Hi everyone! This is only my second ever FanFic so go easy on me - but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE review! Check out my other Fic, 'Tears' on the Merlin site.
This Fic is about the kids of the characters in 'Shapeshifter', mainly focusing on Aislinn (ASH-lyn) who is the daughter of Lisa and Dax. This is just my first attempt; if anyone likes this prologue which is a collection of Aislinn's flashbacks then I might do other Fics from the point of view of some of the other kids.
PLEASE REVIEW (DON'T FORGET TO ENJOY)!
The dark-haired man laughs as she struggles to her feet after yet another failed attempt.
"We both know you can do this, wolfling! Remember, ten pounds of your poor father's hard-earned money is riding on this!"
"Oh please Dax, she obviously takes after me – I heard her talking to Sylv when she had that nightmare, I told you!" The pretty blonde woman in the corner has a faintly amused look on her face as she tries to reach around her protruding belly to pick a pink slip off the floor. The man just smiles.
"You'll have your chance with the next one, Lisa – Aislinn is a wolf shifter, I can smell it on her. You're just sore about losing the stupid bet." Turning back to his daughter, the man says again, "Come now wolfling, you've already mastered it in your Primary Shift; walking in your Original Form can't be that much harder now."
The little dark girl continues with her battle between her feet and the soft carpet. Eventually, the two-year-old gives a howl of frustration and leaps at the man, paws flying as he catches her.
"I told you – I told you!" He yells joyfully as he presents her to the blonde.
The man cries out in pain and fear. The woman is shrieking desperately.
"NO – not my babies, please not my babies, please don't take my babies away from me - !"
Her cries are cut off as a hand swoops down out of nowhere and strikes her face, rendering her limp with the blow. The man, only a few feet away, cries out louder now, in grief as well as in pain. Even the dark girl, now four years old with her little blonde sister Skylar in her arms, heard the snap as the woman's neck was broken. Almost immediately a gunshot is heard; her little sister does not realise it yet but the dark girl knows that the pair have just been orphaned. All they can do now is wait for their captors to finish the job.
Staring at the ceiling of her cell, the dark girl, now four years old, knows the price of tears.
When they took her sister away for 'special testing' she feared that she would soon lose the last member of her family she had left. After the men in dark grey showed up and apprehended the murderers she thought she would be safe. Instead, she watched as the men were berated for killing the adults in such relatively painless ways, and before she was even aware of what had occurred she found herself drugged and taken away in a big black van. She'd awoken alone on a hard mattress in the dimly-lit cell. A few hours later the men returned with her sister, saying that she needed to 'shut the brat up'. Of course she comforts the little one – how could she not? – but bursts into tears herself when confronted with the question "When are Mammy and Da coming to get us?". The guards are furious at this point. They beat her till she quiets; they threaten Skylar when she looks like she might start up again. They take the blonde away.
The dark girl shivers; the men are coming back, she can smell them. This time though, they come without her sister. They tell her that Skylar has been put up for adoption but that because of her bruises the dark girl will not be joining her for a few weeks. By then, they tell her Skylar will already have a new family, one she cannot join. She will be assigned a different family, far away from her sister. She almost cries when she hears this.
But, staring at the ceiling of her cell, the dark girl, only four years old, knows the price of her tears.
So... what do you think? Please say it's good - I actually spent a fair bit of time on this!
Don't forget about aforementioned other Fic - I'm a newbie, I need a little encouragement!
Ta!