Entering the home several minutes later, the small raven haired girl looked around, her eyes taking in everything around her even as Danny pulled her towards a door near the entrance. He turned to her and said, "My parents are ghost hunters, so you might see some weird things down here in their lab." She nodded, and with that the two children entered the space where the noise that had been muffled outside of it was now louder. The small girl looked around Danny, her amethyst eyes wide with all the inventions that littered the rather large space. Neither parent noticed the two children as they walked down the stairs, their footsteps just another background sound amidst all that was going on before the two adults.
"Almost done," the woman stated, her goggles pulled down to cover her eyes as she worked. Amethyst seemed to watch them, her steps faltering as she grew closer to them. Danny looked back over at her before stopping beside her, the pair of them waiting until the woman before them finished what she was doing. It didn't take long, the raven haired boy calling out for his mother as soon as she placed the blowtorch to the side.
"Mom!" he hollered, the female turning toward them and when seeing that it was her son and a small rather worn out looking girl with him, she removed her goggles revealing her purple eyes. Turning to get her husband's attention only took another second and then both parents were looking at them, the small girl at his side moving to stand behind him, though she wasn't really short enough to do that.
"Danny, who do you have with you, son?" his father asked as his mother crouched down to be at eye level with the pair of children.
"She doesn't know her name," the boy stated, moving the raven haired child to stand beside him and though she didn't want to move from her safe space she eventually allowed him to pull her to his side. "We found her hiding under a dumpster and two-no, three people looking for her." Jack raised a brow at this information, but before he could ask the small boy continued, "She doesn't know who her parents are or where she comes from." Maddie felt her heart clench at this, but even knowing that this poor child was without any memories knew that they would have to take her to the police.
"Let's call the proper authorities," she said, turning to grab the phone even as her son's face fell.
"How can they help her if she doesn't have any information herself?" he asked, his father the one to respond.
"They can help her with a trip to a doctor who specializes in this kind of stuff," the bulky male stated. "They will help her, son, we can't do much more than that." The little raven haired child didn't like that response and the girl at his side seemed just as upset, but instead of saying anything she took off, her bare feet slapping loudly as she rushed up the stairs. Danny didn't know what to do, but his father moved quickly while his mother still was speaking to someone on the phone. Jack grabbed the small girl, her screams filling the room as she began to fight back against his grasp.
"Let me go! I don't want to go back!" That stilled the three in the room, her strange words still echoing around them as she continued to cry. "Let me go! Let me go!" Maddie hung up the phone, her purple eyes taking in the small child as her movements became sluggish. Amethyst hadn't had anything to eat and with the less than restful sleep under the dumpster had little in the way of energy. Her voice was hoarse and fading even as she tried to continue her crying.
"See!" Danny said, rushing over to help the girl get free of his father. Maddie moved to pick him up, her gaze still on the small girl as she eventually wore herself out, but she knew that they weren't legally able to keep the girl and not inform the cops of her. The raven haired boy watched from his mother's arms as Amethyst fell asleep in his father's arms.
"They are sending someone over in a bit," his mother said, both parents walking upstairs with each child still in their arms. "We will have to see what they say." Scowling at his parent they headed for the living room, the raven haired girl laid out on the couch. Danny was released as Jack headed back for the lab and Maddie headed for the kitchen to make their lunch. The small boy sat down on the floor in front of the small girl, wondering what would happen to her when the people who had been hunting her found out that she was in police custody. He leaned against the couch, grabbing the remote to turn on the TV. As it was the weekend, the small boy knew there would be some cartoon on to keep his mind occupied while Amethyst slept.
What appeared on the screen stopped him from changing the channel as the face of the girl behind him appeared, the woman on the screen looking mildly worried. The small male turned it up, the picture changing to one of two people, the people that had been hunting the small child. There was her name below the picture, listing the girl that was in his home as Samantha Manson.
It seems that one small girl is missing, her whereabouts unknown, but one thing is certain. This girl is in danger, her parents, Pamela and Jeremy Manson, found dead in their car at the bottom of Lake Eerie where foul play is suspected. As family members are being located, the local police and even the FBI are on the hunt for these two people in the picture beside me. The newswoman stood before the lake in question, a rather nice looking car being investigated while police loaded two bodies in body bags into the van waiting off to the side. If you see this girl, please call the number listed on the bottom of the screen so that we can all help this child and keep her safe. The people in the picture are known by several aliases, but their real names are Keres and Seth Abaddon and while they appear to be wealthy, they are known mercenaries, taking money to kill others or even just to fill their own banks.
The police have been searching for the pair for several years. If you see these two please call the police and do not approach them as they are considered armed and dangerous. Again, if you see these two do not approach them as they are armed and very dangerous.
Danny turned to look at the raven haired girl still sleeping soundly behind him, her eyelids flickering as she slept. Were his parents right? Would it be safer for her to go to the police for the aid that she needed? He didn't know her, but he knew that she needed to regain those memories and with the knowledge that her parents were dead with no other family members known by the authorities, she would need the protection that those same people could give her. Running off to tell his mother what he knew from the TV he failed to notice the whimper that escaped the small girl's lips as she turned over on the couch, her body shaking slightly.
Sam looked behind her, the car's headlights too bright for her to see the car behind them, but her parents were afraid of whomever was behind them. She wasn't sure what they were talking about, but her parents were never afraid, no, her parents were almost to detached in their normal state of personality. They were cold to and impersonal with even her, but they seemed to care about her in their own way.
"Samantha, you need to sit down and buckle up," her mother snapped, fear in her voice as she noted how close the person chasing them was. "We're going to be okay, but you need to buckle up just in case something bad happens." Nodding at her mother she turned back around, buckling herself in just as the car shuddered, the sound of metal hitting metal filled the air. The woman before her screamed, her skin turning pale. Sam whimpered, her hands clutching her pink shorts so tightly that her knuckles turned a pale white against the red tint of her fingers. The car behind them grew closer again, the sound of their motor growing louder before they were struck again.
"Mommy! What is going on?!" Sam cried, her eyes filling with tears. Her mother looked worried, her teal eyes wide with fear even as she tried to hide that emotion from her child. She didn't seem like she wanted to answer, but her husband glanced over at her, the look he gave her telling her so much as he reached over with one hand to grasp her closest hand in his.
"Some bad people want our money," the red head said. "They are trying to harm us so that they can get it, but we will do all that we can to get safe."
"We're going to see a friend and his family," her father said, looking at her in the rearview mirror, his own blue eyes full of fear. "We haven't spoken to them in years, but I am sure that they will have the means to help us." Sam didn't understand. They were running away to someone who they didn't talk to anymore, but were sure that these people would help them. "We don't trust anyone else, not that they have the means like our old classmate does. He fights ghosts," the blond stated, a wry chuckle escaping his lips. "Never thought I would ever come to him for help, but with all the crazy inventions that he had crea-" SLAM! A squeal of tires and the lurch of their car careening off the road cut off her father, his head slamming into the wheel while her mother fell forward into the dashboard of the luxury vehicle...
Sam sat up as the doorbell rang, her eyes dazed as she recalled her last moments with her parents, the fear in their eyes, the words that they had spoken. We're going to see a friend and his family... Who was her father speaking of? I am sure that they have the means to help us...Turning as the door opened and a policeman stood in the doorway the small raven haired girl knew she now had more information... that she knew her name and what her parents had looked like. Maddie looked over at her, her finger pointing to the small girl as Danny came from the kitchen to see that she was awake.
"Amethyst, are you okay?" She blinked at him, nodding her head before pausing and shaking her head. The two adults approached, Danny raising a brow at her response.
"My name is Samantha," the raven haired girl said to the shock of the others in the room. "My parents were fleeing from someone trying to kill them... trying to kill us."
