"Ben!" Riley screamed as he was the closest so he grabbed Martha before she hit the ground.
"She's loosing too much blood," Ben assumed.
"How are we going to get her help, we don't even know where we are at?" Riley asked softly putting Martha on the ground.
"We need to…" Ben thought. "I have no clue what to do," he admitted.
"Hey look," Riley said pointing into the air. It was a helicopter.
They somehow, by some sort of miracle got it to land. It was a general for the Us Marines.
"How did she get shot," the general screamed over the helicopter blades. They were carefully placing Martha into the helicopter.
"Stray bullet," Ben lied.
"Okay, your daughter will be rushed to the nearest hospital," general assured them signaling the pilot to go.
In no time they were at the hospital, and Martha's pulse was getting weaker.
"Hurry!" Ben yelled it did no good, none of the nurses spoke English.
The bullet was through and through. So all they had to do was to patch her up.
Then a cop came in.
"We need to ask you a few question?" the general said, he was the English translator.
"About what?" Ben asked nervously.
"Like, why on Earth is your daughter with you when she should be in school?" the general asked.
"Well, because it's here spring break, she goes to a private school," Ben lied.
"Why was you car damaged when you said it was just a stray bullet?" he asked.
"Well because we swerved when the bullet hit," Riley lied.
"You know, I know you complete background Benjamin Gates," the general warned. "I know that you daughter does not go to a private school, and I know that a few weeks ago your house was left in ram shackles, now tell me what's going on," the general demanded.
"Ian Howe is after us," Ben admitted.
"The guy that got arrested for stealing the declaration of Independence?" the general asked.
"Yes," Riley answered.
"Is my daughter going to be okay?" Ben asked.
"Yes, she was put on Vicodin for pain so she's knocked out at the moment, so did Ian kidnap you?" the general asked.
"Yes, he did," Ben said half lying.
"Where is he now?" General asked.
"We escaped in his car, and he started shooting at us, and that's how Martha got shot," Ben explained.
"Okay, I trust it, that you are going back to the united states?" general asked.
"Yes, we are for the time being, we were going on a treasure hunt, but that's going to wait until Martha gets better," Ben explained.
"That's fine with me," General said.
A few hours later, Martha was transferred to Children's hospital in her hometown.
An hour after that, Martha woke up. Ben, Riley, and Abigail never left her side.
"Hey guys," Martha said groggily.
"Hey sport," Riley said.
"Hey honey," Ben and Abigail said together.
"Where am I?" Martha asked.
"Children's hospital," Ben answered.
What happened?" Martha asked kind of confused.
"You got shot by Ian," Riley answered.
"O yeah, I remember," Martha smiled.
"So yeah," Ben said awkwardly not knowing what to say for the first time to his daughter.
"Well we will leave you guys alone for a little bit," Riley said noticing this was a family moment.
"No, uncle Riley stay here, your family," Martha begged, and this made Riley stay.
"Yeah so I guess we have to clear a few things up," Ben said.
"If you want to I mean, it's your past," Martha shrugged.
"No, listen honey, we want to share our past with you, because that's what every parent should do, but there is a lot of complications in my past," Ben explained. "We all have our skeletons, but my skeletons are a little bit darker to what you believe in," he added.
"Did you think I wouldn't love you if you told me?" Martha asked.
"Of course we didn't think that, it's just that… I don't know what I was thinking," Ben said.
"It's just that, we didn't want you to think that we were bad people," Riley offered in.
"Guys, you're my family, I'm suppose to love you unconditionally, no strings attached," Martha said. "But families are not suppose to keep secrets from each other," she added. "And that includes committing felonies," she added in.
"You're mad at me aren't you?" Ben asked.
"No, daddy I could never be mad at you, it's just, promise me you won't keep secrets from me," Martha asked.
"I promise," Ben said.
"Okay, then let's not talk about this anymore," Martha smiled.
"O one more thing for the record, Ben didn't actually kidnap Abi, she sort of followed us," Riley pointed out.
"Yes, that's true," Abigail agreed.
They all started laughing.
Martha tried to sit up, but there was a sharp pain in her shoulder.
"O my gosh," Martha winced.
"Sweetie don't try to get up," Abigail told her.
"Can you give me that Riles?" Martha asked admitting that she was defeated.
"Sure," Riley said confused, she wanted his laptop.
"What are you looking at?" Ben asked curiously.
"I was thinking about Easter Island," Martha explained.
"Let's not worry about that right now?" Abigail said.
"No, listen for a second," Martha said hushing their protests as she typed something up on Google.
"What do you think it is?" Ben asked a second later.
"What if they didn't mean Easter Island? Cause think about it, Easter Island is the most secluded Island in the world, how did the Freemasons know about it?" Martha explained.
"That is very true," Ben said not thinking until she said that.
"So what is it?" Riley asked discouraged because his prediction was wrong.
It's the place where Christ was crucified," Martha explained.
"How do you figure?" Abigail asked.
"Okay, the numbers were three, three and four, right," Martha explained typing on her computer at the same time.
"Yeah," the others said in unison.
"Before Jesus was Crucified he endured six trails, three from the jews, and three from the Romans," Martha explained. "And before they crucified him, he was whipped, beaten, mocked, and was dressed in a purple robe with thorns around his head," she continued. "four trails before the ultimate one of faith, three, three four," she ended.
"Man, Gates' minds," Riley stood amazed.
"Well it doesn't matter sweetie, we would have to wait until you got better to go," Ben said.
"But come on, dad, why?" Martha complained.
"You could pop your stitches, and we don't want this, we almost got in trouble by social services, but we sort of told them that Ian kidnapped all of us," Riley whispered.
"O, okay, but can we go when I'm better," Martha asked.
"We'll thinking about it," Abigial said.
They sat there and just talked about stuff. Anything from the war in Iraq, to the Declaration, it was fun.
