Taylor sighed as she sank into her overstuffed chair. She had been home for two weeks and things were going great. Lucas was coming home today and she had just put the finishing touches on his room.

"What do you think?" she asked Collin, who was sitting on the floor playing with a stuffed t-rex. The toddler clapped his hands together and Taylor grinned. He may have looked like Eric, but he certainly had a happier disposition.

She picked him up and headed out to pick up Ani and Sky from school. After that, they would go get Eric and together, pick up Lucas from the hospital. Little did she know that someone else was planning on picking up the twins…

Sky stood outside of the school and waited patiently for Ani. He was very excited and couldn't wait until they brought his new brother home.

"Sky!" he turned and saw Ani running towards him with a huge grin of her face. "I met another new girl today!" she said excitedly. "She has powers too!"

"Really? That's so cool!" Sky said.

"Her name's Sydney and she let me use her lip gloss!"

"You're turning into a girly girl!" Sky said laughing.

"Am not!" she yelled back.

"Are too!"

The arguing would have gone on longer but the familiar Silver guardians SUV pulled up to the curb in front of them. Without thinking, they opened the door and climbed in…

Five minutes later Taylor pulled up to the school and saw Alec waiting on the curb, but Sky and Ani weren't with him. She rolled down the window and saw a very confused look on his face.

"Hey Alec," she said a little nervously. "Where are Sky and Ani?"

"They just got into your car and went that way… at least, I thought it was your car," the little boy said. Taylor's eyes widened.

"Ally, did you see what kind of car it was?" she asked.

"It was a Guardian truck like daddy's… are they in trouble?"

Taylor put the car in park and grabbed her cell phone, dialing Eric's number immediately. "Ally, get in the backseat," she ordered. Alec did as he was told as Taylor waited anxiously for Eric to pick up.

"Meyers," Eric said as he picked up his phone.

"Do you have Ani and Sky?" she asked.

"No," Eric said. "I thought you were picking them up… what's wrong?" he could tell immediately that something wasn't right.

"Someone in an SGA truck picked them up," she got out as the reality of it all hit her. Someone had her kids.

"Are you sure?" Eric asked as he just about ran down the hall to the garage. He checked the list of cars that were out and saw that several of them were out patrolling.

"Alec's here with me. He said he saw them get into the car and then it drove off… God Eric someone took them!" she said as tears gathered in her eyes.

Eric heard her crying and it broke his heart. His mind was racing as he thought of the danger his children were in. He had learned from his guardian training that missing children didn't have that long a safety window after being taken…

Tears gathered in his eyes as he ran to Wes's office. "Eric," Taylor said. "Alec said that it had the numbers 158 on it."

Wes saw the state Eric was in as he entered his office. "Wes, we need an APB on truck 158. Someone took the twins," Eric got out. Wes was out of his seat immediately. "Taylor has Alec with her."

"Let's go," Wes said as he called out an order to all vehicles to find the truck… and the twins.

Meanwhile…

"My papa's gonna get you," Sky said as the car continued to drive down a dirt road.

"And Uncle Wes too," Ani said. As soon as they had shut the door earlier, they had known they weren't in the right place. The person driving the car wasn't from the SGA, and defiantly wasn't their mama.

"Pipe down back there," the driver said. "Or else I won't be so nice when we stop."

Ani reached out and took Sky's hand.

'I'm scared,' she said in her head. Sky looked at her strangely.

'Ani? Can you hear me?' he said to himself. He could have sworn he heard her say she was scared.

Ani nodded her head slowly… they could hear each other in their heads…

Nearly an hour had passed when the car stopped. Sky held onto his sister's hand as they were roughly brought out of the car. They were in the woods somewhere… far away from the city.

"Sit here and shut up," the driver said as he threw back the hood he was wearing. "Your father will find you… eventually. As soon as he puts a stop to this SPD project."

Ani held onto Sky as they waited…

Taylor was holding onto Collin and Jen to Alec as they sat in Taylor's office, anxiously awaiting word.

"Who would do this?" Taylor asked through her tears. Jen tried her best to comfort her, but Taylor was beyond consoling. "When they find the bastard who did this, I'm going to rip him a new one."

The boys were thankfully asleep at the time.

"All I wanted to do was get my family back and-" she stopped short. "Oh my God… Lucas," she breathed.

"Eric has three security guards outside the NICU. I already checked," Jen said. Taylor breathed a little easier then. The phone rang then and Taylor immediately picked it up.

"Eric?" she said breathlessly.

"We got a message," he said as he swallowed hard. He and Wes had received a strange message over Wes's Morpher. How someone had gotten the frequency was beyond them. "They want a ransom and SPD shut down."

"How much?" she questioned.

"They didn't say, but the guy told us where to meet him."

"Are they alright?"

"He said they were," Eric replied. "We're going to check it out."

Taylor sat up a little straighter. She knew what Eric was going to do… he was going in after them…

"Eric, please… bring them home," she said. She wanted to be out there just as much as he did, but she was still recovering from her surgery.

"I will… I promise," he vowed. "I love you."

"I love you too… be careful."

Eric hung up then and turned to Wes. "Let's get my kids back."