AN: Saban/Disney owns the characters you know. I own the ones you don't. This is the chapter that will be bring all of the cards onto the table. I'm stoked to have made it this far with the story! Thank you all for your continued feedback and support. -K
CHAPTER TWELVE
THE REUNION – Pt. 3
It was an exceptionally bright day, or at least it seemed to be to the young girl looking up at the sky. She sat in a chair under the only window in her bedroom. Her deep green eyes wandered with the clouds above her as she listened to cheers from the other children playing kickball outside. She wasn't happy about what the day had in store for her, mostly because of the immense disappointment that would come with days like this one. She turned her head as the bedroom door opened.
"Jamie?" It was Nina, the head social worker at the children's home. "You know it's about to start right?"
"I don't want to go." She responded as she walked over to the door. She hated these Meet-and-Greet sessions. Despite how hard she had tried with potential parents in the previous sessions, she would always feel that her past was to blame when it came to actually getting adopted. "Can't I just skip this one?"
The tall, slender woman of American and Korean descent smiled. "You can't stay here forever, Jamie. For all you know, this could be the day someone sees just how special you are."
"No one will ever want me, Nina."
She bent down to Jamie's height. "What makes you think that?"
Jamie looked down at the tiles on the floor of the hallway, "Because of what happened."
Nina looked at her sympathetically. She felt terrible for what Jamie had been through so early into her life. "Hey..." She began as Jamie looked over at her. "I have had the great pleasure of getting to know you these past few months. You are such a smart girl... so beautiful and compassionate and you have a great sense of humor if I may add." She smiled at that as Nina paused for a moment. "...Someone will walk through those doors and see what I see in you, regardless of your background. But you have to want that too. How are you going to have a chance at adoption from inside this room?"
Jamie looked behind her at the ten bunk beds in the room before turning back to Nina, "I guess I'll go."
"Now that's what I like to hear." Nina happily replied before proceeding out of the room, Jamie just behind her. They walked down the hallway and into the playroom. Jamie immediately scanned for a spot to retreat to. She grinned up at Nina before walking over to join the other children.
Jamie walked to her cubby first and pulled out an old pair of plastic dinosaurs. She looked back at the door as Nina was warmly greeting the strangers coming into the room. She walked over and sat in the back of the room on a forest themed rug. Jamie didn't play with the other kids most of the time. She didn't connect with them and at this point she didn't want to. She spent a lot of time alone, reading mostly. She loved superheroes and had read a surprising amount of comics for an 8-year-old.
She looked up again at the strangers who had just come in. There were three young couples and an older woman walking around the room. The woman was walking toward her, a smile coming onto her face. But it quickly diminished as the woman bent down to speak to a 4-year-old boy sitting not too far from her. She looked back down at the floor as she started to play with her dinosaurs again. Nina was walking around the room, checking in on everyone before she heard another knock at the door. As she opened it, a man in his early 30's walked in. "Ah! I knew we were expecting one more." She said as she extended her hand to him.
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The Garden of Vacant Dreams
FanfictionA former Ranger is taken captive just days before a weekend-long reunion and all anyone can do is sit back and watch his fate unravel before them. (Formerly A Get Together to Remember)