You're safe when you're with me

What did you find?

Once we went up into the attic we quickly found what we were looking for. While Jamie and Mary had looked near the front Jack and led me to the back where the older stuff was. As I sneezed at the dust watching him wipe at a box with his sleeve. And then he opened the lid.

We called Jamie and others over Onyx and his sisters were up there with us but they mostly stayed out of the way so that we could have this family moment. I cocked my head to the side at the first thing he pulled out. I'd never seen anything like it before. It was clearly homemade.

Mary was so happy to see this thing of affection. What's that I frowned as I rubbed my arm. It's my doll. She declared. Oh? I questioned. This was all bittersweet to them it felt like yesterday but this was the first I'd ever seen any of it. It was lopsided but cute.

Jamie thought maybe mom made it. But Jack proudly declared he made it but didn't think it was very good because it was lopsided but Mary loved it so that's all that mattered. Our parents were all dead by this time so an aunt or uncle had to had collected all of this stuff.

Dad would've been too far gone to collect any of our belongings of the 3 that had past maybe mom had before she died after Jack and Mary died. Mary reached in for one that was similar to it. What's that? I turned to my siblings. I made one for you too.

He shoved his hands in his pocket. Mary put it into my hand as I hugged it close to me. It's.... Cute I tilted my head again. I wish I got to hold before now. We pulled out other things from the box a mirror that looked like only a woman would've use it so not me or Mary but mom.

And our Bible a kin books. A wooden bowl that probably one of us ate out of though probably not me. At least not if it's from after Mary. None of these things I recognized. Of course none of the things dad use to beat me and Jack with were in here. So thank G-D for that.

But there were prayer beads of some kind. Probably from mom praying for me. Books that had our full names our birth dates and our death dates. Mine was probably written in by another family member Jack and Mary were the same year as each other but I was a year later.

There were clothes that our parents used to wear and Jack and Mary used to dress up in the clothes and pretend to be them before they knew anything bad was happening to me. I asked them to put them away. They folded them up neatly. There was a pocket knife in the box.

I remembered this one. And some spell books I remembered those too. I loved anything to do with magic. They still smelled like old leather. There were also dog collars in the box I made for Onyx Nightshade and Poison back when I just thought they were wolves.

I handed them to them. They wore them like chokers. You don't have to wear those anymore. No it's ok it will let you know when we're near so that we don't startle you or you feel safe knowing we're there. I always felt safe when you guys were around. I smiled and hugged him.

The girls traded off hugging me as well. They had also found ice skates in the box which was both sad and scary and couldn't believe the shoes were kept we were playing on thin ice playing hopscotch for our lives. And of course Jack and I didn't still have ours they were probably at the bottom of the lake.

Though Jack hoped maybe North could fix them up so we could go ice skating which Mary nor I found funny though he wasn't kidding since he keeps it frozen all year around for the last 300 years or so. Not that I ever want to step foot on an frozen solid anything ever again.

The knife that I pointed out earlier Jack admitted he remembered making that he made around the time he found out what dad was doing to me and started to try to take the hit so that Mary and I didn't have to. Not that it worked out the way he planned though Mary was never abused.

The couple of good articles of clothing we did find I was happy to find. Jack took off his hoodie had Nightshade hang onto it. While he handed me one as well. They were our old cloaks as I gave Onyx back his hoodie as I through on my old cloak so that we were matching then we went to go show everyone what we'd found.