Today is my birthday! So I will honor you all with an angsty drabble!
This can't be real!
Author: Dungeonwriter
Word Count: 162
Warning: Depressing
Challenge: #34: the morning after
Haru had not believed that his father was gone when he saw the Fire Nation soldiers break down the door of the house. He had not shed a tear his father kissed him goodbye, Dad's beard scratching Haru's forehead. He had refused to accept the image before his eyes. This could not be happening.
As Haru's home was torn apart, searching for any hidden fugitives, Haru refused to cry. This was not real. Even when his father's beloved pots had been smashed one by one, Haru was sure that he must be mistaken.
He finally chalked it up to a dream when he saw his father chained with all the other Earth benders and taken away. Surely, this was only a nightmare that he would soon wake up from.
It was the morning after when Haru found his mother weeping in a corner, and his father's side of the bed empty, that he realized it had all been real.
Dad was gone.
AN/For anyone who had to grow up without a dad, I know it's the hardest fate ever. I'm spending my birthday without my dad and I know it's tough.