Abe's Memories

Summary: Abe got to spend 1 precious year with his daughter, before Janine ripped her from his life for 16 years.. He treasured every moment he got to spend with her, and this is the recollection of his memories with her.

Memory #1:

Abe had had a particularly hard day. He had finally been able to leave, able to return home to the woman he held most dear to him. Only, when he got home, and announced his arrival, she didn't respond. He began to call for her, looking all over the house, before finding her in the upstairs bathroom off of the master bedroom. She was in a ball, crying, a terrified look on her face. Abe looked around to find any clue as to why Janine would be upset. When he spotted a white stick on the side of the tub, and another on the counter, th epuzzles pieces in his head clicked together. He knelt down beside her and collected her in his arms. She tried to pull away, but he wouldn't let her. Janine would be 19 in less than a month. He himself was not much older, having turned 20 not so long ago. She turned to look up at him, tears staining her gorgeous face.

"I'm so sorry. Please don't leave." Her voice was full of tears, just like her eyes.

"I could never leave you. Are they both positive?" He asked, a little afraid the answer would be 'no.'

"Yes." She said it in a hurried whisper, letting her face fall toward the floor.

"Then you have just made me the happiest man alive." Then he gently but forcibly turned her face up towards his just in time for their lips to collide and ignite the dormant passion that lay within him. He pulled away to looked into her eyes while trying to catch his breath. When he did so, he spoke. "I will do everything to take care of you and our precious child. I want nothing more than to see you happy and hold our darling baby in my arms. I want nothing more than what you can give me."

She gasped. This was the last thing Janine had expected from Abe. She didn't want to risk ruining the moment, so she just smiled. She curled in on herself before cuddling into Abe's warm arms and being clutched to his chest. She turned her face inward, to feel his beating heart. When she felt a tiny heat on the crown of her head, her lips rose into a tiny smile. She had been so afraid that Abe would leave her when he discovered her pregnancy, or kick her out. That, ultimately, would have been the worst thing possible. She had nowhere to go besides here. When Janine graduated, and he father kicked her out (seeing as he was a Damphir and was left to raise her by himself, her mother wanting nothing to do with her after birth), Janine had nowhere else to go. She was lucky to have bumped into Abe at her graduation.

For Abe, it had been love at first sight. For Janine, it was a work in progress. She had been sent to an Academy by the age of 2, left to spend her life on nothing but training and guarding with nobody to love her. No teacher tried taking her under their wing. She was a Hathaway, seen as a waste of time and space. When Abe had offered her a job as his guardian, she jumped at the chance. She wasn't assigned anywhere, nobody wanted her. So, she was going to take this oppertunity and make a name for herself. But, now, being pregnant, and so young at that, she worried over what would happen. She knew that she couldn't abort the baby. She would kill herself before doing that. 'Maybe a few years with the baby? Until an Academy can take her? Or adoption maybe?' Whatever option she chose, Janine wasn't considering what Abe might want. And what Abe wanted was to spend the rest of his life with his daughter.