Annie's Dream

Disclaimer: I don't own Annie but I do think it is the best Broadway Musical show and story ever!

Within moments, Annie was fast asleep. It was a surprise to her that she fell asleep so quickly because she had been so excited. Unbeknownst to her, she would have a dream that may have some connection to her parents and the truth of their well being. Does this mean her parents may actually still be alive?

A/N: The next portion of this chapter is Annie's dream so that's why it will be written in italics.

Annie's eyes fluttered open. She was standing in a circular, no oval shaped room. There was a large desk in front of her and sitting at it was no other than President Warren Gamaliel Harding. She wondered why she was here. That's when she noticed that she was not standing there alone. Two figures in black were there with her, one on either side of her. She could tell by the body frames that one was a man and the other was a woman but she could not see their faces fore they were hidden in the shadows from the neck up. She was about to say something when she realized that the three others in the room with her seemed to be having a conversation, so, instead, she kept quiet and listened.

"But Sir, if you don't think that it is safe for her to stay with us, whatever shall we do with her?" It was then that Annie heard a baby crying and noticed that the woman figure, held a bundle of blankets in her arms. Annie figured that amongst those blankets there lay a baby.

"She will have to be taken somewhere where she will be well out of the way. I understand that you love her very much but there is simply no way that you can keep her here and still be able to carry on with your jobs. My suggestion would be to leave her somewhere in another state. Not too far away from here. When the child is older, you may go and pick her up from wherever it is that you choose to leave her. Of course, it will have to be when she is old enough to understand but none the less, you may be able to bring her back."

"But Sir, we do not have any idea where to leave her." the woman said. "Do you have any ideas?"

"I know of a girls annex that resides New York City. You can take her there."

"A girls annex?" the man asked. "You mean to stick her in an orphanage?"

"Yes, there will be less suspicions that way. I wish I could give you another option but that's all I got. I'm sorry. Leave a note. Do not let anyone know who you really are. We can't have you found out." The man and the woman nodded. They thanked the president and walked out of the room. Annie felt the scene spinning and she shut her eyes.

When Annie opened her eyes again, she found herself standing on the front stoop of the rotten orphanage she had grown up in. It dawned on her then that the child in question might very well be herself. Nonetheless, she stayed quiet as she watched the same two figures with the bundle of blankets approach the front door. They quickly but gently set the bundle down and stuck a folded piece of paper in the crease of the top blanket. Then they knocked on the door and hurried away.

Annie watched silently as a younger Miss. Hannigan opened the door and bent down to look at the small bundle. She pulled out the note and unfolded it. Annie watched as she grimaced while she read it. She could tell that the younger Miss. Hannigan was no different than the one she had just left back at the orphanage. She watched as Miss. Hannigan carelessly picked up the bundle and disappeared into the house. Just before the door shut and the scene began to spin again, Annie caught a glimpse of something silver around the baby's neck and she knew at once that it was the locket.

Again, Annie opened her eyes and found herself in the oval office once more. But some time had definitely passed since the time that President Harding and the two figures had spoken. It wasn't Harding who sat behind the desk now. Instead, when she looked up, she found herself looking at the present President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Looking around the office, she guessed that he had just been installed because things in the office were still being arranged to his liking. She recalled how it had looked when Daddy Warbucks had taken her to meet the president and it certainly had been less cluttered and a lot nicer.

Again, she found herself standing between the two figures. And again, it seemed as though they were deep in conversation with the president.

"You see Sir, Harding said when she is old enough, we could go and retrieve her. So we were wondering when we would be able to have that privilege." It was the man who was speaking he sounded desperate.

"I would say when she is of at least ten years of age. That sounds the most appropriate."

"So next year than?" the woman said. Annie looked around and noticed a calendar on the wall. It was late November 1931. That meant that she had just turned nine and it would be almost a year until the man and the woman would come back to orphanage to collect her.

"Yes, that's right." The man and the woman nodded. Then they turned and left the room. Before the scene spun once again, Annie realized something else. Her parents were supposed to come get her when she was ten and she was now eleven! If they wanted her back so badly, why had they failed to show up when they were supposed to? Annie would not have to wait long for her answer fore the next scene would explain everything.

Annie opened her eyes once more found herself still standing in the oval office. But this time, she noticed that it looked exactly as it did the day that Daddy Warbucks had taken her to see the president. She glanced up at the calendar again. It read September 1932. When she made a more thorough inspection of the office, she noticed that this time, the figures were nowhere to be seen. Instead, a man, whom she recognized as Harold Ickes stood at the desk. He seemed to be in a very worrisome conversation with President Roosevelt.

"Mr. President, I'm afraid there is still no news on the disappearance of the Bennetts. We have police looking for them everywhere but there is still no sign of them. There is not even so much as a clue of their whereabouts. We do believe however, that the disappearance was not intentional. They were some of the best of their kind and they loved their line of work, they would never desert it and just vanish like that."

"I know Harold, I know. I just can't seem to grasp the concept that this could happen to two such great people and with the anticipation of getting their daughter back next month too. It' s just so sad. I hate to wonder what will happen to their daughter if they never get the chance to get her back. I knew it was a bad idea to send them on this mission. I knew it was too dangerous a situation, even for them. But they insisted so I let them go. And now I feel that it is my fault that they are missing."

"Don't worry Mr. President, I'm sure we'll find them. We haven't given up hope yet and we don't plan on giving up hope anytime soon. We will get to the bottom of this, we will." He slammed his fist into his hand. The president nodded and returned to his work.

'So that was it,' Annie thought to herself. 'They never came to get me because they turned up missing just a short time before they were supposed to pick me up. And they must still be missing because if not, they would've shown up when Daddy Warbucks was looking for them.' But before she could think anymore, the whole scene went black and Annie passed out.

Annie's eyes flew open and she sat up in bed. She had been having a very strange dream, one that had suggested that her parents were somehow with the president and they had never really been poor to begin with. She didn't know what it all meant but she was going to find out and she was going to start by going back to the president and finding out if anyone by the surname of Bennett had ever worked at the White House.