04 | Never ending cycle

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𝚒𝚒𝚒𝚒

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𝚒𝚒𝚒𝚒. 𝙽𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝙴𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙲𝚢𝚌𝚕𝚎
(𝚁𝚎𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗)
————  🥾🪓܀༅ ☆



After Sarah died, Alaska spent most of his childhood, growing up in Boston. His Mother and Father protected him from the worst of the worst, keeping him safe from the infected until he was old enough to watch his own back. When he was nine years old, Joel and Mary thought they were doomed. As the years went on they met new people, did things they will regret for the rest of their lives, and their marriage was falling apart. A couple people thought were destined to be together forever we're slowly chipping and crumbling into dust. And even the son knew it. Waking up and doing the same thing everyday, living in fear in such tight quarters with, Both of them, Alaska, Tommy and Tess was tight to a point where it was becoming unbearable. Whatever light that was once shining at the end of the tunnel for them was slowly fading.

It all started with a dream. It was a dark tunnel with a white light at the end. Mary originally thought she was dead and it was “The Light” so she accepted it and went towards it only to wake up in her bed, her husband sleeping next to her, his arm draped across her waist. She thought she had woken up until the sound of soft cries came from somewhere in the house. She swiftly climbed from bed following the sound, she walked into the room, there sat a white crib, and a crying baby, and her son, peacefully asleep on a bed across.

All the woman could do was stare at the crib, looking around the room, decorated with art on the tan colored walls stopping reading the painted words on the wall. Helena, Shining Light. The words snapped her from her frozen place in the door. She hurried over to scoop the baby into her arms, calming the crying child, whipping its tear with her thumbs, humming softly to it until the baby girl's beautiful eyes looked up at her with so much innocence.  Mary ran his finger down the baby's face over the soft skin making the girl smile.

She was perfect. Her ocean blue eyes, her nose that matched Marys, her smile the same as Joels and she looked exactly who Alaska did when he was a newborn. When Mary finally woke up she was in tears, for the first time in so long she let herself cry. She cried to the point it worried Joel, Tess,  Tommy and even her small son. It was how she knew everything was going to be okay, that there was a little light inside of her that was going to change their lives.

Helena Sarah Miller was born in late April and she was perfect. The blue eyes, the nose, the smile, the hair, everything about her was perfect. She was another chance at a happy ending even in the world they lived in. She was the new light at the end of the tunnel for the Millers-And Tess. Alaska absolutely adored his baby sister. There was just about a ten year gap between the two.  Once she was born, they saw so much of Sarah in him.

Two years. Two amazing years, First words, first steps, first everything. Bubbly laughs, bright smiles, sticky hands, messy faces, babbling words, little dances filled the lives. Her little curly pigtails, oversized clothes, Alaska's big shirts as nightgowns was a favorite. All the amazing things that she dreamed of watching Sarah and Alaska do together came to life. But all she did was leave. Mary left one night to go get more supplies or something like that and never came back. After a while they thought she was dead, the grief and the tears were too much. Joel wanted to end it all. But he couldn't because his Children needed him. They were what was going to get him through it. And they did.

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