Note: I am not giving up on BLA or IGP! But, real life has been shoving me to the ground and walking all over me to the point where my brain is absolutely fried and I haven't been able to concentrate on anything, so forcing chapters isn't going well at all. This idea came to mind, and I wrote it just so I was writing something. I don't own anything, and please don't kill me—I swear, I'll update BLA soon!

Prologue

I took a deep breath and steeled myself for the confrontation to come. I had alternately fantasized and dreaded about this moment for three years.

For three years I had thought about what I would say when I met him again. I had rehearsed thousands of scenarios in my mind and thought about every possible option.

I was still undecided.

I prepared to face them, far more terrified to see them who had left me than them who were planning my execution. The small one glared at me with undisguised hatred, but I paid her no mind. I wandered, did they know?

Did they hear the rumors or read the obituary?

Did they believe them?

Or did Alice know better?

I had to believe that they didn't know. I couldn't believe that they knew, and yet had not found me, had not helped me.

Because to believe otherwise would be unbearable.

But I would soon find out. I would once again meet the people I once loved, my former family.

The people I still loved.

And my daughter would meet her father.

Heaven help us all.