could never do anything to hurt them”
“But you know Cat, I really wish I could be a mother to”
“But you are a mother to them as well Kaylin. Don’t you know that?”
“No Cat, you are their mother. They like me, but they will never concider me as their parent. They have you, and they have Remington”

Hearing the name of her late husband made Cat shiver. She still missed him, altough she was happy to have Kaylin.
“No Kay, Remington will always be their father, but he has been gone for a long time. How can you not believe the children concider you their parent?”

“They will never do, Catherine, ever. And it’s OK. But I want to be a parent, have a child that thinks of both of us as it’s parents.”
“You know that will never be reality babe, they don’t clone human beings just yet” Cat smiled.
“No, but we can adopt. That way the baby is neither mine nor yours, but still as much mine as it is yours. Will you have a baby with me Catherine?”

Looking in the big, questioning eyes of her lover, Catherine could do nothing but say yes. She longed for another child as well, and this was the perfect sollution for both of them.
“Yes Kaylin, I will have your baby” and she hugged her wife.

That answer earned her a long kiss from Kaylin, who was thrilled about becoming a mommy herself.

Kaylin immediatly called the adoption agency. She was very nerveous as the lady from the agency started asking her questions about her financial situation, her family, her job, her partner’s job.

The conversation went well. Kaylin was told she was a perfect candidate to adopt a little baby. The agency just needed the name of her husband.
“Oh, but I don’t have a husband” Kaylin asnwered.
“But U told us in the beginning of this conversation you were married, Misses Legacy” the lady said, on a questioning tone.
“Yes, I am, but my partner is a woman, Catherine Legacy. We got married yesterday.”
A silence fell over the other side of the line.
“Then I am afraid you can not adopt, Ma’m. We are not allowed to place children in same-sex couples. Agency policy.

Kaylin started crying. Why was everyone against them? They loved each other, why did it care so much that Cat wasn’t a man?? And why wouldn’t the world accept their love?
“But we can place a child in foster care. There aren’t enough foster homes for little children, so we are allowed to alter the rule. Would you be willing to concider that Mrs Legacy?”

Off course Kaylin would become a foster mom, if that was the only way of having a child. The lady told her someone would bring the baby over a week later, in order to give them time to adapt their house to another infant. Kaylin was happy, she was going to be a mom after all.

But downstairs, Déborah was thinking about all the changes her family had gone trough since the death of her father. Was she really comfortable with being the talk of the town??

Will the baby stay with the legacies? And will Deb be able to cope with the situation at home? How will the other kids respond to the new baby? Will the relationships between Cat and Kay and Kay and the kids remain as good after the baby comes?
Keep reading!!