Chapter Text
Third Person pov:
Placing mary onto the carboard, her soft snores assuring you she was there, after staring at her for sometime you finally stood up walking towards the corpse of the man
Stooping down towards the corpse you looked into the mans blank tear streaked eyes, his eyes seemed glossed over, his corpse now even paler from how much blood had been pooling around his corpse from the various wounds you had given him
Caring even less for the dead man you pulled of his thankfully black coat throwing it on as the blood soaked coat covered your entire body, rolling the sleeves up, you plunged the knife into the mans corpse, patting his pants pockets you felt a lump in one of them, pulling it out revealed a wallet
Opening it to see its contents, you found atleast a couple hundreds and some other smaller bills, taking the money, you shoved it into your pants pocket, throwing the wallet onto the corpse not really caring to learn anything about the man, you used the coat sleeves to wipe as much of the blood on your face off, grabbing the knife, you pulled it from his stomach wiping the blood onto his pants leg, finally standing you walked silently to mary placing the knife into your coat pocket, bending over to scoop your child into your arms
Carefully you manuver her blanket so that her little body was curled towards your chest, as you were thightening the blanket ends behind you mary, snuggled even closer to you, giving a little yawn as she did
"Aawww, aren't you just the cutest thing ever, hmm?", you say softly towards her placing one hand on her back, you use the other to fix the coat to cover her and yourself, making your way towards the entrance/exit(?) Of the alleyway you kept your head down as you mingled yourself into the people walking on the street, the sun slowly setting behind the surronding buildings
Making your way through the sea of people, you weren't really sure what you were looking for or what you were even doing to begin with, you just walked, the sky above now becoming darker as the people around seemed to lessen
Then you saw it, a diner, walking towards the neon lit building, pushing the door open as the bell above rang signalling whoever inside of your entrance
Making your way to the counter, you noticed that the diner seemed empty, only a lone waitress who looked to be in the process of closing up, she looked in your direction at the sound of the bell, watching as you made your way towards her
"Hey there sugar whatcha ya doing out here this late, especially all alone ?" She said towards you, leaning onto the counter as she spoke, suddenly feeling shy at the name she called you, composing yourself, "I would like to make an order please. ", you say to her, looking at the woman you read her tag on her uniform 'sarah' was written on it, "Sure thing honey whatcha you'd like to have ?", sarah said as she passed one of the menus towards you
Sitting on the chair at the counter, you opened up your coat revealing a still sleeping baby mary to sarah, "Awww ain't she just the cutest ", sarah said, closing the distance to look at mary, you cracked a small smile at the compliment, shifting mary so that she laid on her back on the blanket hamper,as well as discreetly covering your bloodstained shirt, as she began waking up, a small yawn leaving her as her little fists rubbed her eyes
When the sleepiness seemed to wear off, she opened her eyes, blinking a few times to adjust her eyes to the diners brightness, sitting her up you looked at the menu before, going for a simple cheese samdwhich, "I'll take the cheese sandwhich, oh can i also get a glass of with a spoon for the baby", you said passing the menu back to sarah, writing your order she nodded as she took up the menu, "Yuh know we do have some baby bottles in the back if you'd like one, we've got lots of moms around these parts ", she says looking at you
You nod at the suggestion, "Sure I'll take that instead", you say to her, nodding again she leaves to prepare your order, occupying your attention on mary, time seemed to fly quickly since sarah had already came from the back, cheese sandwhich and baby bottle in hand, placing both items before you, you took the babt bottle, mary instanly making grabby hands for it, you and sarah chuckled at the display, quickly dropping some milk on your hand to check the temperature, it seemed warm enough so you placed the nub near mary's mouth
Quickly grabbing onto the bottle she began to drink, while your arm and hand were busy feeding mary, you used the other to feed yourself,"So kid you got anywhere to go after this, yuh know this city kinda has a curfew, yuh know cause of all the stuff that goes down 'round here", she says matter affectly, stopping mid bite you shook your head no, you don't really know where you are, but considering this city has a curfew ,made you worry even more, you had mary you needed to protect, you didn't want another 'situation' to happen, what if you couldn't protect mary well enough
what if, what if WHAT IF
Either sarah noticed you were spiraling or she seemed to understand your situation from the start, she placed a comforting hand on your shoulder, "I know a place were you both can stay, not an orphange.", she says quickly when she noticed your eyes widened a little, "I know those places aren't the best for kids, but cops 'round these parts don't really give a damn.", she says, you notice a sad glint in her eyes, placing your hand on hers, she looked at you as you smiled softly at her
"So if you'd like i could get ya'll a room, and you could work for me here, to make money, I could always use some extra help 'round here." Sarah said looking at you, taking your hand in hers as she returned your smile, you nodded at her, a small burp gets you boths attention, a now sleepy and content mary lay in your arms, taking the now empty bottle, placing it on the counter you fixed her back in her position facing your chest, making sure she was wrapped, as well as keeping your very bloodstained shirt covered
"Well how 'bout we both finish up here and i'll take us home, m'kay, you can have this meal on the house", sarah said, you nod, taking your almost forgotten sandwhich, as sarah took the plate and bottle to wash, it wasn't long until you were walking with her, through some streets you found yourself at a somewhat furnished looking building
Walking through the lobby with sarah, you stood back as she made some small talk, with what you assumed was the landlord of the establishment, after sarah paid some money to the guy he gave her a key, sarah turned signalling you to follow, as you made your way up the building, you finally stopped at the fifth floor, coming to a door labled '508'
Sarah turned to you handing the keys off, "Well this were we part ways i'll come for you at around 6' in the morning, there should be an alarm clock in there, so you'll be good.", she says nodding at you, waving at her as she was leaving, you opened the door to a somewhat spacious room, locking the door, you finally shead off the now dried bloodstained coat
You'd have to find a way to wash it somewhere, you'd ask sarah if there were any luandry rooms here, walking to the bed you untied the make-shift baby carrier, placing mary on the bed, you turned to the bathroom, filling the tub you shead your equally dried-blood soaked clothes off, using the bar of soap to wash as much of the blood as you can, when the clothes seemed less blood stained
You wrang it out and hung them on the sink, you finally began washing yourself, finally feeling clean, you threw on a bathrobe, as you took your still wet clothes, you walked to the balcony, luckily there seemed to be some clothes lines already up, hanging your clothes to dry you reclosed the slider door, making your way to mary
Laying onto the bed, you set the alarm clock through pure luck or not, you didn't really care, as you turned the bedside lamps off, you placed your hand on mary's chest, finally allowing yourself to fall sleep.