They had been abandoned by the farther they had never known. They had barely known their mother before she passed on.
All they had were each other, and its all they believed they needed.
What they didn't know that somewhere far away from them, someone had just received a letter that would change there lives forever.
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As he re-read the letter for what must have been the 10th time that night, the weary and tired headmaster, could still not believe what his eyes were seeing.
He had known that all those years ago he had not been told the whole truth but now 17 years later this letter was here telling him more than he could ever have dared to dream for the
man he had risked his own life to save.
He shuddered to think how this could effect that man, let alone his new wife, they had only just got there marriage due to the law on track.
The headmaster even doubted the young man had told his young wife, about this aspect of his past, let alone what he left behind.
Tomorrow, the headmaster vowed would be the day he told him, tomorrow would be the day he made him face up to his past and take on the responsibility. Now he really was needed.
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As he watched his young wife sleep, he silently prayed that his happiness would not be short-lived.
He crept out of the room and in to the small living room, where he poured himself a small tumbler of fire whiskey just enough to ensure a dreamless sleep.
No matter he how happy he was when he was awake they always caught up with him in his dreams, their last words, the way the fear was in the hazel eyes that had peered up at him
so timidly. Not to mention the one that haunted him the most the small bundle of soft pink blankets.
He downed the last dregs of his whiskey and slipped in to bed, He would never know and he would do better to stop thinking about it and concentrate on not letting it happen again.
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