Family Comes First: Wonderland

Meeting Elizabeth

Brief Warning:Child Trafficking Below. If you don't like it, I suggest not continuing.

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Arya is sitting in a corner with her head on her knees. She is surrounded by other young girls and boys, holding their belongings such as stuff animals, lockets, pictures, and anything else near and dear to their hearts. Arya doesn't have anything, but a locket that was her biological mother's. She notices boy staring at her, but once their eyes lock, he looks away. Then the woman and man that brought her there grab her roughly by the arms and drag her out of the warehouse. That was the last time she saw the boy for a long time. In the car with the two adults, Arya thinks back to when she last saw her mother.

A few years ago...
Arya is in the car with her mother. They are driving on their way to Bucharest, Romania to live close to family. "Mother, is Romania nice?" Arya asks. "It is, but we need to make a stop before we head to our new place...to see a friend." Her mother tells her. "A friend?" Arya looks at her mother in confusion. "Should I not have a friend?" Her mother laughs. They arrive a house that look much like a castle. "Now, I will be...right back. Stay here, love." Her mother kisses her temple then exits the car. She sees her mother meet a man that hands her a satchel of cash from all around the world and she hands him the locket around her neck and motions towards the car. The man walks over to the car and the best thing she could think to do was fight. She pulls out the gun from the glove compartment and points it at the man. "Arya...give me the gun." Her mother demands, softly. "I want to go to Romania." Arya cries. "I know...but we all want things we can't have. Listen to me...you are the toughest person I know and that's why this will be good for you." Her mother gently removes the gun from her hand and the man takes her while she cries out for her mom.

Present Day...

She hadn't seen her mom in almost 3 years. Which wasn't all bad she met someone who she has grown close to, but that didn't matter now because she would probably never see him again. She doesn't even notice that she has arrived at her destination until they drag her out of the car. The woman holds her in her arms while the man knocks on the door. An older girl with white hair that reached the floor answered the door with a smile on her face. "Is this her? She is so adorable." The older girl coos. "We brought the kid, now pay us." The man demands. The girl pulls out a small little ring bag and hands it to them. They open the bag and find $2000 rolled into a ball. "Now, you have your money, I have my kid, Au revoir." The girl grabs Arya's hand and pulls her into the house and shuts the door. Arya starts to get a little scared and the girl notices it in her face. "Hey, it'll be okay. I'm Elizabeth and we're going to be a family. Allow me to explain. You sent or sold into a program where they take children from a young age and teach them to be the most elite death squad in the world. It sounds bad, but it really isn't...I promise you that no one will ever hurt you. I won't let them." Elizabeth vows. Elizabeth opens her arms for the young child and Arya hugs Elizabeth and cries. "I know, Dear. The worst is over now." Elizabeth strokes the girl's long blonde hair and tried calming her down. Elizabeth picks her up with ease and takes her to a bedroom and sets her on the bed. She goes into the drawer and takes out a small pill and small bottle of water. "Take this. It will help calm you down." Arya takes the pill and drinks the water. "This is going to be your new bedroom, I don't know how you want to decorate it, but we can decorate it whenever you're ready. Just come and get me if you're hungry or need to know where something is, okay? My room is right across from this one." Elizabeth gets up and leaves and Arya lies down on her new bed and holds onto her mother's locket. "...Romania...one way or another...I'll get there." Arya vows to herself and falls asleep.

Elizabeth steps outside the room and went down the hall to take a call. "She's arrived.....Don't worry, I have it under control. I just gave her a drug to help her sleep.....It's completely harmless. She'll do fine in training. Her mother always said that she had a little fight in her.....The Pretender? What about her?.....Yeah, she still has that doll.....You know she loves that doll. It's her bestfriend.....I won't do it.....Then, find another way because I can't keep doing this. I love you, but this is goodbye." Elizabeth hangs up.