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Chapter Sixteen

David Richards sat quietly in the corner of the dark room in which even the shadows stayed still. His mind was filled with faces of people he had never seen before, faces he seemed to know but for some reason could not put names too them. There were also places that looked like far away places and from recent years past to a time when the people occupying those places wore strange clothes.

He remembered in one of these places there were never ending fields of green and a lake that was as black as the night's sky and as cold as snow. It was a strange place, as all the men seem to wear skirts. They spoke with an accent that was strange but at the same time he felt more familiar with that accent then with the one he listened to every day.

A young man of twenty-five called Richard Morris found David and was asked when he turned the infant in to the police to give the boy a name. Reluctantly he agreed and called him David after his grandfather and Richards after himself. It was two years tomorrow since he had been found and he remembered very little of his first few years of life. The staffs at the orphanage was telling him that it was his birthday tomorrow and that he should be happy but he did not want to be happy, he wanted to be away from here with people that would love him.

He was a one year old, two year old tomorrow but acted almost as old as some as the five or six year olds. The carer's were concerned about the way he seemed to mature for his age. The fact that he would rather sit around on his own getting lost is the images that he didn't understand rather then spend time playing with the other children was also worrying.

The reason he was sitting curled up in a ball in the corner of the room was the same reason as to why he was there every night, it was the only time he would get true peace and quiet and reflect on the images he had got flashes of that day.

There was no chance one of the another children wanting him to play a pointless game or no carer trying to get him to join the other children or even sit and talk with him themselves trying to find out what was upsetting him.

He enjoyed this time at night; it was so peaceful he could almost imagine that he was actually away at one of those far away places with the people he is seeing almost every day in his daydreams doing exciting things. Those dreams never came true though and it was almost too painful for him to think that way, but it was the only thing that got him away from reality for a small amount of time.

Tomorrow he was meeting some more adults who supposedly want to be his Mum and Dad but he knew it wasn't going to happen. They always came to see him but always went away with another little boy or girl that liked to play with other children more then he did.

Didn't they understand that he would prefer to be just left alone to his dream world?

A single tear leaked from his eye as the tiredness kicked in and he slipped into a fitful sleep thinking about the hopeful new parents he was going to get to take him away from this place hoping it was going to be someone as kind as in his dreams.

He was led into a small quiet room near all the offices. There was a sofa, a coffee table and a toy box in the corner for the children play with and if they were lucky their new parents would play with them as well.

David did as he usually did when he was led to this room and that he was to sit quietly on the sofa and wait to be disappointed once again when the adults did not want to take him home.

He was not sure how long he had been sitting there when the door finally opened and Mrs. Roselyn entered, who was one of the people that arranged for children to meet their new parents.

"Hello David, How are you feeling today? You excited about meeting the nice people today?" Mrs. Roselyn asked her voice bitterly sweet like always and the smile that distorted her face with disastrous results was as false as always. Her dislike for the children was clear for anybody to see, if they took the time to look into her eyes, but most people were too busy to notice.

David did not take his eyes off his hands that were crossed over his lap as he replied, what was clearly false excitement dripping from his ever word. "Yes Mrs. Roselyn I'm excited like always."

"Good, good they're here now so I'll just go get them and bring them to meet you. Their names are Mr. and Mrs. Parmer." With that Mr. Roselyn left the room once again leaving David to continue to sit in silence.

Minutes passed and still Mr. Roselyn did not return as she had said she would. David was just starting to climb down for the sofa, it been obvious that this Mr. and Mrs. Parmer did not want to see him after all when the door quietly opened and a lady he thought to be familiar walked in followed closely by a man whose face he remembered clearly from his dreams. Without realising a name escaped from his mouth, almost a whisper but loud enough for them to hear what he said.

"Methos!"

"Well I guess Hestia was wrong after all." Adam smirked as he sat down on the sofa and seemed to melt into it.

Saxton gave him a 'be quiet' look then turned back towards David. "Hello. You must be David. My name is Saxton, but you can call me Sax if you want. This is Adam." Saxton pointed to Adam who just nodded to David who was still looking puzzled at Adam.

"Mrs. Roselyn said I had to call you by Mr. and Mrs. Parmer." David replied his voice still almost a whisper.

"If you want to call us Mr. and Mrs. Parmer you can but we would prefer if you call us by Adam and Sax!" Saxton smiled reassuringly at him and for the first time in a long time David smiled right back at her. The feeling that he knew her returned and once again another name found its way out of his mouth without him even realising it.

"Richie!"

The smile grew bigger on Saxton's face at that name. "I guess he does remember after all."

Adam sat forward on the edge of the sofa and asked David to come towards him. "Would you like to come home with us David? Would you like me and Sax to be your new Mum and Dad?"

David did not know what to do. He had been through countless meetings like this but never had the adults offered to take him home with them so that they could be his new parents. He stood staring at Adam for a long time not truly believing what he was hearing.

"Well is that a yes? Do you want me and Sax to be your new Mum and Dad?"

"Y… yes sir." David stammered hoping beyond hope that this was not just another dream.

"Fine then. You stay here and keep Sax company and I'll go look for Mrs. Roselyn and get the paperwork started."

Once he saw that David nodded he got completely off his seat and left the room leaving him alone with Saxton.

"So David what colour do you want your room. We've got everything for your room organised already we were just thinking that you may want to pick out the colour yourself."

"Could… Could I have it blue please?"

"Yeah sure you can have blue if you want. How about you help me paint it when we get home?"

"Are you taking me home today?" David asked hopefully.

"Hopefully yeah. Do you want that? To come home today with me and Adam?"

"Yes, I don't like it here."

"Then I guess you'll be coming home with us." Saxton moved closer to him and whispered in his ear. "Even if we have to break you out of here and away from that evil Mrs. Roselyn?"

"Mrs Roselyn doesn't like children." He stated as if it was the only important information he had knowledge of.

"I know. I've seen hundreds of people like that in my time and I can see the resentment in her eyes." Saxton said sweetly trying to reassure him that she wasn't like that.

"Resempent? What does that mean?" David asked mispronouncing resentment.

"Resentment means that she doesn't like children because of what they are. I'm guessing it's because she had a horrible childhood, then the fact that she has to look for happy families for you children makes her bitter that someone never did that for her."

Just as Saxton was finishing up with her explanation Adam walked back into the room with a smile on his face. "David, have you got anything that you want to take with you?" Adam asked.

"No sir."

"Ok then. Let's get going. We've got a flight to catch."

"Were going on an aeroplane?" David asked a spark him his eyes as the possibility of visiting those far away places became a possibility.

"Yes, were going on an aeroplane." Adam answered as he put his hands out and waited for David to come close enough to him so he could pick him up.

"I've never been on an aeroplane before." David's face was almost splitting with the smile that was now on his face.

"Well come on then lets get you onto that aeroplane."

"So are you really going to be my new daddy?" David asked the question that was nagging at the back of his thoughts.

"Yeah I'm going to be your Dad and Sax is going to be your Mum."

"Good, I like you. You have a big nose." David said innocently.

Saxton giggled as she followed Adam down the hall, out of the orphanage and towards a car. "What do you find so funny Sax?" Adam asked as they reached the car.

"Oh nothing, I'm just getting the feeling that this is just going to be like old times. You, Mac, Richie and Joe all gathered around taking the piss out of each other." Saxton replied in between giggles.

"Yeah apart from Richie is now in the body of a woman and Mac is in the body of a two year old." Adam said raising an eyebrow at her.

"Like I said. Just like old times!" She smirked again then moved closer to Adam and giving him a gentle kiss on the lips. "It's going to be ok now isn't it? The group's going to be back together to help one another through what's to come in the next few years."

"Yeah that right. It's all going to work out from now on."

"Good!" Saxton gave Adam another gentle kiss on the lips then placed another on David's forehead that was still in Adam's arms then moved away and watched as Adam placed David into the child's car seat.

"I still can't believe it took you almost a year for you to find him." Saxton could finally tease Adam about taking so long to find Mac, now that they finally had the group back together.