Chapter 3
It's now 7months so another month has past
Cpov
I'm laying here playing with my red car mommy got me, while mommy takes a nap. She always sleeping now, she never plays with me or make chocolate cake anymore, and I'm so hungry. Mommy says it won't be much longer now whatever that means. The bad man locked the balcony so I don't see outside anymore, I found a new hiding spot but the bad man finds me all the time. Mommy just woke up and said it's time to try an hide baby, so I take off running to the sink, I can fit in the cabinet there is not much room but it works. (Jumps) the bad man here, he is banging on the door for mommy to answer. I can hear him yelling, asking what took her so long and that's when I hear a thud an mommy crying. I learned to just stay put last time I went to check on mommy the bad man burned me and mommy just kept crying. I can hear him calling her bad names and continues to slap her but I don't make a peep. This went on forever while they made weird noises, then I hear him ask "wheres that little shit of yours at?"
He is coming for me again, it didn't take him long to find me, " there you are you little shit, come here I got something for ya" uh oh last time that wasn't a good thing. (Smack) " haha"" look at your mom, I said look, this is always gonna be your life, and there nothing you can do about it." Then he held me down an burned me multiple times until his smokey stick was gone. When he left mommy looked at me sorrowful and lit whatever is on that spoon. Mommy said it was time for my life to get better and that she loved me. We both went to bed that night but mommy didn't wake up. I'm so hungry but she still won't wake up. Someone is knocking softly on the door but mommy still asleep. It's a different knock from everyone else's so I played along a knocked back. "hello" I ran away frightened. Next thing I hear the door jingle. I hid behind mommy and that's when a woman walked in. "hello anyone home?" she froze when she saw me, I took off running to my hiding spot. The lady was quite for a minute, then she was talking to someone. " hello this is Trish from CPS can you tell Grace Grey I'm on the phone, Yea thank you" she quit talking it's making my chest hurt. " oh yes hi grace I'm at that house your husband sent me to can I get you to ride in a ambulance here, the mother of the child, well it looks like OD but I'm no doctor, what yes the child is here that's why I want you, he doesn't look good and he is hiding in the cabinet, OK I will see you soon, I'm gonna call the police In case someone comes here."
Gpov
Oh my I hope the boy is OK, the way ray talked about him to Carrick, makes me afriad of what I might see. He said little Annie called him Chris so that's what I shall call him. When me and the ambulance get there, we see the police have arrived and are searching the whole apartment building, seems it's a prostitute house of some sort which is a shame. I see Carla ray ex wife being handcuff, I don't know what to say beside thank goodness Anastasia is with Ray. I start making my way upstairs and see the paramedic already bagging the young woman up. I see Trish in the kitchen trying coach the poor boy out. I walk in and see the young copper hair boy with grey eyes, I felt so drawn to him. I crouch down and start talking to him" hi is your name Chris?" no answer so I try to touch him but he screams. So I try another way to reason with him. So I go on to tell him about this little girl we have in common. "hey little man do you remember Anastasia?" he perks up" she didn't forget about you Chris, she talks about you everyday to her daddy, if you come out I might be able to let you see her." Chris crawls out of his cabinet and stares wide eyed at me and says "chriwstian" oh what a cute name. " now Christian I need to take to you to get looked at where I work, can you trust me?" he hesitates for a minute then nods. Trish goes to grab him when he freaks out and screams, I tell her to freeze. "you need to tell him what your doing first, he has been through a lot." She nods. "Christian can you grab my hand please were leaving now" he grabs my sleeve instead. When we finally reach the hospital I tell all nurses the rules with Christian so we don't terrify him more than he already is. Trish is filling all the necessary paper work out for Christian while I'm on the phone with carrick explaining everything." Dear I was only able to get him here by mentioning Anastasia, that he can see her. Is there anyway you can have ray bring her by?"
" I'll give him a call, I'm sure he would like to know what happened, and that we got to the poor boy before it ended badly."
"Carrick he is badly dehydrated and starved, also someone been burning him all over his body."
" oh sweet jesus, I was afraid of this. But atleast he is safe now"
"Carrick I want him to be part of our family?"
"I had a feeling that was coming, I'm already working on the papers love."
"Oh Carrick I love you thank you, I'll tell Christian he will hopefully see ana soon bye."
When I get back to Christian room he is hiding under the bed, so crawl on the floor, "christian honey I got good news for you why don't you come out and get on the bed so we can talk." It takes him a minute but he finally complies " honey what do you think about coming and staying at home once you get better?" he doesn't reply he just stares at me with those big grey eyes, "ok what about this ana daddy might be bringing her here to see you a couple days" he stays still but I think I see the smallest of all smiles coming from him. I tell him I'm gonna check his boo boos and we might be able to get him some kind of food for his tummy. Once I'm done I tell him I will be back and for him to stay in the bed.
As soon as I walk into the hall, I see ray with little Ana. So I walk up to them and kiss them both on the cheek. Ray tells me he couldn't wait any longer for Ana to see Chris as she calls him. So I nod and ask if I can carry her in there, he just nods. So I turn back around to Christian room, once I walk in Christian is in bed. His eyes go wide when Anastasia turns around she just smiles at him and says "hi Chriws" he grins an waves at her. I set Ana on the bed next to Christian and watch Ana climb up toward Christian, who looks shocked. " Chriws you got boo boos" Christian looks Ana in eye and nods "did the bad man do it?" Christian looks wide eye at me and sadly shakes his head at Ana . I have tears in my eye just like Ray. I'm s glad ray followed his instincts, other wise who knows how worse this could have been. When it came to visiting hours being over Christian didn't like it one bit and tried to keep Ana with him as cute as it was sadly she had to go, ana told Christian " don't worry Chriws just like last time ill see you soon" and it broke my heart because if it wasn't for Ana Ray may have never done anything about Christian.
Cpov
I saw my Anastasia again just like she said we would, it wasn't soon but I'm glad I saw here. Grace said visiting hours was over but I didn't want her to go, I just got her back. Once again Ana said we will see each other soon, and I really do believe her. Grace says I'm gonna be alright, that I'm safe now but I'm still scared of all the people. Grace bought me some food, she called it soup and it was the second most yummy thing I have ever tasted. She said tomorrow I can try something more solid, whatever that means I just hope it's just as good. She says it's time to get some sleep, but I can't the bad man is always there when I close my eyes. I guess sometime in the middle of the night I fell asleep and I had a nightmare, it felt so real like it was happening all over again, of coarse Grace was there when I woke but she tried to touch me and she just made it worse, so she started to sing me a song something about you are my sunshine, it calmed me down but I didn't sleep the rest of the night. The following morning I got some bread which they called buttery toast, grace said I'm going to meet some new people today, I don't know how to feel about that but I guess I have to wait.
Later that evening my ana came back she was going on an on about something called school and how she learning to read which she likes to do, that was until grace brought the new people, a man with a boy, me being the coward I am I hid under the bed. Ana giggled and told me to come on out the lelliot would not hurt me, an daddy friend carwick was a good man. So I peeked my head out and they just smiled at me, so I stood by Ana. Grace told me if I come home with her that Elliot would be my new brother and Carrick my new dad, but I don't want to live with them I want my mommy. Deep down I know mommy not a option. That's when the other lady comes in and tells grace that we have a problem with the paper work and that Christian will have to stay with foster parents until further notice, so everyone needed to leave. I felt my heart start to race, leave, everyone, why? That's when I realise Grace is singing to me again to calm me down, she said " don't worry darling boy you will see all of us again soon, real soon."