Another Day
Main character Raph
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It was a day like any other. Winter was coming and for him, this was a time to get the family together since they couldn't go outside much do to the cold.
The house was chilly since the windows didn't close easily and the board still had a squeak. " I've got to fix that one of these days." Walking up the stairs in his cork boots Raph opened his bedroom door, kicked off his boots and flopped on to his bed.
God he was tired. Winter was the worst, he'd work over time just to make ends meet, then there was fixing up the old shack they called a cabin, and then keeping them warm.
Scrubbing his face, he sat up, feet on the cold hard wood floor. The wood was beginning to splinter now, he'd need to fix that. And the windows.
Shaking his head, he laid down on the chilled pillow. Still in his work clothes, Raph pulled the blanket over his shoulders, to tired to care about the grime that would show up in the morning on his sheets. The white t-shirt bunched, and the jeans just weren't comfy to sleep in, but now? They were the comfiest thing he had. Warm to.
A sigh and his eyes closed, sleep waiting on the edge of blackness.
A small tap on his door woke him though, but it was all right.
"come in" Raph called, voice quiet but hoarse. The door opened a crack and a small slippered foot stepped into site. Little hands pushed the door open the rest of the way, then a small head of dark hair came into view, green eyes a blaze in what little light there was.
Raph smiled, patting the bed beside him. " C'mere baby, what's wrong?"
The little girl grabbed the edge of her night gown, then hurried over to the bed, crawling under the blankets." Daddy, when's mommy coming home?" She whispered, burying her head in the pillow.
Raph gave a sad smile, memories filtering past his eyes.
A women, his age, tall with dark brown hair, always pulled back in an elastic. Her eyes a bright green and always loving. Her shy faint smile, never leaving her face as she helped him with out question, only to end up giving him more then he could ever imagine. The hand she'd given him, to always have and hold. The smile when they'd found the old house in a summer so many years ago, and the time they'd spent, fixing and painting. Then the child. A blessing never meant to be, but yet here she was just as beautiful as her mother.
The mother that had given everything.
Hugging the little one to his chest, Raph gave her a smile. " Soon hun, soon, I promise"
She smiled, Hugging her farther tightly before closing her tired eyes, sleep taking her.
Raphael, looked through the only window in the room, looking to the bright moon.
"Please, dear god, let her come home" he whispered, closing his eyes and letting the darkness take him.