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'Packed house tonight, as expected, as the most anticipated rematch in recent history is only moments away. Can the challenger get one step closer to gold after the epic performance he put in last time out? Before our live broadcast goes in ring for the main event introductions, I can tell you, if you didn't already know, there are rumours that the champ is still reeling from their first encounter. Champs streak could be in real danger tonight though if anyone can pull it out of the bag ... this really could be a career altering or a career ending kind of fight for one of these two men though many already say that the champ has nothing left to prove ...'

Tom Smith could not have connected the death of Aunt Lynn with the reactions his three-year-old daughter was having toward her aunt over those last six months of Lynn's life. Kids throughout time have always been odd in their own unique ways, just how unique Majella happens to be is something Tom cannot know or understand. It would be quite a while after that third birthday when things would really begin to get quite odd.

Majella, days away from her fifth birthday, less than four months away from beginning school on a full-time basis, comes with dad and the other two girls as dad drops his older two daughters to school. From within her car seat Majella could see out the car window next to her. On this particular school run Majella points out the window and says 'bee-baw daddy, bee-baw.'

'That is nice honey' Tom responds to his daughter not quite knowing what exactly she is referring to or as to if she is referring to anything at all.

He does however take a brief look towards the side path in an effort to see what she might be able to see. At this particular moment in this particular place there is not much going on other than an older gentleman walking along a footpath by himself. The older girls are soon dropped off, they safely enter their school then Tom and Majella are soon on their way home.

In the area where Majella had her 'be-baw' moment not all so long prior, there is an ambulance pulled over at the side of the road. Is this what Majella meant by bee-baw? Picking his girls up later in the day there is chatter among parents at the school grounds about the occurrence of a death near-by of a local man.

Different theories of the cause of death are thrown around, a heart attack, a bad fall or a possible mugging gone bad, but Tom could not help but wonder as to what Majella might have known. She could not have known what would have been required before it had needed, could she? There could have been no way that she had foreseen the death of a stranger only moments before it occurred. Tom is sure that it would be silly to even entertain such a thought.

No matter what has come before, no matter what oddities have come knocking; Tom Smith would do anything for his daughters. They are his life, his world, his everything, though there are moments when he wishes he could get away for a while and he almost hates himself for having these kinds of thoughts. A widowed working father of three young girls can allow his mind to wander every once in a while, there is no harm in that. It is only natural to think such thoughts though with Majella his own thoughts are wandering a little too often.

In time, difficult goes to the extreme with the focal point of that difficulty being Majella. It goes on with innocent comments, predictions of harm, pain and death growing to the point whereas Majella gets older she is accused of practicing some sort of witchcraft and involving herself in the Devil's work. This is far from the truth, then again maybe it isn't.

She only wants to do right and for this she is persecuted, treated poorly, watched and talked about by adults who know of her and probably even fear her to a degree. There may be darkness in her soul but there is love and light in her heart. It gets so hard and tough that she feels the need to ask her father is there something wrong with me? Am I a bad person? Dad can only comfort her and tell her no honey, people don't understand, that's all and they are frightened by what they don't understand. Thing is, dad doesn't understand either. Majella is his daughter and there truly isn't anything he wouldn't do for his daughters.

All through her short life, there are visions that come to her, visions she cannot always understand, at least not to begin with. One vision in particular so happens to be a recurring one and it is ever so brief to begin with. Flashes, an attack, something occurring with consent, a organized fight of some sort perhaps, something with consequences, and these recurring visions have almost always been with her.

It is a profession fight, yeah that's it, a boxing match, a fight that will end will end with a serious injury coming to one of the two competitors.

If she really does see what is to come before it occurs, then is she meant to something about a fight she so often sees? If so, then how is she to do this, especially when she does not know the details such as to who it is to happen, the when it is to happen and the where it is to happen?

Anyhow, shortly after Majella's thirteenth birthday something occurs that none of the Smith family could have seen coming.

Half past four on an early June morning, a silence is broken by a thunderous boom that wakes Thomas Smith in the instant it hits. What the hell was that? he can't help but think as he rises straight from sleep to take a seated position in his bed. He gets to think no further for a second thunderous boom lashes out, this once bursting through the front door of the Smith family home.

'Daddy ...' one of the girls, possibly Lisa, calls out from one of the other bedrooms.

It's alright honey, don't worry ... is what Tom wants to respond with, but he doesn't get the chance for when he comes out of his own room there are a number of men in uniform piling up the stairs and past his room.

'What the hell is this?' he shouts out as the sixth of six strange men pass him by without so much as giving him any kind of acknowledgement or reason as to why they are here.

Two of the girls scream and cry out. Those strange men have entered the other bedrooms and before Tom can do anything about it, they are back out and ready to pass him again. One of these men restrains Tom prior to and while the last two men pass him with Majella in their grasp.

'Excuse me ... just what do you think you are doing?'

'Don't worry sir; you'll have your home back in a moment ...'

'Don't worry? Don't you tell me what to do. Let go of my daughter ... what do any of you think you are doing?'

Tom tries to pass this fellow, but he is far too big, too strong to simply push by and when Tom reaches desperation point with not being able to pass his tormentor, he throws a punch that connects squarely on the jaw. The uniformed fellow is hardly affected by the blow and for his troubles Tom receives a punch to the gut that has him fold in two and collapse to the ground.

The sixth man then moves on to follow those he had come in with. On any other day having been bested in a blow for blow confrontation Tom would stay right where he is until he could regain himself but not on this day. His family is in trouble so up he gets and downstairs he goes, struggling every inch of the way.

Three of the six men are already outside. Inside the front door two men stand waiting for Tom to ensure he is restrained while those who are outside bundle Majella into a secure and unmarked van. This feels like some sort of military operation with those who hold onto Tom being dressed in uniform he does not recognize. A third man, dressed in white, white shirts, slacks and a lab coat of some kind is holding onto a clip board and this fellow addresses Tom.

'Mister Smith, we are here on behalf of the state. We know you have been having trouble with your daughter ...'

'Trouble? No, I haven't. Where are you taking her?'

'We'll be looking after her from here on in so everything will be fine so if you'd like to sign here ...'

'I'm not fucking signing anything. Release my daughter now.'

As this moment there appears to be a disagreement outside, and it causes a brief distraction. Tom takes advantage of this moment and manages to get past those who had been holding onto him. He manages to get to the van his daughter is in and he pulls one of the doors open.

'Majella ...'

'Don't worry about me dad, I'll be fine' she says fighting every move of her captors as one attempts to inject her with a sedative. 'Watch out for Abigail ... don't let danger come for her ... death is coming, I have seen it ... you have got to keep her safe ...'

Tom is grabbed from behind then is punched in the gut and from here on out can only observe the van loads up and take off.

'Majella ...'

Tom's heart sinks. For a second he is brought back to the day Majella was born. The helplessness, the battle losing sensation surrounds him again. He could do nothing to save his wife and now there is nothing he can do to save his daughter. On his knees and with blurred eyes he sees the van disappear into the distance.

Abigail and Lisa move onto their knees having join their father, and tears begin to flow in earnest. Like the day Majella was born, there is little more of this day that Tom will go on to remember.