Goodnight Moon and Goodnight You

With Eyes Wide Shut

Don't leave me... He wished he didn't have to. He wished he could have changed the flow of time. To make it stop so they could be together a little longer. But that was something that nobody could do. Wheezing breaths grew slower. Body shuddering with each one. "I'm...sorry..." I wish I didn't have to... But even without his fatal wounds, death would have come knocking anyway. He had reached the end of his lifeline. Fate granting him just enough time to see his daughter one last time before passing on. Age had not been kind on him in the passing years...so one way or another, his fate was sealed.

Remembering back to the days when she was a baby, he could envision the little ball of fur as if she was born just yesterday. "Do...you remember...?" It was a simple question. One that didn't need an answer. He used to sing to her. A lullaby when she was a pup. He used to sing to her under the moonlight so she could sleep.
"I know...I'm not...there to hold you..." He would begin to sing for her. To comfort her one last time. "Look up...see the sky that I...do" Clouded blue eyes searched through the rain, resting upon the remnants of the moon that peeked through the storm clouds. "You make me...the happiest of men."

He could feel himself fading...breath getting slower, heart slowing down as well. His voice grew lower with each passing word. Stray tears slipping down to mingle with the rain. He was...grateful. That he could spend the last of his moments with his long lost daughter curled up at his side. He would have asked for nothing more in his last few moments..."And if God...takes me...before you...I just want you...to know...I love you" He whispered to her. This was it. He was almost there..."And you...made...me the strongest...of all men...I'll remain...the happiest of...men..."

Slowly, his voice trailed off into a whisper. His eyes began to close. His heart stopping. Body going still as the last breath left his body. The only sound left now was the rumbling thunder. The rain upon the ground. And the crashing waves below them. At last...Leon had succumbed to the grip of death. His daughter at his side...and he was happy knowing that even after all this time, she knew he loved her...and she loved him...

-Exit Leon via death-