Stray
Prologue
DeiDeiArtistic: Helloz a ppl! Yet another fanfic from me. :P Although it's genre is "Romance/Angst", there will be also drama, horror, crime and possibly other themes. It may also take some time before pairings break out, but bear with me, 'kay? Lastly, this will mostly Matthew and Alfred POV.
Disclaimer: I do not own Hetalia or its cast members.
Claimer: I co-own Magena and own Caleb Jones, Dr. Osuna and Elliotte "Leo" Williams. I also own the plot.
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A blonde-haired New-Englander held tightly to his wife-in-labor. Her screams of pain caused his heart so much anxiety, stress and tears to flow from his face, but even then he held a smile as he ushered her assuring whispers laced with love.
"There there, love. Did you hear the doctor? One more push and our boy will be out."
Magena looked at her husband, Caleb Jones, with a flushed face before shrieking out a cry of excruciating agony. It felt as if she was splitting into two, and to do it once more…
At her last push, Magena gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Weakly reaching out to her newborn, the Native American gently touched her son's pink cheek, wiping away the tears from the soft-crying newborn. She gave a tired laugh, which sound more like a strained huff of air.
"Alfred. You're Alfred F-" Magena abruptly stopped mid-speech and was was soon replaced by screaming, "Fucking Jones!"
It was unknown whether it was the newborns name or an angry plea at the father.
"Ma'am, I'm going to need you to calm down, in a moment I'll need you to push, alright?" The doctor, Dr. Osuna, asked Magena, whose only reply was an ear-wrenching cry.
"Magena, sweetie. Listen to the doctor, okay?" Caleb said with a soft-caring smile as he caressed his wife's hand, ignoring his own tendency to cry in pain as his wife strong grip was about to break his own hand.
As Magena tried to nod, she closed her eyes and her head fell backwards, her crushing grip loosening in Caleb's hand.
Stricken with panic, Caleb called out for her, "Magena! Love, are you alright?"
Soon, the world seemed to fly by in Caleb's eyes as doctors and nurses pushed him to the side line, holding his newborn son. As he watched confusedly at the scene before him, he heard muffled jargons being thrown here and there by the medical staff as alarms of machines were going off, beeping hectically like his own heartbeat.
While in the commotion of it all, a brunette haired nurse came up to Caleb, poking his shoulder for his attention. He looked at her as she began to speak, but he didn't seem to hear her words, he just saw her asking him something. Unsurely, he just handed the nurse his son and looked back to his wife.
It was then his attention was broken by loud, piercing wail. One of the doctor's was holding up a bloody, pink newborn and a nurse immediately began to clean up the baby. Caleb felt his heart leap up for joy and immediately went to check up with his wife when a dreadful sound came into his ears.
Magena's heart monitor went dead.
"Magena!" Caleb shouted before two nurses pushed him outside and closed the doors before him. He quickly moved to the viewing-window, in which one of the doctors blocked by closing the window-curtains.
Aggravated, Caleb pounded his fist against the windows and from there, broke down from all the stress. Crying, Caleb placed is hands over his face and let out a muffled cry. Today was supposed to be a happy day, there shouldn't have been complications. However, even he knows that wasn't entirely true.
Months prior to this current event, Magena and Caleb only knew of one son, Alfred. Although they had not picked any names for the growing infant, they requested the doctors to keep the gender of the baby a secret so that'd it'd remain a secret until Magena gave birth. However, as weeks came by, Magena became prone to illnesses and her parents begged her to consider an abortion, yet Magena refused and continued on sickly. By the next month, Magena's immune system began to fail.
As happy as Magena's parents were for her pregnancy, they worried that it was not for the best. Magena showed little signs of improvement and they demanded that she'd get an abortion. Reluctantly, Magena agreed, however not until she took her monthly check-up with Dr. Osuna.
As the Jones family and Magena's parents left for their family hospital, Megana signed in for her monthly ultra-sound. After the jelly was smeared over her protruding stomach, Dr. Osuna started the ultra-sound and the family was surprised with the sight of another child inside Magena's womb. It was then, Magena's parents realized they could not simply take away two lives and released their daughter from their previous agreement.
However, it was the seventh month of Magena's pregnancy and she had gone into premature labour. Today was July Fourth and it was the birth of Alfred Fucking Jones and his brother. Caleb Franklin Jones became a widower that day as Dr. Osuna informed the man that his wife died of high fever and they did their best to resurrect her. Holding both his children, the man mournfully cried at the hospital, afflicted with grief.
It wasn't until a week and a half later Caleb was allowed to leave the hospital with both of his children, one still unnamed. Although his was given an amount of time to name the child, Caleb promised Dr. Osuna he'd come back when he'd finally thought of a name for the child, at which Dr. Osuna agreed.
Yet, little did Dr. Osuna know that Caleb had no desire to name the second child, nor keep him. Why would he want a child that caused his wife's life? Why would he want a mistake? Why would he want a copy? A misfit. A reject. A banshee child? A murderer?
Later that week, with a cloak draped around his body, shielding his face, he carried the second child to the steps of an orphanage. He placed the infant, who was wrapped in a bundle of blankets, in front of the entrance and left as quickly as he came.
The infant boy was later found by the orphanage's night-security, Mr. Elliotte "Leo" Williams, and brought into the hospital and quickly taken care by the night-shift staff as the boy was cold and suffering from benign-pneumonia. The orphanage's staff thought oddly of the baby's abandonment, as a safety-pin was attached to the child's blanket, labeled "NAMELESS". The child was identified as male and was clearly a newborn as the baby still had his nub of an umbilical cord.
The caretakers deducted that the boy was irregularly small for a newborn, that he must have been a premature birth as he body was ultimately fragile and delicate and he felt weightless to them. They guessed that he was relatively born around the first of July and only kept for a short while, as he was slightly pudgy and a soft pale complex, instead of a raw pink. However they thought it cruel to abandon an innocent soul in the middle of the night — and without a name no less!
Thus, the orphanage then dialed the police and the police replied that there have not been any reports of missing children, or rather infants, at the time being, however they would keep in touch in case anything developed. After the call to the police, the orphanage called the nearest hospitals for recently born nameless infants by the means of a premature birth, yet was given a negative feedback. Unsure of what to do, the orphanage had decided to take the child into their own hands and write up the newborn's birth certificate. However, they were unsure of what to name him as normally that entitlement was given to family members.
Yet, the 45 year-old French Canadian Elliotte Williams stepped up to the plate and said that he did not mind to take care of the child as he had found the nameless child in the first place. His fellow staff accepted the idea and allowed Mr. Williams to be the caretaker of the child, as he had raised his own family at one point in his life and was still able to do so.
It was later finalized of who the nameless child became.
Name: Matthew Williams
Date of Birth: July 1st, 20XX,
Time of Birth: 7:07 PM
Weight: 4 lbs, 9.33 oz
Parent/Guardian's Signature: Elliotte Williams
Nationality: French-Canadian
Enter Matthew Williams.
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So, should I continue? (O3o)~?
The next chapter will be Chapter 1 and it will take place years later until Matthew is fifteen, just so you know~ :3
Review your thoughts of the story so far, 'kay?
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Also, for anyone waiting for the next chapter of "Hinokuni Highschool", sadly it's on hiatus until I am able to get myself out of a "plot-rut". :c Don't worry, it will continue, just not any time soon…
~DeiDeiArtistic