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The girl broke through the forest line, she was bare naked, bloody, and coated in dirt and mud. She looked up through her crazed blue eye; the other one was swollen and black. She gasped as she saw the words "SHERRIFF STATION" on a board. She glanced around before trudging across the street and collapsing in the door of the station.
She spoke no words as she crawled into the sight of the sheriff Forbes and her deputy Matt Donavan. They screamed out, with the man running to the back and bringing back a blanket and first-aid kit, while Sheriff Forbes stayed with the girl.
It brought Sheriff Forbes to tears as she saw this young girl, was her daughter Caroline. Caroline Forbes had been missing for 9 years. Vanished without a trace, and disappeared off the face of the earth. She must have been 16 years old now, Liz Forbes thought. She called an ambulance as she looked down at her broken daughter with a sad smile. She was of course happy to see her daughter, but not like this. The girls eyes closed and she passed out, causing Liz to faint herself.
When the girl finally woke up, she saw a white wall. It had a clock on it; she had never seen a clock before. Well only in magazines or story books. She had never got the point of keeping track of time; it was only a waste of life.
She looked at her body and saw huge white gauze covering her right foot and leg, a similar gauze on her arm. Her ribs felt sore and she gently ran her left hand over it. Gauze was under the simple blue cloth. She gently touched her head; the white gauze was on there too. She could only see out of one eye, but that was enough for her to spot the man sleeping next to her. His hand was resting on her right one, and she gently touched it.
The man shot up and looked her in the eye giving her a tender smile. He pressed the big button by her bed and said,
"Hi Care bear." The girl furrowed her brows and puckered her lips in thought.
"It's me, Dad?" he said as a woman in a white coat walked in. She smiled at Caroline which caused her to smile back. The girl touched her lips and dropped her smile.
"Hello Mr. Forbes, Miss Forbes. How are you today?" Dr. Meredith Fell asked checking a white paper in her stack of white papers, and listening to Caroline's heart beat.
"She isn't responding to how I'm talking to her. Is something wrong?" Bill Forbes asked, looking over at his precious baby girl, who was staring at him with a curious expression. She suddenly mimicked the smile she had on earlier and touched his face with a small smile.
"I think this is a good response, don't you?" Meredith Fell said with a small smile. Bill Forbes gazed lovingly into his daughters eyes.
"She isn't my little Caroline anymore is she?" Bill said softly as Caroline pulled her hand back and watched the news on the television.
"Not anymore with what she's been through, but perhaps with some intense therapy sessions, physical and mental, she will become stronger and really be herself again." Bill nodded and watched Caroline absorb the news.
He smiled at her as Dr. Fell walked away and he fell back into sleep.
When he woke up he was looking into Caroline's eyes.
"Hello Mr. Forbes." She said, mimicking that same smile from earlier.
"Caroline?" She shook her head.
"Care Bear, it's me!" She giggled and fidgeted with her hands. Bill buzzed for the doctor and watched with wide eyes as Caroline repeated everything she had heard earlier and watched she watched on the news program.
"Oh my!" Meredith Fell said as she rushed and checked on his daughter's vitals.
"Hi Meredith, hello Meredith." Meredith smiled at the girl and grasped her hand.
"Just relax Caroline. Just relax. Calm, there you go, breath easy. Alright, that's it." Caroline's crazy smile was wiped off her face and she passed out exhausted.
"What in the hell was that?"
"I think she's trying to learn English, but she was overworking herself. I want to get some tests done, while she is still calm, and we will bring in some books for her to read. It is important we get her into a schedule once more. Now I know Liz is working all the time, and you live in Chicago with your partner Steven, but I recommend after her full physical recovery here at the hospital, which will take a few months at the most, you take her home and 'home school' her. Teach her everything, while she can still absorb it. I've heard about this condition of trauma victims. We can really help her with this intense teaching. After you do this, and work on her social skills in therapy, we can expect your daughter to go back to being one of a kind." Meredith explained, sighing as she finished. Bill nodded.
"I can do this. I can make my Caroline how she used to be. My smart, bright, girl will be better."
Caroline was listening to an audio recording of the French language, while reading a huge book on the French language.
Her father was making her lunch, whistling a show tune and flipping the grilled cheese. Grilled cheese was so far her favorite snack. Bill, her father, said she loved it as a kid.
"You know your birthday is tomorrow. I was thinking we take you out to the Grill, and take you out to go shopping. You haven't been out and about since you left the hospital. It will be nice for you to get back out there don't you think?" Caroline smiled and nodded closing the French book and shutting off the tape.
"You done already? Good job honey! French, Spanish, German, Chinese! We should work on your Japanese next I suppose." Caroline smiled wide as she bit into the grilled cheese. After she finished her father insisted on him cleaning up and her getting back to work on her Calculus.
"Can I start going to school soon?" She heard a plastic glass clatter on the floor.
"Why sweetie?" Her father appeared, desperate before her. He just got her back, he didn't want to ever lose her again.
"I really like school, and I remember it faintly. I would really like to go again. It's only my senior year right, it has been a year and a half since her being found. I mean I know I'm ready daddy, please!" Bill panicked inside but thought about it. This could be good for her. It could be good, but he couldn't deny her anything since he got her back.
"Alright sweetheart, we will go and register you for school when it starts. Okay? And it doesn't start for another two weeks, plenty of time for us to get prepared." Caroline nodded.
She really wanted to go, even if she had to spin some lies when she was there. It was another skill she picked up over the past year and a half. Lying, languages, physical strength, mental strength, and she was artistic. She played the piano, violin, flute, guitar, she could sing and paint and draw. She just learned how to do it.
She wanted more though. She wanted to learn how to be with people her own age. To have romance like those late night shows she watched when her father thought she was sleeping. She wanted it all.
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