Chapter 8
"Sammy?"
Tears began to well up in Sammy's eyes.
"Sammy, what are you doing here? How did you find me?"
Sammy began to cry to at this.
"It's not Sammy, Seth. My real name is, well it's…"
"What is it Sammy?"
"Look at my eyes Seth. What do you see?"
Seth stared at her eyes. They weren't the purple that they normally were; they were cold, ice, blue eyes. Realization suddenly dawned on Seth.
"Lillian."
Lieutenant Shane Wolfe had never before been so worried in his entire life. He had watched the tape that the girl had delivered to him. Shane had never seen a crueler person in his entire life. What that man did to Seth was inhumane. The boy did not deserve that. Shane just wished that he would be able to locate the boy or the Ghost before it was too late, before anything worse happened to the boy. He prayed that Seth would return home to his family, alive. Zoe and Lulu were out of their minds with worry. Shane did not know how much more stress and pain this family could endure.
Seth was speechless as he discovered that his newest friend was actually Lillian. He had dreamed of the day that he would meet Lillian for so long. He had also dreamed of questions he would like to ask her, but now that he came face to face with Lillian at last, he was speechless. He did not know what to say, but he had to say something for the look on Lillian's face told him that she was getting nervous from his silence.
"So, you're Lillian. I mean, are you actually the Lillian that I once knew?"
"Yes. I never meant for you to find out, but I guess that some things change."
"Wow," was all Seth could say in response and again silence fell between the two.
"So, if you are really Lillian, tell me how we know each other."
"Seth, you told me that you didn't know who Lillian was or how you know her,how willit prove anything if I told you the answer?"
"Because I have a feeling that you know the answer and for so many years now, I have been dying to know, so cough it up, sister." Seth was trying to be funny and was trying to break the ice, but Lillian's eyes did not sparkle with laughter, but with sorrow.
"Seth, I-I don't know how really to tell you this, but, umm, well the truth is Seth, that I am your sister, your twin sister to be exact." Seth was expecting anything other than that. Lillian couldn't be his sister, could she? Wouldn't he remember something like that? Lillian noticing his confusion decided to explain things.
"You probably forgot because we were so young when we separated and our life before we were separated was not a very good one, so you most likely suppressed the memories, pretended that they never happened to make life seem easier. And you underwent so much stress after we were separated that it most likely was not hard for you to just forget everything."
"I didn't forget everything Lillian, I didn't completely forget about you."
"Let's not talk about that, let's just get you out of here."
"No. I want to talk about it. I want to know everything about you, like what you are doing here and how you found me."
"That is a long story Seth, and you probably don't want to hear it all."
"I will be the judge of that." Lillian looked hesitant to tell Seth. "Please Lillian, please I want to know, I have gone too long not knowing the truth about a lot of things and I finally have a chance to have some light shed on my past. Please Lillian, don't take that chance away from me. I want to know your story and how I fit into it. Please." Lillian still looked hesitant to say anything. "If you tell me everything that you know, I will tell you everything about me. Okay?"
"Okay, but let me untie your hands first and then tell me where you want me to begin."
"Start at our birth and then go to present time."
"Okay, here it goes. We were born to Collette Rae Maze and Donald Mark Maze. I don't remember either of them, Graft told me their names and most of what I am about to tell you. Anyways, back to the story, our father died when we were really young. After he died our mother became an alcoholic. I don't know much of what happened next, only that Mom had a string of boyfriends until she met Graft. Graft was the only person that could put up with her for an extended period of time. Graft and Mom, well they got married, but Mom died not long after the wedding leaving Graft with full custody of us. Graft said that he couldn't handle both of us, that he couldn't afford to keep both of us, so he decided to keep you and give me up to one of his friends. I was given to a Russian man who is sort of the American equivalent to a mob boss. He treated me like part of the family, but I did a lot of bad things for him. I helped his crime ring survive in Russia and, before long, crime was the only thing that I knew. Eventually, though, the law caught up with the Russian mobster and he and every one of his employees were arrested. That is every employee, but me, was arrested. I had no place to go after that so I came up with the bright idea to go to America in search of you. I tracked down Graft because I thought that you would still be with him, but you weren't. I threatened Graft to tell me where you were, stupidly believing that if I found you, everything would be alright. Graft showed me the truth though. Graft told me that you had been adopted by a nice family when he was imprisoned for theft. He told me that this family cared about you and that they loved you. He told me that you did not remember me and that if I showed up at your door I would only ruin things because no family would want me after all the things I did in Russia. I knew that Graft was right and I did not want to ruin things for you so when Graft offered me a job as his assistant in crime, I took his offer. I had no where else to go and nothing else to do. This was my only option for Graft was right, who would want me after everything that I have done. I began to work for the man that had ruined our lives and I was back in the crime world. I gave up all hope of ever seeing you again, until Graft decided that he wanted to steal the Ghost and sell it on the black market. He wanted me to infiltrate your house, so I became Sammy and entered at your school in your grade. I became friends with you and was just going to find the whereabouts of the Ghost and steal it without you ever knowing that I was Lillian. That night at your house, I didn't mean to stab you. I was just going to throw the knife near you to show your bodyguard that I was serious and that I was a threat, but you walked right into the path of the knife when you panicked. I didn't obtain the Ghost that night and I guess Graft must have decided that I was taking too long. He decided, without my knowing, that he was going to take matters into his own hands. He kidnapped you and then tapped his ransom. I guess I was stupid to not ask any questions about what was in the package that I delivered to your house. I didn't think that Graft would hurt anyone, but when I got back to our hideout, I decided to do a background check on Graft. I had never bothered to do this because it did not matter before today. Anyways, I know what he did to and I'm sorry. I found out that he was keeping you here and found out what he did to you earlier. Graft is crazy if he thinks that I am going to go along with this scheme of his."
Seth absorbed all that Lillian had told him. He had gone so many years without knowing the truth and it took a while to take it all in. He had never imagined the truth to be something like this. He had a sister, a twin sister to be exact. And now Lillian was working for Graft, not knowing what a Monster Graft was and that worried him. He noticed that Lillian had begun to look nervous as Seth stayed silent.
"Did he ever, you know, hit you Lillian?"
"Who Graft?"
"Yeah."
"No, he never did, so I figured that he was just like that guy he gave me to in Russia." Tears began to leak out of Lillian's eyes and Seth made a move to wrap his arms around her to comfort her, but Lillian, not wanting to get too attached to Seth, quickly stood up, cutting off Seth's attempt. It would be hard enough to have to leave him when Graft and she had to go to their next gig and Lillian did not want to make it harder for her or Seth.
"Come on Seth, we better get you back home."
"Don't you want to hear my story?"
"You will have to do it in the car on the way to your house. We have to leave before Graft gets back."
"You can drive? Aren't you a little too young?"
"I'm not too young to drive in Russia and besides as long as I don't get pulled over, no one will ever know that I am driving illegally."
"What if you do get pulled over?"
"I have a fake driver's license. These things are necessary when you work in the crime world." Lillian ashamed at the fact that she was a criminal and ashamed at the style of life she was forced to live turned her head towards the floor to avoid Seth's gaze and ushered her brother out of the door of his cell.
