"Get back here!!" The young girl yelled, chasing her father, her brown hair in pigtails flying in the wind.
Her father merely chuckled as he intentionally ran slowly, eventually letting his child catch him.
"I guess you have caught me," he chuckled. He looked up to see the early signs of sunset over the banks of the Potomac River. "We better get home, don't want to get your mother angry!" He said as he started leading him and the child home.
"You should come more often." The lady sitting in the kitchen of the small house said without looking away from the stove.
"I know.. But you know how it is." He responded, helping their child clean off the mud from her shoes at the door.
"I guess.." the woman got up to properly greet him, and check their child to see how dirty she got today. "But still."
They looked at each other for a while, before Maryland hugged Virginia. "I missed you."
"Of course you did, you haven't seen Derrora or I for nearly two months!" She mock hit him. In response, he dramatically mocked pain.
"How Daaaaaaaaree you hit me!" He exclaimed in a mocking tone.
"Maryland, you fool! You clean your daughter's shoes, who doesn't know much better, but you tracked mud into this house!" She cried. "You are washing the floors after this!" she said, turning her attention back to the food cooking on the stove as Maryland took off his shoes and cleaned them.
"Wait.. where is Derrora..?"
"Wasn't she in the house?"
"She was!"
They searched their two room house, with Derrora nowhere to be seen. Virginia put out the fire, and they both put on their shoes and cloaks. Maryland lit a lantern, and they left the house.
The ground crunched underneath their feet as the young parents searched all around the area, with their daughter nowhere to be found.
"..oh my goodness." Virginia said softly, just loud enough for Maryland to see. He pointed the lamp towards her, as Virginia picked up a shoe.
Derrora's Shoe.
They then progressed through that direction of the northern virginian woods with extra speed.
"Derrora, Honey, Where are you?" Virginia exclaimed. They were getting closer to the banks of the river again, when Maryland pointed out scraps of clothing stuck in branches of some bushes.
Fear only increased in the both of them for their daughter's safety, hoping nothing bad happened to her.
A few moments later, they saw a sight they never thought they would see.
Their daughter unconscious on the ground, clawed and bitten.
Tears rolled down their cheeks as Virginia cradled her possibly dead child.
"..W..we need to get her home! She might still be alive!" Maryland said, trying to instill some hope into the situation. He carefully picked Derrora up from Virginia's arms, as Virginia looked up at him, big silent tears streaming down her face.
He began to help Virginia up, as he saw big eyes in the distance. Staring right into his.
"..wolf.." He muttered.
"..what?" Virginia responded.
".WOLF!!" Maryland yelled, as he pointed with one hand and jerked Virginia off of the grass. The wolf was running full speed at them.
They ran for who knows how long, when Virginia pulled them into the river. They soon resurfaced, farther away from the wolf, but not without sacrifice. Derrora's body was cut and scratched even more, Virginia couldn't move her arm well, and Maryland's thigh had been cut open by a rock as they tumbled in.
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The DC Dillema (statetalia)
FanficA young lady ran through the mud, holding a bag made of rags as she scurried. The country was still young, and she did not wish to worry her father. A young man sped through the dirt, holding a basket of straw as he scampered. The country was still...
