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Title: Secrets from the Past
Summary: Richard Maxwell's life has been a series of ups and downs. Then one fateful day brings a mysterious stranger into Odyssey. He unknowingly brings links to secrets regarding Richard's sketchy past. Will the secrets change him for the bad, or for the good?
Total AU. Just so you know.
Rating: K+ but might change to T later.
Category: Misc., Radio Dramas
Genre: Mystery/Drama
Characters: Adventures in Odyssey, OC
This is my first story starring Richard Maxwell so tell me how it goes! I don't own Adventures in Odyssey.
"Harold! Harold!" Lilly Maxwell shouted to be heard over the whirring fire alarm. Smoke surrounded her and her little one and a half year old son, Richard.
The Maxwell house had caught fire in the dead of night when all were asleep.
"Lilly! Get out of here while you still can!" Harold called to his wife.
"I can't leave you or the baby!" Lilly cried,
"Don't worry about the baby! I've got him right here! No Go!" Harold shouted.
Lilly heard her husband's voice even though the fire obstructed her vision of him. She held Richard tight and ran into the backyard, escaping the hungry flames. Lilly sat little Richard down under a tree, far from the fire.
"Stay here, okay sweetie? Mommy's going back for your father." Lilly cooed to the child.
Lilly rushed back into the burning building and frantically called her husband. Five minutes ago she had called 911, where was the fire truck?!
"Lilly!" Lilly turned around to face her husband who was holding their newborn son.
"Lilly take him! Take him out of here!" Harold handed the crying child to a terrified Lilly.
"Aren't you coming?" Lilly asked desperately,
"Yes I am. I'm right behind you!" He reassured her.
Lilly dodged flames and finally landed on the soft backyard grass. She turned to see Harold, only to find an empty yard.
"Harold? Harold!" Her eyes teared up. Lilly set her newborn next to Richard and ran back in the fire once again.
"Harold? Harold! Har-" Just then a fiery beam fell on Lilly Maxwell, instantly killing her.
Finally the firemen came, but it was too late. Lilly Maxwell had died. And what of Harold Maxwell? He never made it out. He had fallen through the charred wood floor and into the basement, where the fire had first started. As he made his way up the stairs,coughing, he stumbled backwards and injured his back. He didn't die immediately, but by the time the fire was put out and the police had found him, it was too late. Harold Maxwell was dead.
"Chief! Chief!" A firefighter called Jack called, "Come quickly! There's kids over here!"
The last of the fire had been extinguished and the fighters gathered around Jack and the children under the oak tree.
"Poor souls. They're orphans now that their parents died in the fire." Chief Carson said, "Probably died saving their kids."
"What are their names?" Jack asked,
"How am I supposed to know? I'll leave the identity work to the Odyssey Police. They'll need to find out the name's and backgrounds of these kids before we take them to the children's home." Carson replied,
"But chief, Odyssey doesn't have a children's home."
Jack pointed out,
"Yes, well Chicago does. We'll send them there." Carson replied.
"Well? Any results?" The Odyssey Police Inspector asked his lieutenant.
"Yes sir. The oldest boy's name is Richard Maxwell and the younger boy's name is not yet found. But we know his last name is Maxwell."
"Of course it is if they're brothers! They'd have the same last name!"
" Anyway, sir, the only object we found on them was a small photo of their mother, Lilly Maxwell. And that's about it. Richard is about one and a half years and the baby was just born a couple months ago." The lieutenant replied,
"You know all this and you don't even know the little one's name. Pity for him. He'll grow up nameless." The inspector commented.
"Actually, no, however adopts him will name him."
"That might not be for sometime though."
" Actually, I already have families set up for them." The lieutenant replied,
"What? They're not even out of Odyssey yet!" The inspector exclaimed.
"No, but Richard is going to be adopted into a family from Chicago and the newborn will be put into foster care in New York."
"Wait, they're being separated? Why?"
"The Chicago family only wanted one son, not too. And instead of a children's home my brother's step-sister's second cousin twice removed knew of a family willing to foster a newborn in New York."
"Oh okay." The inspector looked at the lieutenant quizzically, " You actually keep in contact with such distant relatives?"
"Yes, why? Don't you?"
"Uh...no." the inspector stated simply.
Okay! The Prologue is finished! Tell me what you think and weather I should continue or not in your review!
