Authors Notes: Well there goes this one. I'll write a second one when I'm ready to. I've got my notes going, but I'm having to look after a baby with the flu. At least I've not got it...yet...
In a Heartbeat
Chapter 10
Going Home?
Donny looked down at herself as she looked in the large mirror in the bathroom. The Professor had left moments ago and had instructed her to clean herself up so that when he returned with some better clothing that she would be able to wear them. There boat was do to leave in two hours.
Donny rung her hair out one more time before pulling the robe on and stepped out of the bathroom to see if her father had returned yet. One the bed there was a package with her name written on the top. She giggled and walked back into the bathroom and opened it up. Within was a dress with little purple butterflies and the rest was a cream color. She pulled it on and walked over to the mirror again. She gasped and covered herself up again.
It would seem that traveling in the wilderness for days had started to shed her baby fat and she started to look like a young woman. It would also seem that her birthday had passed without her knowledge. So she was actually 9 now...but that probably happened before she met the professor. It was rather hard to know just when ones birthday was when there wasn't a calender to be had.
She heard the bedroom door open again and she quickly braided her bright red hair and walked out of the bathroom. Her cheeks were probably as bright as her hair was.
"Do you like it?" He asked pulling off his jacket he had just purchased. He held up a jacket for her too and a pair of shoes.
"Yes I just...well...I'm not used to...being this lady like." She said which got a loud laugh out of the Professor.
"Yes well you might want to get used to it. I plan to pamper you like a lady should when we get back to England." He said throwing down a passport, adoption papers, and a boarding pass. "Its official. Your now Denali Smith." He said and she looked at the adoption papers as if they were a piece of gold. To expensive to touch, but to beautiful not to. So she simply reached out and smoothed her fingers over the folds.
"Really?" She asked looking up at the Professor who took her hand and looked her in the eyes.
"Its what you wanted wasn't it?" He asked. She nodded and sniffled slightly before taking the papers and held them to her.
"I know I'm single, and I can't offer you much in a mother but..."
"I don't want you to get married just because I don't have a mother." Donny said and crossed her arms. "I don't need some lady telling me how to dress. I already got a dad doing that enough as it is." She said and looked down at her dress.
"Yes...about those...perhaps you should put some shoes one and your jacket. I figured you'd like to eat something before going." He said which she pulled on her shoes and jacket. Soon enough she would be crossing the boarders into England and then she would be embroiled in the adventures of the Pimpernel once more.