Sydney sat on the edge of the road side trying to debate what to do next. " Two weeks locked in a tiny garage, hardly any food or water, get dragged out to be sold to some sick and twisted men and when I finally get out I run out of gas with four girls only 1 miles outside of Phoenix with no signal on the cell phone!" Sydney was shouting and realized it when all four girls were staring at her. "Sorry." She slowly stood up and looked down the road. "Well, I guess we had better start walking."
"Whats the point" Sydney stopped and looked at Aly who was still sitting on the edge of the road.
"The point is, if you don't want to end up being some slave for some man, then we had better get going." Sydney snapped. " I am tired, we all are,and I know you have been locked up longer than I have, but we have a chance now and I am not going to sit down and let some man come and sell me or any one of you as a piece of property. Now get up or I will drag you the whole ten miles if I have too." Sydney took a step closer to Aly prepared to do as she had just threatened. Aly quickly stood up and walked down the road before any of the other girls.
"What are you planning to do once we reach Phoenix?" Serena asked walking beside Sydney.
" I am going to get the Phoenix Police Department out and arrest the men I had taken down out in the garage, but first we are going to get all of you checked out by the hospital then send you girls back to your families. All I know is, Scott will pay for what he has done to us. You have my word on that one. If I have to see to it myself he will be spending life in prison for everything he has done." Sydney continued to walk silent in her own thoughts. "Everything." A tear started to form in the corner of her eye. "I know your still alive Francis, you have to be."
"Walker where are we going?" Alex asked trying to keep up with her husband's quick pace.
"I am going to go and meet Sydney in Phoenix. If I know her she will immediatly go to the Phoenix police, then go track Scott down if she has it her way."
"So you are going to go and help her?"
"No, I am going to send her home. My guess is she has already been through hell and she needs to get back to her partner."
Sydney and the girls continued to walk into the night until a car pulled up and asked if they needed a ride.
"What are five girls doing out at this time of night." An old lady asked as they all climbed into her buick.
"It's a long story, but if you could give us a ride to the nearest hospital we would greatly appreciate it. These girls need to get to a hospital and get checked out as soon as we can." Sydney said, to tired from her days adventure to explain it to the old lady.
"Ok, I can do that, you all look as if you had a hard day. Where you in a accident?" Sydney choked back a laugh.
"Yeah, something like that." Sydney looked down at her clothes that she had been wearing for the past two weeks. She looked terrible, as did the other girls in the back seat. All of them looked like they had been in a terrible accident.
As they approached the city, the dark desert night was illuminated by the city lights. As they pulled into the hospital parking lot Sydney glanced behind her. Even though they had reached the hospital, she still felt as though they were followed here.. "Thank you so much for the ride, you don't know how much you have helped us."
"You dears, look like you have been through so much, I just wish there was more I could do for all of you."
"You have done enough. Thank you again." Sydney shut the car door and looked at the girls. "Lets go get all of us checked out and then see what we can do about finding your families."
A man sat in a car, watching the girls as they entered the hospital. "Your good Cooke, but we aren't done yet. You can be assured that we haven't danced are last dance yet." Sydney Cooke would pay for his business loss, but for now he needed to lay low. Scott shifted his car into gear and headed towards the border.
Sydney watched as a car peeled out from a parking space. She knew it was Scott, she had a feeling he had been following her since they climbed into the car with the old lady, but he never stopped them. What was he planning next? She had no idea, but she wasn't going to sit around and find out. She turned and followed the girls into the ER, for now she knew that the girls were safe and right now that was all that mattered.