A New Story, and this one has potential! 3 I'm in Japan and I need to write some new material so bleh!
Anyways updates will kind of be frequent, since it's almost break time over here, can't make any promises.
Warnings will be posted according to each chapter. This first chapter is character death, nothing too major...maybe?
Disclaimer: It's not mine, I'm not making any money off of this, JE owns all the characters except the OCs...I own them .w.
Enjoy! The story!
WARNING: This isn't beated!
Guardian
Chapter One
The Rain
20 Years ago
May 13, 19XX
Alternate Route 156
Frederick MD.
It was raining when Stephanie Plum woke up from the darkness that consumed her. She let out a moan of pain and blinked opened blue eyes. Why was she in pain, what happened to her? She could remember what happened before the darkness set in. She had been in the car beside her sister, in the backseat. Her parents had been in the front. Oh yeah, that's right, they had been on the their way to visit Grandma and Grandpa Plum. It was the first trip of summer vacation. Both Stephanie and Valarie had been excited to learn that they would be heading to Florida for two weeks. Though the downside had been that they would be taking the car and not a train or a plane. That meant being in a car with her sister for almost 18 hours. Stephanie could recall her sister sleeping and her mother had been asleep as well. The radio had been turned down low…it had been only Stephanie and her father awake and they were talking about the things they would do at the beach. Stephanie could remember a flash of light and then nothing.
Stephanie let out a pained gasp and got up, holding her side. Why was her side hurting, why was she outside in the middle of the road? Stephanie turned around in the darkness and let out a sound, seeing flames coming from a big pile of something not too far from her. Stephanie quickly made her way over to the flames and let out a loud scream.
"DADDY!" Stephanie screamed, running over to a figure near the flames, "DADDY!"
Stephanie leaned over her father and shook him hard sobbing loudly, "Daddy! Please wake up! Please Daddy! Please!"
Stephanie knew then that this was their car, she had been thrown out of it from a crash and her father had been thrown out as well. She had survived, but her father hadn't. Stephanie got up from her spot near her father and whispered, "Mommy…Val?"
Stephanie let out a sound of pain, reaching out to grab her side. She looked down and in the light of the flames saw that her small side was covered in blood, her blood. There was something made of metal sticking out from her side and it hurt really badly. Stephanie was too scared to pull it out her side, so she just kept one hand over it and walked over to the other side of the flipped, burning vehicle. She let out a sob, backing away from the flaming wreck. Her sister and mother were still in the car, her mother halfway out the windshield, and her sister lay in a crumple heap. Their bodies burned in the wreck and it told Stephanie that they were definitely not alive.
Everyone in her family was dead, and she was the only one left alive. Stephanie didn't know what to do, where would she go? She didn't know where she was or when someone would find her she was only 6, the only place she knew by heart was her home neighborhood.
Stephanie sat down on the road, the rain pouring down on her. She was so scared, she wanted her parents to be alive, she wanted Val to be alive as well. Why hadn't she died in the crash as well?
Stephanie wiped her nose and looked up at the wreck. She blinked and leaned forward. In the light of the flames she could see someone, walking towards the flames. Stephanie watched as the person walked up to the body of her father and lean down to look at him. The person then walked around the flames and peered into the car before turning to look at Stephanie, who was too shocked to move. Thanks to the flames, Stephanie could see that the person was a man, with long blood red hair and sharp green eyes. He was tall and domineering looking, dressed in a power suit and shiny shoes. The funny part about it, in the eyes of Stephanie, was that the man wasn't getting wet in the rain, even though he didn't have an umbrella or anything.
The man gave Stephanie a long stare, before his sharp green eyes turned to look at the wound on Stephanie's side. Stephanie let out a whimper and began to back away as the man began to walk over to her. She closed her eyes and said, in a soft voice, "Please…don't hurt me."
When Stephanie opened her eyes, she let out a tiny shriek of terror. The man had somehow found his way beside her and was now looking at her wounded side. Stephanie made to get up and run but the man grabbed her shoulder and say, in a low voice, "Don't move, the metal rod is in deep tissue, I don't want you jostling it some more, and cause some serious damage."
"Are you going to hurt me?" Stephanie asked, looking up at the man with big eyes, "Are you going to kill me?"
"No, I'm going to take you somewhere safe, it seems that a bad man was out here, and I was too late to stop him, don't worry," The man said, his green eyes softening, "I'm going to make sure you're healed and taken care of."
"A bad man killed my family?" Stephanie asked, earning a head nod, "Why?"
"Sometimes, bad people don't need a reason," The man said, gently picking Stephanie up in his arms, "They do whatever they want to, because it makes them feel good, but you won't have to worry about that, child, I'll see to it that you never have to deal with such pain like that again."
"I don't have a mommy or daddy anymore," Stephanie said softly, looking up at the man, gripping his shoulders, "Where are you taking me?"
"Someplace safe," Was all the man said before he rested his hands over Stephanie's eyes, "Now sleep, and when you wake up, you'll be in a new home."
Stephanie felt sleep tug at her mind and the next thing she knew she was fast asleep, safe in the arms of her savior.
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"Toga! You're back!" A tiny child squealed, running up to the tall man and hugging his knees, "Heidi's missed you a lot, did you bring me a present?!"
The tall man chuckled and looked down at the child in front of him, mindful of the injured one in his arms. The child could easily pass as a three year old, with curly black hair and wide amber eyes set in a small oval shaped face that was the color of milk chocolate. She was dressed in a floor length, puffed sleeved dress that was pink with a white ribbon wrapped around her torso. She gave the man another smile and asked, again, "Did you bring me a present?"
"I did, I found you a friend, Heidi" Toga said, crouching down so the tiny child could see the child in his arms.
"Oh, she has blood all over her," Heidi said, her eyes wide, "She's hurt…."
"Mhmm, you know those bad men, the ones I told you about?" Toga asked Heidi, earning a head nod, "They hurt her and killed her family, she's going to live with us, from now on, she'll be your friend and when she's older, she'll also be your guardian, whenever I'm not here, she will watch over you in my stead."
"Oh…." Heidi said, looking into Toga's green eyes, "Heidi will have two guardians?"
"She will, now, come along, we have to heal your new friend and acclimate her into her new life," Toga said, leading the child out of the ornate foyer he entered, "She will learn the way of our kind and she will thrive."
Heidi grabbed Toga's pant leg and said, with a big smile, "Heidi has a new friend!"
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"Heidi's new friend….wake up…I want to play!"
Stephanie let out a soft groan and said, turning her head, "Five more minutes, Mommy, I'm still sleepy…"
"I'm not your Mommy silly! I'm your new friend!" A child's voice said, making Stephanie open a bleary blue eye, "Yay! You're awake!"
Stephanie let out a sigh of content, her fingers tracing a pattern on the soft bed she lay in. She wasn't cold or in pain anymore. She was warm and safe, that was the big one, feeling safe. Stephanie turned her head and found herself looking in the eyes of a small child with amber eyes and curly black hair. The child clambered her way to Stephanie's form and said, "Hello, Heidi's new friend, I'm Heidi, we're going to have so much fun together!"
Stephanie sat up in the bed a took a look around. The room she was in was large and lavish, with a small sitting area and several doors that led to closets, a bathroom and one even led to a private balcony. The room was brightly colored with soft blues and crèmes and one side of the room had windows on it, which let in the morning light. She wasn't outside and she wasn't near the place where….
"Daddy…Mommy..Val," Stephanie whimpered, her eyes filling with tears, "My family is gone, I'm all alone now…."
Stephanie let out a loud sob, and covered her eyes, hunching forward in the bed. She was all alone now, an orphan. What would happen to her now?
"Heidi's Friend, don't cry, you're not all alone, you have Heidi and Toga now," Heidi said, wrapping her arms around Stephanie's neck and hugging her, "You're not alone. Don't worry, Toga is going to catch the bad guys who killed your family."
Stephanie let out one last sob and looked over to the child who smiled and hugged her again. Heidi patted her back and said, "I was alone too, Toga leaves me here all by myself and I get very lonely. You don't have to worry, Heidi's friend, we can stay together, and we won't be lonely anymore you won't be sad anymore too."
Stephanie bit her lip and nodded her head. She wouldn't be alone in this big scary world. She had a new friend and a mysterious man to watch over her.
"Good, Heidi's friend, now, let's go get Toga, he healed you last night, you don't even have a scar," Heidi said, climbing off the side of the big bed, "Toga can get us breakfast and then we can both show you around. We live in a big house and there's lots of secrets too!"
"I have a name," Stephanie said, following the smaller child off the bed, "It's Stephanie, Stephanie Plum, I'm six, how old are you?"
"I don't know," Heidi said, grabbing Stephanie's hand, "I'm old, real old, but it's okay, cause Toga says that I'm still growing!"
Heidi gave Stephanie another smile and then opened one of the doors, revealing that it was an exit.
"After Breakfast," Heidi said, leading Stephanie down a massive corridor, "I'll show you my room, and we can play with my toys, Toga buys me lots of toys, since I can't go past the black gates."
Heidi stopped in front a window and pointed out of it. Stephanie pressed her face against the glass and looked out. There was a large amount of land, all surrounded by tall black gates. Stephanie turned to Heidi and asked, "Why can't you leave, Heidi?"
"Cause….I don't know, Toga says I'm not ready yet to know, but it must be important," Heidi said, shrugging her small shoulders, "Grownups are weird like that."
Heidi tugged at Stephanie's hand and led her down a flight of stairs and into a large room that held the longest table Stephanie had ever seen with several chairs surrounding it. At the head of the table sat the man that saved Stephanie last night. Heidi gave Stephanie a smile and then led her over to the man exclaiming, "Toga, Stephanie's awake! Heidi and Stephanie are hungry!"
Toga gave the two girls a smile and said, motioning to the seats next to him, "Well come and eat, children, Stephanie I see that you're looking much better, how is your side?"
"It doesn't hurt anymore," Stephanie said, lifting up the shirt she wore to show that there was no wound, "See! no more boo-boo!"
"Good," Toga said, nodding his head and ruffling Stephanie's hair, "Eat, after you eat, we shall get started on getting you accustomed to our lifestyle, which means, I'm getting you a tutor for schooling and extra activities."
"Am I going to live here?" Stephanie asked bashfully, looking over to Toga, "You're not sending me to an orphanage?"
"Heavens no, you'll stay here and learn our ways, Stephanie, and when the time comes, you'll become something bigger and better," Toga said, earning a small smile from Stephanie, "I know we can't replace what you lost, Stephanie, but I promise you, Heidi and I will be your family."
Stephanie gave Toga a bright smile and nodded her head saying, "Thank you…Toga."
She knew it would be a long time before the deaths of her parents and sister would stop hurting, but at least she knew she wouldn't be alone during this horrible time. Stephanie took out a bite out of her pancakes and smiled as Heidi turned to Stephanie and told her about all the fun rooms in the house.
Stephanie would be fine with a little bit of time.
TBC...
Oh noes, Stephanie is all alone in the world, well, she isn't now, she's with a mysterious man now, what could he be going on about. Tell me your thoughts about the start of this story in a review, please? .w.