From the moment Amy found out her brother was running for the presidency of the United States, she moved out of the family home and changed her last name. She loved her brother, but she didn’t love the limelight. All she wanted was freedom. The freedom to live her life the way she wanted without being in the shadow of the Secret Service all the time. Taking pictures was her passion, and that’s what she would do, and no one would stand in her way.

Amy had taken a lot of great shots of the animals at the zoo, but if one more person asked her if she had permission to be there, she would scream. She just about had her camera in focus when another zoo employee approached her. He introduced himself as Dr. Dallas Dixon, and instead of being upset with her, he wanted her to take some pictures of a gorilla who had just given birth, but the baby wouldn’t live.

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Amy kept an eye on her surrounds while taking pictures of the exhibit that she’d been assigned to work within. Arriving at six in the morning to get in the eleven shots at different locations throughout the zoo was going to be fun. But only if she was able to make people leave her alone.

So far, she’d been accosted, no other word for it, six times. Employees of the zoo telling her that she wasn’t allowed on the property, nor was she supposed to be taking pictures, much less standing atop the enclosure like she was doing right now. Looking to her right, she put up her hand to stop another man from coming to tell her she had to
leave. “Stop right there. I have permission to be here. Yes, I do have the paperwork on me. But I’m not dragging it out so that you can question every signature on it. Yes, I’m going to stand right here until I’m finished. Again, I have permission to be here.” She looked at the primate in front of her before looking in the general direction of the man.

“You mess up my shot by trying to take me off this rooftop, and I will hurt you. I might be small in build, but I can and will defend myself and my job if you get all shitty with me.” “Are you Amy Fowler?” She said that she was. “I was sent to get you. Cuco had a baby about ten minutes ago, and the department would like you to take pictures of
her and her mom.” She took the shot and turned her full attention to the man now. “She isn’t going to live long. The baby, I mean. Her name is Lucy, but we’ve known all along that she’s had a heart defect. Can you come and take some shots of her and her mom before Lucy passes?”

“Yes. Of course.” She left her tripod where it was when he told her that no one would bother it. “What kind of shots do you want? I’m assuming that Cuco knows Her baby is dying.”
“I don’t know that Cuco is aware of her baby being as ill as she is, but she’s been told that she isn’t well,” Amy remembered that Cuco knew sign language, and that was more than likely how they’d communicated with her. Gathering up what she’d need,
she followed the man to the building where the other primates were being held. “The other primates, especially the gorillas, are aware of her illness as well. It’s very solemn in the rooms we’re headed. I’m only telling you that so you don’t do something quickly toward the Cuco. You startle her or upset her, and the others will try to attack. To keep
her safe.”

The second the door closed behind her, Amy could feel that the room was indeed solemn. None of the primates were talking or swinging on their equipment but keeping an eye on the cage that held Cuco. She walked up to the penned area where Cuco was sitting in the corner, holding her weak child. Her heart broke for the two of them.
Setting up the camera, Amy pulled out her remote. She didn’t want to have to keep adjusting the settings, so she used her phone attached to the expensive camera to take its cues from her phone and the remote that she had rigged up to talk together. It had taken her two years and a lot of failures to get the two of them to talk to each other,
and she was pleased with how it worked. Sitting where a chair had been left, Cucot turned and looked at her. Signing to the gorilla, she told her how very sorry she was about her baby.

The very large female inched her way toward where she was sitting. After Aquick look around, she noticed that it was just her and the man who had come to get her. He was on the inside of the cage but not doing anything but looking like he was ready to take a nap. For some reason, she thought that it was just a ploy to get her and
Cocu to trust that he wasn’t going to harm either of them. Still unsure what she was supposed to do when Cuco came nearly within touching distance of her, Amy lowered her head and put out her hand.
It surprised her to no end that she laid her baby on her lap. Looking again at the man, she wasn’t sure what to do when he told her to hold Lucy. Just like she would a small child. Picking up the smaller-than-usual baby, she unwrapped the blanket that she
was wrapped in and put her finger into the hand of the child.
“She’s very beautiful. Her eyes are so brown, they defy anything that I’ve ever seen.”

The man, she asked him what his name was, told her to sit down on the floor with Cuco if she would allow it. “Are you trying to get me killed? Or is this usual for you? To make people so nervous they get hurt?” “Cuco trusts you. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have given you Lucy. I had nothing to do with that.” She glared at him and then sat on the cool floor. “We’ve been trying to get the baby from her since she gave birth. I know it’s not been that long, but we were trying to spare Cuco from having to hold her child until she passed away.” “Why?” Not taking her eyes off the newborn, she spoke quietly to Doctor Dallas
Dixon. “I’d want every moment with my child if I knew she wasn’t going to make it. Just leave her alone.”