Disclaimer: I do not own sailor Moon.
Haruka's POV:
Pulling the covers up around the young girl's shoulders as I bent down and let my lips trace across her forehead.
"sleep well firefly." I whispered as I began to leave the room, though I paused in my tracks to glance back over my shoulder at the child to make sure she was safe. As I walked back to the living room Michiru, my girlfriend of now four months stood to greet me.
"how is she love?" she asked me softly and I sighed.
"much better tonight than she has been." I answered as I let my aqua haired angel pull me into a soft embrace.
"she knows her 'papa' will protect her." she whispered and I flinched at the title. How could I, Haruka Tenoh, the biggest hellion in the world be a good father?
However before either of us could say more I heard Hotaru began to whimper in the next room and I sighed as we rushed toward our daughter's bedroom.
As soon as I opened the door the child flinched back and hid beneath her covers, expecting to be struck.
"Firefly...its only us. Not that evil old witch." I stated as I walked over to the bed and sat down before untangling the seven year old from her blankets.
The next thing I knew was that I had the small figure clinging tightly around my neck, drenching my shirt with her tears and I felt useless. All I could do was sit there and hold her, I couldn't take away the pain that she had been put through. I held her for what seemed like hours until she finally stopped crying then Michiru took her into her arms and began to whisper something to her that made her start to giggle.
Whatever it was I don't care, they could have said I looked like a giant salamander for all I care, As long as it got my baby girl to laugh.
"Would it make you uncomfortable for me to stay with you tonight? Just in case those nightmares come back?" I asked after a while and to my surprise the child smiled up at me.
"you don't hurt me papa." she answered and I wish could have murdered those idiots that my collage professor let around his little girl and what he himself for what he did and didn't do.
"I'll leave you two alone or Hime-chan will never get to sleep." Michiru stated playfully, kissing the dark haired child's forehead.
I sat beside Hotaru as the memories of the past few months rushed through my head. Recalling how much that this little girl had changed me in that short amount of time.
