Preface. About nineteen years ago.
A pregnant teen is rushed into the emergency room after being attacked by what the doctors believed to be a wild animal. Her neck was badly injured, and she has lost a lot of blood. The woman's husband, who was barely out of his teens, who knows nothing of the attack was in the waiting area. Doctors worked all night trying to save both mother and unborn child. As dawn approached the mothers heartbeat cannot be fount. The doctors made a crucial decision that will effect this young family.
The main doctor and nurse went out into the waiting area.
"Mr. Rèwolf?" the doctor asks at dawn. Rèwolf turned his blood shot eyes toward the doctor. "Your wife has lost a lot of blood, we hope the blood we have in the banks will be enough to replenish her supply. It seems as if she was attacked by a large animal as she walked to her car from the grocery store."
"The baby?" Rèwolf asked.
The nurse smiled. "She is a healthy baby girl. Seven pounds, thirteen ounces, born at 12:03 this morning. However, because she was born a month early and the mother's condition at delivery, we have to keep them both in ICU till the risk factors such as internal bleeding for the mother and premature lungs for the baby are eliminated."
Rèwolf breathed a prayer of thanks for his Halloween baby. His wife and child are his whole world.
Later as noon approached and light hit the mother, her breathing stopped. The emergency staff was baffled. The same nurse who delivered the earlier new went back out in the waiting area. The whole family was there with the new farther. All praying for a miracle.
Oh, God, the nurse prayed. She really hated this. "Mr. Rèwolf," she said and motioned him into the hall, and closed the door behind him. "Your wife," she started before he could interrupt, "is gone. The baby is still fine to be a month premature." He immediately sank to the floor. She sat down beside him. And as he started to cry silently, she sang to him.
After a few minutes he got up and walked back into the waiting area. There was a moment of silence and then a woman crying and screaming.
Later that night the mother's body was discovered missing from the morgue.
