Sorry, this story started to collect dust on my shelf. But
yay! I've decided to take it up again, hopefully staying true
to what I was writing all those many months ago. Enjoy!
"I...I jus..I can't believe...Anna!" Will finally managed to get out through the happy tears still streaming heavily down his face. His laughter rang letting out all his emotions, too many to hold inside. Elizabeth just clung to Anna, afraid this might just be another dream, that the world would take her away again. Jack, finding his last statement quite funny, laughed right along with Will. Anna let the happiness and love radiating off of her parents engulf her. She felt an empty place, one that she had learned to shut off, fill up and over flow. She was truly happy.
"Umm, people are startin ta stare luv..." Jack said uncomfortably after about five more minutes of that. Elizabeth nodded, took another look at Anna, and motioned them all to come inside the house. They followed happily, everybody, except Jack of course, still radiating extreme happiness. Jack was flipping a rather expensive looking trinket over in his hand. He started to pocket it, but thought better of it given the circumstances, and laid it back down on the table, following the rest into the kitchen. Elizabeth started to set out plates and a few trays with quickly put together finger foods.
"So many questions..." Will started and faded off. Anna and Elizabeth both nodded with minimal movement.
"What happened?" Elizabeth blurted out before she lost the courage to ask it. Anna got a dark look in her eyes, and flashed back to the day it happened.
"Why hullo. What is a pretty little thing like you doing all alone out here?" A strange, gruff looking man asked Anna, walking out from an ally. Anna knew very well not to talk to strangers, young as she may have been. She ignored the man and kept walking, a little faster than she had been previously been. "It isn't very nice to walk away when somebody is speaking to you." The man said, stepping in her path. Anna was about to scream when she felt something filling her mouth, blocking any sound she might want to make. She eventually decided it was a piece of cloth. She turned around to face the man and kicked him in the shin. He laughed and grabbed her wrists. "I wouldn't be doing that if I were you, poppit. I'm sure they wouldn't want anything to happen to you." She tried to jerk her wrist away, but being only five and the man holding her being full grown, she didn't have very good odds. He held onto her wrists with one hand and with the other he took another piece of cloth to bind them together. As he did so she tried very hard to think of a way to get somebody's attention, but being in the back of an ally with your mouth gagged, even if you were a full grown adult, it was a difficult task. The man took out his gun, and for a brief moment she thought he was going to shoot her. He didn't though; he just simply turned it around and slammed it against her head, knocking her into darkness. Anna gulped, looked at her parents, and started her retelling.
"Oh my God Anna, I....I don't know what to say....oh my God.." Will mumbled. Elizabeth was pale and staring blankly at her empty plate.
"Well I think we've 'ad quite a day, and I for one need a little refreshment." Jack said standing up. Anna couldn't help but smile at his attempt to lighten the mood. Apparently neither could anybody else, everyone was smiling now, and soon laughing away all the pain of the last 10 years. It was the easiest thing to do, just laugh it off.
Ok short chapter, the next one will make up for it promise :D Please REVIEW!!
"I...I jus..I can't believe...Anna!" Will finally managed to get out through the happy tears still streaming heavily down his face. His laughter rang letting out all his emotions, too many to hold inside. Elizabeth just clung to Anna, afraid this might just be another dream, that the world would take her away again. Jack, finding his last statement quite funny, laughed right along with Will. Anna let the happiness and love radiating off of her parents engulf her. She felt an empty place, one that she had learned to shut off, fill up and over flow. She was truly happy.
"Umm, people are startin ta stare luv..." Jack said uncomfortably after about five more minutes of that. Elizabeth nodded, took another look at Anna, and motioned them all to come inside the house. They followed happily, everybody, except Jack of course, still radiating extreme happiness. Jack was flipping a rather expensive looking trinket over in his hand. He started to pocket it, but thought better of it given the circumstances, and laid it back down on the table, following the rest into the kitchen. Elizabeth started to set out plates and a few trays with quickly put together finger foods.
"So many questions..." Will started and faded off. Anna and Elizabeth both nodded with minimal movement.
"What happened?" Elizabeth blurted out before she lost the courage to ask it. Anna got a dark look in her eyes, and flashed back to the day it happened.
"Why hullo. What is a pretty little thing like you doing all alone out here?" A strange, gruff looking man asked Anna, walking out from an ally. Anna knew very well not to talk to strangers, young as she may have been. She ignored the man and kept walking, a little faster than she had been previously been. "It isn't very nice to walk away when somebody is speaking to you." The man said, stepping in her path. Anna was about to scream when she felt something filling her mouth, blocking any sound she might want to make. She eventually decided it was a piece of cloth. She turned around to face the man and kicked him in the shin. He laughed and grabbed her wrists. "I wouldn't be doing that if I were you, poppit. I'm sure they wouldn't want anything to happen to you." She tried to jerk her wrist away, but being only five and the man holding her being full grown, she didn't have very good odds. He held onto her wrists with one hand and with the other he took another piece of cloth to bind them together. As he did so she tried very hard to think of a way to get somebody's attention, but being in the back of an ally with your mouth gagged, even if you were a full grown adult, it was a difficult task. The man took out his gun, and for a brief moment she thought he was going to shoot her. He didn't though; he just simply turned it around and slammed it against her head, knocking her into darkness. Anna gulped, looked at her parents, and started her retelling.
"Oh my God Anna, I....I don't know what to say....oh my God.." Will mumbled. Elizabeth was pale and staring blankly at her empty plate.
"Well I think we've 'ad quite a day, and I for one need a little refreshment." Jack said standing up. Anna couldn't help but smile at his attempt to lighten the mood. Apparently neither could anybody else, everyone was smiling now, and soon laughing away all the pain of the last 10 years. It was the easiest thing to do, just laugh it off.
Ok short chapter, the next one will make up for it promise :D Please REVIEW!!