Title: Sleeping Habits

Author: BombtasticSkittles

Rating: K

Word Count: 846

August's arm stretched out only meet cold sheets and a plump pillow. The house was silent other than Henry's snores. Christmas had passes in a flurry of family members and snow covered carpet. Pulling on a pain of thick socks to protect his feet from the chilled wood floor, August stood up and went to find out why his bed was so cold.

Henry's room was first, the snow reflecting moonlight into the room. Notebooks and loose paper covered the desk under the window, almost hiding the barely open laptop, its screens white light signaling it was still on. Henry was still snoring completely oblivious to his father entering his room. Lying on his back with one arm above his head and the other across his chest the teenager looked horribly uncomfortable, but like his mother he could sleep in almost any position.

Across the hall Annabelle had thrown the covers from her bed. "A fish out of water" was how Marco described the girls sleeping habit. She would go to sleep tucked in between the blankets and by the time morning came she wriggled everything but the fitted sheet off the bed no matter how cold it was outside. Annabelle shifted slightly and her pillow fell to the floor with a muffled plop. The small girl, her doll Lydia and the slightly worn lavender baby blanket were the only things left on the bed. Annabelle curled around making a sort of nest where Lydia rested, how she never wound up on the floor was a mystery to him.

Even though they were identical twins, Conner was the exact opposite. He almost never moved in his sleep, making for worried parents when he was sick. The bed clothes were only ever slightly wrinkled where they covered him. Annabelle slept in every position, whereas Conner rested on his side. His back was to the door, legs straight and one arm tucked under the blue and gray pillow the other atop the plaid comforter.

Walking down the hallway to the last closed door, August already knew that his youngest was awake. The sound of whispers mixing with the bubbling of Lily's fish tank as the little blonde girl trying to fight off sleep, to talk to whoever decided to visit her. Turing the doorknob August tapped on the door, before entering the pale green room. Lily was sitting on her bed; the blankets wrapped around her legs Heraldo the owl sitting in her lap. Lily's eyes were focused next to her softly glowing fish tank, the light lessening the amount of shadows in the room.

Blonde curls were escaping the braid that Emma dutifully plated every night trying to keep the curls from turning to knots. Annabelle's hair hardly knotted at all, but Lily's hair would be horrific by morning. Blue eyes glanced up and met her father's, her eyes showing that she knew she would have to go to sleep now.

"Time for sleep baby." August said as he lifted Heraldo and the quilt up so Lily could stretch underneath them. After the blankets were tucked around her and Heraldo was snuggled into the crook of her arm, Lily yawned and squirmed onto her stomach, an arm stretching up above her head.

"Claire too?" Lily asked her eyes flicking over toward the fishes.

"Yes, Claire too. Good night Claire." August said leaning down to press a kiss on her forehead. "Nie-night baby, love you."

"Love you too." Was mumbled back as August left the room, and pulled the door shut.

Walking downstairs August finally discovered his wife, lying on the couch with an Xbox remote on her lap. One of her arms were above her head, the other was still trying to grasp the controller. The glow from the 'Game Over' screen lit the living room, the sound almost completely turned down, but the orchestrated sound could be heard if you were listening for it. Switching off the system and television August bent down to lift Emma into his arms. She mumbled something about defeating Dracula before tucking her head into his neck where her breathing evened out. August headed upstairs hoping to get some sleep before the kids woke up and the day really started.

Over a month, I am so sorry this took so long. That is an insane amount of time to wait. I did upload my Tumblr prompt of WoodenSwan Reunion, it's called Though the Darkness, but I left my notebook at my Pappy's so I had to wait for him to mail it back to me, since I prefer handwriting over typing.

Let's welcome VampireSon, Russianeyes781ouat7ncis and,JET196 to our follow-family. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, it feels kind of off to me, but it could just be me. You guys can feel free to yell at me either on Tumblr wheresheather on twitter musiciseternity or on instagram justheather24 if I ever take this long again. Or if you want to see occasional bits of my life, which really isn't that interesting.