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Chapter six

Aurora started to get used to being around strangers after time went on. Now since Johnny got her used to staying with Emma while he went to work, there was only one thing to conquer and that was child care. Emma was okay with staying with her since she loved her granddaughter so much but Johnny also wanted Aurora to have friends to play with to boost her developement.

At the moment Chet, Roy, and Mike were playing dolls with her although they wouldn't admit it to anyone especially Dixie at Rampart. They also had to admit though that she was very easily amused.

"So Skippy, what say it's we do," Chet asked in a false voice for the ken doll.

"We wun way togetter," Aurora tried a new pitch for her doll and sent the men laughing.

She joined in thinking she was amusing them greatly. She didn't know how but she got them to play with her. She still had casts around her legs so she usually crawled to get something but once in a while she'd try to walk on them only to slip and go back to the army crawl. Most of the time it was fun but it quickly wore her out and she usually laid panting after so much vigorous activity. Smiling she through the barbie which narrowly missed Chet's head.

"What'd you do that for," Chet asked astounded.

"She dwied," Aurora answered simply once again standing and managing to walk two steps before she slid to the floor.

She then started to army crawl away and Chet gave an amused glance to the others before going after her. Roy rolled his eyes thinking that the usually smart Chet was starting to loose brain cells by hanging around a toddler that couldn't talk all that good yet.

"At least he'll be able to learn his numbers with her. I heard she could count all the way to twenty," Mike replied sending Roy into gales of laughter.

Roy thought on occasions that she would be the perfect play mate for Jenny but knew that she was just getting used to adults being over and decided to wait and see how the daycare experience went for her. He knew that Jenny was two in half years older than her and that they both shared a love to play barbies although he was sure Jenny never tried to kill hers off.

"Little rugrat's ready for the touch down," Chet was saying.

Looking over he noticed that Chet had her on his shoulders and he was making her laugh. All we need is a long lost child of Chet's and then we'll have Pigeon jr. and phantom jr. Roy thought. But Aurora did seem to be having a good time pretending to be an airplane on Chet and the man was obviously good with children. Even a bigger suprise than Johnny was Roy admonished.

Johnny entered the room just as Chet started to twirl her around with Marco close behind. Shaking his head, he twirled a finger around his temple to single that Chet had gone loco and got his daughter out of Chet's arms before she got so dizzy, she'd throw up.

"Oh hey Johnny," Chet greeted.

"My daugther doesn't need to be twirled around so that you know, she will do that fine on her own," he told him.

"Wah Wah Wah, I forgot to care," Chet remarked.

"Come on, I had to find the perfect location for the you know what," Johnny said being careful that Aurora didn't know.

"Fine but I told you Marco knew the best places," Chet replied sitting down waiting for the room to stop spinning.

Johnny grinned and said, "Chet maybe that'll be the lesson not to spin around the room so fast anymore."

"Awww, you're starting to sound like Cap," Chet complained.

Mike snickered and Roy rolled his eyes. If Aurora was anything like Johnny, she'd fit into childcare just fine. On second thought, he believed that it would be the people there that'd have to watch out for her.

When Nancy came to work that day, she never realized what was going to happen or did she think she'd ever expect it. The children were always a little rumbunctous but they were fine. Never to this day would she ever believe that a child would come in and she could be able to tell how much trouble they would be.

As she watched little Paris run around in nothing but a diaper wondering how the three year old ever got away with it with her parents, she was suprised when a new child was brought in with a man she never saw before either. The child had two casts on her legs but it was hard to tell how long the cast went up because she had on a little blue skort, a pink tank top and her blonde hair was in a pony tail at the top of her head in a pink bow.

"Hi I'm Nancy McDermont and you are," she asked.

"I'm Johnny Gage and this is my daughter Aurora," he greeted.

Aurora actually struggled to be let down and was off to play with the other kids before he knew it. He actually thought it was going to be a challenge to get her to be here but it looked like this was the easiest by far. Aurora was getting aquainted with a little brown haired girl in pigtails and a little blonde haired girl in only a diaper.

"She isn't shy at all is she," Nancy asked.

"Nope, not anymore. She had it ruff being with her stepfather and mother but now she's fine," Johnny added.

Nancy smiled.

"I hope she isn't too much trouble," she said.

"I'm sure she's a good little girl," he answered.

Nancy gave him some forms to sign and since it was the first week, it was free with enrollment which was always good. Johnny went to say goodbye to his daughter and before leaving made sure it was clear that her grandmother was going to pick her up. Smiling he went off to work leaving her with her new friends.

Nancy was glad it was almost naptime. The kids were rowdier than usual and the new one seemed to be the more energetic child than most of the other kids here. Eric had been quietly playing with blocks like he did everytime he was here because he was a quiet shy four year old but when Aurora arrived she got him to play with her and the other children.

Smiling, she saw eric playing with the blocks as a group with them wondering if it could have been done a lot sooner had the other kids became interested like Aurora had. Seeing Aurora she groaned. Great, now she was messing with one of the preschoolers who just got here, she thought.

"Let me see it," she demanded.

The preschooler shook his head. Stubbornly she refused to budge.

"Let me touch it," she continued in a whiny type voice.

"No," the kid said.

"Let me touch it," she repeated.

Finally Nancy joined in.

"He doesn't want you to touch it sweetie," she told her.

"I wanna touch it," she wailed.

The boy quickly left the area and the teacher sighed. The girl was such a sweetie but she constantly wanted the things done her way and as a result, some of the kids clashed heads with her figuratively speaking of course. Nancy had it taped thinking that her daddie was more likely to believe it if he seen it with his own eyes. It was obvious she had been abused but now she was the most outgoing girl she knew and she hoped she had a bright future ahead of her.

"Nancy," Aurora called.

"Yes, ma'm," Nancy joked.

"When's Mamaw coming," she asked.

"At a quarter to seven," Nancy answered with a smile.

"Oh, Nancy, Mamaw will wike you," she added.

It was also apparent that even though she was a trouble maker she was a really sweet girl. Yes, behind all the trouble was a sweet girl.