Authors Notes: Wow is being a jerk. I couldn't post this until just now. It won't let me press any links. How rude :P Hope ya'll haven't missed me to much :D

Safe in your Arms

Chapter 4

Traveling

"Percy you're an idiot!" A voice yelled through the door on the old house that once upon a time belonged to an old ranch owner. The walls wood planks were so thinned out you could see between then. Yet the cream colored walls and the yellow curtains told her the house was still being kept up with.

Dena sat up and gasped at the sudden pain to her forehead. She lay back on the bed holding her forehead. She felt the large band that was wrapped around her head.

"Dena can you hear me?" She looked around at a man leaning over her. She didn't know who the man was and was about to push away from him only he took her wrist between his thumb and first finger and looked to his watch.

"Still a big abnormal. Stay in bed for another hour alright. I'll check again. Your head still hurting I'd imagine. Someone tried to take you out. Almost took out Percy. When he pulled up on my doorstep he had bled so much that he looked so much like a sheet then the ones on this bed." The man had deep black hair pulled back into a pony tail.

"Where are we?"

"We're at my estate in New Jersey."

"Bit run down isn't it?"Dena asked her eyes were starting to close on there own.

"Only some of it. I'm remodeling it. It'll look like it did when I'm finished with it. I hope." He said and lay her hand back down on the bed. "now hush…you need your rest. You lost a lot of blood yourself. " He said and pulled the covers back up to her neck.

"Percy why the hell didn't you take her to the hospital? They have better facilities there. You've been here for a month now. The police are looking everywhere for her. Your now wanted for kidnapping!"

"Kidnapping Hastings? Kidnapping…whose kidnapping, shes my baby! She's my daughter how can I possibly kidnap my own flesh and blood!" Percy said pulling his shirt back over his head.

"Are you sure its Violet?" Hastings asked.

"Quite sure. That night I rescued her in the park I took a sample of blood…and had them tested. I'm 98.8% sure she's Violet."

"So this is it then hum? We can go home?" Hastings asked "What about Marguerite?"

"We can do nothing for her Hastings…she's dead."

"George?"

"Along with her." He whispered and took a long drink of his brandy. "She's all I've got now, and I'm taking her home. We don't belong here." Percy said and looked at Hastings. "Call the boys. I refuse to leave this place without them.

"What about Chauvelin?"

"Our world is better off without him."

"So we're just going to give up? Go back to our world…and be forgotten about?"

"You've seen them Hastings…our world has been carried on for a hundred years. As long as people keep reading our book, doing our plays, singing those songs. We'll never be forgotten."

"The world will always need the Pimpernel, and his League of heroes."

The next day

Dena slowly walked out of the room she had been staying in. She had woken up only to find her stomach empty and the fact that she really had to use the bathroom. She walked down the hallways looking into rooms and just managed to find the bathroom just before she had an accident. She slowly walked out of the bathroom and peaked both ways.

"So we're going back? Tonight? But you haven't told her?"

"She'll understand better if we don't tell her just yet I think. She'll understand when we get there."

"Get where?"Dena asked looking over the men before her.

"Richmond." Percy answered taking a drink of the brandy again.

"Virginia?" Dena asked sitting down next to Percy on the couch.

"No…London."

"But…then have you…adopted me?" Dena asked having jumped to her feet. Her head was spinning again and she nearly fell to the floor.

"No…I don't have to adopt my own daughter." He said and reached out to take her hand. Although she had sat down on the arm of the couch having missed the couch itself. "But…my mom?" She said and scooted down to sit next to him.

"Your mother was tortured to death…your brother died trying to protect her." Something happened that Percy wasn't expecting. She picked up the glass full of brandy and threw it in his face.

"Where the hell were you!" She yelled walking toward the door. It wasn't a question, Percy wasn't sure She wanted the question answered.

"I was looking for you." He said wiping his face with a towel provided by hastings. When his eyes were free enough to see her he saw her out on the balcony close to the stairs to the back yard.

"What makes me so damned special?" She asked looking down at her hands. "I'm just a messed up kid no one wants." She balled her hands up into fists and covered her face.

Percy looked at the child trying to hide herself from him.

"You are very important to me. Your all I have left, you are what your mother gave to me. Her last gift and I plan on protecting you."

"Dewhurst, and Ffolkes are both on there way." Hastings put down his phone before going back to what he was doing.

"Dena…you coming?" Percy asked the young girl who kept watching the soft rain fall.

"My head still hurts." Was all she said before turning back to the window.

An hour passed when Tony arrived on a motorbike. When he walked up the steps he spotted Dena sitting there on one of the stone steps playing with two rocks between her fingers. She would then throw them and hit a stack of rocks on the other side of the balcony which was a pretty good ways.

"Hey that's pretty good." Tony exclaimed before noticing the melancholy look of the young lady next to her.

"Its nothing much but a bit of throwing. I'm sure you could do it too. Kinda like bowling, except you don't have a ramp for the rock to follow." She said hugging her knees. Tony looked up at Percy as he walked out of the house.

"You leave your electronics outside before you come indoors Dewhurst you hear me." Percy demanded before going back inside. Tony sighed pulling out his palm pilot and cell phone.

"I'm going to sure miss these. It was a lot better then a quill and ink." He looked down at Dena and suddenly realized something and then looked up at Percy who was watching her own of the corner of her eye. "She's the spitting image of Marguerite…only…those are your eyes." He said and chuckled at Dena who stood up and kicked Tony.

"She's not to keen on the idea what I'm her father yet."

"I figured she'd love the idea of being the Pimpernels daughter." Tony said and looked down at the little girl who looked up when Andrew drove up.

"Whats wrong Percy?" He then saw the little girl. "Oh Violet whats wrong?" He asked and scooped up the little girl. "Is Lord Tony been mean to you huh?"

"Whys it always me!" Tony asked Percy who chuckled at the knowledge.

"Perhaps it's what went on in your childhood?" hastings asked. His seriousness seemed to rub off on the little girl who just put her head on his shoulder.

"Well we're all together in one room. What now Percy?" Andrew asked.

"I have it on good authority that Chauvelin is well aware of our finding of Lady Violet. If he didn't…then we wouldn't have been shot at. He'll make an attempt to go back to Paris…our Paris pretty soon and announce such information to Robespierre."

"Are you sure Percy?" Andrew asked.

"Very probably." Percy said and bit his bottom lip thinking.

"You know the French Revolution is over…right?" Dena asked and sighed. "Also…are you always going to refer to me as Violet?"

"Well it is your given name." Percy said and handed her a cup of tea. At least it had stopped raining and was starting to heat up outside. But she still looked a bit cold.

"You were named after Percy's mother. I've seen pictures of her, she's looked nice."

"She was beautiful, nice, and a great mother…when she remembered me. She was very sick and couldn't remember much after her own name." Percy said and looked around at the clock.

"We have another two hours before the portal opens." Percy said and looked down at Dena.

"Are you going to come with us?" Tony asked.

"Like I have anything else here." Dena said and absent mindedly took Percy's hand. He squeezed her little hand reassuringly. He knew what they were about to do could be very scary to one so young.

Percy looked up at his friends and sighed.

"Gather your things and get out of those cloths…we leave any trace of this place behind. That ball cap too Andrew…"

"Oh but I love this thing." Andrew said and took it off looking at it.

"What about Lady Violet?" Tony asked and looked down at Dena who had on a tshirt with Transformers on it, baggy jeans and a pair of tennis shoes. Her hair was pulled back in a pony tail to keep it out of her face. She looked up at Percy who smiled down at her pulling out a royal blue dress about her size.

"Oh hell no you ain't getting me into a dress…"