Irina Ritter - Children of the gods

– Hello, it’s you, Margarita, Mama Nadi? several asked Olga approached the woman.

Olga was surprised that the Margarita was absolutely calm, no sign of grief on the woman’s face was not. On the contrary, it was evident that Margaret cares for him mentioned that she was in full makeup and with the hair on his head.

– Yes, I am the mother of Nadia. You asked for something, I’ll have a look. – Margaret replied, going to one of the rooms.

After a while she came out and gave Olga a baby pink blouse with rhinestones. Olga neatly folded baby thing and put it in the pocket of his windbreaker.

– Maybe you want to come with us on the search? We have room in the car for three more. – asked Sergey to the inhabitants of the house.

Margaret shrugged her shoulders and said to red:

– Andrew! What will it be?

– Go, – agreed the man.

Everyone, this is my husband Andrew, and it’s sister Sonia and her husband, Sasha, is pointing at them on the other said Margarita.

– Where you want to go? asked Lovelace Sasha.

– Want to check the garages in the area of sewage treatment facilities and in other places. We have a dog that can smell that thing now… Nadina replied Dmitry.

– I can’t go – I have a small child, now asleep. pointing towards one of the rooms said Sonya. – And you go.

Margarita with her husband and Alexander decided to go separately to his car. Garage complex, where they were heading, was located two kilometers from the house Timofeev, near sewage treatment facilities. Decided to walk around the whole area and thoroughly examine not only garages, but the areas around the garages. Dima took Rex’s leash and walked along the garages, stopping at each separately. Margarita and Olga were walking. Margarita knocked on the door and tried to shout to her daughter, hoping that she will hear it. The others went to explore the territory nearby. The people were few – a couple of car owners were each engaged in their business. Someone repaired the car, and someone dried the potatoes, scattering on the bags. Garages were located in several rows. At the end in the Bush were 20 pieces of old illegally-built metal garages, seemingly long abandoned. Around them lay a bunch of junk and old rusted parts from cars. Dmitry called brother:

– May try to break the locks and inspect the garages, there’s no one there?

– What! See – head Snitch! – Sergei looked around grinning.

– Yes we are careful nobody will see, get the tool from the machine!

Brother after some hesitation, went to the jeep, and ten minutes brought a small suitcase with tools:

– If it’s on you!

Dima a bit of hacking with the lock, opened it.

– Stay here and keep watch. I’ll look in the garage.

Dmitry took a lantern and went inside with Rex. Margaret walked behind them.

– Come on, Rex, look!

Inside the garage was littered with piles of junk: there were boards, old kitchen furniture, against the wall stood a ratty old sofa, the whole corner was full of old yellowed Newspapers and magazines alternated with plates. Dima shone the flashlights into every nook and ceiling:

– It is necessary to examine the cellar.

Lifting the metal cover on the floor, Dima lit pit: down a wooden staircase led.

– Nadia! cried Margaret. – Can you hear me? Are you here?

– I’ll go, – said Dima and climbed down the stairs.

– What is it? do Xenia.

Not really, there’s no one, ' said Dmitry.

Coming out of the garage and closed it behind him, began to decide what to do next. Dima looked at his companions and brother, who was on the lookout a little to the side and asked how strongly they are:

– Well, will continue to be open?

– Well we’re at it, let’s go to the end! – said Xenia.

So, one after another opened several garages, but the girls in them turned out. Going into the garage next to our search saw on the floor the mountain white – it turned out to be lime.

– Ksyusha, do you remember what Yuri was talking about lime? – looking at Ksenia, Dima said.

– Yes… – nodded Xenia.

– We need to rake this pile and see if there’s a body.

Dima found among various junk a shovel and began to dig lime.

– What are you doing?! with horror looking at them in turn, asked Margarita. – Are you looking for a corpse?

Dmitry and Xenia were looking at each other and lowered her eyes to the floor:

– Look, your daughter’s been gone for so long, you really still hope to find her alive? – with some pity in his voice, as to terminally-ill person asked Xenia to the girl’s mother.

I’m looking for the daughter live! – almost shouted Margarita.

In the garage was hard, awkward silence.

– Hey, guys! Policemen arrived! Quickly let’s go! – looking in the garage, in a whisper hissed Sergei.

Hastily closing his garage door Dima, and the girl walked away. Sergei walked over to the guys and quietly said:

Someone called the police. We’re kind of quiet, really saw? In addition to our no one knew…

In a minute to the company of two policemen. One of them, who said:

– Hello! Broken? Here you are complaint was received. Called and said you go and the garages open?

– Comrade policeman, we’re not doing anything wrong, we’re looking for a girl who got lost, Nadia Timofeev! – tried to appease the police Xenia. Is her mom! Ksenia waved his hand in standing at a distance Margarita.

– Received a signal that you are open other people’s garages, insisted the policeman.

– It’s all true, we did not do anything illegal! Believe me! We just go and search the area around! We understand that you cannot open someone else’s property! – tried to convince Dima, her eyes wide and hanging over the COP that was almost a head shorter than him.

– So, let’s get outta here, that neither you, nor we had no problems – decided to handle this kind of situation the policeman.

– Well! Well! We’re leaving anyway, don’t worry! Guys, let’s get in the car! – hurriedly waved his hands Dima, showing the cops that everything will be hunky-Dory.

– Come on, goodbye, goodbye policeman with the guys, so want to find your daughter, ' he said to Margaret.

– Thank you…

On this day, the search had to be suspended. The whole company went to their cars. Before leaving, Margarita came to the boys and said:

– I’m with you I’m not going to go on a quest. I’m looking for Nadia alive, and we will seek, in their own way. But still, thank you for looking for my daughter.

– I understand you, I wish you find a Barely alive, ' said Olga finally.

We returned home in silence. Ksenia looked in the car window and thought about what happened today:

– I probably would too until the last hoped for a miracle. She just doesn’t want to believe that something irreparable had just occurred.

Yeah, I guess…

Tatiana Berezikov lived together with his elderly mother in a private house, close to Timofeev. Their home was two streets parallel to Voroshilov. Mother for several years was bedridden. Three years ago an 87 year old Vera Ilyinishna fell down from the house porch and received a hip fracture. Since then, Tatiana drove the mother to her home and nursed her. Sons of Tatiana Petrovna, Oleg and Igor are long married and lived their lives. Husband Constantine died five years ago from a stroke at the age of 57 years. Two or three times a month, the son of Oleg’s grandson brought the Seeds back to sleep. These days the life of Tatiana Petrovna is filled with meaning and vibrant colours. More recently, she was engaged in a small business, rented space from a local businessman. My husband had contacts in the police. Life raged like a mountain river. After her husband’s death and mother’s illness – it all went downhill. From morning till night had to cook, wash, wash, change diapers. Addition was a large garden in which work is always nemeryannom. Out of the house Tatyana Petrovna only in stores. Thank God she had own car HONDA Jazz light gray color, which managed to buy during the time of doing business. Now I had to live on two pensions – your pension and the mother, plus extra payments for disability. Diapers and medicines provided by the state free of charge. Besides this spring, as luck would have flooded the house and it needed repair. The city administration had to pay compensation, but very long. All spring and all summer Tatyana Petrovna had to fight with city officials. In the end justice prevailed, and the victim transferred to the account owed money.

About the disappearance of Nadia Timofeeva Tatiana learned from a neighbor Veronica. Veronica studied in the same class with Nadia. The next day after the disappearance Veronica was walking home from school past the house Berezikova:

– Hello, Baba Tanya! – greeted Veronica with Tatiana Petrovna, who at the time was engaged in cleaning the garden in front of the house.

– Hello, Veronica! How was school? I guess straight a’s?!

– And at us the girl was gone, Nadia Timofeeva! Yesterday, it was not found!

– How is missing?

– Yes, gone. Yesterday she left school after school, and to the house not reached. Her mother came to school, and then went to the police. Looking for it now!

Uh – Oh, so small! What happened to her?

– I don’t know. At school they say she was kidnapped. Girls from the second shift saw her at the gate of Park “Anniversary” – on her way home, and they went to school for lessons. Today at school the police came. We asked about it.

Veronica ran home, and Tatiana thought looking at her children still don’t fully understand. They are thinking it is. For adults, especially for those who have their children and grandchildren, the loss of a child is a terrible tragedy.

Finished cleaning the garden, Tatiana went to the house. The time was dining and she had failed to cook anything.

– You want to eat? – she cried the mother, coming into the kitchen.

“A little,” force said Vera Ilyinishna from his room.

– Hold on a little bit, I’ll make soup now!

– Yes take your time, don’t die!

Tatiana turned on the old lamp TV “TOSHIBA”, which was sent to the kitchen after buying a new big LCD TV “LG”, and began to cook lunch.

On the stove stood a pot with pre-boiled pork and meat broth. Tatiana turned on the burner under the pan and proceeded to cook vegetables for borscht. One eye she watched the events on TV, while in turn cutting on a large wooden Board cabbage, onions, carrots and beets. Soon began the transfer with the local news and leading her girlfriend announced that yesterday in their town went missing 11 year old girl Nadia Timofeeva. Tatiana stopped and remembered that she told Veronica, became closely at the girl’s face, a picture which now was situated on the entire screen. The face seemed familiar. Hearing the address, where she lived, Nadia, Tatiana realized that probably saw her more than once. The soul feels the heaviness and bad feeling. With the TV screen encouraged all residents to take part in the search. Peregrev beets, carrots and onions in a pan and loaded with cabbage in boiling broth, the woman began to peel the potatoes. After all the vegetables were in the pot and the soup only have to reach readiness, Tatiana sat down at the table to drink coffee and relax. And Intrusive thoughts constantly returned to that missing girl: what happened? They live very close to us… And the semen is not much younger than her. The woman was seized by severe anxiety.

The soup had dovarese and Tatiana went to feed the mother. She adjusted the pillows behind her and lifted them so that the Faith of Ilinichna was comfortable to sit: