~Chapter 6~
When Lightning entered the examination room with Nurse GTO, Nurse GTO shut the doors. Lightning looked around the room. From Lightning’s point of view, it was so bright that it was blinding. He squinted his eyes. He didn’t see anything but a bright white light. A baby’s cry was heard in the distance. “Lightning…”, whispered Sally’s voice. Lightning smiled. He couldn’t see her. “Are you ready to see your new daughter, Lightning?”, asked Nurse GTO. Lightning looked to his right. He was able to see her. She was smiling. Lightning’s smiles faded a tiny bit. “D-Daughter?”, asked Lightning. “I thought the baby was a…a boy!” Nurse GTO shook her head. “Miracles happen.”, was all she could say. “All of that racing I was going to teach him…”, thought Lightning. “Wasted.” He drove forward and Sally’s image faded in slowly. The bright light was now seen as if it was a really dense fog and you have to be close to an object to see it. “Sally, it’s a girl…”, said Lightning. Sally smiled. “So?”, asked Sally.
“We were told it was a boy by Doc.”
“It was just a mistake.”
“A big one.”
“What’s the big deal?”
“I wanted to teach him racing and all that jazz.”
“Oh, Lightning.” Sally rolled her eyes, playfully.
“What about the room I made for him?”, asked Lightning.
“It’s fine, Lightning.”
The room started to spin. “It’s…”, started Lightning. He started to breath heavily. “It’s not fine…” Lightning closed his eyes. “I’m a father…”
Sally’s smile faded. “I freaked out while I was having the baby too, Lightning. Me? A mom? But then-”
“Hey daddy!”, said Doc’s voice from the foggy unknown. He drove closer to Lightning and Sally and Lightning was able to see him now. There was a very tiny car painted white with its eyes shut on Doc’s hood. It was sleeping. It’s tiny little hood bobbed up and down. “I-Is that?”, asked Lightning. “Yeah.”, said Doc. Lightning smiled. The dense fog he saw disappeared. Everything was clear. He didn’t take his eyes off of his daughter. “But then…what, Sally? You didn’t finish your sentence.”, said Lightning, still not taking his eyes away from his daughter. “But then, I saw her.”, said Sally. Lightning paused for a moment, then nodded. “Yeah…”, he said. “Th-Then I saw her.” Sally smiled. Doc drove close to Lightning slowly. “Bow your hood.”, said Doc. Lightning did what he said. Doc tilted his hood and the baby girl rolled off of his hood and then stopped on Lightning’s. Lightning stared at the baby that was on his hood. Lightning got all choked up. “She’s br-breathing.”, said Lightning. He was able to feel her breath on his eyes and the bobbing of her hood. “Baby cars always start out in their neutral setting until they learn how to switch out of it on their own and drive by themselves. She can’t move unless you move her. She has a coat of white on right now, but soon her natural paint job will fade in.”, said Doc. “Oh, and Lightning?”
“Yeah?”, he answered.
“Name?”
“A n-name?”
Lightning looked at Sally.
“Jenny.”, said Sally.
Lightning smiled. “How about, Jane?”, asked Lightning. “Jane Taylor McQueen?”
“Jane? Jane Taylor?”, asked Sally.
“Jane Taylor…she was the one who wrote Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. I thought it would be nice to name her after her because…she…she’s as beautiful as a star.”
Tears fell out of Sally’s eyes. “That’s a great name.”
“Jane Taylor Carrera McQueen.”, Doc repeated. “Nice choice.”
“Lightning, look!”, Sally called out. Lightning looked in front of him at Jane. Her eyes were closed but her eye lids moved. She cooed. Jane’s eyes slowly started to open. When they were fully open, she looked right into Lightning’s eyes and blinked a few times. Her mouth started to curve. “She…she’s smiling!”, said Lightning. “Smiling! But…”
“But what?”, asked Sally.
“Her eyes…”, said Lightning.
“What about them?”
“They’re two different colors.”
Sally and Doc looked and saw Jane’s right eye was blue and her left eye was green. “Sh-She’s gorgeous!”, Sally said.
“Hm…interesting…”, said Doc.
Jane giggled and started bouncing her shocks up and down. She didn’t bounce up into the air, she was just…bouncing. Lightning giggled. “S-So cute.”, said Lightning. He looked at Sally. Sally was able to feel his stare. She leaned into him and smiled. “I l-love you.”, said Lightning. A tear fell out of his eye. Jane saw it and licked it. She made an “icky” face. Lightning laughed again. “I love you too, so much, Stickers.”, said Sally while giggling at Jane. “Can we take her home?”, asked Sally. “Yes.”, said Doc. Sally bowed her hood to Lightning and Lightning tilted his hood to let Jane go to Sally. When Jane was on her hood, Sally quickly drove out of the examination room to show everyone. The doors swung closed when she left. Lightning was then alone in the examination room with Doc. They heard cheering and "Aww"s from outside the doors. “Doc, I…you said we were having a boy…”, said Lightning. Doc glared at Lightning. “Good luck, daddy.”, was all Doc said and Doc drove away from Lightning to the other side of the room. “Y-You knew, didn’t you?”, asked Lightning. “You knew she was going to be a girl didn’t you?”
Doc turned around again to Lightning and smiled.
“Good luck, daddy.”, he repeated.
[b]A picture is going to be drawn soon :slight_smile: for this chapter.[/b]