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Chapter Seven: Escape
We left the table and followed Jack through the restaurant.
Sara suddenly stopped, frozen solid. "They're here for us, aren't they?" she asked.
"Yeah, they are." Jack answered honestly. He knew he couldn't hide that from a mind-reader, so instead he began looking for hidden exits.
"I knew we couldn't trust him Sara. It's too late. We have to run." Seth said quickly, grabbing his sisters arm and getting ready to take off.
"Wait." Sara interrupted, halting him in his tracks. Leslie watched Jack too, curious to see what he was doing.
She ignored Seth's attempt to get away. She knew he hadn't fully trusted Jack, or her for that matter, so any flaw in their actions would have set him off and send him running.
Jack called them over to him with a wave of his hand.
"Come on." he said, heading towards the back of the restaurant. They kept low so as not to be seen by the government agents, who had entered through the front door.
They turned into the corner, and ran into Tina, who was already watching them. They froze, until she brought her index finger to her lips to keep them quiet.
"Ssshhh. Now come on." she indicated, leading them out the back way.
"Thank you." Sara whispered to her as they passed by Tina.
"Good luck." Tina replied with a smile, and they continued on into the back way.
Jack climbed the ladder and tried to push open the trap door, but it wouldn't budge. It was locked.
He got down, and Seth took his place on the ladder, climbing up it fast. He put his arm through the trap door and unlocked it from the outside.
"What the?" Leslie looked up at him with confusion.
"My brother has the ability to change his molecular density, which allows him to phase through solid objects or withstand the greatest of impacts." Sara explained, easing their racing minds.
"Great. That's neat." Jack replied sarcastically.
"You seriously need to take a chill pill." Leslie told Jack as she passed by him going up the ladder and out of the door.
Seth helped her out of the hatch, Sara standing beside him, and Jack followed at the back.
They went along the roof, jumped down from the roof of the building, landing on a caravan. Jack jumped first, and the other three consecutively followed, each landing into Jack's ready arms to soften their fall. They looked around to see where they were, when suddenly a dog started growling from behind them.
Leslie noticed it was a guard dog who was protecting the caravan and the owners inside.
"Hiya little fella." Jack cooed, leaning forwards and patting his lap. The dog went to lunge for him, and Jack withdrew in defence, but no attack came.
Instead the dog had passed by and was licking Sara's face happily, his tail wagging. "We appreciate your understanding." she told him. "Let's go." she told the others, and they ran to Eddie's garage. They climbed into the car, despite the repairs not even close to being finished.
Sara closed the bonnet from the back seat, her powers becoming useful.
Eddie offered his business card to Jack, but he declined and took off from the garage.
They pulled out into the main street, which had SUV's lining each side of the street. They passed by the jeeps with gunmen aiming at them, Sara blew them up, flicking her hand toward each one.
"Keep doing whatever you're doing, Sara." Jack called back.
They got out onto the road, ready to escape. "Say goodbye to Stony Creek."
The taxi then started to slow to a stop.
"No, no, no." Jack groaned. "Sara! Sara, are you doing this?"
Suddenly, the dog from before bounded into the car through Sara's open door.
"Sara, I said..." Jack saw the big dog. "Oh no, no. Absolutely not. This...junkyard is not coming with us. I'm done picking up stray passengers." Bullets started hitting off the car, so Jack had no choice but to stand on the accelerator, Junkyard and all.
They took up another dirt road, away from the main strand where they could be followed.
"Those guys back there, they were the ones who were chasing us back on the motorway, right?" Leslie asked.
"Yes." Sara answered.
"It is vital that you take us to their base of operation." Seth told Jack, his tone serious.
"Wait, you want me to take you to the guys who were trying to kill you?" Seth nodded.
"Let me explain to you how we do things on our planet. People who want you dead, you avoid. That way you stay alive. Make sense?" Jack told Seth.
"No one on your planet will 'stay alive', if we do not return to our planet. In order to return we need our ship. Those men who have attacked us have stolen our ship. Make sense?" Seth retaliated.
Leslie, her back to the door for more comfort, looked at Seth with raised eyebrows. He glanced at Leslie with a hint of a winners smirk. That, was cool. I'm getting to like you more and more boy. she thought to herself. She forgot that Sara could read minds, and swore.
Jack, on the other hand, was not happy with that response. He looked over his shoulder at Seth like he would to me if he wasn't happy with my attitude, or cheekiness.
"Where do you suggest we begin our search?" Sara asked.
"I don't suggest we begin searching at all. I suggest we go back to Vegas so I can drop you off where you got on." Jack replied. He then looked at Junkyard. "You too."
Leslie was really pissed off with Jack now. What was his problem? Why was he acting like such a dickhead?
"You dropping me off too?" she asked, narrowing her eyes at Jack. Jack was about to reply harshly, but Seth spoke, cutting him off.
"Just as I thought. No human is going to help us Sara. Especially not this human." Seth told his sister, indicating Jack.
"Hey, hey." Jack interrupted. "Easy on the human bashing, ok? Some of my best friends happen to be human."
"I'm human too." Leslie whispered, but she wasn't heard.
"And even if I were to help you I wouldn't know where to begin. I don't know anything about UFO's, or aliens, or-"
"Who is Doctor Alex Freedman?" Sara asked.
Leslie held back a laugh. "Oh her? She's the woman that Jack fancies." she said.
"Stop it Leslie." Jack snapped. "She's actually someone who can help. And for the record," Jack added to Seth with a defensive glare, "She happens to be human."
Please review. I hope you enjoyed the chapter, and Sara's little surprise. The next chapter, Thursday's one, is one of two favourites of mine. I really hope you'll like it. Thanks.
Slán go feoil,
Mistali
