The Daughter Of The General

Gone pt.2

Previously:
Maya's pov
Everything was going great. It's just papa and I walking around the plantation while mom and baby maya rest.

Papa and I are sitting under a tree and he asks me a question. "Hey maya?" He says, "y-yes papa?" I say clearly nervous. "I-it's about the future..." he says and I take a shaking breath and he puts his arms around me protectingly.

"I- Okay... you can ask.." I say leaning against him. "Wh-what happened". He didn't have to continue the question. "Before I came?" I ask and he nods softly as he rests his chin on the top of my head.

"Y-you- uhm..." I stutter and start tearing up. "Take your time Star Shine.... take your time" he says softly as I hug him now sobbing.

I start to say "y-you.... you're gone..." I managed to finish. Papa looks at me then sudden realization comes over him. "A fever?" He asks and I look at him and say tears flowing down my face "Throat infection...".

I look away as papa processes this. He hugs me tightly. I hug back explaining how it happened and what caused the throat infection.

"Star shine... how?" He says and I look at him with a confused face. "How can I prevent this from happening, so you and your mother won't have to live without me..". He asks and I bite my lip.

"Well... the day you go out and supervise, it changes from a light snow, to hail and then to rain..." I explain and he nods softly. "And when you came in, mom and I tried to get you to change into dry clothes, but..." I say and he finishes the sentence for me "I didn't listen and woke up with a sore throat.." "and it got worse from there..." I end the sentence sadly
Now:
Maya's pov
It was silent, papa and I weren't saying a word as we watch everyone do their assigned jobs, it was cloudy out with a cool autumn breeze. It's been almost a week. Papa and I haven't spoken since Sunday. The day I had told him about what had happened before.

Before I came here... to the past. It's weird. I never thought I'd be here for this long, Baby maya. Aka me as a baby is almost speaking.

Am I going to school?! HAHA HAHA. NO! It would be strange if I did and enrolled as Maya Washington or heck even Georgia Maya Washington, and years later baby maya is enrolled and she has the EXACT same name as me.

It would look weird and suspicious. So no I'm not going to school. I've got books and my parents to teach me. That's all I need.

I glance over at papa and he looks sad. He sees me glancing over at him and I look away. Mom has tried to get us to talk but no matter what she does? It never works. Heh.

Even Alexander has tried but alas never works. I knew I never should've told papa about him dying.. but he asked and I told.

He hasn't asked me how I feel about him... you know dying of a throat infection. I guess I just miss him a ton because I was and always will be his only living child.

"M-maya?" I hear someone say