Julia

Paco had taken her upstairs. Into the light, and day. The sun in the house washed over her pale body and she slowly opened her eyes. Then she shut them immediatly, the sun hurt her eyes since they were adjusted to the dark. She tried opening her eyes, the sun and heat returning to her frail pale body.

Paco was watching her form the corner. The look on his face surprised her. He looked worried. He saw her eyes open and a look of tiny relief flooded to his eyes. She felt queezy again and moaned.

"I'm sorry child of Lucy. So sorry..." Paco said full of remorse.

She coughed a little more, and looked into his eyes. She saw deep into his soul, the remorse he felt, the pain of a broken heart, and they realization of what he had done. She knew he was sorry, but yet, one longing feeling told her something was terribly wrong.

"Why..." She asked, her voice was hardly a whisper.

Paco looked at her, not realizing that she would answer so mature. "Why... Why what?"

SHe coughed a little more, her lungs had gotten weaker, "Why did you take me away from my mother and father?" She breathed.

He gave her another long look. Taken aback b what a five year girl had said. He thought for a moment, coming up with an answer. "I don't know child. I loved your mother dearly, and Jude... he took her away from me. I guess I wanted revenge."

Julia took this information in. She sighed a heave sigh of relief, but with in it was intertwined with deep understanding and forgiveness. She gave Paco one look and with her eyes she told him this, and he knew that she understood way more then most children her age.

"Will you ever give me back to my mother and father. They miss me so-" She started coughing harder and she couldn't breath.

"Julia?" He called her by her name for the first time in which she could remember. "Julia!" He yelled, but he didn't have an answer. He did something he vowed he wouldn't do, he called the hospital.

"I'm so sorry..." Was all Paco could say as a tiny glistening tear slid down his cheek.

Paco hung the phone up and watched the small tear slide to the floor.