Feral (Gabentine Fic)

When The Dust Settles

(10 Years Later)

"Mama! D took my toys again!"

My mother sighed loudly and looked inside me and my brothers room.

"D, give your sister her toys back and both of you guys need to get dressed or you'll be late for school."

D stuck out his tongue at me before throwing me my toys and going to get dressed. I huffed at his attitude and put my toys away before also getting dressed for school. I didn't mind going to school because I got to see all of my friends there and do fun stuff. D was 8 years old and I was 6 going on 7. Mama always talked about what happened in the old world and that we should be grateful for what we have today.

"Duck! Mariah! Bus is here!"

My little legs scampered down the stairs and tried beating my brother to the front door. Mama started shouting not to run in the house and we slowed down to a fast walk. We grabbed our lunches that mama was handing us and walked/ran past her.

"Hold up! Aren't you guys forgetting something?"

The deep voice was surprising to hear and I twisted around to see my dad walking out from the kitchen.

"PAPA!"

Me and D both threw down our bags and lunches before darting towards him. Papa was still dressed in his uniform and must've just got home this morning. He was a general in the army and he helped a lot of people each day. Mama is a vet who helps animals get better and they always have this joke about mama "fixing" papa but me and D have yet to figure out what that means.

"Hey, you little rugrats! Did you miss me?"

D and I attached ourselves to each of daddy's legs and smiled up at him.

"Yeah, a whole lot!"

Papa chuckled and swooped us both up in a tight hug before kissing our cheeks messily. I groaned in disgust and wiped away the slobber from the kiss. Papa laughed at that and set us down before turning to mama and giving her a sweet kiss that had me and D turning away from the nastiness. I got a genius idea in my head and turned to whisper it in D's ear and we both turned towards our parents with mischievous grins.

"Since it's a Friday, can we stay home with you guys and play? We haven't seen papa in ages and we really miss him."

We pulled out our best puppy dog eyes and gave them to mama because I know papa was already on board with our plan because he gave her puppy dog eyes too. Mama groaned and covered her eyes before sighing.

"Alright, you guys can stay home today. But, you both need to clean your rooms before go and do anything."

We cheered in victory and me and D ran upstairs to start on our rooms but, I did linger a little longer by the door to watch my parents. Mama wrapped her arms around papa's neck and gave him another kiss.

"You guys are going to be the death of me, you know that?"

Papa chuckled and flashed her one of his famous sweet smiles.

"You wouldn't have it any other way."

"Nope. I love you, Gabe."

"I love you too, Clementine."

I smiled at their words and left them to their privacy but not before papa called out.

"Mariah Lee Garcia, you better get started on that room or Donnie is going to get more ice cream than you!"

I ran upstairs to start on my room so I could get some ice cream too.