Rachel Herschberger & Sarah-Beth Herschberger
After the birth of Klaus
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Somewhere in Pennsylvania a woman Rachel Herschberger has awakened from having passed out. As she had come to, she looked down to see a pale baby, a baby that came from her. She moves her shaking hands down to the child where she picks him up. As she looks at her newborn son - a son she didn't know she was having - Rachel notices he isn't breathing. She doesn't move.
A moment passes and Rachel comes out of her shock. She looks down at him and holds his cold body against her warm one. Rachel begins to quietly cry for him. Here Rachel lies in piles of hay with her son against her chest. It is peaceful to her.
She stays there for a while when a person walks in. Rachel hearing someone walk in sits up and puts her son on her lap. Rachel looks at the door and sighs in relief as it is just Sarah-Beth, her sister.
Sarah-Beth looks at her sister in her disheveled state and asks "Rachel. What is wrong?"
Rachel looks at her and just responds "I am upset."
Sarah-Beth moving closer to her sister sees the baby in her sister's lap. She gasps in shock and looks Rachel in the eyes.
"Rachel," she begins whispering, "you had a child out of wedlock?"
"Yes," she sadly says, "I do not know how I became pregnant but it matters not."
Sarah-Beth looks at Rachel in puzzlement and responds "What do you mean?"
There is a quiet pause then Rachel moves her baby back up to her chest. "He isn't alive. He was born dead."
Sarah-Beth moves closer and hugs her sister. During the hug Sarah-Beth asks her "What shall we do?"
Looking away from her sister Rachel says "I want to bury him. A nice burial with flowers."
Sarah-Beth nods and Rachel continues "I may not have known he would exist but he is still my flesh and blood."
Sarah-Beth was beginning to ask a question when a baby's cry was heard. Rachel looks down in her arms to see the baby - her baby - squirming and crying. Her son, after being dead, is now alive. The sisters look at each other in resignation. Rachel will now have to tell their father he has a grandson.
Sarah-Beth ran out of the barn to get a blanket to swaddle the baby. Rachel hugged him resigned to her fate. To be cast out or shunned.
It didn't take Sarah-Beth long before she was back. The sisters clean the squirming baby up and swaddle him. Rachel gives him a kiss on his forehead then leaves the barn.
Rachel walks to their father's house with Sarah-Beth following behind when they see a strange man. The man is talking to their father. As if he heard them the man turned to look at Rachel.
"Why hello," the man began, "how much would you want for the baby."
Rachel stares at him and pulls her son closer to herself. "I don't want to give him up."
Sarah-Beth and Rachel's father looks at her and tells her "You will not keep him or you will be kicked out."
Rachel continues to protest for a while before getting hit with a selfish thought. Rachel looks at her son who had fallen asleep. She asks the stranger to discuss it privately.
They move to sit down. The man introduces himself. "I am Reginald Hargreaves and as I said I would like to have your child."
Rachel pauses then asks "Could I have $3,000 for you to give him a life away from her?"
The man nods and writes her a check. Rachel wants to give her child a last look but she cannot. Rachel sold her child for a check out of here.
Reginald leaves and Rachel moves to go pack as much as she could. She is leaving the only community she has ever known. Rachel is chasing the greener pastures.
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Think I could have written this better but I had an idea and just wanted it out there.
I dont write much okay much less a multichapter fic