I've been thinking more about Carole x Penny or Penrole as I've coined them (or carenny? I'm still a bit unsure). This is under the idea that either goose lives but he and Carole separate (like in my post here) or this is after he dies and Carole eventually bumps into Penny. They become close friends, Penny cares for her when she's sick (and lives 😤) and they eventually get together after Penny gets pregnant with Amelia and breaks up with her boyfriend.
Carole knitting Amelia things when Penny's pregnant
Amelia calling Carole "Momma"
Amelia not being able to say Bradley so calls him Bradbird, because Bradley, despite the 16 year age gap, is a great big brother
Amelia's teacher (when she's about 5) sets them a task of drawing their family, she thinks Amelia's confused when she puts "mom" and "momma" by stick figures of Penny, Carole, her dad and Bradley
She asks if she meant that one is her dad's partner and one is her mum but she just says her mum and momma are together and the teacher says something about that not being right (this is Texas in the 2000s, look at Texas today)
Amelia tells Penny this innocently and Penny makes an appointment with the headteacher to tell them she wants Amelia moved
The teacher in question walks in and Penny explains that she feels sickened that her daughter is getting told her home life is wrong by someone who had no problem with their family before she knew Penny was raising her child with another woman
The teacher's shocked and tries to defend herself but Penny just says that Amelia just has more people to love her and walks out
At the school's nativity, Bradley manages to make it from the Academy for winter break, he watches her as an angel in the nativity
That teacher watches as she runs to Penny, Carole and Bradbird, Bradley tells her he just managed to fly in from Annapolis
She goes "like an angel?"
And he goes "more like a bird" and says he's exhausted and that his wings hiding because of how tired he is
Amelia's new teacher tells her that when learning about birds, she drew a Bradbird as her favourite bird
They move to California when Penny's dad goes to a retirement home there
Penny buys her bar
Amelia's getting bullied in school for having 2 mums, after they get married in 2015 (I hc tgm taking place about 2016/17)
So, when the Daggersquad are in town for the mission, they pick her up, find this out and warn the bullies that she has a bunch of navy people as family so knows how to defend herself
Just happy family stuff