Title: The Calm Before the Storm
Author: Kat
Disclaimer: Taken and its characters don't belong to me. It belongs to Spielberg and
company.
Summary: What if Charlie had more time with Allie and Lisa before Allie was taken
by the military?
A/N: So probably everyone has gotten over their obsession already but I live in the
Philippines and they only started showing Taken last July and it only ended a
couple of weeks ago so my obsession is still going strong. I hope you take the
time to read this anyway because this is my first Taken fanfic and the only
fanfic I've ever posted so I'm kind of nervous and I'd be forever grateful if you
could review.
This takes place after Charlie comes to Seattle and before Allie is taken by the
military. Everything that happened on the show, how Charlie and Lisa met, how
they found out that Charlie is Allie's dad, etc., happened. I'm just gonna put a
1 month time gap between Lisa and Charlie's regression therapy and the
hostage situation.
Sorry for the long-winded A/N. ; )
Chapter 1: After Darkness, Comes the Light
The room was dark, only the moonlight peeking through the curtains gave light to the small room and illuminated the tiny, sleeping figure lying on the bed.
Lisa quietly crept into the room and sat on the chair across from the bed. She watched the rise and fall of her daughter's chest as she slept soundly. Lisa had always found comfort in doing this. Whenever she couldn't sleep, whenever something was bothering her she would watch her daughter sleep. Her baby, her Allie.
Lisa had always considered Allie as a miracle; a gift that her father's other family had given her at the one point in her life when she needed it the most. But she had always wondered who was Allie's father. Who was that guy who was always there during her abductions but she only half-remembered? Lisa had tried many times before to remember him, his face, anything about him that would help her gain some insight as to who he was. She had tried and failed and finally she gave up. She had Allie and nothing else mattered.
Now he was here, here in Seattle. After 9 years, the father of her child finally had a name and a face. Lisa had felt a strong connection to Charlie the moment she laid eyes on him. It wasn't just a feeling, it was more than just déjà vu. She really knew that she had met him before and he knew it too.
How was she going to tell Allie? How was she going to explain all of this when she didn't even understand any of it herself?
Lisa sat there watching her daughter sleep peacefully. Then she did something that she always does when she can't sleep, she crawled into bed with Allie, held her in her arms and listened to her light breathing.
Lisa's life had always been crazy. Her father died when she was a kid, she had to go into hiding when she was a teenager, she was a multiple abductee, and she got pregnant with no memory at all of how it happened. But out of all of this madness came something beautiful, Allie. And Lisa had a feeling deep inside of her that another beautiful thing was about to be born out of this complete mess that was her life.
*****
Charlie lay awake staring at the ceiling of his motel room. He stared at it intently, as if he looked hard enough he would be able to find all the answers to life's mysteries. He stared and stared but really there was only one thing running through his mind.
'I'm a father.'
The thought was bewildering to him. He came to Seattle looking for answers. Answers to why the aliens were abducting people, what did they want? He never thought that what he'd find was a daughter.
The minute he saw Lisa, he felt a connection. And he knew she felt it too. He had seen her before, he was sure of it. As it turns out, she's actually the mother of his child.
'I'm a father.'
Lisa said she didn't know if she wanted him around. But Charlie had no intention of leaving. He had already missed 9 years of his daughter's life, he'd be damned if he was going to let the opportunity to get to know her pass him by. There's a reason he ended up in Seattle. He believed it was more than just mere coincidence that brought him to Dr. Penzler's support group.
Even though he had only spent two days with her, Charlie knew enough about Lisa to know that she was strong and fiercely independent. She wasn't going to just welcome him into her and Allie's life with open arms. Her trust, along with a place in their family, had to be earned. And Charlie was definitely up to the challenge.
The aliens had made his family's life a living hell, starting with his grandfather. He had spent his life in darkness. Always running, not understanding the things that were happening to him. And now, after meeting Lisa and Allie, he was finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.