My Reason For Living

Origins

Sarah:
My life was a living hell, compared to everyone's. Parents are supposed to be gods in the eyes of their children, looking down at them with loved filled smiles. Parents are supposed to guide their children into the world, show them love and compassion, teach them about many things, show them things, and help them complete their dream.

Sadly.... I did not have a happy beginning.

When I was born, I had a mother who died after giving me my name, when I was 5, my father Roger finally snapped blaming me for the death of my mother. Everyday I would get hit by his fist, his belt, or anything he could his hands on, when I was in high school, he spread ugly untrue rumors about me, I gotten bullied by the other students and got no help from the teachers, and I decided that I've had enough pain and torture.

I was going to end my life.

But instead of that something else happened.

One night, Roger left to play poker with some of his buddies,

Making sure the horrible man was gone, Sarah walked into the kitchen, tuned on the light, when to one of the drawers, opened it up and took out a knife, and was about to slit her throat, when she heard a knock at the door, she put the knife back and went to the door. When she opened it, she saw a tree-like man thing that is way taller then her, she was about to scream, but she saw the desperate look on it's face, her fear was replaced by worry.

"What is it?" Sarah said to the tree like man, and in return, he whimpered and held out his arms showing her his problem, what he was holding was a injured animal in a orange jumpsuit. Her doctor side kicked in and immediately started telling him to do. "Ok, put him on the table in the living room." The tree man walked in the house and placed his furry friend on the table while Sarah closed door, locked it and closed all windows and blinds. She rushed over to the little furry, began to work, it took awhile, but she was finished, "Now, we have to wake him up" Sarah said looking at the tree man. "May I?" She asks the tree man. She got a nod and she began to wake up the little one.

"Mmmm....Groot, let me sleep" The little one moaned in a man's voice. Sarah could not help, but giggle. That woke up him up instantly, and he looked slowly over to Sarah, who was smiling at him with kind eyes, that made his heart race. "Ok, I think I am dead, because I think I am looking at a angel." He said looking at Sarah, who blushed.

"Sorry, but I am no angel. Your friend." She pointed to the tree man on the other side of the table. "Brought you here, because you were wounded. Now do you need anything?" Sarah asked the little one, before she forgot to introduce herself, "Oh, my name is Sarah, if I might ask, what is your name, sir?" She asked kindly looking at her with a kind smile.

He looked at her eyes, before he smiled back at her. "Answer 1, I would like something to eat, and Answer 2, my name is Rocket."

Ever since that day, Sarah, Rocket, and Groot had become friends. They talked about many things, what are their things are, favorite food, movie, and other things. Sarah found out Rocket likes to make things, and even weapons, also she learned that Groot can only say 'I am Groot.'. Rocket and Groot are bounty hunters, who search for criminals, bag e'm and turn them in for money. She also found out Rocket's past, in which she cried in his fur. Rocket made Sarah a communicator, so she can talk to them, when ever she wants, and the duo are glad they can have somebody to treat they're wounds, and cook them some good food, it was a good companionship.

But, that changed one day....

Rocket tried calling Sarah, letting her know that him and Groot would be coming for a visit, but she would not answer and that is what worried him, she always answer, so he sped to earth to see what is wrong. When he and Groot got to her house and was about to enter, they heard Sarah begging and a older male yelling at her.

"GET UP NOW!!!" "Please stop!" "SHUT UP!!!". Rocket heard something crashed and a body hit the floor. Rocket grabbed his gun and blasted the door, he and Groot rushed inside to see a man running down the stairs with bloodied hands. "What the hell are you!".

Rocket blasted the man into the wall, "Groot!, wrap him up, I am going to see what happened to Sarah!." Without a response from Groot, Rocket ran up the stairs, and saw a room door open, he ran towards it, and opened it slowly, "Sarah?". The lamp in the room was blinking off and on. Rocket searched the room, and when he looked in the corner, he dropped his gun and he stared at the body in the corner in horror. "Sarah!!!" He ran to her body, and saw her clothes were ripped also bloodied. he checked for a pulse and found a weak one. "Groot!" he called his partner. Groot came rushing in the room and saw Sarah. "Groot bring her and the bastard, we are going to Nova Corps!!!"

Like that they rushed to their ship and blasted off to Xandar. After making contact with the ground of Xandar. A Nova Corps officer, came over to see what the trouble was, the officer took Roger into custody, while the duo rushed Sarah over to the hospital. It was a tense several hours, since they took Sarah in for surgery. A doctor came out, "She survived the surgery, and she is awake, if you want to see her."

Rocket and Groot rushed to her room, and saw her in the bed looked out the window, when she heard them entered, she turned to them, and began to cry, "Rocket.... Groot." Rocket jumped onto her bed and grabbed her in a fierce hug and Groot laid a hand on her shoulder, while they shed a few tears of their own.

"Tell us everything"

Sarah told them that the man was her father, Roger, who began abusing her after she was born, because he blamed her for his wife's death, he spread nasty untrue rumors of her at school, and many things. Rocket was seething as well as Groot. Rocket made a choice. "Sarah, we are going to your home, to pack up your things and from now on you are going to be living with me and Groot from now on, Ok?" Sarah just held Rocket close to her, nod her head in his fur, and cried.

As time went on, Sarah was enjoying her life with Rocket and Groot. She would cook meals for them in the morning, the afternoon, and dinner, she would sometimes find Rocket curled up to her side. As time moved forward, Sarah began to fall for Rocket, but kept her feelings shut until the right moment, not knowing that Rocket was going through the same thing. They were enjoying their life together.

Little did she and the duo know, was that they were about to be pulled into something that will change their lives....Forever.