At 20 she become a mother of sorts, she was out walking her dog in the early hours of the morning, she need to clear her head after a bad break up. She walked up a path from her apartment and into the woods just, the sun just started to peek through the trees telling her how early it was. Her mind was on her Ex thinking how she found him in bed with her friend, she wiping her eyes she growled at herself for still crying about the arse… just stop it, he is not worth it she Sally problem now…she thought bitterly. So lost in her thought she didn't notices she was being watching or that her dog was acting strange as he kept circling her trying to protect her, but she kept walking along the empty and lonely path…I will burn his things…she thought.
Alana reached the top of the hill and let out a sigh seeing the pink dusty sky "Come on boy, let's go have breakfast at that dinner." She said smiling, just as she was about to walk down back down towards town. The braches above the trees snapped in front of her making her fall backwards as someone jumped out of the trees. Alana let out a scream as she watched brown haired woman stumble toward her, her arm were cradling something in a grey blanket. Alana looked up to at the curly brown haired woman, her eyes were bright like nothing she has never seen before, but they were filed with fear and pain.
The brown haired woman fell to her knees and moved her arms holding out the small bundle in her arms towards her. Alana blinked in shock as she pushed herself up onto her knees and looked at the bundle and see baby warped up in the blanket. For a moment she was fearful of it being dead but she saw the little one open their mouth and then then close it again. "Please." Alana looked up to the woman as pink tears started to fall from her eyes "P…Please." The woman begged again "M…y ba…by." She struggled to say, blinking in shock the dark haired woman gently scooped up the child and pulled him close to her body and looked back at the other woman
"I…if you need help come with me, I have friends at the hospi…" bloody lips pressed against hers making Alana freeze as this woman kisses her.
"Protect my William." She whispered, and then she slide down to the ground kissing her son on the forehead.
"OH MY GOD!" Alana cried out she saw that there was arrow sticking out of the woman's back, as she falls to the ground.
Her heart was thumping against her rib cage as she just looked at the woman on the floor before looking at baby in her arms. He was looking up at her with the same bright blue eyes as his mother. She turned back to the woman and reached down and touched her placing her finger where her pulse point is meant to be, but she couldn't find it. Alana pushed herself up on her feet hearing the baby let out a cry "Shhh it's alright W…William." She tells the child, as she looked back in fear at the dead woman on the ground. Her dog barked snapping of her throat, wiping away the tears from her face and the blood of her lips and turned to run back to her home.
On the way she stopped at a pay phone to call the police about the dead woman in the woods, she didn't leave her name or say anything about the baby. For some reason it felt right that she protect this child that she takes the little baby and bring him up as her own. Once back in her apartment she stood there looking down at the baby on her bed, she gently unwraps the grey blanket and checks the baby out for injuries. She see none he just looks perfect, William looks up at her and makes a noise cooing at her. "I will look after you my little William." She smiled as she wiped her eyes again.
Over the next couple of days she waited to see if there was any reports on the news and in the papers about the dead woman in the woods, but nothing she frowned and wondered if someone took the body from the woods after she left. In the end she took William to the hospital to get checked over, she told them that he belonged to her sister. Alana knew that no one will go looking for her, her sister is a runway a girl who dropped off the side of the planet. The police soon arrived after that to talk about the baby and Alana found it so easy to lie saying that sister turned up out of the blue with the baby in toe. Then when she went to walk Toby and came back her sister was gone leaving a nots begging her to take care of William as she was a unfit mother, they brought it.