Well hello all you happy people. (: This is the first chapter, a prologue, to my newest story, "A Crime to the Heart". I hope you all enjoy and please please PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE review. Thanks!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything! Except for Annalisa. :D
A woman smiled down at her new child. "She is perfect, Douglass," she whispered to the man next to her. He wrapped his strong arms around her slim form and leaned is chin against her unnatural brunette head of hair. "But she must never know where she came from," the woman said with seriousness in her tone. Her blue eyes wandered and studied the girl's calm face.
"My dear," Douglass whispered, "No need to be worried. You know our intention is great and it will happen one day and we will end up satisfied." The woman nodded and smiled mischievously. A sound broke her concentration and she sat up straight on the couch. Looking down at the pale child, she leaned down to look at her. Douglass noticed her tension and asked, "What's wrong-,"
The woman snapped, "Don't use my name." Douglass stared at her with intense, brown eyes, taken aback by her outburst. She continued to look down at her new baby, avoiding eye contact. "I know you were about to. I don't go by that name anymore, Doug. It's Renee, remember?"
"I apologize, Renee," Douglass hissed, forcing out his polite words. Suddenly, a lamp exploded and the baby began to wail. Douglass held tightly onto Renee. "What's going on!" He exclaimed.
Renee shouted over the baby's wails, "She's crying! Her powers are making her do this! We have to make sure she can control herself without letting her know that she has these powers!"
"And how do you propose we do so!" Douglass bellowed back as the commotion began to die down.
Renee explained, "If the tests are true. If she has more of her father than her mother in her, then these powers will be minimal. She will only have slight disturbances like this. This was just a big one because she's a baby. Her father's powers will take over and cause her mother's powers to be weaker and less active."
"I see," Douglass nodded. A moment went by and Renee stared down at the baby, gently stroking her tuffs of violet hair. Douglass stood and muttered, "Well. We must be heading off to bed, don't you think?" Renee nodded and didn't move. "Renee?"
She whispered, "Just leave me be with her for a moment." Douglass turned and entered the prairie house, shutting the wooden door behind him. Renee glared at the child. "You are one lucky little girl, Annalisa McGormick. You're lucky that we have you and not some other crazed lunatics. They would kill you in a moment's notice. But, I'll have you know, we have special plan for you." Renee then hugged the child to her and stood, leaving the porch and entering the little farmhouse.