Prolog: Unknown first meeting.


Rushing feet, shouts and cries, flashing blue and red lights. Car ride, silent and dark, hall way bright and light, people talking, staring eyes and a room full with desks and chairs.

That's all Jessica Turner saw and remembered, it all moved so quick she barley noticed it, all she did was cling to her teddy like it was her life line.

The policewoman who had led her to a desk, that had a very tall man sitting at it, but to Jessica, everyone was tall.

"Nashton, you have nothing to do it seems," the man turned to the woman, he glared a tiny bit at her, bright blue eyes behind black rimmed glasses went wide when the police officer said. "Look after this child while I go and sort out that disturbance call."

She dropped Jessica's hand and walked off, leaving her with this man and a lot of desks.

She looked up at him with wide, blinking jade green eyes, that were far to big for her head.

He stared down at her with an equally set of wide eyes, before he sighed and went back to work.

Jessica crept up to him and gently tugged at his sleeve.

He sighed and turned back to her. "What?" he asked slightly irritated.

Jessica stared at him and blinked before looking away.

"You wanted nothing?" the man growled harshly before turning back to his work.

Jessica bit her lip and cautiously tugged at his shirt again, staining it a little red from the blood that stained her teddy.

He turned and glared at her, yanking his shirt out of her hands and snapping at her. "What?"

Then his eyes widened in slight shock as the Jessica's lip began to tremble and then he had his attention on her fully.

"No, no! Don't cry, don't cry-"

WAHHHH!

He sat up instantly in slight shock and turned to see all eyes had landed on him.

"What the hell did you do, Nashton?" one of the cops yelled.

"How do you make them stop?!" he yelled back.

"You comfort them, genius! Hug them and stuff!"

He blinked. As if the whole idea was the most ridiculous thing in the world. "You come and do it then!"

"I have work to do!"

He turned back to the little girl she was crying a river it seemed.

"There, there," he murmured as he lightly patted her back.

Slowly the crying stopped and she stood there sobbing slightly, before they turned into hiccuping breaths.

He ran a hand through his hair. "Do you like puzzles? Games?"

Her eyes brightened slightly and Jessica nodded.

He nodded and searched through his desk and then he finally pulled out a rubic cube and gave it to her, before he turned back to his work.

Tug, tug tug.

The man turned back to her tugging hand and raised an eyebrow as she held the cube up with only one side completed.

"Umm…" he trailed off looking unsure of what to say. "Well done…?"

"Jessica," she said for him. "But… but people call me Jess."

The man nodded and secretly took note at how dry her voice sounded.

"Well, well done Jessica, but you have to get all the colours aligned."

Jessica frowned slightly and cocked her head to the side. "But… but that's impossible!"

He smiled and took the cube off her before twisting the blocks and showed the cube, completed in his hands. "Nothing's impossible."

She took the cube off him and began to try and solve the cube, he turned back to his work and then she became curious.

"What's your name?" she asked.

There was a pause before he answered, but he never looked at her. "My name's Edward."

She smiled. She liked his name, but she doubted she could say it, maybe she could shorten it? "I like you Eddie, you're very smart and you're nice!"

Edward turned and narrowed his eyes at her. "Edward," he strained and went back to his work.

"I like Eddie better," she whispered and Edward sighed before rubbing the bridge of his nose with his right hand, while his other held his glasses.

"That's not my name though," Edward said in as calm a tone as he could manage.

"It's your name," Jessica concluded smiling. "It's just a shorter version."

Edward turned back to her and raised an eyebrow, before returning the glasses to his face and working again.

Then the cube was placed on his desk.

At first he ignored it until he took a second glance and saw it was complete.

He picked it up and stared, a look of slight shock was on his face. How had she..?

He looked back at Jessica and found her rocking back and forth on her heels smiling at him, the teddy was still in her hands.

"What's your name?" he asked.

Jessica giggled. "You already know my name."

"I know you first name, not your last name."

"Turner," Jessica said smiling, before it faded and she sank to the floor clutching her teddy tightly.

"Jessica Turner," Edward muttered before glancing back at the child as she rocked back and forth, still cuddling her teddy. "It's a nice name. Sounds like…"

"Jester?" the little girl finished of him.

Edward smiled and nodded. "Yes it does. Jessica Turner, Jess Turner Jess Tur, Jester! It's clever."

"Eddie… Nashton?" Jessica questioned.

Edward winced at the name. "Edward Nashton," Eddie Nashton was the what everyone at his school called him or Eddie Nash, just to irritate him further because they new how much he hated his name being shortened, so why not shorten all of it? "I'm going to be changing my name."

Jessica frowned. "But.. why?"

"I don't like it."

"But it's your name."

"No. It's not," Edward muttered. "My name is Edward."

"Well, I like your name Eddie."

Edward sighed and turned to her. "Edward."

She looked at his desk and peeped over the top of it. "What Ya' doing?"

"Working."

"On what? it looks cool!"

Edward chuckled slightly. "It really isn't."

Jessica narrowed her eyes. "Actually, it looks really complocated."

"You mean 'complicated,'" Edward muttered.

"I hope Sasha's okay," Jessica muttered staring at her feet.

"Who?"

"My sister."

"Where is your sister?"

Jessica went to answer when a policeman came over. "We've found her now kiddo. Better get you two back together."

"Where will they be taken?" Edward asked.

"St Anne's foster home," explained the officer as he picked Jessica up and carried her away from Edward.

As they were leaving Jessica kicked a little to be put down, which the officer obligingly did and she ran back to Edward and hugged his legs, causing Edward to yelp in shock.

Then she took his hand and placed her teddy in it.

Edward frowned. "Why are you giving me this?"

Jessica giggled and pointed at her eyes. "You've got shopping bags, that's what my mommy called them. She said you get them when you can't sleep, Jokey helps me sleep," she explained pointing at the teddy before running back to the policeman, who picked her up and Edward stared at her and she waved at him. "Bye, bye, Eddie! Bye, bye Jokey! Look after Eddie for me and make sure you protect him from bad dreams!"

Edward watched as they disappeared round the corner and he sighed looking back at the teddy, dubbed 'Jokey' before he smirked and placed it in his bag.

He didn't know quite what he was going to do with it, but… well, he would probably end up on a shelf collecting dust.

"I could always put him with Epicurus," he mused to himself before shaking his head. "Now I'm the one sounding childish."


Jessica smiled as she was reunited with her sister, but her sister glared at her before it softened a little.

They were off to the foster home now, a new start.

Jessica still missed her mommy and daddy though.

"Hey guys!" called one of the cops as they ran over to his friends. "They got him! The bat got him!"

"Got who?" asked Bullock.

"Calendar man!"

The others frowned at him and he back paddled. "Julian Day, they got him!"

Bullock nodded and slammed the door shut, leaving the twins, Jessica Turner and Sasha Turner to themselves.

"We stick together okay, Jess?" asked Sasha and Jessica nodded smiling slightly.

"We stick together forever!"

"Pinky promos?" asked Sasha holding out her pinky.

Jess nodded and wrapped her pinky around her sister's. "Pinky promos!"

Little did Jess know, her sister held her crossed finger behind her back, but as they droves towards St Anne's foster home, Jessica couldn't help but wonder, would she ever meet Eddie again?