So, there's a supermoon at the moment, and I know I promised some drama, but I actually quite like this fluffy one :)
Thanks for the reviews, favourites, follows, prompts - you are all spectacularly awesome
For Dom, with whom I first watched Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out, and couldn't stop talking about Moon Cheese.
I don't own anything you recognise :)
"Come on, boys." Kate Castle led her husband and two sons outside to the evening air, breathing in the clean smell of night and raising her head to look at the sky. Ambling towards the clearing ahead, the detective caught Castle's hand and gave it a squeeze as the familiar scent of coffee and paper and ink wafted towards her in the gentle breeze.
When they got to the patch of grass unhindered by a canopy of autumn brown, she tugged the writer down to lie next to her on the heathery bed, the boys slithering down between them as the small family gazed up at the stars.
"There's the North Star." The low rumble of Castle's voice was accompanied by a chorus of 'where?'s from Nathan and Nicky as their father raised an arm to point at the beacon of light. "And there, you've got the plough."
As he pointed out more and more constellations, Kate couldn't help but be lulled into a blanket of sleep as his soothing growl caressed her tired mind. Too soon, she was pulled from her slumber by an insistent tapping.
"Mommy - Nate says there's no man in the moon, but I can see him. Look-" three-year-old Nicky waved a pudgy arm in the direction of the glowing orb in the distance. "And Daddy says the moon is made out of cheese, but why do people want to buy Moon Cheese if they can't eat it?"
"Who wants to buy Moon Cheese, Nicky?" Kate asked with a yawn, purposefully leaning on her husband's arm as she sat up, pulling the squirming boy to her chest.
"Daddy says he owns some Moon Cheese. Why does he want Moon Cheese when he can have Earth Cheese?"
"I don't know, Rick," she teased. "Why do you want Moon Cheese?" Rick huffed.
"Because Moon Cheese is super-cool, Nick-ster. Because when Daddy goes to visit his Moon Cheese, you and Nate can be the only two boys who have eaten Moon Cheese and Earth Cheese. Isn't that awesome?" As Nicky nodded in wide-eyed wonder, Rick bent to kiss the top of his wife's head.
"Thanks," she muttered dryly. "You have no idea the questions that are going to spring up from this."
"You're welcome." His answering grin made it easy for Kate to imagine him as a young boy, cradled against Martha as he spun a story to his entranced mother about the phenomenon of Moon Cheese. Boys will be boys, she thought fondly as he scooped up their eldest and followed her back inside.
Ok, so this might be the only update this week. Despite school having finished for me, Thursday through Sunday consists of 6am-11pm days because of a variety of things, so...
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this one :)
See ya
~wolfergirl
