Victor paced his office. How was he going to break this to Mara? He made her feel dizzy, pacing so quickly.

"Sweetie, sit down, please." Trudy begged.

"Trudy, you should be the one terrified. I mean-"

Just then, her beautiful child walked into the room. She was scared that she was in trouble.

"Mara, sit down."

She sat next to me and looked from Trudy to Victor.

"Am I in trouble? What did I do?" She asked in concern.

Trudy wished she had the strength to break it to her. But she didn't. How could she tell her that she's Jasper's and her daughter? They kept it quiet when they allowed her to be adopted and went our separate ways when they were both 20. Now that her Mara's 17, they should tell her. Victor was going to break the news, as Jasper was in Egypt.

"No, Mara, you aren't in trouble. It's actually going to be a bit of a surprise." Victor told her gently. She looked at Trudy with concern.

"Trudy, what's going on?" Trudy wished she could tell her.

"Listen to Victor, sweetie." That wasn't a giveaway, Trudy was always calling everybody that.

"Victor, please just tell me."

She knew that her adoptive parents had died in a plane crash. Now would be the best time to tell her, let her know that she had her biological parents.

"Mara, tell me your name. Your full name." Victor said gently.

"Mara Isabel Jaffray." Mara spoke as if Victor had lost it.

"That's what you know your name to be. What's Trudy's full name?" Victor questioned. Trudy knew that he knew Jasper and she were legally married, they'd just kept quiet and Trudy'd gone back to her maiden name.

"Trudy Ana Rehman." Trudy's sweet, innocent, little Mara Isabel spoke carefully and cautiously.

"Now for the moment of truth. Your name is Mara Isabel Choudhary. Trudy's name is Trudy Ana Choudhary. She and Jasper have been married for eighteen years. You are their daughter."

My Mara looked shocked. "Wh-What? Trudy's my... mother?"

Trudy smiled at her baby girl, knowing that she would hate her at first, but they could end up being closer than ever.

"That isn't possible, Victor. She only met Jasper last year. How is it possible that she's my mother? My mum and dad were athletes."

Trudy knew this would happen. Victor showed her the birth certificate, the fake one, their marriage certificate and her adoption certificate. They'd hidden it and given it to her.

"Mara, these are documents that prove Trudy and Jasper to be your biological parents. Trudy had her lawyer get her rights back. She and Jasper have the parental rights to you."

At that moment, Jasper walked in. He saw Mara's shocked look, saw Trudy looking at him. She smiled and he understood that they'd told Mara that she was their long-lost baby.

"You told her?" Jasper tried to hide the delight in his tone, it was only evidently there to me and to him.

"Yes. I think she's having a little bit of trouble getting her head around it." She smiled at him. Trudy was just glad her child had grown up intelligent, capable of reasoning, sweet and beautiful to boot.

Mara looked up, from Trudy to Jasper and from Jasper to Victor.

"Is it all real, Victor? You're not just pulling some prank? They actually are my parents?"

Jasper said "It's as real as we are. You're our daughter, Mara. Your blood type?"

She said "I'm an AB positive."

"So are we." Jasper said. It was true, they both had AB positive.

Mara looked up at them in shock.

"Really? What year was I born?"

Trudy answered. "You were born 16 of July 1994, ten minutes to four in the morning. Your first outfit was a pale pink dress and heart patterned booties."

Mara was shocked, knowing that she knew exactly what time she was born, what date, what her first outfit was.

"I also remember your pink teddy bear. You couldn't sleep unless you had it."

Mara hadn't even told her boyfriend that, how did Trudy know unless...

"Oh, my God. It's true."

Jasper said "You also had that knitted blanket and dress set that Trudy made for you when she knew you were a girl. You wouldn't leave the house without it."

Mara remembered, she'd never let her adoptive parents throw them away, preferring to use them for her teddy. Everything Trudy and Jasper had given her in the day they'd had her, she'd treasured, though she never knew why. She never knew why she didn't feel scared about living in Anubis house when Trudy was there.

How the Frobisher library didn't scare her because both of them were there and that comforted her. She'd never really understood it.

"Why did you let me be adopted, if this was what was going to happen?" Mara looked questioningly at Trudy.

"Because we were homeless, unemployed and penniless. We couldn't look after you and we wanted what was best for you. We were always going to come to get you. We just needed to have enough to bring you home and raise you ourselves. It took us too long and you grew up, we missed everything. We're sorry, Mara." Trudy explained everything, tears in her eyes.

Jasper said "We wanted to keep you. Trudy didn't stop crying for months. We didn't dare to have another child. When we started getting well-paying work, we didn't see each other that often. But now, we have you again. We've never let a day go by without thinking of you and loving you to shreds."

Mara knew just by the way they spoke, how much they knew about her, the way their presence was always so comforting to her that they were her true mother and father.

Trudy said "I'm just sorry we didn't tell you earlier. What can we do to make up for it?"

Mara smiled. "You don't have to do anything. Just being yourselves is more than enough."

That pleased them and it involved a family hug. Mara had never had a warmer and more welcome surprise.

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I do not have the faintest idea where this came from. Do you want me to continue or just leave it? Review and tell me if you liked. PM me if you want more of it and/or have ideas for the next chapter. Until next time, Random Dizzy. :D