This choice: Kelly decides to reset Emily to a younger version of herself • Go Back... "Now, I can't force my daughter to love me. Not this way, anyway" Kelly said. "Besides...I missed out on so much of her life...This way I can get to experience those moments with her the way it should have been."
It was true. Kelly had been forced out of her daughter's life before Emily had turned ten years old, and even before then the relationship had been strained by her then husband's constant verbal and mental abuse. Kelly had loved her daughter but there had just been no way to build a loving, tender relationship in the toxic environment her ex-husband had created. And then the few visitations Kelly had been allowed to have before further legal action had stripped her daughter away from her entirely were little more than tense sessions of trying to explain why mommy didn't live with her anymore, sessions that were not nearly long enough and always ended in tears for both of them.
"No, this is the only way..." Kelly said, pulling herself out of her sad reverie and focusing on her daughter once more, "Magic, I want my daughter to become three years old, that she lives with me and that her father is not in the picture. I want to give her the life she should have had, not the one she was given"
And Kelly's power pulsed through her. In the mirror, Kelly could see her daughter rapidly growing younger, her body shrinking and growing more and more youthful as the scenery around her changed as well. From a college lecture hall, to a high school classroom, then middle school. Then elementary. Then preschool. Finally the changes stopped as Emily was seated in the middle of a colorful preschool classroom, her face round and slightly pudgy with baby fat, her clothes having gone through a gamut of changes from young adult fashion, to teeny bopper, to finally settling on a adorable little outfit with a cartoon pony on it, and her hair had gone from lavishly styled to simply a long braid of golden brown hair that flowed down her back.
Emily's young face was wide with shock for a moment before Kelly waved her waved, "No, I want my daughter her with me now!"
And with a pulse of power and a flash of light, Emily vanished from the mirror and appeared snugly beside Kelly in the large chair. Kelly was overjoyed! Her daughter, her true daughter was with her, finally. She couldn't help herself, she leaned down and pulled the pint sized Emily in for a long hug and a gentle kiss on the forehead, warm salty tears flowing freely from Kelly's eyes as her most dearly held dream came true. After a few moments, Kelly let her daughter go and wiped the nonstop cascade of tears from her eyes as Emily looked up at her and said... | Members who added to this interactive story also contributed to these: |
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