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Terror in the Middle of the Night

"Goodnight Jasmine. Mommy loves you." Jackie said as she pulled the covers up over the little girl's legs.

"Night night mama." The little girl replied with a slight smile.

"Night Dolly." Jackie said as she walked over to where the family dog lay in her dog bed at the foot of Jasmine's bed.

Jackie gave the dog a gentle pat on the head.

The dog lifted her head in greeting and wagged her tail a couple times.

Jackie smiled as she walked out of the room.

"All the kids are down for the night." She announced to Nick who was in bed reading a new forensic science magazine.

"That's good. Look at this new gadget, it makes it easier to identify brands of car paint, that would help us out on a lot of cases, too bad it's so expensive, there is no way it's in the budget for the lab right now."

"That's too bad." Jackie said as she picked up the novel she was in the middle of off of her nightstand.

She crawled into bed and flipped to where her bookmark was. She read a chapter and then went to sleep. Nick finished his magazine and then he too fell asleep.

They were sleeping peacefully until a few hours later when they were awoken by vicious sounding dog barks coming from Jasmine's room. Nick and Jackie bolted out of bed and raced into Jasmine's room.

They were horrified, a strange man was inches from Jasmine's bed.

Jasmine looked terrified as she sat up in bed, tightly clutching her beloved stuffed pink rabbit.

Dolly was in between the stranger and Jasmine's bed, growling and barking as ferociously as she could, desperately trying to protect the child.

TBC…..