Prompt 2, Impulse
A/N: Rachel, Sara sister squish set later in the war.
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"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?" - Lee Iacocca
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She watches quietly from the hallway as Sara reads from a storybook to a crowd of stuffed animals piled high in the bed around her, carefully sounding out the words- and then blatantly changing a few she was having trouble with.
The whole scene- the young girl cuddled among pillows, the teddy bears, the soft light coming from a frilly pink lampshade, the favorite story- was so domestic and tranquil and before that Rachel couldn't make herself turn and keep walking to the emptiness of her own bedroom; the entire illusion of a simpler yesteryear called too strongly for her to resist tonight.
Sara paused in her story at Rachel's knock to smile up at her sister's silent question, before displacing a fair number of stuffed animals unceremoniously onto the floor and patting the freed space next to her. Rachel settled herself into the space, and wrapped her arm around Sara's shoulder in a partial hug.
Together two voices continued, "Chester and Wilson and Wilson and Chester, and that's the way it was."
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Referenced children's book is 'Chester's Way' by Kevin Henkes.
