Chapter 3
The black car skidded to a stop on the edge of the road. They sat staring at the car they had ran off the road.
Lucky and Elizabeth's car rested against a large oak tree. The hood of the car was crushed. Lucky and Elizabeth lay motionless in the front seat. Laurie was in the backseat crying.
Elizabeth began to move. She groaned and opened her eyes. "Lucky!" she screamed. She looked at him and saw that he was slumped over the steering wheel. At first she thought he was dead, but then she saw that he was breathing. "Lucky?" she said touching him gently on the shoulder. He didn't respond.
She looked into the backseat to check on Laurie. "Are you all right sweetheart?" she asked.
Laurie stopped crying and wiped her eyes. "Yes, I'm ok," she said nodding. "What's wrong with Daddy?"
"He's… um… Daddy's asleep honey," Elizabeth said trying not to scare her.
Meanwhile the two men had gotten out of the black car and moved slowly towards Lucky's car. After going a few feet off the road, one of them stopped, pulled out a gun and stood watch. The other one crept up to the car and looked in the driver's side window. He saw that Lucky was unconscious. Elizabeth was sitting next to him trying to wake him up. The man looked in the backseat and saw Laurie sitting there. She looked scared but unhurt.
Elizabeth saw the man looking in the window. A feeling of fear swept through her.
"Mommy!" Laurie cried as she saw the strange man staring at her.
She knew that it was up to her to protect their daughter. "What do you want?" she yelled at the man standing outside their car.
"Our bosses want you and your husband delivered to them," the man said.
"We never did anything to them," Elizabeth said trying to keep the fear out of her voice.
"That's not for us to decide. We just do as we're told," he said before he walked around the car. He opened the passenger side door and pulled out a gun.
"Get out!" he ordered pointing the gun at her.
Elizabeth took a deep breath and did as he asked. Before she could say anything the other man came running up to them.
"Ralph, someone's coming. We have to get out of here," he said. In the background, the faint sound of sirens could be heard.
"Watch her!" Ralph said. He pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket and wrote something on it. He leaned in the car and handed the paper to Laurie. "Give this to your daddy when he wakes up," he told the little girl.
He took Elizabeth by the arm and pulled her back to the car. He shoved her inside. Ralph and the other man got inside and sped off.