A/N: I know You guys don't like Kari…but it just wouldn't work with any one else! I know it says "son" but it for the purpose of the story its Ari.
She walked to the mailbox
On that bright summers day
Found a letter from her son
In a war far away
Kate, picked up the letter anxiously, hoping to hear that he was coming home…Some times he was here, and sometimes he wasn't. Fighting people who wanted to hurt her and her country.
He spoke of the weather
And good friends that he'd made
Said I'd been thinking 'bout dad
And the life that he had
Thats why I'm here today
And that the end he said
You are what I'm fighting for
It was the first of the letters from war
Kate smiled…her soldier, was out on the front lines for her…not with M-16s or land mines, but fighting with words.. Words against treachery, lies, and deceit…that could potentially destroy, her land and home.
She started writing
You're good and you're brave
What a father that you'll be someday
make it home
make it safe
'Dear Ari,' she wrote, 'I love you. I miss you, and want you back here so I can hold you in my arms again.' She never knew if he got these letters. She was supposed to send any letters to a safe deposit mail box. Safe away from prying eyes, and those who would like to kill him. 'You are so brave, and our son will look up to you one day, I just know it.' she said biting her lip. She was 2 months pregnant, and Ari was ecstatic.
She wrote every night as she prayed
'Dear, God, please keep him safe, keep him safe and bring him home to me.'
Late in December
A day she'll not forget
Oh her tears stained the paper
With every word that she read
Kate cried herself to sleep that night. She had gotten a letter from Ari's partner. Apparently They had been uncovered and a firefight had broken out. With bombs…
It said "I was up on a hill
I was out there alone
When the shots all rang out
And bombs were exploding
And thats when I saw him
He came back for me
And though he was captured
A man set me free
And that man was your son
He asked me to write to you
I told him i would, oh I swore"
It was the last of the letters from war
Ari, had told him to write to her…he still loved her…He had to be alive…she couldn't go on without him…
And she prayed he was living
Kept on believing
And wrote every night just to say
She wrote again, ' I know you're out there, and I don't know if you'll get this letter, but I love, you and I miss you, and I want you to come home in one piece soldier boy, and if you aren't here to help me raise your stubborn son, I don't know what I'll do…' She wrote as the baby gave a particularly hard kick.
You are good
And you're brave
what a father that you'll be someday
Make it home
Make it safe
Still she kept writing each day
She wrote him everyday, even the day she went into labor…a grand total of 890 letters…
Then two years later
Autumn leaves all around
A car pulled in the driveway
And she fell to the ground
And out stepped a captain
Where her boy used to stand
Kate screamed as a black Cadillac CTS pulled into the driveway, and out stepped Ari… Black clad, and packing….
He said "Love, I'm following orders
From all of your letters
And I've come home again",
He ran into hold her
And dropped all his bags on the floor
Holding all of her letters from war
He dropped the Addidas bag full of clothes, and every one of the 890 letters she had written… He smiled, as a boy, with dark hair, and deep brown eyes, came running from the backyard.
"Mommy, Mommy!" He said grabbing onto her leg. She wiped the tears that had been streaming down her face…
"MalachI, this is Daddy.." Kate sniffed holding onto Ari's stomach. He looked down at her…
"MalachI? Hebrew?" He asked.
"Yeah, like his namesake. And His name means--"
"My Messenger…" they said in unison. He bent down to the shy little boy.
"Hi…daddy," he said and threw himself at Ari…
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home
Finished…. RNR?