They had all moved in the house with Mona wrapped in her mother embrace. Mona had been so happy to have her mother again……that the questions that had plagued her for years now…………..were forgotten for the second.
They all sat around the large family room as the reunion continued.
Mona was content just to be held by her mother.
All the noise of everyone talking caused Yorik, Gretta, and Argyro to wake up and cry for attention.
Without thought Mona instinctively detached herself from her mother's embrace and went up stairs to the children.
The instinct to go to her children was far stronger then that to be with her mother.
She had spent a life time wanting her mother………..but now she was a mother………….and everything had changed………..everything.
As she entered the door the triplets stopped crying, but her eyes widened and yelped as she saw the three smiling babies……………..standing up in there crib.
"Oh! My big boys and girl!!!" Mona exclaimed as she rushed to pick up Gretta.
The trio squealed and clapped there hands in delight to their mother's happy face.
Mona placed little Gretta down on the ground and she naturally stood….a little wobbily.....but none the less, she stood.
Mona smiled and laughed at the scene of her little girl.
Mona then placed Yorik and Arygro on the ground and all three stood.
She was shocked at how big they were for there age.
Then again she and Jarod both were tall………..and Jarod was anything but a puny man.
The babies looked as though they were nine months…………but at only four months……who could imagine that they could be able to stand by themselves.
Then something occurred that scared and shocked Mona.
The Triplets began to walk………out the door.
"No No!!" Mona exclaimed as she ran after the trio down the hall.
Mona was afraid that they would trip and fall down the stairs……….but oddly…..they turned the other way from down the stairs.
Instead they ran to the end of the hall where the wood paneled walls were accented by the light that came from the window.
The babies giggled as the beat against the wall with their little hands.
"No…..Mommy said no." Green said as she bent down to retrieve Gretta.
Yorik and Argyro stepped behind their mother and giggled.
She smiled as she glanced behind her.
She then placed her hand on the wall to help push her back up to stand.
When she pushed her weight against the panel…..suddenly……….it moved back.
Mona was taken by surprise and fear and so she quickly shot up and shielded the boys with her body.
The wooden panel pushed back and a light shown.
It Mona a second to realize what she had before her.
An elevator.
The children giggled with glee, as Mona just stared into the elevator.
Memories…………good and bad…………….flooded her.
Something as common as an elevator had caused her nightmares in the past.
For her an elevator had signified her mother's supposed suicide for most of her life…………only to have the horror of rediscovering her mother had been 'murdered' in one.
And now………….she had one in her home………surprisingly.
She looked down to Gretta's smiling face.
"You knew this was here…………..didn't you?" Mona asked her baby girl.
Gretta giggled along with Yorik and Argyro.
Then Yorik and Argyro walked into the elevator.
Mona assumed this three knew something she didn't. So for the first time……in a very long time……..she put her trust……into someone other then herself.
She stepped into the elevator murmuring…..
"I hope you guys know what you're doing."
As she turned around to face towards the opening…….she noted with awe the beauty of this elevator.
It had rich cherry panels with silver accents adorning the inside along with bench seating around the walls.
She looked to the control panel and laughed as she saw than each button was made colored glass, and was lighted to create a beautiful light show.
Then as she caught the amount of buttons on the panel.
The villa only had 4 stories…………yet there were eight buttons on the panel that indicated floors.
Green glanced with the side of her eyes at Gretta.
The little girl smiled and giggled as she brought her little first into her mouth.
Mona let out a huge sigh as she pressed the white glass button that read 1.
The door slit shut revealing a silver relief of the Sicilian symbol.
Then suddenly the elevator began to descend.
Mona glanced to the boys to see how the give of the elevator had effected the two.
She smiled as she saw the two boys had placed their hands on the seats of the elevator to hold themselves up.
When the elevator came to a halt, Mona's eyebrows shot up in shock.
The elevator door had opened revealing a huge room…………..filled with cars and computers.
"I have entered the Batcave!" Mona said sarcastically.
Mona scrunched her eyes to see the farside of the room.
She shook her head when she couldn't see.
She was about to exit the elevator when she heard Yorik giggling with Argyro again.
She realized she couldn't bring all three of them with her.
She looked on the elevator panel for a button to keep the doors open………..to no avail.
Then she came up with a solution.
She removed her shoes and placed them in the line of the sensors.
Then when she finished she rose up with Gretta still in her arms and looked over for Yorik and Argyro.
But they were not in the elevator.
She quickly spun around and found them sitting on the ground of the batcave.
She let an aggravated sigh from doing the work for nothing.
Both Yorik and Argyro who had been playing together, looked up with laughing faces at their mother.
"You two are trouble makers……just like your father." Mona muttered as she then walked into the room.
As she approached the wall that looked to be a huge wall of boxes………..she discovered them to be television screens.
A desk with thousands of buttons and knobs was stationed in front of the screens.
Gretta began to giggle and bounce in her arms.
Mona was adjusting her on her hip when Gretta's foot hit a button on the desk.
Suddenly all of the screens came on.
Mona watched as all of the rooms in the house came on the screens.
Mona's eyes quickly switched from screen to screen with a quick professional eye.
"So this place had a security system......." Mona muttered to herself.
It should have unnerved her…………….what could symbolize the Centre better…………..then prying eyes…………….always watching…….but never seen.
But with the dust……..and the current status of the desk…………she knew that it had not been used for quite some time.
She searched the screens once more and saw something that caught her eye.
One of the camera's was pointed down a small road that led to the centre of town…………………………..but the road was 3 miles from the house.
Her eyes then turned to the cars that lined the rest of the room in front of a huge metallic door.
She had missed the eyes of all of her children staring up in the direction of the camera's eyes.
Mona walked over to the cars.
A slow smirk spread across her face.
"Well who ever owned this house before hand, had good taste in cars."
These were no ordinary cars.
Her eyes scanned over the makes of the cars.
Ferrari, Lamborghini, BMW, McLaren, Porsche, Bentley, Lotus, Maserati, Cadillac, and Mercedes-Benz………all very known and very expensive brands.
Well at least for these lovely specimens!
Yorik began to garble, and Mona quickly turned to see what was causing the sudden noise.
Yorik was trying to reach for a metal box right next to the elevator door.
Mona walked back to where Yorik was and slowly opened the metal box.
In the box were the keys for all of the various cars.
"Well at least I won't have to hot wire them." She said to Gretta.
Little Gretta smiled at her mother, and Mona smiled right back, and then placed a kiss on her plump little cheeks.
"Come on……we better hurry and see what else we can discover." Mona said to the boys as she walked back into the elevator with Gretta still in her arms.
The boys slowly walked into the elevator and took the position that had been in, before exiting the elevator.
Mona pushed the purple glass button that had the number two on it.
The door shut tight………and soon the elevator began to ascend to the next discovery.