Authors Note: I came up with this story when I was focusing on another story, and I was going through my marvel obsession. Hopefully this story goes well as I gave up my other story to focus on this one :D Thanks for reading and please review!
Disclaimer: Really the only thing I own is the character Kia and the storyline. Everything else does not belong to this poor student
Prologue:
The nurse was sleeping at her desk, a single lamp illuminating her slacken face. It seemed to him as though she had been asleep for a while. How careless. Would she be safe with people like this nurse, continuously pushing their duty aside?
He shook his head, clearing the doubts that were fogging his mind. He had no choice in what he was going to do. She would be safe here, and when the time was right she would know the truth and why it was imperative she had remained safe.
He smiled down at the bundle in his arms, as she gurgled and waved chubby fists at him. Dark blue eyes blinked solemnly up at him as though she understood why he felt need to do this. One finger reached out to stroke her cheek, a finger which she grasped with her own hand. Her tiny hand. It was as if he had only just noticed how small she really was. So vulnerable she would be and so alone in the world.
That was why she had to come here.
Sneaking into the hospital had been easy enough, the guard distracted by the temptation of a cigarette. The hallways had mainly been empty, only a few stray people walking to and from the wards, but to anyone, he looked just like a new dad, taking his newborn daughter for a walk to lull her to sleep. And now he had reached his intended ward, the nurse on duty was sleeping. It almost seemed like someone was helping him with this decision, for there had been no opportunity presenting itself for him to abandon the plan.
Looking down again into her eyes, he saw trust reflected back at him. So naive and forgiving. Trust. After what he was about to do, there would be no trust in her eyes. Maybe not ever. It is a hard thing to forgive, being abandoned. She would not remember this or any other memories. He would make sure of that. But he had to run and he would be hunted if they survived. No, it was better like this.
The nurse gave a sudden snort and slumped further down the desk, indicating to him that he needed to hurry his actions. That and the lightening of the sky through the window behind the nurses desk. He strolled over to the window and looked up at the constellations and distant galaxies and worlds he knew were up there. He held her up higher as if he was showing her the wonders of the universe, wonders she would never know.
"Look there. All those stars, and moons, and galaxies. There is so much to see and so much to experience, for the Universe is forever growing and expanding, developing and decaying, that you can never get bored. You'll be up there one day. You'll be among the stars."
He uttered the last sentence with a shaky breath. He gently pressed a kiss to her forehead, for she had fallen asleep when he had been talking. He wrapped the cloth tighter around her and placed the bundle onto the nurses desk.
With a quick glance around the ward, he withdrew a fob-watch from the inside of his coat, and tucked it into the fold of the blanket.
"When the time comes, you will know."
And with one last parting kiss, he left her behind.
He left her on the desk for a nurse to wake up to a crying baby, one which had been abandoned with no mother or father ever coming forward to claim her. So she was put into the system. Soon she was adopted, for there were many desperate pleas for people to help save the baby that had been cast aside.
A letter found in her blankets along with a mysterious fob-watch, indicated that she kept her name. As this was the only request of the faceless parent, it was granted.
The child would be known as Kia Milla Blackbourne.
Authors Note: Right this is just the prologue but the first chapter will be up tomorrow, I promise! I wonder if any of you can guess the mysterious man?