[ WP ] A super-hero/heroine returns home , having failed to save the world . He/She has but a few minutes with his/her family before the world is destroyed .

Umbra gently glided down to the well manicured front lawn. His costume was tattered and oozing crimson from his various wounds. His cowl had been shreded and mangled, completely exposing his face. All pretense of maintaining a secret identity had been abandonded as Umbra stepped softly into his home through the front door. 
 
 No lights were on and the house was silent. Peering in the darkness, Umbra's superior night vision detected no trace of movement. 
 
 `` Claire?'' 
 
 Their was no response save the high pitched whine of the emergency broadcast system ringing out from a neighbor's television. Ascending the stairwell, Umbra made his way to his daughter's room, hoping to steal one last glimpse of his little girl before everything would be reduced to ash. Poking his head around the door he found his daughter's bed empty. 
 Racing down the hall, Umbra flung open the door to his bedroom to find his bed empty, neatly made with an envelope addressed to him on top of the comforter. Puzzled, Umbra reached out and began to read the letter: 
 
 `` Bill, This has been the hardest letter I've ever had to write...'' 
 His pulse pounding and tears welling in his eyes, he already knew what the letter said. 
 
 ``... you go out every night, and do n't return until just before dawn. When you are home, you are a million miles away. It's feels like you are not a part of this family anymore.'' 
 
 Umbra's breath quickened as the weight of the physical and emotional trauma began to take it's toll on him. 
 
 `` I've taken Trudy, and am moving in with my sister until I can decide what I will do next. I'm sorry it had to end this way Bill, I love you, I just wish you felt the same about me.'' 
 
 Umbra fell to his knees and wept, clutching his head in his hands. All the sacrifices he had made to protect the world, and it was n't until this moment that he truly felt he had lost everything.
