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Chapter Five
The sight of the young girl named Mariah with bruises and signs of abuse on her body had Marion's heart to nearly stop out of shock at seeing the shape she was in. She could tell straight away that she had been neglected badly by someone that was supposed to take care of her, and it hurt her to see the tears coming to the small child's eyes.
Marion walked towards her some before she knelt in a spot before her. She watched her come to her with tears building in her eyes once again. Her own eyes started to tear up at finding such a beautiful child being hurt and in need of a place to call home since her real one was not safe for her. Moved by her own need to keep her safe from harm, she wrapped her arms around Mariah's small frame and held her in her arms. The sensation of the child holding onto her had her to close her eyes and her body shuddering right away from the amount of sadness she felt radiating from the child. She struggled for a moment to find her voice before she could speak up to her in a soft whisper that dripped with a need to keep her safe from the person who had hurt her.
"You are safe now, Mariah." She said, choosing to speak in Spanish to assist with her understanding her. Leaning back, she made eye contact with her and displayed a warm smile towards her while brushing her tears from her face. "We won't let whoever hurt you do it again."
"It was papa." Mariah's voice trembled out the words in her native tongue while her eyes remained on Marion's gaze.
"Your papa did this to you?"
"Yes."
"What about your mother? Did she try to stop him?"
"Mama has gone to be Jesus, and I was left all alone with papa."
Her heart sank a little more from being told by this sweet, innocent girl that her own father had been the cause of her bruises on her body and the tears coming out of her eyes. It also bothered her to know that he was the only person she was left with to care for her since her mother had passed away. She went to speak up when her attention shifted over towards Cohra to find him taking a firm and protective stance as he spoke to Mariah in her language, surprising Marion with his ability to know different languages so easily.
"Mariah," Cohra said, moving himself towards her a little more from where he had been squatted down so he could look to her beside Marion, "where is your papa right now?"
"He is at home right now. He went to sleep after drinking. He always drinks."
"Where is your home?"
"It is about a mile from here at the old cottage by where the water tower is nestled in the jungle."
"I want you to stay here with Marion."
It suddenly dawned on her what he was going to do. Cohra was going to be making a special trip out to deal with Mariah's father for what he had done to her and make him pay a severe price for his decision to put his hands on an innocent child who didn't do anything to deserve the abuse she had gotten from him. Her eyes moved to where he was to find him moving to his feet and looking down to her with a firm stare on his face before he spoke with a stern sound growing within his normally gentle tone.
"This won't take long."
She watched him head back inside of the ship to start putting his armor together. Inside, she felt two different emotions. On one hand, she was proud to see that he was willing to keep Mariah safe and make her father pay for the actions he chose to do to her. On the other, however, she was scared that his action would reveal him even more to the people in the area and they would be dealing with something much larger than they were prepared for. Her eyes moved to where Mariah was as she spoke to her softly.
"I will be right back, Mariah."
She watched her nod her head to her before her body hurried towards the direction of where the doorway of the ship stood. Marion hurried inside of the ship and to the doorway of their room to find Cohra already having a large part of his armor on with just a few pieces left for him to tend to. A heavy sigh left her mouth as she watched what he was doing as she spoke up to him.
"This is not wise for you to do this, Cohra."
"How do you figure that, Marion?"
"You are about to go off and murder that girl's father in an area that we don't know if there will be anyone else around."
"He is going to pay for what he did to our daughter with his life."
"What if someone sees you? What if someone hears the man screaming for his life and draws their attention? What if-"
Her questions came to an end from the feeling of him placing a hand on a side of her face. She focused on him to find him wearing his mask once more as his voice shifted to being more gentle and caring towards her.
"No one will see me and I will make sure that my choice of punishment for the man who used to be her father will not attract anyone if someone was to be in the area when I make my kill on him. I will be back home soon enough to be with her and you, and then we can see about working on plans to either expand the ship or see about perhaps settling into her family's home as a permanent residence if we have to do just that if we don't have enough room at my ship for us to make it liveable for all of us and the child you are carrying in your womb."
"You are pregnant, mama?"
Marion looked over to see Mariah standing in a spot, looking to her. She showed her a smile and motioned her over. She waited for her to come up to her so she could put her hand on her stomach to feel the movement of the child she was carrying. Her eyes lit up at seeing Mariah smiling at the baby that was moving around inside of her belly and felt like she was having a real family of her own right in front of her eyes. She looked to Cohra to see him taking in the sight of her happiness with Mariah. Her eyes lingered on him as she watched him give a nod of his head before heading for the front doors. Once he was gone, she looked down to Mariah who was gazing up to her in curiosity.
"Where did papa go?"
"He went to go deal with who hurt you, Mariah, but he will be back soon enough." Marion brushed the hair out of her face with a smile. "While he is gone, how about we go for a swim in the pool where the waterfall is?" She watched the little girl nod her head up and down with a smile of her own on her face. Marion held onto one of Mariah's tiny hands and guided her outside in the direction of where the waterfall was nestled while she silently hoped that Cohra's plan he had in his head wouldn't backfire on him and bring them more attention than they needed at the moment.
