The Memories

" I just don't know what I'm gonna do with you miss Gale, this is the fifth time you've been sent to my office in a fortnight, when are you going to learn not to disrupt miss Gulch's lessons with your silly questions" said Hayley's headmistress with a disappointed frown on her face.

"In my defence Mrs Anderson, I though it was a reasonable question to ask in a geography class" said Hayley with her head held low.

"Why is the ocean near the shore? is not a reasonable, onistly Gale your an intelligent girl with a bright future ahead of you if you grades are anything to go by, and yet you continue to ask silly questions like, why is the sky dark at night? or why can't animals talk for themselves? You'd think you had know brains at all." Mrs Anderson said in a huff.

"I'm sorry Mrs Anderson, it's just well, when I don't know the answer to a question I ask, I didn't know it was upsetting anyone" said Hayley who was close to tears at this point. She hated being called stupid and told she had no brains, all her life her passtion was to learn and for the most part she was a very smart girl, but sometimes when a question popped up in her head she just couldn't help herself.

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She made her way home that day with a sad feeling in the pit of her stomach. A small black dog trotting along by her feet. Toto was the only confident that the 8 year old had, he had been there for all of her life, and according to many he had even been around when her mother was a girl, an extraordinary long life for such a small dog, but Hayley didn't really think much on this.

Every day Toto would walk to school with her, walk back home to help herd the chickens, then at the end of the day make his way over to the school to walk her home, know one new why he did this every day with out fail but many thought it was adorable how protective he was of the child of his mistress.

As they got to the gate of the farm, Hayley bent down to give him a fuss.

"You don't think I'm stupid do you Toto?" She asked as he liked her hand and gave a soft yap.

"Ha thought not" she said with a smile.

"HAYLEY!, Hayley is that you honey?" Called a voice from the farm house.

"COMEING MAMA" she called back befor she and Toto ran into the house, where Toto promptly went over to his mistress and lay down at her feet as she worked at the stove.

"Hi mama" Hayley said as she looked at feet.

Dorothy turned to her daughter with a beautiful smile on her face, smoothing the wrinkles on her sky blue dress that reached to the floor.

"Hay baby, what happened today, you tuck your time getting home?" She said as they both started seting the table.

"Nothing" Hayley said, but hesitated as her mother gave her a soft knowing look. She sighed knowing she couldn't hide anything from her, she made her way over to Dorothy and hugged her around the waist.

"Miss Gulch didn't like the question I asked in geography today and sent me to the office" she said as she snuggled up into her mother's embrace.

"Well what did you ask?" Dorothy said as she rubbed her child's back confusingly.

"Why is the ocean near the shore?" She said

Dorothy's breath hitched as tears suddenly thretedned to fall.

"Well that's not an unreasonable question to ask, don't pay her any mind ok, shes just grouchy cus a house fell on her sister" she said as her little girl giggled.

When ever someone upset her, her mother would always use that term of Frase, and it always left them both giggling.

" now why don't you and Toto head out and get Uncle Henry in for dinner ok sweetie" said Dorothy as she turned back to the stove.

"Ok mama, come one Toto" said Hayley as she and the dog ran out the house insect for her grate uncle.

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The farm was old but small, smaller than it once was, but after many storms over the year a lot of it had to be sold of, just to make ends meet. They only had one crop field, two pigs, a two cows and a coop full of chickens. Unfortunetly they couldn't afford to pay any farmland to help out eather, so the majority of the work was now done by Dorothy and her aging Uncle Henry who was now grieving widower. Unfortunetly do to the sercumstances with the farm and helping to raise he grand neace, Henry had nearly any time to truly grove for his late wife Emily.

It was at this point in time that Henry was currently mending the farms picket fence, the wind was picking up and he was just debating on weather he shore head on in, when a small little bundle of joy came corering out the house over to him, not befor promptly griping over her own two feet and falling into his arms.

"Hay little lady, watch you self there" he said with a smile, she always made him smile much like her mother before her, in fact he would count it as one of the best days of his life when her mother came, home after years of being presumed dead, with the little bundle of joy clutched in her arms, next to his wedding day, and dorothy's first birthday with them since her parents death, the year she was given Toto.

"Sorry uncle Henry, mama said it's time for dinner though" she said with a smile on her face.

"Well let's go, I was about to head on in anyways, looks like a storms browing" he said as he talk her hand and they mad their way indoors.

...

That night after dinner, Dorothy was tucking her daughter in for the night, the wind was whistling wildly outside rattling the window pane.

"Mama?" Hayley said as her mother smoothed the covers of her bed.

"Yes honey" she said

"Can I see what's in your treasure chest again" she said using a talent she had learned from Toto over the years, the puppy dog pout.

Dorothy smirked at her childs silly face, "ok but just for a little bit, then its strait to sleep for you" she said as she left the room only to return with a larg tin box.

She set it on her lap as she sat on the bed with her little girl looking over her shoulder eagerly.

Inside to box was a multertude of old things, there were pictures and paintings, of things such as the farm, Uncle Henry with a middle aged women wearing a Pocadot dress, with a younger Dorothy in between them and Three burly farm hands at their sides, the three farmlands apered again in other photos, one of them giving Dorothy a piggy back ride as the others chested them around.

But then there were slitly more in userle objects in there, such as pictures of beautiful scenes of colour and magic, a bunch of straw the with a bit of spring, a dark green pointed hat with straw sticking out of it, even a giant lolly pop for some odd reason. But the most beautiful thin inside the box, was a sparkling pair of ruby red slippers.

"Thoughs are the magic ruby slippers right mama" said Hayley in amazement.

" that right honey, I wore thought all the way to emerald city" said Dorothy

Though Hayley was coming to the age were she wasn't quite shore if the story's her mother told about Oz were true or not, they were still her favourite stories to hear and her mother loved to tell her about it so it became there nightly ruteens every night, to take the box out and rumble through it.

"And this is the Scarecrows hat Right?" She said tacking up the floppy hat and set it on her own messy straw covered head, for some reason she always looked like she had just been rolling around in the hay all day, her teachers hated it, but her mother said it was part of her charm.

Dorothy smiled down at her daughter, carfuly brushing away some hair from her eyes.

"Your so much like your father" she said stroking the side of Hayley's face.

"Why'd he have to go? Didn't he want us?" She asked

"There was a war... and he had to protect us from it, so WE were sent away...evacuated to the farm, to be salf" she said with tears pricking at her eyes

"He loved you with every thing he had, before you were born we though we couldn't have any children, then you came along, our little miracle... Ha he could hardly put you down when you finely arrived" she said hugging her daughter to her chest.

"When can we see him again?" Hayley asked

"Soon...if it's to be it will be very soon now" she said kissing her daughter on he head, before getting up and gathering everything back into the box.

"Can I please keep the hat on mama" asked Hayley hopfuly.

"Shore thing sweetie, just be careful with it ok"

"Ok"

Dorothy then raped the blanket back around her daughter's shoulders.

"Do you want you nighty light?" She ask, Hayley shock her head and Dorothy blow it out swiftly.

"Goodnight baby, sweet dreams" she said quietly

"Goodnight mama" Hayley said with a yawn.

With that Dorothy existed the room and made her way down to the cellar to place the box back on the shelf. She sighedand clutched the locket around her neck witch held a family portrait of her self with a baby Hayley liying in her arms with straw filled man standing behind them, with one arm resting on Hayley's tiny head and the other holding her around the waist, all three smiling happily.

"Oh Scarecrow, if only you were here now, you'd be so proud of her" she said sitting down, with her tears falling freely.

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"DOROTHY GET HAYLEY UP NOW, THERE'S A CIRCLON ON ITS WAY looks like a back one Em, you open the cellar ill see to the live stock".

"Yes uncle Henry, HAYLEY, Hayley honey you need to get up NOW, there's a Twiter on its way" Dorothy yelled

"Coming mama" shouted Hayley as she made her way out side towards the storm cellar, now clared on her own blue chequered dress, still wearing the floppy hat on her head.

She and Dorothy made there way down the steps of the cellar, wind wiping around their dresses and stud in the corner holding on to each other as Uncle Henry came down and shut to door, sighing in relef as he embraced them both.

The relef was short lived how ever as they all herd the frantic barks of a little black dog from outside the storm shelter.

"TOTO!" cried Hayley as she shot out of her family's arms, up the stars and through the cellar door towards her little friend, the wind blowing the cellar door shut behind her.

"HAYLEY NOOOO" cried Dorothy.

"COME BACK HAYLEY" yelled uncle Henry, as he tried barging the door though with all his might.

"HAYLEY!" screamed Dorothy, now joining her uncle in trying to get to her daughter.

Suddenly everything started shaking, the twisted was right on top of them now, tears streamed down both adults faces as Henry pulled his niece away from the doors.

"MY BABY! my baby!" She screamed, crying into her uncles cheats, knowing that the chance of her child being there when the storm was over, was next to nothing.

well I hope you like it so far.

There are just not enough fanfiction like this, so I disided to write my own, feel free to nic the idea, id love to see more.

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