Disclaimer: I do not own The 100. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.
Author's note: This story takes place after Season 5, albeit with a very different ending.
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Madi didn't remember a lot about her first Mom. People thought it was sad, because that was her 'real Mom', but they were wrong. Madi was sad about it, but that wasn't her real Mom. Her real Mom was Clarke, the woman who found her and raised her, turning her from a scared and lonely 6-year-old to a 12-year-old perfectly capable of protecting herself, even if Mama Clarke didn't always act like it. And that had been enough.
For years they had been happy together, living in seemingly the one Valley in all the world that wasn't destroyed by Praimfaya. Then other people came, and things got bad for a while, but now? Now things were perfect.
Now Madi had two Mommies. Madi knew that most kids had two parents, but it never bothered her that she could only really remember one, because that one was all she needed, but sometimes she imagined what was like. She never told Mama Clarke of this of course, as she had wanted to hurt her, but Madi can't help being curious, but the reality was better than she'd ever dreamed.
Because while she had imagined would be like if Mama Clarke ever saw her friends again, and married one of them, she never truly believed it would be her favourite. Maybe a tiny part of her had hoped, but from Mama Clarke's stories they just didn't have that kind of relationship. Or at least, they didn't.
But things had rapidly changed once Mama Clarke's friends had returned, and while at first Madi had worried it was only because of her, that Mama Clarke was just trying to protect her in a really weird way, she had seen her parents together enough when they didn't know she was watching to know it went beyond being about her.
No, Madi truly believed they were in love, and had been smiling wider than anyone at the wedding, where she got to be best man. Which was only a few weeks ago now, but she truly felt like she's had two parents for quite a while now. Or maybe she was just biased because her third mother was her hero, the woman who had saved the human race from extinction and allowed it to survive extreme conditions. Or at least, that's how Madi truly saw it.
Still in a celebrating mood Madi gathered some gifts for her parents and snuck into the room early in the morning. She had learned the hard way not to open any closed doors with them while they were away, but this early Madi could almost guarantee they wouldn't doing anything they wouldn't want her to see.
Sure enough they were just cuddling, and seemingly sound asleep, allowing Madi to slowly creep into the room and over to the bed without being detected. She almost jumped on it, but as a last time she had done that resulted in a knife being pressed to her throat, followed by her Mommies freaking out, Madi made sure just a respectable distance before making her presence known.
Still like before she jumped up and down and yelled, "Happy Mother's Day!"
"Wha-" Clarke groaned, partly because of the noise, and partly because her wife was pushing her away.
"God dammit Madi, we talked about this!" Octavia scolded, already putting the knife back behind her pillow, although she remained standing in glaring at her daughter, "What did we agree?"
"No jumping on the bed when you're sleeping." Madi grinned cheekily.
"And?" Octavia pushed.
"Not waking you up if it's not important." Madi grumbled, before insisting, "But it is! It's Mother's Day, and the sun has been up for hours, and I just can't wait any longer."
"What the hell is Mother's Day?" Octavia frowned.
The mood suddenly changing Clarke, who had initially rolled over to hide her smile at Octavia's annoyance, and get a few more seconds of peace, suddenly set up and frowned, "You don't know?"
"Know what?" Octavia questioned in annoyance.
Sensing the mood Madi cautiously exclaimed, "Mother's Day is where children give their mother's a gift, and try to make the day about her. It's one of Mama Clarke's favourite days, and mine, cause we always do something fun."
"Oh." Octavia murmured, before admitting, "We didn't really do that."
"Like you didn't do Birthdays?" Clarke asked softly, and apologetically.
"Or any celebrations." Octavia shrugged, before nonchalantly explaining, "If my Mom or Dad bought me a present there would be a record of it, and I couldn't get anything, so we didn't do anything. And, like I told Mama Clarke, I don't know my birthday, and I don't want to be given one. But, if this mean something to you both, go ahead."
"Octavia-" Clarke began.
"I said it's fine!" Octavia said flatly, and unconvincingly, before gently pushing her daughter, "What ya got kid?"
"Erm..." Madi hesitated, briefly looked at Mama Clarke, who nodded in encouragement, and then she cautiously reached into the little bag she bought with her, and pulling out a knife before carefully holding it out.
"Another knife, great." Octavia groaned, almost adding a sarcastic 'this was totally worth waking me up for', before noticing the fine work, "It will go well with my wedding presents."
"Actually, this is for Mama Clarke." Madi explained, handing the knife to her second mother, "It's part of a matching set with the one I gave you. This, is yours, Mama Octavia."
Madi then handed Octavia a piece of paper, causing the older brunette to frown briefly, before having a completely different, and unwanted, reaction when she unfolded it, "Madi, I..."
"Do you like it?" Madi asked nervously, before unnecessarily explaining her drawing, "I know I'm not as good as Mama Clarke, but I tried really hard, and this was the best one. See, this is you on your throne, Mama Clarke beside you, and that's me in your lap. It's a family portrait. Mama Clarke says they used to be popular, and... Mama Octavia, are you?"
"I'm fine." Octavia quickly insisted.
"Then why are you crying?" Madi asked innocently.
"Cause she's a big softy." Clarke teased.
"Shut up Clarke." Octavia snapped, desperately trying to rub the offending liquid away from her face, before softly explaining to her daughter, "Sometimes people cry when they're really, really happy."
"Oh?" Madi smiled softly, "So we make you happy?"
"You more than Clarke right now, but yeah." Octavia smiled, before further explaining, "What I said to Clarke when we got married? I meant it. You guys saved me from the darkness, from death itself, and gave me a reason to live that was about more than just surviving. I love you so much."
"I love you so much." Madi said after embracing Mama Octavia.
"I love you both the most." Clarke grinned, embracing both her girls in what became a group hug, albeit briefly.
"Yuck, you're the worst wife ever Clarke." Octavia grumbled, pushing her wife away, but holding her daughter to her chest for a few long seconds before finally pushing her away, "And you're the best kid ever Madi, but I literally can't cope with one more minute of this sappy shit, so let's get breakfast and then it's straight to weapons training for you."
"Yay!" Madi exclaimed, unable to resist jumping up and down on the bed, letting her age show for a few long seconds, before allowing her Moms to get up so they could get a proper start to the day.