Second Chances: You Can't Always Pick Your Family
When marital problems hit both of their children, Rick and Laurie Simon find themselves trying not only to help them, but save one of them from danger.
Dedicated to all the loyal Simon and Simon fans, past and present!
(This is a fictional story, and no money is being made from it. The characters from Simon Simon and Six Million Dollar Man are owned by Universal Studios and are only being borrowed for a little while, I promise to put them back when I'm done.)
Striking out blindly, she hit the man hard in the stomach, like her brother had taught her.
While he doubled up with pain, she grabbed Petey in his carrier and her purse and ran out of the room, then saw that the front door was open. Frightened, she rushed out then slammed it closed.
Hearing her name yelled, she turned around, startled, and saw her mother exiting her car.
"Mom …he's drunk or something, he hit me! Please take me home with you!" Robin cried, as her mother came running to her and the baby.
"Who hit you, Robin? Was it Ian?" Anger flashed in Laurie's eyes, then softened as Robin nodded sorrowfully, holding onto her.
"I thought at first it was him, I heard cussing and swearing at the back door, and I got mad and wouldn't open it. He must have used his key, because he came into the bedroom and started threatening me, only; he never put the lights on, Mom. I never saw his face and his voice wasn't the same." She said, puzzled.
"Get in the car, Robin. I'll get your coat and have a few words with Mr. Whitecloud, if it is him." She watched her mother stride towards the house and dazedly went to the car, putting little Peter into the back seat, then sliding in herself.
As she waited, thoughts tumbled through her head. How could her loving husband have changed so? He had been irritable and snappish, but to actually take a swing at her……and after promising to talk things out last night, too.
"Robin! Call your father and your Uncle, it's not Ian….No! Let go, you animal!" her mother's voice was filled with anger but then…no sound.
Twisting around, Robin gaped as she saw her mother fighting with a dark-haired man, then knee him in the groin and race to the car, as the young mother instantly started the engine. Jumping in the driver's seat, Laurie went to close the door, only for another man to pull Robin out as she screamed then drag her out of the car.
"Robin!" Laurie called, then saw the man turn and drop Robin, starting to advance toward her.
"Hawk, it was you, you hit me!" Robin recognized Ian's cousin, then everything fell into place.
"Go for help, Mom, save Petey!" Robin cried, staggering to her feet, then she ran toward the house, causing both men to go after her. Her mother immediately gunned the motor and took off, driving around the corner out of sight then stopping dead.
Listening for pursuing footsteps, Laurie turned on her watch and pushed the transmitter button.
"Laurie?" Rick and A.J.'s voices answered, and she immediately hit the send button.
"Guys, Hawk and Redfern just tried to grab me, then they chased Robin into the house. I'm around the corner and I have Petey, but we've got to get to her. Please call Ron." she begged, panic coloring her voice.
"Just stay where you are, darlin'. I'll call him, A.J. and I will be right there. Whatever you do, don't leave the baby." Rick ordered, his tone calming to the fear coursing through her.
"I promise, Rick. Hurry, love!"