Anna lay on the floor of a small office like room with her feet swaying behind her. She had finished her testing for the day hours ago and Oaken and Sven had been going over the results since then.
The cartoons on the television had ceased being entertaining and Anna could feel herself dozing off. Every so often her head would dip down and she would startle herself awake again. With a loud yawn, she pushed herself to her feet and shuffled over to the desk they were working at "Dr. Oaken, I'm tired" she whined "Can we go yet?" trying her best to stifle another yawn.
Oaken looked up from her note to look at the clock on the wall in shock "Is that the time?" he asked himself before turning to Anna "I'm sorry Anna, I was so wrapped up that I lost track of time. Her ruffled her already messy red hair and smiled "How around this, little Anna, since you had a long day, I'll read you a bed time story so you have the good dreams, Yah?"
Perking up at this, Anna beamed and nodded "I love it when you read to me Oaken!"
The doctor chuckles "I think the book is in the back storage there, yah? You know the one" he grinned "The Tales of Flynn Rider. Go get it Anna, while I finish up here"
Anna nodded and hurried off to find the book.
The storage room was simple enough. The walls were lined with metals shelves, with a few in the middle of the room and in the back was a long metal table. The shelves were filled with boxes and machines, but it was the table that held her target. As she weaved about between the shelves, the lights began to flicker. As she paused she saw her breath pooling in front of her. Her eyes narrowed as she looked about "Elsa that isn't funny, spot it" she snapped quietly before hurrying along as the lights flickered more "Elsa I said stop it!" she whispered as she approached the book. The book flipped open and the pages flipped by, stopping on a picture of Flynn Rider riding his horse down a rainy mountain trail.
She was nervous now. She scooped up the book and turned to hurry out of the room. She freezes suddenly at the sight that suddenly appeared before her. Three children, all around her age, all with the same dark brown hair and green eyes, behind them a woman with the same hair and eyes and next to her a man with matching green eyes but blond hair. The thing about them that caused the little girl the most shock wasn't their sudden appearance, but the blood. All of them her cover in blood. She looked at them nervously. They were there, she could see them, but at the same time they were misty, like there was a vale of thin fog around them keeping them detached. Then the light flickered once more and they were gone.
Her breath came to her short and nervous as she stood in shock. The floor beneath her feet was icing over from her fear so she hurried from the room, still scared and confused. What she saw wasn't real, she told herself, a figment of her imagination.
She hurries back to Oaken and searches his face for any signs that he saw what she did as she handed him the book, but his face was blank. Like he hadn't seen them at all. Oaken began to talk to her but she wasn't paying attention. The misty family was back, standing just behind him, staring at him with looks of loss. Anna doesn't understand.
Oaken shook the girls shoulder lightly, bringing her attention back to him "Anna? Are you alright?" he asked as he gently pressed the back of his hand to her forehead "You look pale, little one."
"Leave the girl be, Oaken" Sven brushed off his concern "she's just tired, been a long day, right?" he smiles "Let's get her to bed"
Oaken didn't look very convinced but her stood up and began leading the girl from the room none the less. The pair didn't make it far before Sven poked his head out the door "Oaken, you got a phone call, seems important"
Anna took the book from the doctor as he took the phone from Sven.
"Hello? Yes this is Dr. Oaken" he said as he sat down and listened to what the person on the other end had to say. Slowly, his cheery face fell to one of sorrow, he sat there trembling as he said "Thank you" and hung up the phone, resting his head on the desk.
"Oaken?" Sven calls nervously as he pokes his head back in the door "What was all that about?"
"They're gone, Sven" Oaken's voice was hollow with not a single trace of its usual cheer "All of them are gone" lifted his head up and looked at Sven and Anna with water eyes "My beautiful Agnis, and Eirik, and the little ones Emma, Hugo and Kevin" Oaken whimpered "All gone"
Sven's face fell as he heard this "Your family, Oaken? I'm so sorry"
"Eirik and the little ones, they was heading home, they spent the weekend at my Mothers sauna." He paused "The van was hit, hard, they was rolling down into a ditch" he was shaking terribly now "When the emergency worker got there, they was all called dead on site."
Sven looked from Oaken to Anna before walking into the room and squeezing the man's shoulder "Stay here" he said with a hint of command in his voice "I'm going to take Anna to her room" he said as he back out and took Anna's hand "Come on Snowflake"
As she was lead down the hall, Anna spared a glance over her shoulder when Oaken's sobbing reached her ears and saw the man crumpled over his desk, arms over his head, as is he was trying to hide himself from the world.
