CiTyGrl0912: Thanks! Glad u are!

Be234therz: Good point, thanks! Phil, Keely, and Pim's school is called H. G. Wells 'cause he wrote The time machine, so that's supposed to tie in to them using a time machine, lol :P Yeah, he did, I didn't really know how to tie in the wizard, and so I came up with that! lol

Shanaenae50591: Thanks!

She was happy that Claire hadn't caught on that she knew about the future gadgets, let alone had one in her blue Abercrombie zip up jacket pocket! She looked at the ground, and then said, "So…,"

"So,"

"Claire, are you really sure your parents are still alive?"

"YES!"

"O.K., my, my. Um, I want to go check with my Mom and Dad for sec, kay?"

"NO!" Claire whined, grabbing Dana's arm, and then said like she was about to cry, "Please don't leave me,"

"Well, you can come with me…."

"NO!"

"Claire, sweetie, I promise I'll come back, I'm only going around the corner,"

"No…" she whined, "What if they come back?"

"Claire…" Dana sighed, "I HAVE to talk to my mom,"

Claire slowly let go of Dana's arm, and re-latched it around her knees, and nodded.

"Thank-you," Dana said slowly standing up, and walking around the lead clang, clang wall.

Keely was sitting on the ground cross-legged playing 'Red Hand,' with Phil, and Via and James were leaning against some shrubs, and Via was fanning herself with her handbag.

"Hey! Finally! Wait… where is she?" Keely asked, rising from the ground, and brushing her bottom off.

"I'll tell you in a second, but right now I really need to talk to you,"

"O.K….." Keely said, as Dana grabbed her wrist and pulled her off to the side of the driveway.

"Mom, Claire's parents aren't dead." Dana said

"What? Sweetie, have you seen the house?"

"Yes, Mom, but she told me that her dad had to burn the house because 'they' were after them,"

"Wh-" Keely started

"People trying to steal her dad's inventions,"

"Ah," Keely nodded

Keely and Dana had like telepathy, they always knew what the other was going to say before they said it.

"Anyway, and now Claire refuses to leave because she knows her mom and dad are coming back for her, because when they left, her mom said they'd be back,"

"Wa-"

"They left to get the inventions away from 'them',"

"Ah," she nodded again, "So, Claire refuses to leave, thinks her parents aren't dead, and have inventions people want to steal….Dana Mandy Diffy you're honestly telling me she told you this?"

"Yes, Mom. I thought it was crazy too, but then she started talking about invisa-spray, and the spray food can, and the new age-"

"Wait, WHAT!"

"Yeah, see, those are the inventions that 'they' are trying to steal, and her dad is Heath Geoffrey Wells,"

"Oh sweet Jesus."

"Yeah, I know,"

"Well, then her parent's aren't dead, but HOW are we going to explain that to anyone who asks?"

"I have absolutely no idea,"

"Dana……." Keely whined, "You're the brains in this family,"

"Yeah, well, be that as it may, doesn't mean I have all the answers,"

Their conversation was interrupted by the loudest, shrillest scream they had ever heard. Via, James, and Phil had let some people, obviously who worked for CPS (Child Protective Services), past the wall near Claire, and she obviously wasn't happy about it.

"NOOOOOO!" She screamed, "I'M NOT LEAVING! PUT ME DOWN!"

They obviously ignored her, because she kept screaming, and finally Dana and Keely ran past the wall, and there were two men in suits each holding one of her arms, and had her suspending between the two of them and she was kicking and thrashing trying to get away, but they wouldn't let her. She screamed, and bit on of them, and he howled in pain, and dropped her left arm, she flung it as hard as she could at the other guys head, and he tripped and almost fell forward.

Claire ran to Dana and Keely, she wrapped her arms around Dana's waist, and started crying.

"Claire, what's happening? Who are these men?" Dana asked as she lifted Claire so she could carry her.

"I can't explain right now," she said although she was still hysterical

"O.K., but what do we do when these very large men come toward us?"

"I can't leave!"

"I know, but Claire, they're going to take you away anyway, so you might as well come with us,"

"NO!"

"Alright then,"

Not Dana, Keely, nor Claire noticed when one of the huge men arose from the ground, except Claire felt his large hand on her shoulder. She screamed bloody murder, and almost scratched the heck out of Dana trying to slid from her grasp and run. The rest happened like in slow motion, she got about two feet before the man fired.

"CLAIRE!" Dana screamed as loud as she could, and Claire leaned from side to side before she dropped, and hit the ground hard.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Dana screamed again, she had started crying hysterically herself, then Keely put her arm around her shoulder, and pulled her close to her.

The cumbersome man held his gun pointing upward, and blew over the top. Then he glanced at Claire, and then at Keely, who was giving him thee most evil narrow eyed stare anyone had ever seen, then at Dana, who was so hysterical she couldn't hardly breathe.

"Who are you?" Keely demanded at the gun man.

"Alex Phillips, CPS." he answered

"Really?"

"Yeah…, and tell your twin to cool it, it's just a tranquilizer. What kind of a CPS worker do you think I am?" he kneeled down beside Claire, "Although we've never had one this reluctant to come with us,"

"Well, that's because her parent's aren't dead, you boob," Keely said

"What? Of course they are, would I be here if they weren't?" he answered

"Well, her parents, they- well,"

"What?"

"OH MY! I said take her not kill her!" Via said rudely interrupting their conversation.

"Vee, she's not dead, she's just tranquilized," Keely said flatly.

"Oh, my, poor dear," Via said

"Why did you call them?" Dana demanded in a shaky, but stern voice.

"Because…"
"WHY?" she demanded again.

"Well, James and I talked about it, and decided that they could take better care of her than we could,"

"NO."

"Well, I'm sorry, but Heath and Jennifer were our friends, and we should be the one's to decided what-"

"WE AREN'T DEAD!" a voice called, but that also happened so fast, and like in slow motion. They all whirled around to see this woman with brown highlighted with blonde streaks hair, and had a very bad eyebrows, they looked freaky, like square where they started, and the rest was very thin. Before anyone had time for it to register who that was the woman was yanked behind a tall shrub, (the kind that looks like it's Ivy, and that rich LA people use as a privacy wall to block view from their fancy houses).

"Was that…" Via started

"JENNIFER!" Dana yelled running down the driveway like a madwoman, and peering into the shrub the woman had disappeared behind, then backing up, and diving, (literally diving) into the shrub.

Phil, Keely, James, Via, Alex, and Cumbersome man #2, all stared with their heads tilted, and looks of confusion on each other their faces.

"Phil?" Keely asked

"Yeah?" he answered

"Did our daughter just dive into that shrub? Or am I just seeing things?"

"No, she dove into it."

"Oh sweet Jesus,"

Meanwhile: After she dove into the shrub, Jennifer and Heath were sitting comfortably in the shrub that was almost completely hollowed out, when she came crashing through, and scratched herself all up with about a million twigs in the shrub, Heath and Jennifer exchanged panicked glances, and then stared at Dana wide-eyed.

"Hello," Dana said, "You don't know me, but I know you."

"How?" Jennifer asked

"Oh, you see," Dana said, tucking a piece of her dark brown hair behind her ear, it kept falling in her face because from her waist up was in the shrub, and her waist down was sticking out. She turned to Heath, "I know that your designs are going to become famous someday. H. G. Wells,"

"Wha-How did know that? And more importantly who are you?"

"Oh, Dana. Dana Diffy,"

"Since you already know me, there's no point in introducing myself, but my name is actually Heath, but my company is called H. G. Wells. And my wife is Jennifer,"

"Heh-lo," Jennifer said

"Hi," Dana said, "So, um, Claire wasn't batty, you guys actually are alive,"

"Yep." Jennifer said

"And Jen almost blew are cover," Heath interjected

" Blew our cover?'" Jennifer repeated in a silly sounding voice, "Heath, we didn't have a cover! We were trying to save Claire, and now they're hauling her off to CPS! I couldn't watch that I had to say something! I didn't even know I was saying it, I just….did,"

"Jen…." Heath started, "If we come out and say 'Hey, we aren't dead,' we're going to have to tell them why we ran away, and why we told Claire to tell them we were dead, and then they'll think we're crazy,"

"Heath, maybe we are. How could some one, ANYone, leave their baby, and then let her get hauled off to CPS?" she turned to Dana, and said, "You have kids, right?"

"Um, no, actually, I'm 18."

"Oh! Wow, that's embarrassing, I'm so sorry, you just look so much older…."

"Yeah, I know. It's O.K.,"

Heath shook his head, and chucked, "Jenny, Jenny," He said, "There's no way she looks old enough to have a child,"

Jennifer rolled her eyes, then she said, "So, is Claire O.K.?"

"Uh….." Dana didn't know how to answer this, "She's uh….fine,"

Jennifer sighed a sigh of relief, and said, "Good to know. Did she talk to you?"

"Yeah,"

"She's really amazing, isn't she?"
"Yeah, actually, she reminds me a lot of you,"

"Oh, thank-you. Who was that blonde woman you were standing with, if it weren't for the hair, I would have thought you were twins!"

"Oh, that's my mom. We get that a lot," She said, laughing

"Dana?" A voice called from outside the shrub, immediately Dana knew it was Keely's.

"Yeah?" she answered

"Are you O.K.? What are you doing in there?"

"Talking,"

"To who?"

"Whom, and Heath and Jennifer,"

"What!" Keely shoved her way in the shrub next to her daughter, and was face to face with Heath and Jennifer.

"Oh, Hello," she said

"Hi," they said in unison.

"I'm Keely, by the way,"

"Heath,"

"Jennifer,"

They both said, very quickly because they were so amazed by how much Dana and Keely looked a like. They thought there was no way that Keely and Dana were mother and daughter, they had to have been twins.

"So, um, why are we in here?" Keely asked

"Um, we're hiding," Jennifer said

"O.K., you're daughter's being hauled away, so I thought I should inform you , all."

"WHAT!" the both said, "Claire!" Jennifer continued, "We CAN'T let them take her!"

"Jennifer, we have to, we can't give them a logical explanation, so we might as well, just let it happen,"

"Um, not happening."

And with that, Jennifer was out of the shrub, and making a beeline for the CPS truck.

A/N: Nice twister roo, huh? More soon! Bed time!

----Britannia