「 Grace Kemble/Gretta Kemble 」

This is a one-shot exploring Grace's life when she was a teen and her early pregnancy with Gretta before the events of Error. Enjoy!

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She was pregnant.

Grace Kemble was 17 and pregnant.

Fuck!

Her parents would not be happy about this, that was for sure. What philosophy teacher and history teacher would be happy that their daughter became pregnant so young?

But...surprisingly...they didn't yell at her.

"This wasn't what we were expecting but...it's okay. We will get through this together." She remembered her mother saying.
"Yes...and we will support you however we can." Her father added.

She remembered looking at her parents faces, watching it with extreme detail—despite not knowing this was one of the last times she would see them.

They were fair skinned, blue eyed and black haired like Grace herself. They had age lines that crinkled when they concentrated hard. That day they both had frowns on their faces and worried looks in their eyes.

For months they supported Grace through everything and despite the struggle, she managed to do well through school.

But then...things changed a few months after Gretta was born.

Suddenly Arthur and Calista Kemble changed their minds about the whole thing.

"I'm sorry...but we can't deal with...this...anymore."

Perhaps the pressure was too much for them?

Arthur and Calista were both highly respected and well liked members of the Philosophy and History Departments at Grimsborough University respectively.

A pregnant teenage daughter didn't exactly fit into the mold.

They gave her an ultimatum: find a new place within a week or she'll be disowned.

Grace doesn't remember what emotions she felt that day: a mix of rage and sadness that she couldn't describe.

She texted her best friend that very day—Maggie Clarke—and told her of the situation.

Maggie replied that she had talked to her parents and that they would take her in.

A huge sigh of relief escaped Grace once she learned of the news.

It took a few days, but soon she was leaving her home with only a few belongings and her daughter in tow, wrapped in a baby blanket that was once hers.

Her parents didn't exactly say goodbye: they just handed her a generous amount of money and sent her on her way.

Grace didn't want the money, she would find her own way, but she took it anyway.

Wishing to finally say "good riddance" to her parents, Grace Kemble did what anyone else would do: she spent it.

She saw it in a shop window when she and Maggie were shopping for new clothes for Grace.

On a tiny pearl charm, Grace got Gretta's name engraved, along with her birthdate.

She remembered her hands were shaking when she got it. Not because she might drop it or it's expense.

But Grace thought about her parents first:

Will I ever see them again?

A pit of despair had formed in her stomach as the realization of what she was doing hit her.

She didn't think about it until she got back to Maggie's house and sobbed in her new bedroom when it hit her that her parents and abandoned her and they would never meet their granddaughter.

But...slowly things started to look up.

Grace began to look at her options and decided on an easy fit: Grimsborough Police Academy.

For the next year, Grace studied and practiced and trained to become the best police officer she could be.

And she succeeded, rising to the top of her class and having a bright future ahead of it.

She was actually going to do this!

She couldn't believe it.

With all her struggles, she was succeeding.

But that wasn't the only reward out of all of this.

Every night, Grace came home late at night, greet Maggie and her parents who were usually up watching a movie and then sneaking up stairs to her room where Gretta was usually asleep.

Grace creeped up to the crib of her tiny, but growing daughter.

She watched Gretta sleep peacefully for a few moments.

Soon she was awake and looking up at Grace with curious blue eyes.

"Hi sweetie...mommy's home!" Grace whispered to her, smiling down at her precious pearl.

Her swipes some of her fingers down Gretta's soft cheek and the baby gurgles happily.

Grace smiles down at her as she falls back asleep.

Yes, this was the reason her studying and all the effort was worth it.

To see Gretta's smiling, happy face every night.

As a reminder that...

Everything was going to be alright.

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Final Notes

I have loved Grace and Gretta as a mother and daughter since I created them and seeing them in the early days makes me feel warm and fuzzy :')

They've only had each other and it's how they're so close so seeing them here when Grace was very young was an interesting time to explore.

BatgirlGeek❤️