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Chapter 2

Jasper Shepard had called the paramedics as soon as he hung up the phone, telling the General that there was an emergency at home. The General wasn't too happy with that, but Jasper Shepard had stormed out of the office before he could state his complaints.

When Jasper Shepard got there, the paramedics were already in the master bed room putting his wife in a stretcher.

"What's wrong with her?" Jasper asked panting from running up the stairs. One would expect him to be in full shape but when his mind and body were in overdrive, worrying about what happened to his wife, he was thrown off the loop.

"I'm sorry sir," one of the EMTs spoke up as his colleguecolleague covered her body.

"No," Jasper whispered walking to the door. "She… she can't be…"

"We won't know the causes unless you would agree to an autopsy. We'll bring her to the morgue," the EMT replied. By now, they should've gotten used to his, but after almost five years on the job, one glimpse at the raw emotion in the eye of someone who just lost a loved one was still heartbreaking. "I'm sorry, sir."

Jasper ran his hands through his face looking at the shut door at the end of the hall.

Jenny.

"Where are you taking her?" Jasper's voice asked raspy.

"Bethesda Naval is the closest, Sir," another EMT replied. "Unless you have anther preference."

"No, Besthesda's fine."

"Would you like to ride with…"

"No," Jasper said shaking his head and walking down the hall. He stopped at the closed door of his daughter's room thinking about how her life is about to change as soon as he opened the door.

He stood there for another minute or two letting her having a few more minutes of peace before her world would shatter around her.

He took a deep breath. He was a Colonel for God's sake! Yet here he was so unsure of everything, and so scared about the impact that it would have on his little princess.

He finally turned the doorknob, seeing Jenny curled up in her blankets, looking up at her plain white ceiling.

"Hey Princess," Jasper greeted his daughter. She didn't move from her position. The only indication to him that she was still alive was the fact that her body's rising and falling as she inhaled and exhaled. "What are you still doing up?"

"I had a nightmare," she whispered, her voice smaller than he's ever heard it before.

"What about?" Jasper asked sitting at the corner of her bed, looking down at her face. She was sucking her thumb and clutching her teddy ebarbear close to her body.

"I don't remember," Jenny replied tears forming in her eyes making her green eyes sparkle with the reflection of the moonlight through her window. "Mommy's not okay, is she?"

"She's…"

"That's why those people came into your room. 'Coz she's not okay," Jenny continued a tear making a path down her cheeks. "You said she was gonna be fine in the morning."

Jenny sighed still not meeting her father's eye. "You lied. It's bad to lie."

"Jenny…"

"You're not gonna die too, are you?" Jenny asked her father sitting up against the wall of her big girl bed. She's heard from classmates about dying. They explained to her one dayone-day that it was like sleeping forever, never waking up, . tThat when someone sleepsleeps forever, they'll be at their happy place. Her mommy wasn't waking up anymore…

"No, I'm not," Jasper said shaking his head reaching out to his daughter.

"I don't wanna stay with Nana," Jenny stated crunching her button nose together. "She smells."

"You're not gonna have to stay with Nana. I'll be here," Jasper said being able to have a small smile on his face.

"Do you think Momma's better now? She won't cry anymore?" Jenny asked her father fingering the ear of her bear. "I don't like it when she cries."

"She'll be looking down at you with a smile on her face."

"Do you promise not to die?" Jenny asked him again.

"I promise not to die."

"You have to pinky promise to me," Jenny said holding her pinky up. "You can never break a pinky promise."

Jasper held up his pink hooking it to his daughter's. "I promise you, Jenny. I pinky promise."

"I miss her," Jenny said snuggling into her father's embrace.

"I bet she misses you too," Jasper said inhaling the scent that was purely his daughter's, . hHer innocent approach to life breaking his heart.

"You think so?"

"I know so."

Jenny nodded her head staying in her father's warm embrace. It didn't make the hurt gone, but it certainly helped.


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