The Difference Between a Surprise and a Mistake
A Note: My older brother, jerk that he was, once told me that when my parent's adopted my, they made a mistake-typical older brother bullying. I went to my mother and asked "Was I a mistake" and she said "No, you were a surprise" and I asked "What's the difference" and she said "A mistake is something you don't want. A surprise is something you never know how much you wanted until you have it."
Chapter 1
Things were quiet. Had been quiet for quite some time-well as quiet as things could get with a young boy who was just learning to toddle and took after his father when it came to adventure and his mother when it came to temper tantrums.. Not that anyone was complaining. Will was a joy and his over zealousness was tempered by a gentle, protective spirit. He would never be far from Em's side, protecting her from made up monsters and dinosaurs that plagued every dark corner of the tree house for him to battle.
Elsewhere on the plateau, things were not so peaceful. Not to terribly far away a woman, face, body, and spirit horribly scarred, made her way twords the treehouse with a bundle in her arms. She had been left for dead by her lover, held back from coming to his rightful side at her side as her champion by his pesky friends. She was once the ape men's queen, they lived to serve her and he turned them against her as well. They'd be taken care of soon enough she vowed. John Roxton would be hers once more and her ticket to his loyalty was in her arms. It was a miricle the baby survived when she almost hadn't, having been mauled and left for dead by her once faithful subjects. The little infant girl was her trump card and she definitely planned on using it.
A Note: My older brother, jerk that he was, once told me that when my parent's adopted my, they made a mistake-typical older brother bullying. I went to my mother and asked "Was I a mistake" and she said "No, you were a surprise" and I asked "What's the difference" and she said "A mistake is something you don't want. A surprise is something you never know how much you wanted until you have it."
Chapter 1
Things were quiet. Had been quiet for quite some time-well as quiet as things could get with a young boy who was just learning to toddle and took after his father when it came to adventure and his mother when it came to temper tantrums.. Not that anyone was complaining. Will was a joy and his over zealousness was tempered by a gentle, protective spirit. He would never be far from Em's side, protecting her from made up monsters and dinosaurs that plagued every dark corner of the tree house for him to battle.
Elsewhere on the plateau, things were not so peaceful. Not to terribly far away a woman, face, body, and spirit horribly scarred, made her way twords the treehouse with a bundle in her arms. She had been left for dead by her lover, held back from coming to his rightful side at her side as her champion by his pesky friends. She was once the ape men's queen, they lived to serve her and he turned them against her as well. They'd be taken care of soon enough she vowed. John Roxton would be hers once more and her ticket to his loyalty was in her arms. It was a miricle the baby survived when she almost hadn't, having been mauled and left for dead by her once faithful subjects. The little infant girl was her trump card and she definitely planned on using it.