Title: No home without you
Prompt: home
Word Count: 100

He'd thought about it many times; finding a woman to love, having a family, settling down, making an actual home for himself. Sometimes he felt useless and hopeless in his quest to find contentment in his life. And though he knew he contributed as much as anyone else in the army, more so in most cases, he still felt stuck in a rut that involved not so much his body and mind, but his heart. Starting a new life was always an option, always a choice, but he knew nowhere would ever really be home if Alexander wasn't there with him.

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Title: Home in your eyes
Prompt: home
Word Count: 200

The moment his father crumbled to the ground, chest heaving and bleeding, Alexander had been afraid. He hadn't feared the men who dared to strike out against him and his family, that was easily rectified, and rectified it would be. He hadn't feared the sudden, hastened responsibility of succeeding his father. He was prepared, had been prepared his whole life for what would inevitably be his destiny. He hadn't feared for his kingdom or his people or his life.

At that moment, the fear that forced its way inside his body, taking all his breath and immobilizing his thoughts, had been the realization that he had lost his home or at least that part of his soul that had soothed and comforted him throughout his life. He still had his mother, but she was a woman more to be feared than clung to. His father had been the stabilizing rock in the mountain, the very foundation that Alexander's home, and soul, had been built upon. Without his father, he felt no more secure than a babe left cold and alone in the woods, but when he spotted blue eyes entrenched with love, he knew his home would always be with him.