Growing Up
AUTHOR'S NOTE: so be kind to me because this is my first fanfic! Anyone else notice that every time someone yells or snaps at Claudia when she isn't ready for it she kind of freezes or winces? I have sooooo this fic is my explanation of why she does. Plus I'm adding the fact that she was around 10 when Joshua died sooo think 7-8 making her 19-almost 20 in now time.
Disclaimer: not mine, no matter how hard I wish
Claudia Donovan had a really hard time relating and trusting men. She had grown up thinking that she wasn't worth the time or energy of most men and she still believed it. She couldn't recognize the fact that she had a family with the other warehouse agents because every family she had ever been a part of either died, walked out on her or she would walk out on them, or the men would beat her. Abuse was regular in her life, verbal emotional, physical and sexual, she wasn't use to it but she always expected it from someone she wanted to love. The only men in her life she could always trust were her dad and Joshua. Sadly one was dead and the other was in Sweden. Karma is lovely, isn't it?
Claudia Donovan was only 5 when she was in the back seat of her parents old Honda Accord. They were on their way to pick up Joshua from his science fair at his high school. She didn't remember hearing the car behind them, or how long it took for the police to get there. All she could remember was the crunching sound of medal and the feeling that she was flying through the air only to be stopped by a large oak tree on the high way. She was knocked out. The last she saw of her parents was their blood splattered across the windshield and all over the fuzzy valor seats.
Then, only 2 years latter her older brother vanished right before her eyes, leaving her alone with a strange man that he had called "Professor". It would be that same man who would accompany her to her first foster home.
The Smiths were nice enough during the first few weeks Claudia lived there. Mrs. Smith was always smiling and friendly and so were her children, Jenna and David. But Claudia had never met Mr. Smith until she was about to turn 9. He seemed nice too. But boy was she wrong. Later that night he woke her up and said in a quiet tone, "Listen, kid, I don't know what bullshit your pulling with my wife and kids but it won't work with me." Then he smacked her on the cheek and pushed her into the bed. She was treated this way for about a month when she ran away. Mrs. Smith filed a run away but Claudia wasn't going down without a fight. She said that Mr. Smith had beaten her and that she had the scares to prove it. Both parents denied the statement and she was sent back into their home.
So that's the first chapter, sorry it's sooo short but I just want a tasting for you all so I can deside weather to continue to write it or not. There is a pretty green button that says "review" if you all want to be nice please press it. But if you don't then just read the story, I'm chill with either
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