"Morning, Ni." Lin says, opening the curtain.
"Morning." He lays next to me on the twin sized cot.
"You don't have to do school work, yet." I tell her.
"I missed a bunch."
"You were far ahead before. You completed the year early. You don't even have to do this stuff till September."
"Let me finish this." I watch her easily complete a match game with history terms and then she logs out and closes it. I slide the old computer under her cot.
"How are you?" She shrugs.
"Fine, I guess."
"Then why are you doing schoolwork at 6:30 in the morning." I laugh.
"I couldn't sleep. Why are you up?"
"Same thing. I don't think I will until I know just what happened to you."
"I don't know how much I can say, yet."
"You wanna try. You might feel better?" She nods and starts braiding a piece of hair. "How did you get taken?"
"I was a little delusional, I guess. I couldn't remember the day and I went to see if Anna was here because I didn't want to leave her out there if I had the wrong day and Liam took me."
"Did you struggle?"
"Sort of. But I passed out and woke up in a tiny room. No one came until it was dark."
"Why did they come in." She braids the piece of hair for a moment.
"Sex. It's all but labor that I was there for. Like before but worse."
"Did you fight?" She shakes her head.
"Not really. I- learned more, I guess you could say."
"What exactly does that mean?"
"The better I got at it, the more I could go outside or eat and the less I was beat." She avoids looking at me.
"Do you want to talk to Pippa about this? It might be easier." She nods, looking relieved but a little scared that she has to tell Pippa now.
"What do you want for breakfast." She looks up at me with a smile.
"I missed that word."
"We have cereal, fruit, oatmeal, bagels, and eggs."
"Fruit and cereal?"
"Sounds good." I stand up and hand her crutches to her. She follows me out and cuts up the fruit while I put the cereal, milk and bowls out.
"Morning." Vanessa comes out ready for work. "I was wondering where you were."
"Up with the sun with this one." I ruffle her hair as we sit down. V and I talk but Niamh is quiet. I don't blame her after that.
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Another adopted by Hamilton story
FanfictionWhen you're ten years old and only known a world of sadness, you think you are the scum of the earth and the furthest you will go is to the edge of hell. Certainly not that you will have the cast of 'Hamilton' saving you from the world and yourself.