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{∘☼‹✧◦Rises The Moon◦✧›☼∘}

(A/N: the song gave me the idea :])

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Outside of a small house where only a mother and her daughter lived, a small girl was crying as she held her arm. She had fallen off of her bike and scraped her elbow. Crimson blood dripped through her fingers as she pressed her other hand against it the wound with a wince.

"Mama!" She wailed, as tears streamed down her face. The woman standing near the kitchen window looked up from the dishes and saw her daughter sitting on the street. She quickly wiped her hands on her shirt as she rushed out the door, kneeling down next to the girl once she was outside.

"Oh dear, what happened, Thea?" She asked, picking up the girl in her arms. Thea clung on to her mothers shirt, sniffing as the tears continued down her cheeks. "I fell and hurt my arm, and now it's bleeding." she rubbed her face with her wrist and her mother sighed.

"Let's get you cleaned up, hun," she stood and walked back into the house holding the girl carefully. Once they got to the kitchen the woman set Thea on the counter next to the sink. She ruffled her hair lightly, making Thea giggle softly, before she moved to grab the first aid kit that was sitting on the other side of the counter. She took out the wipes and gingerly cleaned the scrape while humming softly to calm Thea. She placed a few bandages on her elbow and looked at Thea.

"Does that feel better?" She asked and the girl nodded, "Yeah...Thank you mama." The woman nodded and kissed Thea's forehead, "I'm glad I could help, my little moon." Thea giggled and her mother ruffled her hair again. "Stay inside ok? Dinner is almost ready." She walked back to the stove to stir the soup in the pot. Thea nodded and jumped off of the counter walking to her room.

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"Mama...?" The girl walked into the white and blank hospital room before moving to the bedside of her mother as she laid on the mattress while monitors beeped quietly beside her. The woman looked down at her with a sad smile on her face. "I'm here, Thea.." she placed her hand over the girls and squeezed it gently.

"Are you going to be ok?" She asked, gripping her mothers hand tightly. The woman hummed for a moment, "I hope so. But if I'm not...I want you to be strong for me...ok?" Thea nodded as tears pricked her eyes, but she refused to let them fall, to be (or at least seem) strong...for her mother.

"Can...Can you sing that song for me...Please?" Thea looked down at her feet feeling ashamed to ask her mother of something in a time like this. "Of course, little moon." Her mother replied with a soft smile as she patted the area on the bed next to her. Thea looked up at the sound and climbed carefully onto the bed, snuggling up next to her mother.

"Days seem sometimes as if they'll never end...Sun digs its heels to taunt you. But after sunlit days, one thing stays the same...Rises the moon." Her mother started singing softly, wrapping her arm around Thea as a way to bring her closer.

"Oh~oh, close your weary eyes. I promise you that soon the autumn comes..to darken fading summer skies. Breathe, breathe, breathe..." Her voice wavered as she continued.

"Days pull you down just like a sinking ship, floating is getting harder. But tread the water, child, and know that meanwhile, rises the moon. Days pull you up just like a daffodil. Uprooted from its garden. They'll tell you what you owe, but know even so, rises the moon..."

Thea could hear her mothers voice getting quieter and she clung onto her side, wishing for what she thought wouldn't happen.

"You'll be visited by sleep. I promise you that soon the autumn comes.. To steal away each dream you keep...Breathe, breathe, breathe..."

She felt her mothers grip loosen and the steady beeping of the machines died down.

"Mom...?" Thea looked up to see her mothers eyes had closed and her chest was no longer rising. The tears she'd been holding in quickly fell down her face with no seeming point of stopping. "Mama! Mama please!" She wrapped her arms around her mothers neck, bawling as she buried her face into her shoulder. The doctors came in and started to take her away as she tried to fight to stay with her mom. Shouting the whole time as the doctors took her out to the hall. She was sat down against the wall outside of the room as she curled up. After a while one of the nurses placed a hand on her shoulder and knelt down next to her.

"I'm sorry to say, but she's gone hun..." She said quietly. Thea didn't move as the tears continued down her face. "There wasn't anything we could do...I'm sorry." The nurse sat down next to her and continued. "Do you have anyone who could take care of you?" Thea shook her head.

"No...Dad died when I was a baby and my Grandparents don't talk to us anymore." She wiped her eyes with her sleeve, but it didn't help much as the tears continued to flow down her face. The nurse nodded, "I see. I do have a place we could put you, if you'd like to hear about it?" Thea thought about it for a while before she nodded slowly. The nurse nodded back before standing and holding a hand out for her to take, "You'll have to come with me." Thea stood and took the nurses hand, following her down to the lobby area.

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Thea woke up to the sounds of radio static. Blinking her eyes she gripped the blanket and pulled it back over her as she felt tears pricking her eyes. After the years, she had forgotten the details of her mothers face, with her memory issues not helping her at all. She turned onto her face to have the pillow soak up the tears forming in her eyes so none of the workers would ask about it.

After laying motionless for a while she sighed and sat up, rubbing her face. Might as well get this over with. Although she wished, but sometimes she didn't, that she'd stop having these dreams. As they were the only thing that she had left of her mother.

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