AN: Hi everybody! Keimaler here, re-creating an older work by a close friend.
This story... I think, was originally called A Young Yautja. But I forgot the specific title...
Anyways, the point is that I am revising it completely, some old things remain, but it will also hold a longer time period.
Y'know, 'cause Yautja's live longer then humans, I'm upping Lorenna's age a bit... To maybe... Thirty-nine when they found her, that's about nine years old in human time... I think... Well, that's what I'm making it so live with it!
She will still remain the same psycho-fun-loving Yautja we all knew her to be, just... in a different light.
I hope you like what I've done with her and her family!

Original Author:
Graceful White Dragon.

Original character names:
Johnny. (The Second Main Human character and the Father)
Mariana. (The Main Human character and the Mother)
Lorenna. (The Main character)
Zala'ess. (The Second Main character)

New names will be presented as time goes on, obviously, previous readers of this story will catch on, others won't care. So... yeah...whatever...


Late at night...

The busy night, bursting with sounds. Laughing, talking, fireworks, cars, and finally the sweet sound of thick white snow crunching beneath ones feet.

Through the gathering crowd who sung Christmas carols and cheered; "Ho, ho, ho!" a couple made their way out the back lines, laughing.

Snow turned their garments almost completely white, their unprotected faces turned blue in the cold but left their noses red. It made them look like they were crying not to long ago.

"Where are we going?"

The woman questioned his intent but only to the point of safe curiosity.

She being pulled gently away from the noises of the city and into the park, right where the crowd dispersed to skate on the newly iced lake.

"Just a bit further." He smiled back to her. Her laughs filled the air as they dodged the last few winter dressed folk and finally came to a nice calm walk through the pathways made in the park.

Oddly enough, the park was closed for the past few months due to an unexpected accident in the area.
Something had caused police, contractors, the government and National Security to rush in and clean the area, before leaving without a word.

All of this seemed strange compared to the possibilities.

If it was some kind of underground accident, like a water main freezing then breaking, it would explain the contractors and their cranes, the police, partly the government but not National Security.

That goes the same with most of the other options, it explains some, but not all.

However, before all these legal figures appeared, a private company appeared, granted quietly, but they did not go by completely unnoticed.
Locals saw them, took notes that the men with W.Y.C. stitched into their shirts and sometimes caps were not to be bothered or asked after. They knew this when the first local asked, all he got was a stone wall.
They would tell them nothing.

"Alright Mister! What's the master plan? Drag me out here to freeze?" She shivered, still smiling.

"No. Better." He grinned, slyly if one might say so and took one hand in his, then stood in front of her walking backwards, taking her other hand and slowly pulling her to a stone bench that was perfectly placed in the clearing, circled by snow covered branches.

He gently pushed her to the bench, to which she obliged and sat.

"Come now, it's cold!" She giggled, he smiled wider then took off his coat.

"What are you doing! You'll freeze!" She watched as he placed his coat on her shoulders, leaving him with little more then a long sleeved sweeter.

"I don't care. I'll freeze, just be warm Korrine."

She blushed, although countered by the snow and cold, she bowed her head slightly to hide it.

Korrine almost knew what he was trying to say, but did not wish jumping to conclusions.

He gulped, clearly nervous of what to say or do next. But he knew, he'd been practicing for months, waiting for the perfect time to execute the speech in hopes he would not pick an awkward moment for her.

"Oh Korrine..." His expression clearly showed a caring man, but also a worried one.

"I..." He breathed deep. "I don't know how exactly to say this, I mean, I know what to say. Just not how to say it." He sighed, his breath white a visable, his body heat rose so high that it was almost like a large puff of smoke from a cigarette, just healthier.

"Harvey? What is it?" She asked, almost knowing what he was trying to say, but did not wish jumping to conclusions.

"Korrine." He stated, kneeling before her. She knew, she jumped to the conclusion.

"I love you." She smiled. "I love you too Harvey."

"But I can't go on doing this." He sighed, still extremely nervous and suddenly, with those seven words, Korrine thought her conclusion was wrong.

"Doing what baby?" She asked, reaching a hand out for him.

"We've been seeing one another for over three years. Still I'm nervous, still I feel as though I don't deserve you. You're kind, funny, and the sweetest woman I've ever met. I don't deserve you and that's why I'm doing this."

Harvey looked down, taking her offered hand in his. It was gloved... and it was her left hand.
He slipped off the glove, tucking it neatly in his pocket then proceeded to rub her hand gently with his thumb.

Slowly her hopes raised again with his simple action of removing her glove to reveal her wedding finger.

"Korrine Carol Maddison." He turned his wide and nervous smile to a soft grin. "I love you, and I always will. No matter how far I go, or what fate awaits me. I love you and I want nothing more then for you to be my wife. Korrine... Kori, will you marry me?" His grin slowly and uncontrollably widened as he spoke.
Just as Korrine's did.

"Harvey Clay Beck." She giggled, almost too excited to continue. "I can't imagine my days without you. Not anymore. I love you too much to let it all go." She breathed deeply, her smile hurting her cheeks. "And of course I'll marry you." She leaped forward and hugged Harvey, diving onto him to where he just about lost balance and fell over.

"Yes, yes, yes. I will marry you." She planted short kisses all over his cheeks, to the point where all her red lipstick covered his face, making it seem as if the cold had never frozen his face blue.

Harvey pulled Korrine back on the bench and after all the pecks, he finally kissed her petite red lips. Making his lips red as well.

"So..." Korrine giggled. "I can't wait to tell everyone." Harvey chuckled.
"You can tell them all. I just want you to be as excited as me." He petted her hair.

Just as usual in the world, something had to surprise and break the perfect moment.

Through the background Christmas celebration, a crack behind the trees around them made it's way to their ears.

"What was that?"

Harvey, now being a to-be husband, stood and stared into the trees. As if waiting for something to happen.

"Harvey?" Korrine asked out and stood next to him.

"Harve, let's go." She tugged on his sweater, trying to convince him something was not right. But he protested, whatever it was had made no approach to harm them so far and if it had ill intent, wouldn't trying to flee cause it to jump?

"Korrine, wait here." He held her arm for a moments time, pushing her back before he left in the direction of the strange sound.

"Harvey please!" She begged before he cautiously moved a branch out of the way and bent over to see through the branches.

Korrine waited, anxious for him to turn around and just take her home.

She's seen the movies, she read the books. Things happen when innocent people get curious of a foreign sound. Not to mention, Korrine was always worrisome.

"Korrine!" Her name called, she flinched before darting forward, meeting her future husband's side. "What? What is it?" She asked, seeing where his gaze lay, she slowly tracked the line of sight down to a small figure in the snow. Shivering.

"Oh dear..." Korrine cooed, stepping forward with Harvey.

The area was not covered in trees, but the figure was leaning on a tree trunk. Obviously cold, perhaps freezing to death.

"Hello?" Korrine braved first and approached the figure. Both Harvey and Korrine knowing that there is no adult that size which means that this person was a child and nothings more soothing to a child then their Mother's voice, or, at least an older woman's calm tone.

"Oh deary, you must be freezing." She crouched next to the shivering body. "Here. Take my coat." Korrine quickly removed Harvey's coat from her shoulders and, although cautiously, wrapped it around the body. Which was slowly being covered in snow.

"Harvey? Is he still alive?" Harvey held a hand in front of the mysterious persons face. "Yes. He's breathing."

Korrine couldn't stand looking at a child in need, suffering for no good reason. She wouldn't stand it.

"Harvey, we need to take him to a hospital. Maybe they can find his family, or if not, the police can." She insisted, and much alike his to-be wife, Harvey wouldn't stand to see a poor child suffer for any reason.

"First, we need to get him warm. Let's take him inside one of the stores. From there, we'll call the police." He nodded as Korrine cooed the child to stand.

"Is he conscious?" Korrine was on the very edge of becoming hysterical.

Harvey looked closer, helping Korrine brush off the snow. "Come on kid. You're alright, aren't you?" He tried to keep the child's attention. Although they were not sure if the child was conscious, it was proved time and time again that any interaction either vocal or physical would help keep the child in a state of unconsciousness with less worry of falling into a coma or having negative reactions to the cold.

Between Harvey and Korrine, discovering how long the child had been out in the cold would be impossible, but guesstimating it wasn't too hard.

The child was shivering, turning a very odd shade that neither Harvey or Korrine knew how to understand it, the color was too odd for their comprehension.

"Come on now." Harvey took the child carefully by his arms and slowly, with the help of Korrine, lifted the child up, only to discover that the child could well stand on his own once he shifted his legs that had laid under the snow to where they were planted onto the snow, feet hidden by the white fluff.

The child took his time standing again, as if he was ready to run.

"There. That's not so bad, is it?" Korrine held the child's shoulder, gently rubbed the abnormally thick skin. "Yeah." Harvey smiled, continuing to brush the child's body off.

"Oh my dear Lord." Harvey looked up, seeing Korrine with the back of her hand over her mouth, eyes wide in shock. "What? What is it?" Harvey was cut short in his cold breath when he also turned his attention to Korrine's gaze, just like she had done with him earlier upon finding the child.

He stared. Although impolite, the child would not know it and even if he did, Harvey could not stop staring.

The child was endowed with four mandibles, an inner mouth behind said mandibles. A large forehead, slightly bumpy and thick locked hair.

It became clear.

His appearance was not human in anyway, possibly animalistic? Was this child actually some kind of exotic animal? If so, probably reptilian given the texture of his body, which as of this moment only Korrine paid close attention too.

Harvey was fixed on the child's facial features. Those four mandibles, his facial skin and those eyes.

Clicking. That's the only word he could describe the sounds the child made. His eyes practically glowed in the night, much like reflective glass, and his skin... Well that was a different story in general.
His color was so exotic that even though it was night and it hid his colour, but it still strained his eyes to process the colours.

"Harvey?" Korrine asked, turning her eyes from the reptilian child to Harvey. "What is he?" She spoke close to a whisper.

"I haven't the slightest." He shook his head, noticing the child yet again shivering. "But he's cold and maybe ill. We need to warm him up."

Harvey quickly adjusted the coat on the child's shoulders, before actually coming in contact with his arms which he gently gripped and tried to help the child pull his arms through the coats sleeves, but as he did, the child jumped back. Almost stunned by the action.

"It's okay. I'm not going to hurt you."

Korrine still held the child's shoulder, wondering why the child was scared when Harvey touched him but not when she did.

"Hey now." Korrine tapped Harvey back so she could stand in front of the child, crouching to his eye level. "I'm Korrine. Korrine Maddison and this is Harvey. We're not going to harm you, we just want to help. It's cold out, this will keep you warm." She had pointed to herself, to Harvey and eventually to the coat to introduce themselves completely.

The child watched, only blinking whenever a snowflake fell near his eyes.

"I don't even know if he understands me Harvey." She sighed.

Trying once more to help the child into the coat, and as if reading her mind, the child signified his understanding.

"Korr-enne." He clicked. "Karr-veey." Korrine smiled, instantly her face lit up. "Harvey. Hahr-vee." She pronounced, seeing how far the child's speech could go, as it seemed already he could better pronounce harsher letters like 'K' better then he could soft ones, like 'H.'

"Hh-arvey." He tried again, the mandibles rolled with each attempted to correct syllable. "Harv-" He made a click or two, then made a sound that resembled a deep throated grumbling before continuing. "Harvey." He pointed to Harvey. "Korrine." He turned gaze to Korrine as well as pointing to her.

"Yes. Perfect. What's your name?" Korrine asked after finally being allowed to slide the child's arms through the sleeves.

He shook his head.
"What's the matter?" She asked, buttoning up the coat. He shook his head again. "Korrine." He pointed to Korrine again, then to himself and shook his head again.

"What's that mean?" She questions, tying the coat, making sure it was tight enough to warm him.

"I think he's saying he had no name." Harvey finally had permission, or what seemed permission, to reproach the child. After he guessed the child's meaning, the child nodded twice.

"You have no name?" Korrine was slightly shocked by this. After all, every child has a name. With Korrine's stunned expression, the child looked down, as if in shame. "Well, we'll just have to give you one." She smiled, touching the cold, thick skin of the child's cheek. Suddenly, the child rose his head again and those four mandibles clicked and made what closely resembled a smile.

"Korrine. You can't possibly be thinking about... You know what. Tell me I'm wrong." Harvey's eyes widened, Korrine stood, patting the child's shoulders then turned to Harvey.

"Of course. Look at him Harvey, he's not from here. In fact, I bet if we even tried to take him to the police that they'd ask a lot of questions. A lot of questions involving what he is. He's too young for that." Korrine argued, Harvey only replied by crossing his arms at first.

Korrine hoped Harvey would agree, that he'd up and say that she was right. Because she was, right that is. The child would not understand the extreme curiosity of human nature. They'd test on him, take samples and place him in lock down... or something like lock down.

He would never know the joyous experience of just being a child. He's miss that and she would never forgive herself if that was to be the outcome.

Then, after the most painful and agonizing minutes of their lives, Harvey caved.

"Fine. Fine. We'll take him home, keep him as our own, but if anything pops up... Like say for instance, his parents appear or his... race appears, he goes with them." Harvey tried not to sound careless of the child's future, he just wanted the child safe and in the right hands.

"Absolutely! No doubt, if they come, he goes home. His Mother must be worried sick! Her being a Mother and all. I can't wait." Korrine became giddy again, he proposed! She couldn't wait to marry, to go on the Honeymoon, then after a year or so; have their own child.

"Ker." Korrine and Harvey turned to face the child again.

"What?"

"Ker." He repeated.

Harvey listened closer that time. 'Ker,' what did that mean?

On cue, the child pointed to Korrine. "Ker." Then to himself. "Ker." The fourth time was the charm.

His mind just clicked on, eyes flashed open and he snapped his fingers. "Her?" He asked, the child nodded. "Her." The child pointed at himself again, then to Korrine. "Her."

"Wait." Harvey turned to Korrine. "You're a 'her.' Korrine, you're a woman. The child is telling us that you, 'her' is what she is. The child is female, am I right?" Harvey looked at the child, who nodded. "Fee-mal."

Korrine, as if anymore possible, glowed brighter.
"You're a little girl!" She exclaimed, once again walking to the child.

"Fe-maay-al." She tried again. "Harvey is male. I am female. Fee-..." She waited for the child to reply.

"Fee-..."

Korrine nodded. "-may-"

"-may-"

"-el."

The girl nodded. "Fee-may-el. Female." She pointed to Korrine and to herself again. "Very good!" She giggled. Harvey stood smiling, impressed with the child's quick learning.

"You are female. I am female. Harvey is male." Korrine began lessons apparently very early.

"Female. Male." The girl pointed to Korrine then Harvey indicating she understood clearly.

"Perfect." Korrine looked back up to Harvey. "Isn't she a doll?" Harvey smiled, white teeth bared. "Yeah, I'll give her that."

On perfect timing, the girl shivered and Korrine was instantly at her side then carefully lifting her up in her arms. Holding her as a Mother would.
"Let's go home. She's probably tired... not to mention cold." Harvey said as the girl wrapped her arms around Korrine's neck.

"What should we name her?" Korrine thought, holding fast onto the child.

"Something that compliments her..."