A/N: Hey look I found the chapter that I lost so you all get two updates from me. He he. Sorry for the long wait on the update, and I hope that you guys enjoy the update. Sorry that it short however I just didn't feel like I could write any more on this chapter. So deal with the cliffy. I will try to update this story again soonish.

Rock and a Hard Place

Rachel was weak from not eating anything for the past 24 hours, but she could tell that her body remembered a time when food was once a week. Still she didn't like the feel of the empty stomach. She sighed at the growl that her belly gave off. Though she continued to walk. She hoped that nothing bad was going to happen to her family before she could get back to them.

Trent looked at the river that Rachel had used to escape him. He was angry. He knew that if he could find her again, that she would be an easy target. Trent smiled evilly as he let go of the wolf that he had beaten into submission. "Fetch." he said coldly. The wolf ran off to do his master's bidding. Trent laughing all the while like the madman that that he was.

Gar was still upset about the loss of Rachel. However he was more concerned if she was pregnant again, for they had been trying for another child before she was taken. If Rachel was pregnant than Trent would take great sadistic pleasure in killing the child, just as he had killed his own child that he had fathered. Gar tried to comfort himself by saying that there was no way that Rachel could be with child again. Though deep in his heart he knew that the chances of Rachel carrying his child was fairly good. Gar sighed and let loose another round of tears. "Come home safely Rae." he whispered.

Rachel stumbled over a rock trying to climb down the slope that the river lead her to. She was still slightly weak from hunger, but she ignored it and forced herself to continue on in her journey to get home to her family. She hoped that she would be coming to a farm or something showing that she was on the right track. Though she came across no signs that humans had ever been this far out before. This worried Rachel, but she kept her cool by telling herself that it was just that she hadn't gone far enough to find some one. Thus she kept walking, and hoping.

She had walked maybe three miles before she heard a sound that froze her blood. The howl of a wolf. She vaguely remembered that Trent had used a wolf to track her before. She began to run in the desperate hope that she could out run the wolf and avoid the torment that was waiting her if the wolf caught up to her. She slipped and stumbled over rocks and tree roots, but she didn't stop running. She was so caught up in her thoughts of being caught again that she didn't realize that she was running on a trail now. She followed the hard packed ground running harder trying to keep ahead of the wolf calls.

Soon though the calls were to close she climbed a wall of rock in the hopes that it would hide her. Though she knew that it was hopeless soon the wolf would be upon her and holding her at bay while Trent figured a way to get her down to torture her to death. Tears began to fall down her face. She bitterly regretted that she never got to say goodbye to her son and daughter. That she would never get to see Gar again. Rachel closed her eyes and waited until she would be taken back to the dark. Back to the hell hole that Trent had chosen to use for his lair. All the while the howls of the wolf came closer. Rachel allowed a stray tear to fall down her cheek before she whispered. "Gar I love you." The howls only a few feet from her now.

Meanwhile a horseman was riding down the trail he and his female companion where suppose to be herding the cattle back to the pens. Though when the two heard the wolf calls they thought that one of the head were being chased. The cattle were everything to the farm, and losing even one of the cows meant that they would lose food off the table. The two riders checked to make sure that they had their guns then they rode to where the wolf howls were coming from. Little did they know that it wasn't a cow that they were about to save.

Rachel was pushing herself as close as she could to the rock wall. Trying to blend into the rock and hide from the wolf. The wolf meanwhile was jumping up, trying to get to Rachel. Then the sound of galloping hooves could be heard. The wolf was no fool it knew that the hoof beats meant that riders were coming. It broke off the hunt, and ran back to the forest. Rachel looked up and saw her saviors.

The male was deeply tanned and had blonde hair like Gar did. The only difference was that his eyes were a steel blue color. He was upon a black horse. The girl was different though. Heavy set and a lighter shade of tan than the male. Her dark brown hair was highlighted with blonde and red. Though it was her eyes that caught and held Rachel. Her eyes were a rich gold color ringed in red, making them look brown from a distance. She was a stride a bay horse.

Rachel looked at the two riders and said. "Thank you." before she slumped forward passed out from lack of food and the adrenaline rush. The female rider caught Rachel and placing Rachel in front of her rode for home.