Dan and Phil walked into the quiet room. They've been searching for a child of there own for a while now. Going from orphanage to orphanage hoping to find a child to call their own. They had gotten married a year ago but had just recently announced it to the public. As expected people went crazy. But back to now.
"Hello I am Mrs. Barren. How may I help you?" Asked the tall lady as she sat at her desk.
"We are looking for a child" Started Dan.
"That isn't older then seven" Continued phil.
"I child that looks kinda like the two of us"
" Anything else?" She asked.
"Nope I think that's it." Said phil looking at Dan for confirmation. Dan gave a nod.
"Alright then let me go look. Make yourselves comfortable." And as Mrs. Barren walked out of the room she kicked over a stack of papers revealing a little girl trying to stack them. "Ops, my bad." Then she walked out of the room.
Dan and phil quickly went over to help the girl re-stack the pile. The little girl had long dark brown hair and cream colored skin. But also green eyes and a splash of little freckles across her nose.
"Hello I'm Dan and this is Phil. What Is your name?" Dan gently asked the little girl.
"Winifred." Said the little girl as she picked up one of the stacks of paper and went to the filing cabinets in the corner."Thank you for helping me." She spoke in a soft English accent that sounded a lot like Dan's and Winnie the pooh mixed together.
"Are you an orphan here?" Asked phil.
"Yes, I am. But Mrs. Barren never lets anyone adopt me as she likes me to do most the work here." Poor little Winifred had never known any different and continued on with her work as the two men questioned her.
"How old are you?" Asked Dan.
"7." Replied Winifred.
Phil looked at Dan. A silent message was passed between the two and when Phil looked back at Winifred he and Dan had made a decision. " Winifred how would you like it if we adopted you?"
"I would love it so very much." Said little Winifred and she was so filled with happiness you could see her eyes brighten up, but then it was gone. "Mrs. Barren would never allow it." She said and she went back to putting the stacks of paper away.
"We will find a way." Said Dan and was rewarded with a hug from little Winifred who was so small she couldn't fit her arms around him.
"Oh get her through the law." Said Winifred who was getting very excited. "She has multiple charges with the law. Not only is she in debt but she has been abusing me so you could get her arrested for 20 years with that alone." By now she had made herself a seat in Phil's lap.
Dan was just about to ask the little girl how she knew this much about law when Mrs. Barren walked in the room.
"Mrs Barren I would like to adopt this child right here" He said gesturing to Winifred.
"You can't. I won't allow it." Said Mrs Barren trying to hold her ground.
"Then I guess I will have to take you to court for disobeying the law by abusing a child. I would think 20 to life." Dan said standing up. Even though the lady was tall she was not even close to Dan who was 6 foot 3.
"But you can't." Said the lady in one final attempt to keep her worker.
"Where are her papers?" Phil said getting just a bit impatient with the head of the orphanage.
"They should be right here somewhere" Said Mrs Barren as she scurried to the filing cabinet. Winifred got up and went to the filing cabinet on the opposite side of the room and picked up a small file with the name Winifred printed on the side of it, she placed it on the table and went back to Dan and phil. "Oh yes there it is." Said Mrs. Barren as she took out the papers and handed the two of them a pen.