Well this prompt was sad but hey I did it! Not Critical Role this time! XD

Day 19: Imagine your dream home. Write about a natural disaster destroying it.

Tornado

"Jen, MOVE!" He shoved her down the stairs, hands filled with their new puppy in one hand and their mewling kitten in another. She stumbled down the stairs but didn't fall, hands clutching their three month old daughter to her chest. Her little girl's wails were lost in the intensity of the tornado.

"Get to the cellar!" He screamed in her ear. She was already moving towards it, hands fumbling desperately at the latch on the door. He pushed past her and with a simple flick he opened it, sending her inside. She stepped down quickly, taking one of the pets from his hands so that he could close the cellar lid properly.

They sat in darkness, breathing hard. She thanked her lucky stars that they had heard it coming and had enough time to escape. Thoughts swirled through her exhausted mind, with only one remaining prominent- did her neighbors make it safely to their safe points? She fell into an exhausted sleep despite her daughter's noisy cries and her cat's angry mews.

It was a few hours later when she felt herself being shaken awake.

"Honey, it's over." He told her, and it was then that she noticed the almost eerie silence. Sunlight peeked in through a crack in the cellar door, and she realized that he had already been outside. She couldn't see his face from here, but she knew it couldn't be good. With a heavy heart she carried her sleeping daughter out of the cellar. What she saw made her want to burst into tears.

Her house was in shambles. Her newly purchased, state of the art home was absolutely destroyed, the remnants of its frame the last thing standing. Most of it was rubble, with furniture sprawled across the lawn, glass littering the ground, and large chunks of wood crushing her newly planted daisies. Her dream home, it was ruined.

"At least we're alive, right?" He whispered futilely in her ear. All she could do was stand in his arms and cry.