Ice Cream Stall: Toffee/Tiramisu

Insane House Challenge: stickers

Bumper Cars: scissors

Prompt of the Day: indifference


The living room is in disarray when Marcus comes home. He folds his arms over his chest, watching in amusement as his wife glides scissors over the brightly colored paper, forming strange patterns he doesn't recognize. "What's this?" he asks.

Luna turns her attention to him, her wide eyes softening with fondness. She holds up a weirdly shaped bit of paper that has been covered in sparkly stickers that seem to form scales. "It's a Marshtoad," she explains brightly.

Marcus nods. He doesn't know what she's on about. Really, he never does. Luna is strange and bizarre, but it's her belief in the impossible that brought them together.

He still remembers those first days after the war. He had shown nothing but indifference as the others looked at him in disgust. Even though he hadn't fought, even though he had stayed neutral through it all, they had looked at him as though he is the enemy.

But Luna hadn't. She had been the first to smile at him, to offer him something other than indifference. Even when the world told her that he is a bad man who deserves nothing but misery, she taken his hand and told him he's worth so much more.

"I wanted to make something nice for the nursery," she continues, climbing to her feet.

His eyes rest upon her swollen, pregnant belly, and he smiles. They have come such a long way. She has been so good to him, and now he knows she will be an amazing mother to their child.

With a grin, he moves closer, taking the cut-out from her and setting it aside. He wraps his arms around her, kissing her forehead.

"You don't think it's silly?" she asks.

He shakes his head. "I hope our child is like you."

Luna is good. The world needs more people like her.