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"Mommy! Mommy, watch me and Maddie play!" The girl was perched on the carpeted floor in the living room along with Maddie, combing their doll's hair. They were giggling. That was until one of the girls hogged the doll.
"Daddy! Monnie is being bad!" Maddie complained.
"Shhh, now, kids. Why don't you go into your room? Your daddy and I have some things to discuss."
"Yes mommy!" The two girls smiled widely and followed their mother's instructions, arguing about their doll.
"David, we have to, you know we have to." Anne sat down on the cream couch, sighing.
"Anne, we can't. You know what happened to Lisa." David replied, still standing.
Anne turned cold.
"We will not talk about Lisa. She wasn't immune." Anne snapped, standing up.
"But Anne─"
"Stop it this instant, David. Lisa is gone and there is nothing we can do about it. Madison and Monroe are going to WCKD as planned!" Anne left no room for discussion.
David sighed.
"I'm sorry, David. I love these children too much and I can't let them see what this world has become." Anne apologized.
"It's fine. But we'll talk to them as much as we can, alright?" David gave in. Of course he'd seen what the world has become. He was afraid. He was truly afraid for the safety of his own children.
"Well, David, I think I should call in a WCKD representative." Anne sat down on the couch again and dialled a telephone number.
"Can't we send them there?" David inquired.
"I guess we can. I think I can ask Ava for a job for both of us. We can leave this house and live with them. We'll never have to leave them. We can take care of baby Cissa as well." Anne suggested, putting the telephone back.
"Excellent plan, Anne. I'll start packing. You can go talk to the girls."
Knock…knock…
The two girls immediately opened the door to their room.
"Mommy, are you okay?" Monroe asked.
"Of course I am, darling. Mommy's really good."
"Did daddy hurt you?" Madison inquired.
"No, of course not! Daddy would never do that to me." Anne denied.
"I have great news girls, we're moving out." Anne announced.
"But mommy! We like it here!" Madison and Monroe protested.
"You'll like it better there, darlings." Anne smiled.
"We don't wanna go!" Monroe complained.
"We can't stay here, it isn't safe."
"Why mommy? Why is not safe?" Madison queried.
"There are dangerous people everywhere, Madison. We're moving so we can be away and safe from them."
"Oh. Okay." Madison frowned.
"So we'll be packing now?"
"Yes. Why don't you pick out the clothes you like and put them in your bags?"
"Mommy, can we bring our dollies?"
"Of course you can, Monnie. You can bring them all." Anne smiled widely.
"I'll be bringing you a box so you can put all your dolls in it, okay?"
Madison and Monroe nodded happily. They began picking out their clothes, putting them on a neat pile on each of their beds. Anne left right after and collected the box.
Their mother, Anne, came back with a large box.
"Here you go, darlings. Bring all the dolls you want."
"How about our suitcases mommy?" Monroe pointed out.
Anne smiled. She walked towards the middle of their beds, since it was apart and crouched down to grab a suitcase under Madison's bed and another under Monroe's.
"Now, why don't you bring all your clothes? Mommy will be in her room packing, okay?" Madison got one of the suitcases and filled it with all her clothes.
"Maddie?"
"Yes?"
"Can you pack for me?"
"Why?"
"I'll pack up the dollies. I'll be bringing all of them you see. I'll get the clothes and their stuff in the box too."
"Fine." Madison huffed as she got out her dresses.
"Thank you, Maddie!" Monroe squealed happily.
"See, David? Even if they're young for WCKD, they'll be safer there." Anne had let David look at their children by their doorway. The two had been packing, Monroe fussed about the dolls while Madison packed for both of them.
"I suppose. Let us hope your sister will not pester them." Anne nodded in agreement.
"Girls, let mommy help you pack." Anne entered their room.
"Of course mommy, there are still clothes in the closet." Madison wagged her left pointer finger towards the closet.
"Mommy, please pack for me. Maddie's being a mean girl." Monroe pouted.
"What're you talking about, Monroe, darling? Madison is packing for you right now." Anne assured.
"Oh. I thought Maddie was mad at me!" Monroe exclaimed.
"I'm not mad, silly." Madison giggled.
"See? Since you are packing Maddie's dolls, she's also packing your clothes in return." Anne explained.
"Now, finish packing and mommy will be too. Daddy will be waiting downstairs. So come down when you're ready. And do prepare the clothes you're going to wear, darlings. We've a long time before we get there."
Anne finished packing up all the things she needed to bring for her and the baby. Now, it was time to give her girls a nice bath. They have a long journey ahead and she didn't particularly like bad hygiene habits.
"Girls? Please get your towels." Anne instructed.
"Yes, mommy!" Madison and Monroe ran out of their room each carrying a towel.
"Mommy? Can we bring Ducky?" Madison pouted.
"Sure. Put him in the box with your dollies."
"How about Pansy?" Monroe referred to the female duck beside Ducky.
"Yes. But we can get them as soon as you've finished bathing, understood?"
Both girls nodded.
After the bath was finished, Anne dressed them in travel gear. She let them wear gloves, long-sleeved tops and long pants. She let them wear boots and put on hats on their heads. Madison and Monroe insisted they get Ducky and Pansy inside the box. So Monroe got both of them from the bathroom.
"Now, Daddy's still bathing baby Cissa so you can meet him in the bathroom downstairs. Or you can call him to help you with your things."
"Mommy will change first."
"Okay, mommy."
Once David started the car, Madison and Monroe began playing with their dolls. Anne sat in the passenger's seat across David and they were purely worried for their family's safety. Cranks surrounded the area despite it having a huge immune population. Anne of course held Cissa, the little one was wrapped in a white cloth, biting her pacifier.
Anne remembered the news last week about the Fitzgerald family raided by the Cranks. She could recall lending the survivors of the family her home for a moment before calling Ava. The organisation took them away. Of course Anne did this because the Fitzgerald family was tested immune. The matriarch however didn't want her children to participate in the search of the Cure and ended up sheltering them.
She felt utter sadness for both sons of the family, Remus and Romulus. They were old enough to read and write, but they were not prepared to experience this much loss. Anne knew she couldn't keep them in her home forever so she had to do what she had to do. They understood that because Anne explained to them. They didn't want other families to have this kind of loss and have devoted themselves to helping the organisation find a cure. Anne still called them time to time and both are very positive about life.
"Anne, are you okay?" David asked concernedly.
"Yes. I just thought if we stayed there any longer, we might end up like the Fitzgeralds. I'm glad we've come to this agreement, David."
"I would rather lose an argument than see my children taken by Cranks."
"Agreed." Anne smiled.
David returned one to her.
"Ewww!" Madison and Monroe loudly exclaim simultaneously, attracting their parents' attention.
David and Anne laughed. Cissa seemed startled and began bawling, spitting out her pacifier in the process.
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