Daddy's Love

"Which way, miss?" I ask her.

"Straight and then a right." She is jittery.

I take a right and the road is empty. We are in the countryside so there aren't many people here, thankfully. I'd have taken me so much to cover my tracks otherwise.

I park my car and lock all the doors. Baby girl looks at me quizzically. I open the dashboard of my car and take a needle out and start filling it with some medicine that is supposed to knock my baby girl out. We are all given some by the government when we start looking for our littles.

"Wha.... What are you doing?!" She looks at me wide eyed and then tries to open the door of the car to escape, on the verge of tears. It breaks my heart. I steel myself, concentrating on the task at hand.

"Help! Helllppp please!" she shouts, banging on the window with her small wrists.

I move towards her. She screams and

hand and, she struggles and moves around so much

over in a minute." I grab her and put her on my laps and lock her legs between mine

don’t...." she

the medicine in her arms. And then I rub her back and bounce her on

on to check on my baby girl once again. I open the door and see her awake. She is looking around, buzzed, trying to make sense of where she is. She then looks at me and cowers in fear. She scrambles to one end of her crib and freezes, hugging herself. She holds her arms and looks at me like I am about to kill her when I take

littles, act out or cry, throw tantrums or try to run away when they are first brought in here by their daddies but I have never seen them freeze and immobile before. My heart is beating as loudly as

take one slow step at a

extend my hand out and say

and hides her face in her arms like I was