Disclaimer: I don't own it
Hey guys. This is just my little insight into Emma's past. I spent hours on the net trying to find out what Emma's parents names were but I couldn't find any mention of them so in this story their names are Lucas and Erica. If anyone disagrees please let me know. Please review. Enjoy. Oh and just in case you were wondering the baby Erica is having is Lucien from my story 'My Brothers Keeper'.
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Destiny Foretold
The DeLauro's looked on the surface like the perfect little family. Husband, wife, daughter and another baby on the way. They weren't exactly an average family though.
Lucas and Erica DeLauro were what most people would probably call hippies. The read tarot cards, lost their daughter at rock festivals and would only do what their horoscopes told them to. Their little redheaded daughter was also rather unusual but no one knew it. Emma wasn't a hippy like her parents, she was a new mutant.
Erica DeLauro had decided to go and see a psychic; she'd always wanted to find out what her future was going to be like. Lucas was out somewhere, she didn't know where. He did that a lot. She supposed she'd have to take Emma with her. She was getting sick of how much the kid got in the way now that she was getting older. She found the address she'd scribbled onto a piece of paper earlier.
The psychic wasn't in a very nice part of town but that didn't bother her too much, she'd grown up in a place like this. A little bell jingled as she pushed the door open. A tall middle aged woman with dark curls framing her face came out of a room at the back of the tiny shop. Emma clung onto her mothers jacket, Erica barely noticed how scared her daughter was of this place.
"How can I help you my dear?" the woman asked with a smile
"My names Erica DeLauro, I made an appointment earlier"
"Ah yes, Ms DeLauro. Please, come this way" she motioned towards the room she had just come from then she noticed Emma.
"Well now, what's your name angel?"
"Emma" the little redhead replied in barely more than a whisper.
As they sat down at a round table in the back room the woman asked to see Erica's hands. Erica guessed that she was probably a gypsy. The gypsy woman was examining Erica's hands very closely. Then she asked to see Emma's hands. As she held the little girls hands a look of curiosity past over her face.
"Ms DeLauro you cannot raise your daughter. You must give her to someone else. If you raise this child she will cause you nothing but pain and trouble. I urge you to give your daughter away"
Erica was a little stunned be this.
"Why? What did you see in her future?" she asked.
"I can't tell you. The laws of the future realms will not allow me to tell you. But if you are wise you will do as I say"
The gypsy woman stood up, signalling that the consultation was over. Erica paid the woman and left the shop. She had been a little unnerved by what the psychic had said.
What the psychic hadn't told her was what she had actually seen when she held Emma's little hands, a future full of love, wonder and joy. She'd seen some pain in the girl's future too, but that would be outweighed by the happiness and friendship. She'd seen that the only way for her to get this future was to be free from her parents.
It wasn't going to be an easy road for the little redhead but she'd get there.