Author's Note: I really don't like this chapter. A) it's way too short (about half the length I want it to be), and B) it just feels like a sorry excuse for a chapter, but then again, there is a least one part of it that's important. I may well end up deleting it and pretending it doesn't exist at some point.

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Per Chance

Skye stopped at the edge of what appeared to be a cliff and looked at the view beyond. Radiator Springs seemed to be the only town for miles around, for no other buildings were visible besides those in the town.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?"

Skye looked at Sally and nodded.

"What is this place?"

"Wheel Well. Used to be the most popular stop on the Mother Road." Sally turned to the long abandoned building set into the rocks. "That was before the interstate was built."

"Do you come up here a lot?" Skye asked. "I mean, you were up here a few days ago when you found me."

"It's a good place to think." Sally replied. "I thought you might like to come up here. Doc told me about your mother."

Skye sank miserably to the dirt beneath her tyres. It was only a day since Sheriff had told her, and she didn't feel ready to talk about it. Somehow knowing Sally knew didn't bother her. In a way she was glad – she had come to see Sally as the sister she always wanted.

"It's okay. You don't have to talk." Sally reassured her. "I just thought you might like some time away from the town."

They sat in silence for a while, each lost in thought.

"Do you think they'll send me away?" Skye spoke quietly.

"Who, Doc and Sheriff?"

"Yeah."

"I doubt it. Why do you ask?"

"If they find my dad."

"Do you want to live with your dad?" Sally glanced at her.

Skye shook her head. "He hurt us. He doesn't care anyway. If he did he would have found me by now. I don't want to see him."

"Well, if they do find him, and he comes for you, and he really loves you, he'll give you a choice."

"You really think so?" Skye looked at her with desperate eyes.

"If he's a decent guy, then yeah, he should. Besides, what's to say he hasn't been trying to find you?"

Skye shrugged. Surely if her father was looking for her, he would have found her by now. She'd been living in the same house for sixteen years after all. She didn't really know how to feel about her father, having never met the guy. She knew she hated him for making her mother's life and her life so difficult, but at the same time she was curious about him. She wanted to know what kind of guy he was, what he liked, what he didn't, who his friends were, what he did for a living … all the things that defined him.

"You can trust Doc and Sheriff, you know. You can trust everyone here. They took me in when I had nowhere else to go. I'm fairly sure they're already doing the same for you."

"Yeah … thanks, Sally. It's really nice up here."

Author's Note: Like I said, I hate this chapter. I suppose I could always combine it with chapter 5...but then I'm not sure about doing that either, as I quite like chapter 5 as it is...

I've just started working on chapter 7 - and you may get to see the early return of a certain dark green chrysler (again, A Hidden Past should explain some of that), rather than the much later return of the same car in Quest.

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