Norah: Mother's Day

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Title: Mother's Day (Norah)
Fandom: Sky High
Claim: None
Status: In Progress
Rating: G
Summary: Norah Gregory doesn't want to be a hero.
Warnings: None


It’s Mother’s Day- a day to honor your mother. How appropriate.

My mother was Lady Justice.

My mother was amazing. I know most people would say that about their mothers, especially if their mother was a superhero, but my mother was truly special. Not because she could read minds, or move things with her own, but because of who she was outside of her powers.

Anna Honor: Wife, mother, and friend.

She died when I was nine.

Before, I remember long summer days of ice cream and water balloons – my mother would never fight fair – and her coming to every t-ball game I played. She was there every day I got off the school bus and even made cookies for the class on my birthday.

And, every day when my father came home from work, she would throw her arms around him so tight and say, “I’m so glad you’re home.”

Then he would swing me up in his arms – like he was the superhero of the family – and ask how our day had been.

It was normal and extraordinary.

When I was nine, everything changed. There was a fight – I don’t know much more than that – between Baron Battle and other superheroes, like the Commander and Jetstream, and of course, my mother. No great fight was complete without Lady Justice.

Only, nothing was complete after that day in October.

Something happened, something went wrong. Instead of my mother coming home like she would – her eyes tired, but with a glow of satisfaction – my mother never came back. Baron Battle went to jail. My mother went to heaven.

I don’t think I’ll ever forgive him for that.