An odd friendship

chapter 1

"Hey father!" She yells, "I found this injured dove in the garden."
He looks up from his desk and sees his young daughter holding a pure white dove with a broken wing in her small hands.
"You know what I taught you." He said looking back down at his papers, "you can kill it, you don't need me to do the work for you."
She wrinkles her nose in disagreement, "I don't want to kill it. I want to save it."
He looks back up at her. And sees her icy blue eyes lovingly stare at the dove. He smiles, "fine, just make sure your mother doesn't find out."
She giggles then runs out the room. The scythe next to the door wobbles when she runs past it. He chuckled to himself and went back to work. Victoria runs to her room, dove in hand.
"Its ok little birdy." She said, "I will take good care of you. I promise."
She sets the dove down on a pillow then runs to her vanity. She takes out a small vial with a silver liquid. She waddles to the dove and opens the vial. A sweet smell emerges from the vial and the dove starts to drink it.
*clop clop* the sound of heels slapping the linoleum floor grows louder outside her bedroom door. She struggles to hide the dove in her room.
"Victoria!" A strong voice boomed through the hall.
She runs to the door and her mother bursts in, cigarette in hand, "What is this about keeping an animal alive?"
She looks at the ground,"there is no animal in thi-" right as she was about to finish her sentence a little 'coo' comes from her sheets. Her mother shoots daggers at Victoria, "then what was that?"
She tenses up as her mother walks to her bed.
"You know what I do to people who save animals instead of following the family business."
She nods. Her mother pulls back the sheets. Nothing is there except the vial she gave to the dove.
"What did I say about drinking unicorn blood at this time of day?"
Victoria looks at the ground as her mother leaves the room scanning everything as she passes by them. The door shuts and Victoria searches the room in a panic.