What's Missing?
Chapter 2.
Is This It
After Grace realised what was missing in her life she started to get things back together. She started spending more and more time with Annie, and although Annie knew why and was happy to help her mother cope, it was beginning to make her think about something Pepper had told her in the orphanage. Pepper had been adopted twice before but when the couples who adopted her had their own children they sent her back to the orphanage. 'Would they do that to me?' Annie asked herself one evening at dinner, she had been listening to her parents talk about having children. As she listened a fear started to grow in her, 'Would they send me back?" The thought scared her half to death and even though she knew that her parents loved her more than anything she could not get the thought out of her mind.
It was late when Grace and Oliver finally got around to going to bed. The climbed the staircase together and were just about to enter their room when they heard Annie scream. They ran immediatley to her room and saw that was still sleeping, obviously having a nightmare. "No don't leave me here with him please, come back," she cried. Grace ran to her side and gently eased Annie into a sitting position and calmly spoke to her. "Annie? Sweety can you hear me? Honey wake up." Upon hearing her others voice Annie woke slowly. As soon as she realised that it had all been a dream, she flung her arms around Grace and Oliver, who in this time had sat down next to her. "Don't ever leave me," she cried. "Honey why would we leave you?" Oliver asked, as he looked into his little girls eyes he saw the fear. "In my dream you, you....." Annie stopped for a moment and wiped her eyes. "You guys had a baby and after the baby was born you sent me back to the orphanage, you said you didn't love me, that you never did (sniff) and that since you had your own proper family you wouldn't need me anymore. And then you left, you just left me there." Annie burst into tears. Seeing that Oliver clearly had no idea what to do, Grace took her in her arms looked deep into her eyes and told her, "Annie we love you, nothing can ever change that. We will never leave you I promise." The tears now began to roll down Grace's cheeks as she repeated over and over. 'I promise."
The next few weeks were hard for the Warbucks family, Annie was still trying to get the thought of her parents abandoning her out of her mind, and Oliver and Grace were tring to get pregnant. One afternoon Grace was out in the garden with Oliver working, it was a beutiful day and they didn't see the need to be couped up inside. Grace went to get Oliver a cup of tea when she felt dizzy, "Oliver!" She called then collapsed on the floor. The doctor was immediatley called for and after spending half an hour alone with Grace he finally allowed Oliver and Annie to enter the room. "Cangradulations people you're going to have a baby."
After Grace realised what was missing in her life she started to get things back together. She started spending more and more time with Annie, and although Annie knew why and was happy to help her mother cope, it was beginning to make her think about something Pepper had told her in the orphanage. Pepper had been adopted twice before but when the couples who adopted her had their own children they sent her back to the orphanage. 'Would they do that to me?' Annie asked herself one evening at dinner, she had been listening to her parents talk about having children. As she listened a fear started to grow in her, 'Would they send me back?" The thought scared her half to death and even though she knew that her parents loved her more than anything she could not get the thought out of her mind.
It was late when Grace and Oliver finally got around to going to bed. The climbed the staircase together and were just about to enter their room when they heard Annie scream. They ran immediatley to her room and saw that was still sleeping, obviously having a nightmare. "No don't leave me here with him please, come back," she cried. Grace ran to her side and gently eased Annie into a sitting position and calmly spoke to her. "Annie? Sweety can you hear me? Honey wake up." Upon hearing her others voice Annie woke slowly. As soon as she realised that it had all been a dream, she flung her arms around Grace and Oliver, who in this time had sat down next to her. "Don't ever leave me," she cried. "Honey why would we leave you?" Oliver asked, as he looked into his little girls eyes he saw the fear. "In my dream you, you....." Annie stopped for a moment and wiped her eyes. "You guys had a baby and after the baby was born you sent me back to the orphanage, you said you didn't love me, that you never did (sniff) and that since you had your own proper family you wouldn't need me anymore. And then you left, you just left me there." Annie burst into tears. Seeing that Oliver clearly had no idea what to do, Grace took her in her arms looked deep into her eyes and told her, "Annie we love you, nothing can ever change that. We will never leave you I promise." The tears now began to roll down Grace's cheeks as she repeated over and over. 'I promise."
The next few weeks were hard for the Warbucks family, Annie was still trying to get the thought of her parents abandoning her out of her mind, and Oliver and Grace were tring to get pregnant. One afternoon Grace was out in the garden with Oliver working, it was a beutiful day and they didn't see the need to be couped up inside. Grace went to get Oliver a cup of tea when she felt dizzy, "Oliver!" She called then collapsed on the floor. The doctor was immediatley called for and after spending half an hour alone with Grace he finally allowed Oliver and Annie to enter the room. "Cangradulations people you're going to have a baby."