Sitting inside an apartment he had broken into he waited for the right moment to pull the trigger. His target, a gangster, head of a dangerous group that needed to be taken out. The man was having sex with two women. One was giving him the full cowgirl ride, the other was getting fingered while her breasts were fondled. He changed position with the girls, one of them was now in doggy style having anal sex. The other one held her legs open, masturbating while waiting for her turn. They were about to change position when they suddenly heard a gunshot and glass breaking. The guy they were fucking for money jerked and collapsed on top of the woman he was having anal sex. The one that had been waiting for her turn started screaming in horror. The gangster was dead and if they called 911 the two of them would be arrested, they didn't want to go to jail so they left.

Shadow smiled as he hid his gun and walked out making sure the cameras couldn't see or recognize his face.

"John."

"Yeah, bro?" John answered the call.

"Make sure the footage is tampered with."

"Already done." Oli smiled.

"Any plans?"

"Homework."

"Any free time to play?"

"No."

"K. Don't die." Oliver drove to a lonely road near a forested area, waiting on top of the hood of his car while listening to music.

"Is the job done?" A man holding a briefcase asked as he got out of his car. Shadow leaned against his car with his arms crossed with a knife hidden.

"Yeah." The man threw the briefcase at Shadow's feet but he caught it, opened it and closed it.

"Aren't you going to count it?" The man asked but Shadow threw the briefcase in the back seat and drove off.

Every night he always dreamed about a little boy, about 5-6 years old. Standing alone in a busy highway with no purpose to fulfill. His mother. a drug addict, was out cold on the couch in her apartment. He was hungry and was too little to cook for himself and even if he could there was nothing in the fridge or in the house.No matter how hard he tried to wake his mother up she wouldn't do it or would just ignore him. That night he stood there, waiting to be killed but the fastest car in that highway drifted to a stop. He was knocked to the ground. The door swung open, the evil looking man grabbed Oliver by the shirt, yanked him in and drove. Police cars chased after them leaving the evil man with no choice but to drive into the river under the bridge. He cried in fear while the evil man talked into the phone as he crashed into the bridge. As the car slowly sank the man cut himself free with a pocket knife before grabbing the crying child.

"You'll be ok, just hold your breath." Those words were the only words said before he broke his window letting the heavy crush them as it flooded in. Oliver couldn't hold his breath any longer, all this was a nightmare for his little mind. The evil man swung towards the surface where he and Oliver hid and waited for a friend to come and pick them up.The dream always bothered Oliver, he drove to an alley to switch license plates and headed home. He walked down the hall to his apartment, the sound of screaming, crying, and thrown things were heard. He didn't bother to hurry up because he was used to fits like the ones that were behind the door.

"What's up?" He asked as he picked up a 5 month old crying baby girl from the couch. His mother threw a pan at Oliver but he dodged it while protecting the child with his body.

"Get the fuck out of my house." She screamed as she threw her body at him, Oliver easily shoved her away. She struggled to get to her feet but found a half empty beer can and drank it. He headed to his room, filled a duffel bag with his clothes and baby stuff, needed for his little baby sister.

"Don't cry, Hailey." Hailey was laying on her crib, crying. He finished putting a clean diaper on Hailey when his mother burst through the curtain.

"I said to get the fuck out of my house." She screamed as she stumbled towards him.

"Give me a damn minute, woman." He grabbed the bag and the baby and walked past the drunk woman. Before he walked out of the apartment, grabbed the baby seat, put the baby in it and locked the door with a lock. He locked his mother in her apartment because he wasn't twisted, it was to stop her from going out in the street when drunk. One time when he was eight his mother was drunk and like usual she threw her angry fits. During one of her fits she walked out of the apartment and attacked an old lady. Since that day on he would sleep outside the apartment door whenever she was drunk or drugged. Hailey was still crying inside her seat snapping him out of his thoughts.

"Up we go." He took off his sweater, covered her, he then picked the seat up and headed to his car. "I bet you're hungry." He fished out her pacifier from his bag and put it into her mouth, hushing her for a while until her milk was ready. He opened the trunk, took out the base of the car seat and installed it behind his seat. After he fed her he waked her up to change her into a jumpsuit, made her burp and strapped her in her seat before driving. The reason why he drove was to distract himself from his thoughts. With just a couple of hours left he decided to kill the engine and sleep while waiting for the morning to come. He waked up to Hailey crying behind his seat, he moved to the backseat to attend Hailey. While he was trying to make her burp, she threw up on his shoulder, but he was too tired to care much, so he looked for a shirt. He put her back into her seat as he looked for another shirt and pulled out Danny's sweater. * Fuck. I got to give this to her.* He thought to himself as he pulled out a black shirt and put it on and started looking for a sweater. He thought he had a sweater but he only had the one covering Hailey so he put on Danny's sweater. He sat next to Hailey, with his hand over her chest to keep her playing, and wondered with who he was going to leave her. His phone rang, he answered it and a woman's voice came through.

"Is this Shadow?" A woman asked.

"Speaking." He answered.

"Please, please. Help me." Her voice broke in sobs as she pleaded for her help but shadow didn't say anything. "Please. Help me." She kept begging. "Are you still there?"

"State what you want."

"My dad. My dad raped me." She cried.

"Call the cops." Shadow was about to end the call but the woman screamed catching his attention.

"You don't understand." There were angry screams in the background.

"Enlighten me."

"He raped other kids I found out, he killed my brother and wants to kill me now."

"Send me your address. I want you to please him long enough until 2." He ended the call and tried to think of someone who could babysit Hailey. He was deep in thoughts when something moved in against his stomach, startling him. He pulled out his switchblade but realized that it was Danny's phone. *Fuck.* He thought to himself as he pulled out the phone and answered it.

"Hello?" Her voice sounded tired.

"Who is this?" He asked.

"Tell me first, who are you?"

"Oliver."

"Danny."

"Oh. Where can I give you your stuff back." He asked.

"In class."

"Sorry but I can't."

"Then where?"

" Across from the school."

"K." She ended the call. He went back to the driving seat and drove to his school and waited. He watched as cars dropped kids to school and he found it boring until a Ford pickup truck stopped and let Danny out. He rolled down his window and waved until he caught her attention.

"Oh, she's cute." Danny complimented his black 2011 Honda but he thought she saw Hailey in the backseat. He reached for the phone and sweater and gave it to her, but as she was taking her stuff she heard a baby crying.

"Don't tell me you kidnapped a kid." The way she asked him was almost like a threat.

"Umm. No. She's my sister." He tried to answer her but her piercing look made it impossible to set things right in his mind.

"What are you doing with her?"

"Mom has a drinking problem and I took her just to be safe. Well right now she has a hung over." He tried to smile because he didn't want her calling child service. "Please don't tell the cops." He pleaded.

"Why not?" She asked.

" All I need are 2 years to be eighteen to have custody of her."

"You want to take her away from your parents?"

"It's just mom. And yeah I want to keep her and raise her like a normal child." Hailey was crying even louder.

"You look like shit." She ruffled Oliver's already messy hair.

"I know."

"Lower the window I'll give her her pacifier." He nodded as he lowered the window, she moved from his window to Hailey's window. She reached into the car and gave Hailey her pacifier.

"She adorable." She noticed that Hailey's blanket was Oliver's sweater.

"What are you doing today?"

"I got to leave her with someone while I go and deal with something."

"Do you know with who you are leaving her with?"

"I don't know." He shrugged.

"Call this number. He doesn't look like he will help but he'll do it. Tell him you're my friend." She grabbed Oliver's hand and pulled out a pen out of her pocket and wrote a phone number.

"Why are you doing this?" He asked.

"I don't know. But I don't believe you with "she's my sister" story. so I recommend you to go with him if you don't want me calling the FBI." He nodded as he rolled up the windows and drove away. He was going to call the number that Danny gave him because his contacts weren't free to babysit Hailey.