Title: Smell the rain and know (that your father is here to protect you)
Style: Drabble
Genre: Family fluff
Rating: PG
Theme: Oct 31 2006, what goes bump in the night
Thunder reverberates through the air, making periwinkle curtains tremble and the boy under the blue coverlet shudder.
Loud screams punctuate the rolling rumbles, loud thuds adding to the cacophony.
The boy shivers yet again, very aware of what is lending to those noises. Hadn't one brushed by his window scarce minutes ago, its skeletal face leering through the gap between curtain and window?
He flinches back, more roars punctuating the storm's chorus.
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Thunder rolls, lightning strobes, roars and grunts scattered like vocal sprinkles throughout.
A scream shrilly squeaks to an end, catapulting the little boy out the door of his room and to the safety of his mother's arms. There he shelters, his mother gently stroking his hair and whispering softly about how he shouldn't be afraid. He still cowers though, brilliant blue eyes tearing.
"Shhh, your father will be back soon. It's all just a storm." Her fingers made soothing motions against his scalp, totally oblivious to the other sounds in the storm.
"Your father will be home soon Uryuu, soon darling." She continues to whisper in his ear until his father comes through into the room, hair lightly damp.
His mother glances towards him and then bends her head to whisper into her son's ear again.
"See? He's here. He'll be here to protect us from the storm." She hoisted him up higher in her lap, allowing his father to collect his son momentarily, patting the four year old's back lightly and mouthing that he'll take him back to his room to his wife.
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The boy is back in his bed, father perched near his feet. Phrases that mean nothing are being spoken by the elder to the younger, his voice low and soothing, ineffective towards calming his son's fear.
He stands up, shuts the curtains more securely and bends down towards his son's head as if to kiss him goodnight.
Instead he whispers into an ear, "Remember Uryuu, as long as you are in this house they cannot see you, and as long as you are my son, they will not harm you."
And Uryuu, able to smell the rain and invisible blood in his father's hair believes him and falls asleep, safe.