Here's a prequel to everything. It shows Brennan, Booth and Cam. It's what happened to Melinda, and shows a secrit that both Melinda and Brennan have no iday of. It will be revealed to them in one of my next fanfictions.
This is the full story. You can review if you love it. Any sugestions what Brennan will do when she finds out, are welcom.
1. My sister Selina.
Small Melinda skipped true the meadow; never had it felt so good to be right there. Melinda's ponytails were hanging loose next to her head. Her little ponytails completed her small face. She was vulnerable, yet strong. Her grandparents were watching her from the terrace, with her little sis, Selina. Actually her big sis Selina. She was born a couple seconds early then her. And yet Melinda seemed to be a couple centimeters bigger. 13 year. They were both 13. Melinda's eyes shined in the darkness.
Their childhood was not that good, as the others. They had spent that with McKay's, when they were 5, the McKay's got divorced. And a year later father Mckay married a woman named Gillian. Melinda and Selina had lived with their adoptive parents until they were 7. That was the age were Gillian and the father died in a rather painful accident. Then they were putted in the foster system, shipped from family to family for 3 years or something. Until their grandparents finally removed them from the system to come and live with them. From then on Melinda closed off from everyone, only keeping eyes for her books. Her future, she called it. Melinda never talked to anyone again. Not even to her own sister. No one could get true to her. For a couple of years. One day everything changed. The girl that never spoke started to talk again. The 12 year old girl seemed to gain life. And skipped around true the meadows, hacked in the woods. All that stuff.
One evening they were all sitting with the fire place. Melinda's eyes were on the TV, playing a skeleton stories.
"I want to be a forensic anthropologist." The girl said while Selina watched her.
"Yes, you could be sweetie." The grand mum replied "You can do anything you want to do." She kissed Melinda's curly hair.
"Where's mum?" Melinda turned to her grandmother "Where's dad?"
The grandmother slowly turned around. "You're parents are. Sweetie, where you're parents are doesn't matter. They left you remember. Social serves took you from us, and placed you with those McKay's."
"But I want to know." Melinda stepped up and blocked her grandmothers pad "I want to know who they were!"
"No one!" the grandfather stood up, yelling at them "You're parents were nobodies, who didn't feel like raising you, and they left you right her, on our stoop. They were not ready for children."
Melinda left the room and curled up in her bed. She cried a little. Unable to believe what her grandparents just told her, had her mother not cared about her and her sister, was it maybe possible that her parents left them when they were just little babies. Had she been wrong about whom she had came from.
Melinda's little sister walked up the stairs. Her eyes were puffy form the movie. ET. It had been a whole new experience. 'E.T. phone home.' Selina's eyes started to puff automatically again. She heard voices from her grandparents' door; carefully she pushed her ear against it.
"Lil, you almost nearly spoke about Ruth and Max. Their parents." Pattrick said while he watched "We agreed on it. I thought we agreed on this case. That Ruth and Max were not suited to parent their daughters. You know we let them take Temperance and Russ."
"I know." Lilliane replied "I know, but everyday, they start looking harder like my Ruthie. As specially Melinda. She's a speaking image of her mum when she was a little girl. How am I supposed to lie to my granddaughters?"
"Lilliane we agreed that those bank robbers were not able to take care of your grandchildren. We were able to take Melinda and Selina away. But we still had to watch Temperance and Russ go." Pattrick yelled "They were not suited to be parents! And you see I'm right. They left their sun and their daughter. And Russ turned his head to his own sister. Putting her in the foster system."
Who are Russ and Temperance? Who the hell are Ruth and Max? Are they talking about us? Are our parents the one they mentioned?
"I told you!" Lilliane yelled "I told you, we should take them in. We should have taken them in."
"No!" Pattrick yelled "This is enough! I was not going to blow my cover, and tell everyone that we kidnapped your grandchildren, and pronounced to their parents that they were dead. I'm not going to explain myself;"
Selina covered her face, she couldn't believe what she heart, did she have a brother and a sister? Did her parents think she was dead? Did she look like her mum? Where were her mum and her dad? And where was that 'Russ' and 'Temperance'. What were they like?
"Ruth was more then capable of taking care of her daughters!" Lillian yelled out
"Those them bank robbers brought their children in mortal danger!" Pattrick waved his hand next to her head barely hitting her.
Bank rubbers? Selina thought, her parents were bank rubbers. They stole money for a living. She started breathing faster. Did her grandfather just hit her grandmother? But the yelling went on.
"They promised they had quiet that they had bettered their life for their children's sake." Lillian cried "They want them, more then anything. And we played God, we've taken them."
Selina started crying. And walked up the stairs crying. Her grandparents had been lying to her and her little twin sis for all this years. For all this year. She just wanted to take her bags, and walk away from them. To find her sister, Temperance. Her brother Russ and her parents. Melinda was fast asleep. Selina watched her.
You will never understand, Selina thought. Her eyes were puffy. She stroke her hear away from her sisters head. She couldn't keep her eyes form Melinda's face. What would her mum have looked like?
Would they share their blue eyes? Or the brown hair? Or the slender figure, the both had? Was the intelligence Melinda had gotten, form her mummy or her daddy?
She will never understand. Selina thought again. You will never get true this. She kissed her sister on the cheek. And opened the window. She sneaked down the wall. And sat down outside. Just a little walk, I'll tell Melinda in the morning. Selina said. Her thoughts despaired in her mind. And it felt like nothing could happen to her.
Melinda snaked out of the sleep by a horrible nightmare. About Selina, gone, kidnapped and left alone. Murdered. She woke up. The window was open. And Selina's bed was not slept upon. She started yelling. Hoping to wake up from this nightmare.
"Sweetie." Liliane entered the room "Shush, it was just a nightmare."
"No." Melinda pointed at Selina's empty bed "She's gone!"
Her grandfather Pattrick walked in the room and saw the empty bed. "Shit!" he yelled. And thrown the door close. Melinda walked behind them.
"Go to your bed!" He put his hand up, and slightly hid her against the face. Melinda's face changed and she ran back to her room crying.
"Did you really need to do that to her?" Lilliane clamed "Does she have to stop talking again?"
"Oh, that little kid. I'm sick of her. Every since they live her, it's all been about them." Pattrick yelled "What about me! Hun, I never asked for a child, I thought that I could protect the children of their parent both clearly I was wrong! Cause Max just got Selina."
Melinda cried softly in her bed, while she heard her grandparents fight about her. She just knew it. She kept her hands in the inside of her bed. Looking out of the window that was still open. Why were they so mad? It was not her fold; she hurt her grandparents yell. And yell. Pattrick was not actually her grandfather. But he had moved in after her real grandfather, Martin had died. She hated Pattrick, and she could feel the feeling was mutual. As especially the way he yelled at her, and at Selina. She didn't want to stay here.
Pattrick had been around for years, even when she was a little baby. Martin was to busy with his work, and couldn't see that his wife was lacking of love. After a couple of months of marriage, and 3 children she had given up the hope for ever getting their relationship in order. And when Ruth was pregnant for a couple of months, Martin felt in a coma after a fatal car accident. He rested in that same coma for over 10 years. A year ago, he got a heart attack, and had died immediately. That was the sign for Pattrick to move in with Lilliane and to make their relationship public. She had taken in the children to, but after Pattrick moved in, he changed. He became violent against the girls, and spacey Melinda who was his point of attack. She didn't dare to say anything. Not even a word.
Pattrick was extra mad this evening, and especially since Selina was missing.
"What?" Liliane stood up.
"They found out" Pattrick yelled "They found out and they kidnapped Selina!"
Liliane kept her eyes closed for a while, not really knowing what he was talking about. About what he was trying to say about her daughter and her sun-in-law. After a couple of minutes it seemed to slip true.
"If it was Ruth, why wouldn't she have take Melinda!" Liliane yelled "If it would have been, Max and Ruth they would have taken her too!"
"I'm not sure, maybe they are coming back to get her!" Pattrick said "Have you had contact with them? Or any of your sisters? Or one of your other daughters, Alma, has Alma called Ruth?"
"No, I'm telling you, no one knows!" Lilliane yelled "No one knows, we haven't mentioned any of this in over 12 years, as long as these girls are alive."
"Then where is Selina?" the grandfather yelled "Where did she go?"
"Maybe she finally stood up for their selves." He hit her in the face, and she slammed down the floor. Falling unconscious. He stood up, and walked to the door, of the little Melinda. Melinda heard the footsteps on the stairs, and climb out of the window. Jumping in the three.
"You get right back here, little lady!" Pattrick tried to grab her feet.
"No!" The little girl yelled at the figure in the window. "I won't come down"
"Get away from me" the 13- year old yelled, and stamped with her feet. In the figure despaired out of the frame. All of the sudden she felt the three, shake.
"Get out there" The father yelled. The little girl trembled all over her body.
"No" She cried.
He started hitting on the three with an ax, Melinda jumped on the window before the tree fell down. Her heart beaded faster. Before she got to the door, he was standing there with the ax in his hands. Melinda screamed it out.
All of the sudden, she heard a shot. Pattrick fell down, dead. After him her grandmother Lilian was standing, with the gun in her hands that just shot her boyfriend.
"No one hurts my granddaughter." Liliane said while she took Melinda in her arms.
In a couple of hours, police was all over the building. Every where. Melinda saw they were looking at the evidence, and found it kind of scary. What had happened all this day? The disappearance of Selina, and the madness of Pattrick. Melinda cried. She lost her big sis. And in some way she would miss having a sibling.
"We've got some questions for you miss" the inspector said "What happened?"
"My granddaughter disappeared. And my husband went insane; he tried to kill my other granddaughter. So I shot him, there was nothing ells I could have done, I swear! He has been abusive of the kids for a while. And I didn't want to see it. He's been away when Mel here was 12, that's when she started talking again. But now, nothing! She hasn't said anything, anymore. It kind of worries me."
"Where are the girls parents?" the inspector asked "Maybe the little girl went to look for them."
"That's not possible, their parents are dead!" she replied.
"Have you considered?" the man walked away from the little girl "That your husband perhaps killed Selina, and was about to kill this Mel."
"No, he was in bed, with me all along." Liliane replied "It's impossible, I know he could not have done, what you're subjecting he would have don;"
"How do you know that, he did not do it?" the inspector replied "You caught him with a ax in his hand, ready to kill your grandchild, and you say that he couldn't have killed Selina."
"Perhaps," Liliane sat down. "But I didn't hear anything."
"Maybe the girl heard something she was not about to hear." the inspector said "He knocked you out, he went to the room to Selina, killed her. And now he wanted to kill Melinda;"
"You go and find my grandchild!" Liliane stood up