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She smiled at her sleeping baby boy after a long day at her job.
With a positive attitude, she faced life even after the hardships she had went through from her family and society itself. She lived her whole life dealing with the pressure of being a woman and not being "good enough" to handle a "man's" job as a mechanic, even though she received a college degree in mechanical engineering.
Her life became somewhat better after meeting Hephaestus since he was able to give her a baby whom she loves with all her heart. Her "mother-in-law" soon came to her after Leo's birth in order to prepare him for his life as a demigod, which made Esperanza mad since she insisted that he was far too young, still her baby.
But all that mattered to her was her son for he was her light in her not-so-luxurious life.
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Signing, she slaved away at her job, with Leo by her side since she couldn't leave him alone. But when her eyes wandered over to where he was at, her eyes twinkled with happiness when she saw him making his own little inventions after watching her work over the past years. Soon after she looked at him, he looked at her and smiled, running over to her to show his newest invention that he has created by using his imagination.
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Leo could be seen inside a workshop assisting his mother gather the needed supplies to fix some problems of a machine after working on some of his own machines. As soon as the sun set after a long day at work, her son's eyes started to droop for he was still at the age of six.
Gathering her son in her arms, she closed the shop, drove home in her car, and set her son down in their room. All the while as this happened, she sang a quiet melody of protecting him with her love for he is all that matters to her to keep him in his sleeping state.
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Smiling at her son who was working on his project, she turned back to her own project, trying to focus on her work rather than daydream of her son's father.
Leo then ran up to her, trying to grab her attention to see his newest creation. Praising her son for his majestic work, she decided that the day was done and it was time to close her little shop to go home.
They both left the shop until she realized that she must have forgotten her keys back inside the shop, telling Leo to wait for her outside.
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She suddenly felt that in that moment, that would be the last time she saw her son as she could only see the bright fiery colors of the flames blocking her view of the door which her son was on the other side of.