kassandra and notre dame
chapter 1
winter, night its cold and snowing... AGAIN.
Clopin pulled the little chavi* closer to him and walked forward through the storm.
if he ever made it to the court it would be a miricale.
the petite little baby in his arms cried quietly, she was hungry and freezing and despite Clopin's attempts to hush her she was very loud.
"hush Mon Cher.. shh..."
"clopin?" a familiar voice whispered through the snow and wind, he knew it well even distorted as it was.
"Esmerelda?"
"Clopin what are you doing? come come," she grabed him by the wrist and pulled him through the storm before he could answer.
they entered into the catacombs where it immediately got wormer.
esmerelda spieing the freezing baby, unwrapped the shawl from around her waist and -taking the infint out of his arms and wrapping her up, the chavi* instantly went quiet and smuggled closely to her.
"hmh" clopin huffed, a lady takes the child and she settles.. but the man who saved her life... no, no she cries continuously.
"clopin who is this?"
"her name is Kassandra 'like the Greek god' she said, she's my niece... of sorts. my little half brother's daughter, she came with her dying mama from England." clopin explained, dusting off Clopin petit.
esmerelda smiled and cood to the child.
"well shall i take her while you change into something dry?" she questioned.
"if you'd be so kind chare" clopin said, he kissed esmerelda and Kassandra on the head and walked off to dry up.
"you can live with us little one." she hushed.
4 years latter and Kassandra is now 6 years old. she lives with clopin and esmerelda moving between the two to stay with which ever is not otherwise inclined. (ie: clopin lovers or phebus.)
*more to come.
"Kassandre!" clopin called using a very french accent, the little girl was playing hide and seek and it was not the best time for her to be doing it. clopin spind around to see the small carriage filled with gypsy youth getting take away by the authorities.
supposedly they where 'rescuing' them. clopin new different. he glanced to the carriage with more fear than ever before that his little niece was gone, when he caught a glimpse of light brown hair and a pink ribbon through the carriage window. clopin stumbled forward grabbing both sides of his face and screamer in muffled defeated.
a quiet feminine voice whispered through the screaming in his head.
"clopin?" he looked down to see a worried little Kassandra, and with that he fell to his knee's and hugged his niece, for all he had thought she had been taken and he was so, SO!
relieved that she was not.
"hu? what's wrong?" she asked pulling back and looking him sternly in the eye's.
the gypsy king laughed at her and took her hand as they walked back to their sanctuary,
the lose of the other gypsy children would be taking its tole on their people and he would have to make a speech... something inspiring and hopeful to lighten there gloom.
the children had not been told what was happening, the elders of the court had made the decision not to tell them so that they did not get scared.
Clopin noticed that the little chavi* kept sneaking confused and worried glances at him when she thought he wasn't looking.
- inside the court of mericales / the elders are having a meeting while the children and teenagers sleep-
Clopin, and a group of other gypsys gather around a large wooden table while all drinking mugs of what they hope is rum of sorts.
in hushed tones they discuss what was to be done about the abduction of gypsy children in the city of parie.
Kassandra wakes in the makeshift hammock hanging from a corner in Esmeralda's room she stares at the roof momentarily looking at the star's that her, clopin and esmeralda had painted there when she was four and complained that she couldn't see the star's when she went to bed.
as her senses became more alert she began to hear the whispering of the elders from the tribe. she listened trying to make out what they where saying but they where too quiet.
she got determined to know what they where saying, knowing that it was about her missing friends.
jumping from the hammock and landing on the floor next to Esmeralda's bed as quietly as possible. if she woke esme and got caught sneaking out she would be in big trouble.
she threw her shawl around her shoulders and crept out of the room, in the hall of the room's created inside the catacombs she crept towards the whispers making no sound as she walked on her tippy-toes, following the hushed voices all the way to the car park were she stomped and poked her head around the corner of a wall to watch and listen to the group of elders. Kassandra listened and quickly understood what was, what had happened.
her friends had been taken by the tall man in the funny hat and dress, his name was frollo and they all where scared of him. but she wasn't, she wasn't scared of enyone and she didn't understand how the elders could let frollo get away with it. so kassandra listened hoping to get the information out of their conversation.
it wasn't until the hand had clamped over her mouth that she relished someone was behind her, she quickly turned towards the person and realized who had caught her. Esmeralda kneeled at the same height as Kassandra with a finger over her closed lips, telling the child to stay quiet. Kassandra fround pulling Esme's hand away from her mouth and extending her arms out around esme's neck as she was picked up off the floor. the frown stayed stubbornly on her face and as esme carried her away she glared in the general direction of the meeting.
when Esmerelda had played her hand over Kassandra's mouth, Kassandra had herd the elders resigned, they had decided they where too scared to do anything about the kid napping that was happening.
once back in the confines of her room Esmerelda placed the chavi on her bed and stared bleakly at her,
the child crawled up against the pillows and stubbornly wrapped her arms around her legs.
"what where you doing Kase?" esme whispered is a scornful tone.
kase was struck by the tone, like a dagger in the heart. there where only two people in this world that could ever make her cry and that was clopin and esmeralda and she realized that she was crying, it was a mixture of knowing that her friends where never coming back, that her people where not going to get justice for the wrong of kidnap against them.
and she cried for their pain and her own.
esme didn't understand why she was crying but she instantly crumbled and made her best effort to calm the little girl braking down on her bed. after a painful hour and a half of kasey's continues crying and she finally fell fell asleep, tire and worn from the exertion.
when Esmeralda was shore that Kassandra was asleep she tucked her into the bed and went off to fined Clopin, he would know what was happening.
more to come...
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