So I did something incredible stupid. I posted the first chapter of my story without posting the prologue first. I haven't gotten any reviews for this story but that's okay. That's not why I right and if you are reading you don't have to review. Just read it and like it, love it, or hate it. It's totally up to you. Now I have to go and figure out a way to fix the mess that I have caused.

Disclaimer: Don't own this and probably never will. What, a girl can dream can't she


Prologue

She hadn't known how long she'd been walking but she was tired. Really tired. All she wanted to do was fall asleep but she couldn't. Not with the crying four month old baby in her arms. The baby that cried all night and the night before that and still continued to cry even now. No matter what she did, he still kept crying. Crying was all she'd been hearing for the past three days. It was slowly starting to drive her insane.

Her head throbbed horribly causing her to stop for a moment and rest against a building. Taking deep breaths, she tried calm the pain but it didn't help. The pain was still there made worse by the baby's constant crying.

Tears fell down both their faces as she continued to walk down the street. Suddenly it became too much. She needed to sleep. She needed a few hours to herself or else she wouldn't be any good to her child or herself. At that moment she passed by an empty back alley and idea sprang into her mind. Maybe she could leave the baby there and find a place to sleep for a few hours. That way she would be refreshed and ready to take care of her baby. It wasn't the best idea but for the moment, it was all she had.

Wrapping the baby tighter in his blanket, she laid the baby on top of a few piled up boxes. His cries became louder, breaking her heart as she let him go. A part of her wanted to just pick him up and carry him with her but she knew she would never rest if she did.

"I'm sorry to leave you like but I need to sleep." she whispered to her son as she slipped off her sweater and covered him. "But I'll be back I swear."

She gave her son on last look before she wrapped her arms around herself and turned around. Blocking out the sounds of his cries, she ran and disappeared down the alley and around the corner.

She continued to run until finally, too tired to walk any further, she soon came to another empty alley and slid down behind the dumpster. As she sat there she couldn't believe what her life had become. A pregnant teenage with no family support, living in a city where she didn't know a soul. Besides her son she was alone with no dreams or plans of the future. It was enough to bring more tears to her eyes. Sleepiness overcame her and her eyes slowly came to a close as she drifted off into a restless sleep.

Jess Laytner whistled to himself as he walked down the New York Streets. Just on duty, he was all ready bored and ready to go back home to his apartment. Walking briskly, he stopped suddenly when he heard a cooing sound coming out of an alley.

He waited to hear the sound again but chalked it up to being a cat when he didn't hear it again. Jess started to start walking again when he heard the cooing sound again. This time it was followed by a laugh.

"What the hell?"

Deciding to check it out, he made his way down the alley as the sound itself became louder. The officer gasped at what he saw sitting in front of him. A baby, no more than five months old, wrapped in a blanket and a sweater sitting on top of a few boxes. He immediately grabbed the young child and held him in his arms. Quickly, he began checking the alley in hopes of finding another person in the alley. Someone who could take claim to the child but he found no one.

"Who the hell would leave a baby here?" he whispered to himself as he cradle the baby in his arms.

"Hey there little guy." Jess smiled as the baby grabbed his finger. "Where's your momma?"

The baby just laughed at the strange man and played with his fingers. Jess couldn't help but laugh. "What am I supposed to do with you?"

As he expected the baby didn't respond, instead he continued laughing, staring up at Jess with deep green eyes. In that moment Jess knew he couldn't walk away from the child. Smiling, he carried the baby out of the alley and down the street. "I'm Jess by the way and I think I know the perfect place for you."


Mother Marie Lane sat in her rocking chair, looking out the window at the clear blue sky. Sipping her tea, she let out a content sigh. She was enjoying her moment when the sound on footsteps behind her brought her out of her thoughts. Turning around she realized that it was her friend, Jess Laytner.

"Jess, what are you doing here." she asked as she stood up. Mother's mouth dropped open when she noticed the crying baby in the officer's arms. "Whose child is this?"

He held the child down a little lower to give the nun a full look. "I found him Mother, in a back alley. I think someone left him there."

Mother gasped. "What!" Who would do such a thing?"

"I don't know." Jess replied, handing the small child over to Mother. "I didn't know what else to do so I brought him here to you."

"Are you sure he's a boy?"

"I haven't check down there if that's what you're wondering but I assume it's a he."

"I'm just messing with you Jess." Mother laughed. "It's a boy."

"When I found him he was fine but he suddenly started crying. I tried rocking him but no matter what I did it didn't work."

Mother nodded and began to hum as she continued to gently rock the baby in her arms. She also started rubbing circles across the child's stomach in attempt to stop him from crying. It worked and soon the baby began settling down and closing his eyes.

"You're a natural Mother." Jess smiled at both the sleeping baby and Mother.

"He's colicky that's all." Mother laughed slightly. "Besides, I run an orphanage Jess. I'm supposed to be good with children." She stared down at the child and like Jess, she all ready felt a connection to him. "What are you going to do?"

"I don't know, call Social Services I guess. They'll find a place for him while I track down the mother."

"And if they can't."

"Then I guess they'll put him in a foster home until I find his parents or someone wants him."

She gazed down at the sleeping baby and knew, in that moment, that she would never be able to let him go. "I want him."

"Mother-"

"No Jess, I know what you're about to say." Mother smiled but shook her head. "I don't have enough space and I all ready have too many children but my heart is telling me to keep him. And that's what I'm gonna do."

Jess sighed and ran his fingers through his hair. He knew from the beginning that bringing the baby to Mother would bring out a side in her that would want to keep it and he wanted her too. Children who were abandon didn't all find good homes. Most of them ended up on the streets, in jail, or worse dead. Here at least the child would have a better chance with a woman like Mother Lane watching over him.

"Jess."

"Okay. He can stay here, with you but I have to report this. There's a chance his mother is out there looking for him."

Mother Lane grinned happily as she stared at the still sleeping child. Her heart leaping with joy.


It was dark when she opened her eyes. She gasped, immediately jumping to her feet. She hadn't known how long she was asleep or even where she was anymore. Soon it all came back to her; the need for sleep, leaving her baby in an alley alone.

She took off into a run, desperately trying to remember where she left her son. It wasn't long before she found the alley with the boxes. Throwing the boxes everywhere, she found herself breaking down when she found her child was no longer there.

Hot tears flooded her face as she frantically searched for her child but he wasn't there. Her greatest fear came to life, she had lost her son. What was she supposed to do? It didn't matter because now, she was truly alone in the world.


And that my peeps is how this all started. Well, that's how it went down in my head. Until next time, peace.