The forest

The origins 2

1:02 am

The night was quiet, just the voice of night cockroaches echoing in the space , wearing her shorts and t-shirt , jane walked around in her house , not being able to sleep , she made herself a cup of warm chocolate milk as she sat down on her bed , taking a look at the framed picture she had on her bedside table, it was a picture of her and sergey when she was 10 , she smiled letting her mind wonder to some old memories.

January 1st - 2001

Its been 5 years since jane started living with sergey.
It was Christmas, in big house with wooden furniture and a nice fireplace , jane was painting with her crayons sitting on the floor as the nanny read her book sitting aside on the couch, soon enough the main door opened as sergey walked in after a long day of work wearing a long wearing his uniformandcarryinghis bag , thanking the nanny as she left .
Jane saw him and ran towards him hugging him : sergey!
Sergey smiled as he patted Jane's hair and said: what have you been up to ?

She giggled as she held his hand and dragged him to where she was painting as she picked the painting up and said : i made you a present!

Sergey took the painting and smiled: thats very nice jane .
She stood on her tiptoes and pointed at the painting saying: see thats me in my red dress and thats you in your favourite blue shirt .
Sergey smiled: is it my favourite?
Jane nodded: yeah you wear it alot you must like it .

Sergey laughed and patted her head saying: well I'll make sure to frame it and keep it in my bedroom.
She giggled, sergey pulled out a small box from his bag as he handed it to jane saying: well i got you a present too.

Jane clapped her hands in excitement and took the box , opening it to find a beautiful Teddy bear toy, she hugged him and said: i love him ! Im gonna name him joey!

Sergey smiled, he put down his bag and said: joey it is , but now what do you say i get changed so we'd have dinner together?

Jane said running towards the kitchen: okay im gonna race you there !

A few moments later , they were sitting at the dinner table , having some of the delicious food Sergey cooked this earlier, after all being a single dad and an army man qualifies you to learn cooking on your own eventually.

They were having a great meal , some chicken and mashed potatoes with some warm bread and cold fresh juice.

Jane played with her spoon as she said: Sergey?

Sergey took a bite from his chicken: mhmm sweetie?

Jane : am i not a good girl ?
Sergey looked at her confused: who told you that ?

Jane looked down: if i was a good girl then why did my real family left me at the travelling agency? You said you found me there .

Sergey cleared his throat and placed his hand on her shoulder saying: Jane sweetheart, you are a wonderful girl , and other people gaving you up doesn't mean otherwise, i found you there , a beautiful little 5 yro girl and I would give you the world , okay ?

Jane smile a little bit as she nodded .
Sergey said: okay , now what do you say we take a picture since you look so pretty today?

Jane said: can joey be in it too ?
Sergey laughed : of course he can .

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Jane smiled to herself looking at that picture as she finished her milk and decided to get some sleep .

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On the other side, rolling in his bed unable to sleep , killian opened his eyes in frustration, he knew he had to sleep so he could go see roman tomorrow but the thought of that second tape sitting in the living room is keeping him up , until he eventually cave in and got up to watch it .