I just cry for no reason, I just pray for no reason; how did it all gonna feel g o o d ? You let it all if you feel bad better live your life we are running out of t i m e Love, let's talk about love, Iis it anything and everything you hoped for? • MIKAELA STORMWEATHER, SHADOWHUNTER & MOTHER
TELL ME YOU’VE NEVER LOVED ME . tell me that it wasn’t real , just say you’ve found somebody else . i wanna know the way it feels . i wanna feel the pain , i want to see the light. break my heart .
“so i either chose the worst possible time to pack up and move ‘cross the country, or i chose the worst possible place to try and start a new life. bets on which it is?”
“It could be an either, or. I mean, to some this is indeed home but to you, coming in at a bad timing, it would be the latter.”
“So...” she began, sitting by beside him, keeping a peaceful space between them. “I saw Helena the other day.” Mikaela opened up, quickly glancing towards him to gouge his reaction. “How are you holding up?”
deep breathes frankie. he repeats it in his head over and over. he knew after the first time they crossed paths that the second time wouldn’t be far off. but he hadn’t planned on the second time including their daughter. no- not theirs. his! he raised her. but instead of bringing more fury forward it just makes the cracked heart in his chest ache in a way that sadness is too soft a word to describe. here he was, trying to hold himself together while the woman who broke his heart stands merely a foot away. if it wasn’t for sophia being here there would not be one sign of civility in his actions. but he’s looking into those dark brown eyes, ones he naively fell into and drowned in when he was nineteen and he’s struggling.
❝daddy, can i use a dollar from the swear jar?❞ frankie isn’t sure how long he spent just staring at mikaela but his eyes soon snap back to his daughter. ❝of course, conejito.❞ he kneels down, pulls his wallet from his boot because of course a pick pocket would know the best place to hide his money. flipping open the wallet he tries to ignore the slight tremour in his hands as he slips out a dollar and places it in the hand of his daughter. when did the air get so thin? at the mention of the damn monkey, frankie is half tempted to grab sophia and leave. to buy her that same monkey off some website. but he fights that urge. ❝daddy- are you okay?❞ he blinks a few times, looking at the light of his life and nods. ❝yeah- yeah i’m fine.❞ he kisses her forehead, always the perceptive soul but soon she’s pulled in by mikaela. ❝reserved for me?❞ sophia beams brightly, two front teeth lost to the tooth fairy and only increasing her charm. she stares at mikaela in awe and frankie hates it.
Their last encounter left Mikaela feeling down but she supposed she deserved it, especially for not telling Frankie the reason why she left. She knew that by coming back here would eventually lead her to see Frankie and their daughter. She supposed she could still think that Sophia was still hers, even if she wasn’t there to raise her. She could see that Frankie did well, and she would’ve smiled and thanked Frankie for that, if he wasn’t pushing her away. The brunette hoped that they can try again and this time, she’ll fight her parents to stay.
She had him at crossroads. She knew that if it wasn’t for Sophia, the werewolf would be long gone. Mikaela cracked a smile at the thought that Sophia was already cursing, no doubt that it came from Frankie’s habits (or maybe the swear jar was for Frankie, either way, the idea was funny). She watched him take the money from his boot, earning a raise of an eyebrow from Mikaela but she didn’t ask any questions about it as Sophia hadn’t either. It hurt watching their interaction as a spectator instead as part of their family, yet she could only blame herself. "Uh-huh.” She replied, nodding her head, smiling at the kid. “Are you gonna be playing? Or will it be your daddy?” She inquired, looking at Frankie’s eyes, a small smile playing on her lips.
frankie had won sophia a bear during the ring toss, he pulls it from his bag and hands it over. he’s greeted with the bright smile, arms around his neck and a kiss to his cheek. ❝Glad you like it, conejito.❞ a smile tugs on his lips as he looks up at kali. yeah, he could get use to this. the feeling of finally having a family he had long since dreamed of. he picks his daughter up, resting her on his hip as they move to another booth. ❝daddy! that one has a pink monkey! can we play? can we?!❞ she wiggles in his hold and how can he say no to those big brown eyes. he places her down letting sophia run toward the game booth. but by the time she reaches it, her hopes set on the plushie- frankie notices her. mikaela sits at the booth, sophia babbling away in her fast pace and barely allowing herself time to breath as she talks about the moneky. no idea that she’s meeting her mother for the first time in seven years. frankie’s jaw tightens as he approaches and swallows hard. ❝conejito- maybe try another booth?❞ he gets a pout. ❝but daddy! this is the one with the monkeys!❞ rather than ruining his daughter’s day out and his time with kali he bites the bullet. ❝okay- you can play.❞ she bounces on her feet, smile bright and warm. he turns to mikaela and tries to bury any hurt in his expression with anger. ❝how much a game?❞ @mvkaelas
Mikaela had never really intended to run the booth for the fair. For the most part, she really wanted to stay home and just watch reruns of Modern Family (the irony) but she couldn’t retract her promise to an old friend when she said she owed him. The booth had not received a lot of customers and she figured that it was better that way as she could exert less effort than she expected herself to do But boredom had finally gotten to her, so Mikaela had finally started organizing the ever organized stuff toys left untouched as those who joined only won the consolation prizes.
A small kid approached her booth and Mikaela offered a smile to the little one, feeling warm at the sight of her. Sophia is supposed to be her age, she thought to herself. Looking up, she froze, noticing Frankie approaching the child, could it be...? The brunette gave out a hurt expression when Frankie suggested to try another booth, she didn’t complain, she deserved it. Sophia’s words brought the sun to Mikaela’s rainy day as she forced her father to let her play and Mikaela could only give a warm smile to Frankie. “Just a dollar.” She replied to Frankie, her eyes focused on Sophia. “You want the pink monkey?” She asked the kid, “This one’s probably reserved for you.” She commented, giving Sophia a wink.
Mikaela was tasked to patrol around the Institute around midnight time and while she was still new to this town — despite having lived here for her whole childhood — it was no excuse to skip work. She would admit that patrolling was the most boring task ever unless there was danger lurking around but she could not say no to the higher ups. So, when she absent mindedly bumped into someone, her mind quit on the thoughts she had and immediately sputtered a thousand apologies before taking a good look onto the man who she bumped with and when she did, she could only stare at him in shock.
“I definitely went off topic again, didn’t I?” he asked the moment he noticed that look he had grown very accustomed to seeing on people’s faces whenever he started going on and on about something. This time, it had started on the importance of knowledge of downworlders and somehow ended up on how historically the changes of the moon cycle were tracked. “Sorry.”
Mikaela wasn’t sure at which point of his rambling she started to fade out and think of other stuff. Not that he was being boring per se or she wasn’t interested, but the idea of being back at Wilshire stirred memories that she wanted to bury but couldn’t. “Oh, no,” she started, returning herself from her own thoughts. “It’s me who needs to apologize, I was zoning out. I didn’t mean to... you know.” She told him, looking guilty. “Please, go on, I’d love to hear about cycles of the moon.”
it’s ya girl again with another baby in the wild!! please love her <3
➰ ( CRYSTAL REED, CISFEMALE, SHE/HER ) *✧.:°░｡ —- is that MIKAELA STORMWEATHER ?! you know them, right? they are the TWENTY EIGHT year old SHADOWHUNTER !! they’re known for being OBEDIENT & THOUGHTFUL - but i'd be careful if i were you because they’re also APATHETIC & PHLEGMATIC. i heard they volunteered to be paired with SAM ROSEWAIN.
so mikaela here is the most caring person and thoughtful one you’d ever meet although you would doubt it because her parent’s words are LAW so if she promises to see you at seven and she doesn’t appear? her parents probably said no
mikaela is the only child of the stormweathers and her parents are part of the clave in LA which means they hold her in high regard especially she’s the only baby in the family
her parents aren’t actually the WORST™️ but they’re strict enough for mikaela to follow them AT ALL COSTS
it stems from her parents being gone most of the time, she stayed in wilshire (her mother’s hometown before they moved in central LA) most of her life as her aunt was around to take care of her. everytime she did good things at school (do ballet performances, win the spelling quiz bee, get a star for being behaved) her parents would lather her with praises and they would come home to be with her and reward her for her own hard work
she was obsessed with this type of routine as she only knew that making them proud was a ticket for them to go home but their overprotectiveness towards their little girl got to her after a few years
she started to yearn to go to those late night clubs, road trip around with her friends, and all those things and she understood why her parents rarely let her go but it was strangling her most of the time so one night she started sneaking out (despite her parents gone, her aunt would always tell on them) and it happened often but she never got caught
that was where she met frankie and you could say that she was attracted to him but most of the time she was shy as she was not sure how to be around those people she liked (she was not allowed to have a boyfriend either, especially not a downworlder)
they started to date after a few while and being with frankie was the most liberated she felt herself be, he showed her more things in life than her parents ever did and she loved him for that
their relationship was secret except to only a few friends, her secrecy was driven by her fear of her parents getting disappointed with her and all and at first it was easy to hide since they were barely there, until she got pregnant
she and frankie decided to keep the baby but she had to eventually tell her parents, her mistake was that she expected her parents to accept it and frankie but it was all the opposite: after telling them, they had forbidden her to get out of the house until the baby was born and so after that night she told her parents about the pregnancy, frankie never saw her again
when the baby was born her parents had urged her to give the baby to an adoption center and mikaela was appalled by the choice so she had begged her driver to drive towards frankie’s house so she could explain everything and give the baby to him but when she arrived there, frankie was out and about and she had no choice but to leave the baby on the doorstep
she was crushed after that, and to make matters worst, her parents had decided to make her travel (a first time for her) and she figured it was to take her away from the town, away from frankie and the child
at one point, she had traveled to dublin and met vander and while she bitterly witnessed his love story with helena, she was also there at their relationship’s downfall and all she could feel towards vander was sympathy
ever since that she had taken it upon herself to take care of vander and to accompany him throughout the pain because she knew what it felt like, she didnt question how the two separated but only because she knew that vander’s parents were as ruthless as hers
they traveled together, vander being her own baby brother, until they had to stop back at LA
now that she’s back whatever shall happen to her and frankie (especially now that he has kali) *waggles eyebrows*
this got long winded omg sdjdkas plot with me bbs!! love her she needs all of it!! <3
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