A/N: Drabble-ish. Enjoy!
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Home
A smile was his reward. A kind smile. A true smile.
He loved her. Oh, how he loved his kid sister. His angel, his friend, his sister.
He'd faced off against death, against his darker self; a perilous, maddening fight. It was a smile, her smile, that lifted all his sorrows.
He loved her. Oh, how he loved her. She was Hazel: his angel, his friend, his sister.
She was home.
Home.
Home…
It was a strange word. Daniel had never had a home, nowhere to call a safe haven. He had never felt safe. He only did when around her.
His wounds would not heal. Not with time, not with tears, not with the happiness he had long thought forgotten, nonexistent. They would only heal when around her.
She was his home. Her smiles, her loving gaze, her company: Daniel took solace in them. And he smiled, and he loved her. Because he was safe.
He was home.