A/N: Hello everyone. I'm back once again and after a lull in interest in fandoms and family issues I'm kinda glad to be back at my distraction, writing, it makes a good way to escape. At any rate I just wanted to write another story of Columbia's beginnings, this whole most likely train wreck began when I was watching Black Mass (heck of a pairing no?) and a character reminded me of Eddie, or at least how I imagine he would be at like 18-19. Anywho shall we get on with the story?

-I-

Laura Elaine McCall was born at Denton hospital on June 25, 1952 at exactly 3:23 am. Her parents, Iris McCall and Alexander McCall, we're young parents but they loved their first born daughter all the same and promised to raise her to be an amazing, wonderful, unique little girl.

On January 5, 1955 the McCall family was driving down the road to lead to their home on the edge of Denton during a heavy snow storm. Three year old Laura was asleep in her car seat in the back seat, Iris was in the passenger seat silently worrying but verbally talking to her husband about their upcoming trip to Australia to see family and have a vacation. As they drove down the road Alexander failed to notice a patch of black ice until it was too late and the car began to slide around, trying quickly to right the car Alexander turned the wheel but only managed to lead the car into a ditch.

As they sped into the front of the car collided with a light pole. When rescuers and responders arrived on the scene Alexander had been killed by the impact as his head first collided with the steering wheel then was hit with the air bag. Iris was knocked unconscious with cuts and scrapes all over and in the back Laura was crying loudly with cuts and scrapes and a large shard of glass stuck into her chest, if it hadn't been for the snow suit she was wearing the glass would have stabbed right into her body rather than just scratch her.

After being released from the hospital Iris took her daughter home and did everything she could to make sure her daughter had everything she needed. During the first few months after the accident Iris found her daughter was unwilling to speak at all, if she wanted something she would point or get it herself, it wasn't until in early April the child finally spoke. They were walking through town on their way to the store when Laura seen a large colorful poster advertising dance classes, the girl in the poster was in a flashy costume and she was tap dancing. Laura stopped walking making Iris look down at her then gasp when Laura pointed to the picture and spoke for the first time in 4 months.

"Mommy I wanna dance too."

After the joy and shock of hearing her child speak wore off Iris agreed to sign Laura up for tap dancing classes the following morning making the child very excited and happy, happier than the pair had been in months.

On July 4, 1960 Iris met a man at a church Fourth of July party named Jason Prince, a man with black hair and blue eyes and a smile that made most women swoon. Laura found no real reason to dislike Jason the first time they met but as time went on she quickly learned why she always felt uneasy around him. Jason would come to the house early to pick Iris up for dates, or sometimes to stay and have dinner, and while Iris was getting ready or making dinner Jason would sit beside eight year old Laura on the living room sofa while she watched Leave it to Beaver reruns but his eyes would move from the tv screen to the girl sitting beside him.

At first that's all it was, Laura would get a strange feeling of being watched and shed sometimes catch him looking at her but she just smiled at him and he smiled back before looking away, but then after a while he began doing more. They would be sitting watching tv and while Laura was disgraced Jason would move closer until he was sitting right beside her, at first the eight year old found nothing overly wrong with this he was dating her mother after all so maybe he was just trying to be nice and let he know that he didn't dislike her, but then things got scary for the girl.

She would be sitting beside him on the sofa watching tv or reading a Better Homes and Gardens magazine and Jason would reach out a hand and place it on her knee, he'd leave it there for a minute or two before he would start inching his way up her thigh often moving her skirt or shorts up with his hand. Laura wasn't stupid she knew this wasn't how a man that was dating her mother should act and being scared and confused by his actions she screamed making Jason jump ball to the other end of the couch looking shocked.

Iris had come running into the room worried something terrible had happened but when Jason beat Laura into telling her what had happened, they had been sitting there watching a showing of Creature From The Black Lagoon and Laura had gotten scared and screamed, Iris was beyond mad because she had been so shocked by the scream that she'd dropped her best baking dish and shattered it making her send Laura to her room for the night. Later when Laura had tried to tell her mother what had really happened Iris wasn't having any of it believing Jason was a good man that would never do such a thing.

On May 8, 1962 Carol Elizabeth Prince was born at Denton hospital. Laura loved and adored her baby sister more than anything in the world and Carol, even as a newborn, seemed to be taken with her older sister. Laura made herself a promise as she watched Carol sleep in her crib that she would never let Jason touch Carol in wrong ways even if it meant trouble for herself.

On December 25, 1968 Laura held four year old Carol in her lap as she opened a gift from her mother. Inside a brown box Laura found a brand new pair of tap shoes, they were black originally but had been covered in sky blue and silver sequins. Laura had been over the moon and thanked her mom at least a dozen times and hugged her just as many before trying on the shoes and trying them out with the dance she was learning in the classes she had been taking since she was 3. She spent the rest of the day watching Carol try to master basic steps in her old tap shoes secretly feeling Jason watching her from the living room.

On May 29, 1969 things turned dark and horrid for Laura, her own life had become a living hell. It had started at 11:30 at night, she had stayed up late to finish a school project when suddenly her bedroom door opened making her jump and look at the door. Jason stood in the doorway clearly drunk from his night out with his friends giving her an evil smile as he closed and locked the door behind him. Laura was beyond scared as she got to her feet and tried to put as much distance between herself and Jason as possible only to tumble onto her bed where he pinned her down.

The pain was more than anything she'd ever felt making her cry and scream and try to get away but Jason had stuffed a cloth in her mouth so no one could hear her and the more she fought the more it hurt making her cry more. When the horrid deed was done Jason grabbed her by the jaw forcing her to look at him threatening to kill both Carol and Iris is she ever told anyone what happened before he left her there bleeding, crying and terrified. Not even a week later Iris left the family without so much as a goodbye to either of her daughter's leaving them at the mercy of Jason.

Over the next three years Laura took beating after beating from Jason just to be sure Carol was never hurt. At 18 years old she was determined to make sure her eight year old sister never found out about the beatings even when she had a black eye and a broken lip she'd lie and say kids at school had done it, she was even lying to the school about it saying she had gotten into a fight with an old boyfriend from out of town.

But one night Jason raised a hand to Carol and Laura wasn't able to stop herself, she jumped between them and shoved Jason back as hard as she could making him stumble back into the counter before leering at her and advancing on her. He grabbed her by her neck and pinned her to the wall landing several punches to her stomach, chest, shoulder and side. Somehow through it all Laura told Carol to run and get away and the child ran out of the house, growing light headed from lack of oxygen and pain Laura was barely awake when the door was kicked in and Jason was pulled off of her by a pair of uniformed officers.

After days of trying to convince the people of Child Protective Services to let her keep Carol the decision was made that Carol would go to a foster family in Texas while Laura was left on her own and Jason was arrested.

On June 16, 1972 Laura watched as Carol was forced into a car with people she didn't know, crying and screaming the whole time, then waved as the car drive away without her in it.