Slumber Chapter 1
"DADDY!" A small child screamed as he hugged his knees
"Phillip?" A woman called his name.
He looked up to see an angel… "I want my daddy…" He cried.
She held her hand out to him, "Let's go find him, shall we?" She smiled at him.
He hesitantly grabbed her hand and fallowed her through the large building.
He walked with her to a large desk where an mean old lady sat.
"Hello Mrs. Rose." The woman greeted the angel.
"Hello, I was wondering if you could page all of our security to be on a look out for Mr. Beotae." The angel spoke as she pulled the boy from the floor so that he could sit on the edge of the counter.
"Is that little Phillip?" The mean old lady spoke with a smile… Maybe she wasn't mean…
"Yes Mr. Beotae seems to have misplaced him." The angel handed him a sucker as she smiled warmly at the boy.
"I'll page security and let them know to keep a look out for him." She already had the office phone in her hand.
"So little prince how old are you now- forty maybe?" She teased the boy.
"I'm four." He corrected the angel genially as to not make her mad so she would stay at least till his daddy came…
"Ah what an age- Did you know I was four once?" She smiled as she reached over the desk.
He looked her over… she couldn't have been four…
The angel pulled two lollypops out from the desk and offered Phillip one.
He gladly took it and un-wrapped it.
"I have a little girl- it's her birthday today." She continued to talk. "Her name is Aurora."
"Is she an angel like you?" He looked up.
"Well she's my angel little prince." She smiled again.
"C-can I meet her?" his big eyes never left her own eyes.
"Sure- I don't see why not." She lifted him from the counter to the floor. "Shall we?" She offered her hand.
He grasped onto her hand and they made their way to Mrs. Rose's husbands office.
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"Why is the door locked?" He asked as he watched the angel unlock the doors.
"Well I don't want someone to come in and hurt my princess." She spoke as she opened the doors. "Come in." She called.
He stepped over the threshold and she quickly closed the door and locked it.
"Hello Merryweather." The angel spoke to the woman in a blue dress. "I've come to check on Aurora."
"She's just fine ma'am- she's still taking a nap." The blue lady smiled down at Phillip, "Is that Phillip?"
"Yes." The angel giggled.
"Hello." The blue lady greeted him.
Phillip blushed and looked down.
"AW how cute." The blue lady ruffled his locks sandy brown curls.
"Phillip come and look." The angel called him.
He quickly walked over to his side and she lifted him up. "That's your princess?" He asked as he looked her over.
She was a bundle of golden blonde… That was all he could describe her as, seeing as that was all he could see.
"Well- if she's a princess and I'm a prince then I suppose I'll be marrying her when we get old." He looked up at the angel.
"And how old would that be?" She tried to contain her laughter.
"Maybe sixteen… that's old enough." He nodded.
"Oh really?" She was giggling as she walked toward the door with the small boy.
All of a sudden a loud knock came from the door startling the two.
The angel opened the door and saw a security guard as well as Fauna and Flora…
"Is something the matter?" She questioned.
"Ma'am we have found the boy's father and I will take him please get ready."
The boy was taken and Fauna and Flora let themselves in.
"What's going on?" Leah was beginning to panic.
"It's Maleficent…" Fauna helped her sister to sit down. "She attacked Flora." She cried lightly.
Then Stephan came running into the room. "Is Aurora alright!?" He spoke loudly waking the baby.
Leah immediately picked her up to soothe her.
"No she must cry." Fauna held a recorder to the baby's mouth.
After a while she stopped recording.
"What is going on!?" Leah was soothing her baby.
"Maleficent…." Flora croaked.
"When Maleficent attacked Flora she told her that she put a hit on Auroras head…" Fauna couldn't look at Leah.
"NO!" Leah pulled her baby closer to her chest.
"She said her hit would be valid for sixteen years." Fauna hugged herself.
"Why… why!?" Leah was trembling. "What did we do to her?" tears where falling from her eyes.
"I- I stopped business with her…" Stephan was rubbing his forehead. "I didn't think she would do something like this…"
"We can save her." Flora croaked. "We can take her to our house and raise her."
"And risk Maleficent coming after us?" Merryweather spoke up. "Flora we are not as strong as you."
"Stephan… Leah… is there a place my sisters and I could talk." Fauna questioned as she bit her lip.
"There is a conference room in my closet… I won't be able to hear you three." He opened the closet doors.
"Thank you." Flora choked.
They walked in and closed the doors…
Immediately Merryweather spoke. "Why do you want to endanger us?"
"I will protect that child with my life- even if you choose not to come along." Flora spoke after she poured herself a glass of scotch.
"Why!?" Merryweather yelled.
"I told Leah's mother I would do anything for her daughter as she was dying… And that is what I plan to do." Flora had already drunk her glass.
"Maleficent will find her." Merryweather gritted out. "She knows where we live and she knows she can find her with her name."
"No." Fauna finally spoke causing both her sisters to look at her. "We will change her name and home school her."
"And where would we stay- our beach house it's the only place Maleficent doesn't know about?" Merryweather threw her arms up in frustration.
"Precisely." Fauna smiled.
"How would we get there without Maleficent noticing?" Merryweather sighed.
"Simple, Leah and Phillip send out all of their jets and we take a simple second class flight to Hawaii." Fauna spoke as if nothing.
"What would we change her name to?" Merryweather asked her final question.
Flora looked at the painting of a rose bush and spoke, "Briar… Briar Rose…"