Title: Little Princess
Author: Shaneequa
Disclaimer: I don't own anything… sadly.
Summary: AU. Everyone copes with loss differently; this is Jenny's story.
Author's Note: I thought I'd give you guys something while I finish Lost and Found (which is coming to a close :[ )This was inspired by the (French) movie Ponette… you don't have to have seen the movie to read this though (: I tired to make this fic less OOC than it would be otherwise, so sorry if you find it way out of character. Jenny's about six in this story, so that should have things clearer.
Happy reading! Review pls (:
Chapter 1
Jennifer Shepard stared at the bed where her mother was lying, her big green eyes looking at the still figure. She had her favorite teddy bear in her arms, while she sucked her thumb on the other arm.
She had awoken from a nightmare that she couldn't remember; just that it scared her. Like every time she had a nightmare, she went into her mother and father's room wanting the comfort and security that their prescencepresence gave her.
"Mommy?" Jenny whispered tugging at her mother's arm. She usually woke up with that simple gesture.
Jenny moved over to the other side of the bed not seeing her fahter'sfather's form there. Being a Colonel, he was always away on trips for his job. Jenny didn't mind;, it gave her the opportunity to be with her mother,. Her her favorite person in the whole world.
"Mommy, wake up," Jenny said shaking her mother. She got closer to her mother wrapping her small arms around the older woman's body. Then, she whispered, "I had a bad dream, Mommy."
No response.
"Mommy, are you mad at me?" Jenny asked her mother once again squeezing her arms together that were around her mother.
No response.
"Mommy?" Jenny asked getting scared. This was unlike her mother at all. She usually responded the moment that the floors outside of the room would creek. She would open her arms to her daughter and do her best to comfort her, offering her hot chocolate with marshmallows. Even on the most tiring day, when Jenny would come to the room, her mother would comfort her.
"Mommy?" Jenny repeated turning her mother's head. "Mommy, this isn't funny!"
Nothing.
Tears started to fall down Jenny's eyes as she shook her mother again opening up her eye lideyelid, which usually moved when her mom was faking with her. Her eyes were unresponsive.
Jenny got out of the bed with her teddy bear still in her hand. She placed the bear down on the floor.
"You watch her, okay Mr. Bear? I'll be back," Jenny said pointing at her bear then looking back at her mother. "Watch her."
Jenny did the first thing that she could think of, running down the stairs to the phone in the hallway. She dialed the number that her father made her memorize praying to God that she got it right. When on the third ring, her father's answered, she sighed in relief.
"Daddy!" she exclaimed.
"Jenny?" Jasper answered confused. He was in his office trying to have a meeting with a General who was so busy that he couldn't meet with him on normal business hours. He didn't like that he was away from his family and sometimes, when Jenny was persuasive and when his wife was tired, she would let Jenny call him in his office. It wasn't something that went well with the people he was in meetings with, but he liked it.
He looked down at his wrist watch seeing that it was 0250. "Honey, it's two in the morning, where's your mother?"
"She's not moving Daddy," Jenny whispered scared.
"She's just playing with you, sweetheart," Jasper answered putting a hand up to a man who he was suppose to be conversing as if to say one more moment.
"No! I checked! I opened her eyes and they didn't move!"
"Where is she now?"
"In the room, Mr. Bear is watching her," Jenny confirmed. Her tears have stopped pouring at the comforting voice of her father, believing that he had the answer.
"That's good," Jasper replied, his forehead wrinkling in worry. "You've done good."
"Is mommy okay?" Jenny asked hoping that her father had found a solution.
"She's gonna be fine, princess."
"So I can ask her for a hot chocolate now and she'll give me some?"
"Tell you what, you go into your room and sleep. Bring Mr. Bear with you, and in the morning I'll be home and everything will be fine," Jasper said seeing the annoyed look of the General that he was supposed to be having a meeting with.
"Promise?"
"I promise, princess."
"Okay, bye daddy!" Jenny said enthusiastically skipping up the stairs. She stopped at the master bedroom picking up Mr. Bear from the floor and walking to her mother. She kissed her mother in the forehead like her mother did when she was sick.
"Everything will be fine in the morning, Mommy," Jenny whispered to her mother. "Daddy says so."
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Ps. I know I didn't give you guys much on this chapter but I hav finished with 6 chapters so far so hang with me (:
