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The Changeling Baby
Date: 1/1/2016, Categories: Supernatural, Author: TamLin, Rating: 3, Source: LushStories
and hearing things, and…look, last night, did you have your window open?" She nodded and paled noticeably. "Did you…" he looked at a corner of the room for no reason, "Hear anything? Anything strange? Anything from, ya know…my room?" When he looked back he was shocked to see tears in Nissa's eyes. She put a hand over her mouth and nodded, and then she said, "I've seen them too. They come to my window at night. Oh God, I thought I was losing my mind!" She began sobbing into her hands. Without thinking, William put an arm around her. She leaned into him and cried on his shirt for a while. When she could talk again she looked up at him, red-eyed. "I thought I was alone," she said. " "Me too," said William. Taking a deep breath, he told her everything that'd happened since the Menskr's apartment. Her eyes got wider and wider as he talked. "I had no idea about the Menskr's baby," Nissa said. "I just knew they kept asking me to help them with their son. I can't believe they'd really do something like that. I mean, they seemed…nice, in a way." "They're monsters," said William. "They're a family," said Nissa. "I mean, they scare me, and I don't want to help them, but have you seen the way the father looks when he talks about his son? Have you heard the mother cry?" William's heart hardened again. "All the more reason they shouldn’t be hurting other people's families," he said. Nissa nodded. "Of course you're right," she said. "I just don't know what to do. I've been so scared." ...