Erica FLASH

EPISODE 3: The loss

Erica began to scream the moment she opened her eyes to the strange ambience of the room, creeping out of the bed, she was startled by the man that dashed inside,as soon as she locked eyes with him,she instantly recognized his face when recalling last night incidence.

Trembling with fear,the little girl was retracting when the man was approaching her.

Pope became conscious of her anxiety and so he decided to display a conduct precisely fit for the situation, in his quest to soothe her.

He looked like a saint, and he sounded unpeachable when he said "Please baby unicorn do not be afraid of me, I don't bite.

Those wide blue eyes that shone like an ocean in the summer sun, scrutinized him, as though to get a perception of a shred of Credence from his face.

Her encounter with the man isn't the only thing she could remember, those tragic memories from last night, hit her severely like a bus on the highway.

It seemed like she was going to let down rain drops, her oval face turned red,quevering chin, trembling lips, shaking shoulders and her eyes rapidly blinking, she burst into crying.

Pope's heart burned from her tears and he cringed, he scooched down and gently rested his hands oh her shoulder, as he tried to placate the little girl.

"Shhhh shhh don't cry little girl, don't cry my darling, tell me what's wrong baby, you can talk to me" He said in a calm manner.

Tears streaking her face, Erica managed to speak while sobbing.

"my mummy and my daddy!"

A pretentious look of concern furrowed his brow as he asked. " What Happened to your mommy and daddy?"

"Daddy has gone to heaven!" Erica said weakly, bowing her head to avert the man's gaze.

"And your mommy?" Seeming more concerned he asked.

"my mommy is at home, she must be waiting for me right now"...She paused to gasp for air and then she continued.

"Please take me to my mommy, please" She pleaded.

He was toppled over by her ignorance,as he stared at her in complete dismay.

"If only she knows that her mother is dead, if only she knows that the man in front of her had murdered her parents".

These were the thouths that queued up in his mind as he wondered.

He carefully dried up her tears and soaked off the thick liguid which poured out of her nose.

"Ok of course i Will Make enqiury about your house address and then i will take you to go see your mummy". He effortlessly lied to her knowing how impossible it could be.

Unfortunately to him, his words seemed to have affected her negatively than positively because she proceeded to crying her heart out.

As he stared at her completely pitiable state,his heart of ice cracked and melted into liguids,and for the first time in twelve years,he felt a whirling up of compassion overpowering his monstrous personality.

He was pressurized by his emotions and then he tried to embrace her,but the little girl instinctively flinched.

Pope strived against his mental flexibility, still every endeavors to pacify her turned out abortive.

On a normal circumstances, his conscious self would have rather stick pins into his eyes than to strip off his wolf clothing for any living thing,but with Erica, he felt what he had always dreaded to feel.

It was obvious that just like her mother,the little girl was also going to be his weakness,but he was rather grateful than concerned.

Erica coiled up on the ceramic tile floor with a careworn expression,inches away from the man.

Her soiled porcelain skin, rumpled dress and hargard hair made her appeared grubby.

More downpour of tears rolled down her cheeks at the thought of her predicament.

She was indeed too young to pass through such a phase, even adults would have drifted to depression at such a huge loss.

She felt so empty and lonely as nothing made sense to her anymore.

Though the room portrayed class, compared to her little sanctuary, but she would still give everything just to be in that place with the two people she loves most in the world.

If the universe could answer prayers,then the universe would keep the woman alive, because the little girl never stopped praying silently for her mother's safety, since she was her last hope.

Besides she felt more safer with her mother than with the ailien who was seated on the bed, gazing at her.

The growling sound from Erica's stomach emerged audibly that it made pope chuckled, she blushed from embarrassment.

"You must be hungry" Pope said.

Erica shook her head in disagreement as she answered.

"I just want to see my mummy....i do not want to eat anything at all"

"But you have to eat something honey so that you will not get sick" He argued.

"Please just take me to my mummy, i want just my mummy....... please" her voice was quevering as she pleaded.

His spirit and mind wrestled for a moment, until he eventually came to a conclusion.

"I will take you to the police,i am sure they can help you" he suggested.

They left the room, climbed down the staircase, making their way to the exit, something happened.

Erica halted at the mention of her parents name from the news,she spun around in alarm,to the location of the television.

She discerned visually on the images of her parents that was registered beside the news caster on the station.The news caster was narrating how the couple had died, she reviewed that the woman died that morning in the hospital after sustaining severe injuries from numerous bullets and dagger stabs.

Erica could hardly contain the news and so she was slumping to the ground,but Pope was faster and then he caught her, before she reached the floor.

Pope dissembled,but the fact was that, he had seen the pictures,he had secretly smiled and anticipated for the little girl's reaction.

"What happened to you". He asked

Pointing towards the television,tears welled in her eyes.

She was now aware of her mother's death, painful death.

She cried,she wailed,she screamed.

Pope embraced her thighly,and from that moment he realized that he would never let her out of his sight, no matter what!