The Woods - a duskwood fanfiction

Chapter 17: Ghost of You

Makenzie's POV

They all were so accepting of me. They all gave me hugs and where excited to see me. Excited! I had been so terrified. For a moment I forgot about the locket burning a hole in my pocket. I need to tell them about it and ask questions but I didn't understand what it could mean. Why was a locket, with a picture of my dad and what had to be me with a woman, be in Duskwood in that cabin. It just didn't make sense, I had to figure it out. Lily and the other girls lead me to what was I guess the extra bedroom turned office. It was full from wall to wall with their investigation. Our Investigation. They all showed me around and were telling me what they had so far. Then Phil handed Lils a photo to put, Dan had been telling me about how things had been, when Lily stepped back from putting the photo up. I was trying to access and process all this, they had done a ton load of work. That's when I turned, and saw the photo. I did a double take and took a step closer... I could have sworn I had seen that photo before... Then I felt the blood drain out of my face... no... that's not possible. We lived in Chicago so why? How? The flashes of memory took over my mind.

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I ran into my daddy's office, he was sitting down at his desk. He was working, it was a rainy dark day. I came in giggling, right up to him. He turned and grinned at me, "Hey beautiful!" He held out his arms for me and picked me up placing me unto his lap. "What are you doing in here, princess are you okay?" 

"I'm otay, but my movie's done daddy. And I wanted ta see you. What are you workin' on."

"On a case honey." I looked up at his wall. There was a picture on it of a girl like me, but she was a big girl.

"She's pwetty daddy, what's her name." 

"Her name is Jennifer."

"Why you have her piture'?" He gave a boop on my nose. I giggled, 

"Because she is helping me on a case." 

"Can I elp'  you daddy?" 

"Sorry baby, daddy is working on a daddy's cop stuff. Okay?" I pouted.

"Otay...."

"How about we get some dinner and we put on another movie." He asked as he gave me a squeeze. Daddy always gave the best hugs. I squirmed, he let go and teasingly rubbed his chin bristle on my face.

"Daddy, that tickl's " I giggled. He stopped and then I sat up. "Can we watch 'findin' Emo?" 

"You watched that last night..." He laughed. 

"Oh yeah."

"How about the Tigger Movie?" 

"Nope, Just watched that Daddy."

"Mhhmm."

"Ohh Daddy And' Before Time..."

"Nope nope nope." He said teasingly.

"Yep yep yep."

"Okay fine you win." I jumped off his lap.

"Yayyyy, wittle foot wittle foot!!!" 

"Alright come on goofball," He scooped me up in his arms. I laughed. "Lets go get some food in our tummies, maybe we can have some treestars."

"No daddy, dose are for ongnecks' not eepole'."

"Okay alright lets see what we can rustle up," and he carried me out of the room giggling. As we left I took one last look at the pwetty picture. Daddy put me over his shoulder like potatoes and I waved goodbye at the girl.