He's supposed to hand her over to the system for her to be punished, but from the look in her eyes he knows that she's not a pick pocket by choice, but because she has no other choice.
He knows that he's going to regret this later, but he manages to convince the woman whose purse Anna had stolen into not pressing charges, and then escorts the scared young woman to his car and motions for her to climb into the passenger seat.
"You can stay with me," he tells her as he gets in and starts the engine, "I have a feeling that you need someone to look after you, help you out, and I'm willing to do that," and it's worth the brilliant smile she gives him, and the ice around his heart cracks a little and starts to melt.
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Date: 2011-09-04 11:12 pm (UTC)Wow, limiting it to three sentence was hard!