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Chapter 1
The night had grown dark, the rain still pouring onto the soaked streets. Lights seemed blurred, even from a short distance. The house lamps were turned down in all but one house, on the very end of the street. The mother had woken upon hearing the cries of her littlest boy. The eldest boy had woken, too, and had come downstairs to see his brother, his blonde hair matted over his face.
"Is Ed alright?" the child asked, his blue eyes shining with worry.
"Yes, yes, he is. Now run along back to be, Peter. You need your rest."
The buy nodded and ran back up the wooden steps. The woman smiled with a sigh, turning her attention to the little boy who lay curled in her arms. At only a year old, the boy had a mess of dark brown hair. If his eyes had been open, she would have seen the chocolate eyes that always had an air of mischief hidden beneath them. The boy had also just gotten his first tooth, and it poked out through the top gum.
"Susan, come back here!" the woman heard Peter whisper harshly.
"But I want to see if anything is wrong with Edmund!" a girl's voice whispered back, apparently not seeing the problem.
"I already asked Mom, and she said that everything was fine, so go back to sleep."
The girl, Susan, sighed in defeat and walked back to her room before shutting the door. The woman chuckled to herself. Susan always had a logical explanation, but Peter had that air of leadership that always rule out anything Susan tried to say.
The woman seemed sure that her little son was sleeping soundly, so she laid him gently back into his crib, giving him a light kiss on the forehead before tip-toeing down the hall and back into her bedroom.
As the light in the house faded once more, Jadis watched in delight. Tonight was finally the night she had been waiting for her whole life. This was the night she would finally become a mother.
Jadis had married the man she'd loved since high school, but when the time came for them to start their family, Jadis was told she could not have any children. She'd locked herself in her room for weeks, her husband becoming just as isolated. Soon the pair separated, and Jadis was left alone, with only her thoughts to accompany her.
While walking the streets of London one afternoon, she ran across a family passing by her. A little boy was slung on the father's shoulder, his head peeking out at her. When the boy opened his eyes, Jadis immediately fell in love with him. The brown orbs were warm, with the same air of mischief that her ex-husband's had had. Jadis decided then and there that the little boy was going to be her son.
She spent weeks trying to track down the family, finally tracing them to this address. All she had to do now was wait for the perfect chance to make him her own. And tonight was the night.
The boy slept on the first floor, along with the parents, and it just so happened that the family had neglected to lock the door tonight. She could sneak in, grab the child, and sneak out. Making her way towards the front steps, she slowly opened the door, stepping onto the wooden floor.
The hallway lead right to the boy's room, and the door was left open. Jadis could hear the parents sleeping soundly in their bedroom. As she crept into the boy's room, she stopped, taking in the boy's beautiful features once again. Stepping lightly, she wrapped the boy in his blanket, and continued back out the door.
The boy still slept soundly, much to Jadis's delight. Walking briskly back down the lonely street, she contemplated what to name her new son. She decided on Evan, smiling as she stoked her child's messy, brown hair.
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