Our lives may not have

Fit together,

but ohhh did our

souls,

know how to

dance...

***

Jay sat watching the child play in the back yard. He laughed as the little boy jumped, trying to grab small fireflies before releasing them from his hands.

The boy ran up to Jay, who grabbed him and held him close.

He showed his father the small bug he had caught before it flew away. They both laughed as the bug landed on the boy's nose before flying off.

"Daddy," the boy shifted in his position as he clung closer to his father, "Where is mommy?"

Jay sighed at the boy's curiosity. He was at the age now where he questioned everything around him. He questioned why the sky was blue, why his father was Alpha, why he had fingers and now why he had no mother like the other children around him.

Jay had avoided the question, immaturely pretending he had not heard it the first time Atlas had asked.

Now though he was face to face and could not blame his failed hearing.

"Mommy is..." Jay looked around, desperately wishing that Jackie or Nova was here to help.

Suddenly his eyes found the moon that hung above him as an idea formed within his head.

"Mommy is up there," he said, pointing towards the moon.

Atlas looked up at the sky and back to his father wildly, "she's in the sky?"

He squinted his eyes, as if trying to find the illusive woman.

Jay laughed and shook his head, "No, mommy is with the moon."

The child paused to stare at the hanging orb within the sky.

"That moon?" He asked.

Jay nodded, "mommy is with that moon, yes."

"Why?" his curious eyes found Jay as he again searched for another explanation.

"The moon...needs mommy...,"

"What if I want mommy?" The child demanded.

"The moon needs mommy so she can help people," Jay whispered, holding the child close to him as he stroked his son's hair.

"When will she be back?"

Jay sighed. Atlas had never met his mother, but he couldn't resist his questions when he asked to see what she looked like. Jay only had a handful of photos, one of him and Daisy smiling into a camera, another of Daisy holding Grace's set of twins, and the last a photo Jay had taken of Daisy as she danced within the moonlight.

Atlas knew he had a mother, and had a vague idea of what she looked like because of it.

"She will be back...when the moon is done with her."

"When?"

Jay felt like throttling his own child to stop his endless questions.

"When she is done with her."

"When?" The child giggled at the repeated word.

"I said, when she is done with her," Jay laughed, fighting his way through and tickling his sons exposed belly.

The child giggled and laughed with explosive happiness as his father continued to tickle him.

"What's all this?"

They turned to find Nova watching from the doorway with a smile.

"Nov-nov!" Atlas struggled out of his father's arm as he raced into Nova's waiting ones.

"Daddy told me mommy is up there!" he pointed to the moon.

Nova cast a quick glare at a guilty looking Jay before smiling at Atlas.

"Are you pointing to the moon?" The child nodded vigorously to confirm.

"Yes, mommy is with the moon."

"When will mommy be back!" The child demanded.

Nova frowned and looked at Jay, not sure of what story he had already placed for Atlas to believe.

"Mommy will be back when the moon is done with her," Jay said wearily.

"But when!" Atlas cried angry now that none of the adults were giving him a straight answer.

Nova bent forward and kissed the top of Atlas's head, "The moon will need mommy for a long time darling."

Atlas stirred within Nova's arms before bursting into sobs.

"I-miss-my-mommy!" he cried.

Jay sighed and got up, taking hold of the child from Nova. He soothed his son, holding him close to him as he let him cry. Let him cry for a person he had never met, yet still had a yearning for within his soul.

Exhausted from his outburst, the child soon fell asleep within Jay's arms.

"It gets harder, doesn't it?" Nova sighed.

The walked inside the house, towards Atlas's room.

"It does," Jay agreed.

"It will eventually get easier though," Nova said, her voice growing hopeful, "one day he will understand. But until then, let him cry his pain out."

Jay nodded and placed a small kiss upon his son's head.

They placed the child upon his bed, the two watching his even breathing. Nova smiled at the father and son as she walked out of the room.

Jay grumbled but laid down next to Atlas, inhaling his sons scent.

Atlas mumbled within his sleep and moved closer to his father.

Jay smiled and wrapped his arms around him, closing his eyes to the sound of Atlas's small snores. His eyes briefly flicked open before he fell asleep to take in the sight of the moon as she hung within the sky. Falling in love with such an object was the same as falling in love with her wandering child.

Always from afar, never meeting, never touching, yet still forever there.

Okay confession:

This was the original ending for Moon Child.

(*dodges thrown bricks*) Okay calm down chillins because Obviously I decided not to go down that path.

I was VERY conflicted and thought, "well I could always make a second installment?" (man I even made a cover and every thing hahahaha) but then I got a case of crippling self-doubt and thought, "no one is going to bother reading a second book dumb butt, that's way to much work for the readers- who wants that!?"

So I'm just...adding on....

I guess in a way it's like a part one part two?

I hope you stick with the story and see what happens to the characters! Their lives/story is not over just yet!

Ssssooo with that thought in mind,

Thank you to EVERYONE. EVERY SINGLE FREAKING ONE OF YOU. Who are reading right now. I apprieciate and love all the support and don't know what I would have done without it.

:))

Until next time,

Loves,

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