"Eden Fox DeLauro, Eden Fox Delauro, please report to the main office. Please report to the main office, your aunt is here to pick you up."

"Eden, you heard the loudspeaker. Pick up your things and head over to the main office."

Eden slowly packed her things. She didn't have any aunts or uncles to speak of. Except for Brennan and Jesse but they wouldn't pull her out of school. Maybe it was Sam from the safehouse. That couldn't be it either, Sam wasn't allowed to leave the safehouse unless it was being raided or she was going out for groceries.

On her way to the door she paused as another announcement came on.

"Carly Fox DeLauro, Carly Fox DeLauro, please report to the main office with your belongings. Please report to the main office."

So Carly was being picked up too. She continued walking and couldn't think who it could possibly be. She turned the corner and headed down the stairs. Getting to the first floor, she saw a familiar mass of blonde curls also walking to the main office.

"Carly! Wait up." Eden yelled running to catch up to her older sister. Carly turned around and waited for her.

"Do you think it's mom?" Eden asked her.

"No."

"Then who?"

"We're two feet from finding out." They entered the office and saw a woman standing there.

"Hey, isn't that the woman from this morning?" Eden whispered.

"Hey you two, are you ready to go? Okay then, come on your mom's waiting." Mia quickly ushered them out of the room then out of the building.

"What are you doing here?" Carly asked stopping at the school entrance. Mia looked around to make sure no one was listening.

"Your mom was in an accident and she called me to bring you to her."

"What kind of accident?" Carly asked skeptically.

"I'll explain on the way. Let's go, my car's over there." They followed Mia to her car and climbed in the back seat. They didn't see a reason not to, especially since she seemed to be good friends with Shalimar. Eden just wondered why Shalimar would call Mia and not Emma.

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"I was still a teenager. A stupid teenager. My friends and I had gone to a party and except for my friend Wendy we were all drunk out of our minds. The party was being held at a really old mansion . So of course we had to explore it. All I remember is us ending up in the attic where there was a ton of old swords and knives and guns from world war II or something. We started playing with the swords and guns. Wendy in the spirit of things played along. We got carried away and the 'fight' got serious. We were all so drunk that we didn't realize what happened until she was laying on the floor bleeding to death. None of us went for help and just stayed there frozen until she just stopped breathing." Emma's eyes began to water as she remembered what she did.

"Why would something that happened so long ago put Carly and Eden in danger?" Shalimar asked wiping away a tear that Emma finally let fall.

"Because she was pregnant at the time.We didn't know. She hadn't told any of us and she wasn't showing. Before she died she asked me to help her save her baby, that she didn't want to die. All I could do was stare at her, at what I'd done to her. Years later I was working at a phone company. I recieved a call from someone claiming that I had killed her baby." Emma was just letting the tears flow on their own.

"I panicked and hung up the phone. After making some calls to my old friends two of them said they recieved similar calls. Then I recieved an e-mail telling me about a sword fight that had killed a baby. I still didn't think it was her. I thought it was probably one of the guys fooling around and being a jackass. Two weeks later I saw her. I was at the mall in the food court having lunch and she just sat down in front of me. I thought I was hallucinating. She said I let her baby die, and that she'd be sure to return the favor when I had kids of my own. She said that because of the wound her uterus was taken out and she'd never be able to have kids. And since she couldn't, she wouldn't let me. I told her it was an accident that I didn't mean for it to happen. Then she tried to kill me." Emma was sobbing so hard that she couldn't go on any longer. Shal wrapped her arms around her and held her tight.

"She found me Shalimar. I thought I was safe but she found me." Emma said between sobs.

"I'm not going to let her do anything to you, or our girls, do you understand me?"

"We have to go get them, Shal. I just want to know they're safe."

"Alright, let's go."

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"What do you mean they're not here!!" Shalimar shouted at the school secretary.

"Well...Their aunt came to pick them up. She said that you were in an accident."

"Aunt? They don't have an aunt! You let some stranger walk out of here with my kids?!!!!!!" Shalimar pulled the lady up by her collar. She was barely growling at her when Emma walked in.

"Shal, what are you doing? We're here to pick up the girls not secretary's." Emma said pulling her back. Shalimar tensed. How was she supposed to tell the woman she loved that her greatest fear had come true just a few minutes ago?

"What? What's wrong?"

"They're....They're not...here."