This chapter is a bit rushed but I hope you like it anyway. If you remember back to the last chapter it was a drop off, you'll find out what happens in the next chapter :P I'm an evil writer. I like to make the suspense build up! Have fun this chapter is a little boring in my opinion but it is important so you'll have to suffer a bit of boring chapter to get to the good stuff.

Lizzie sat uncomfortably on the sofa of the cottage as she awaited news from her mother about her older sister. Nora had been with the rangers for hours and hadn't come back. Lizzie was starting to think she'd need to send a search party out for her mom and George too. Knowing them they'd gotten lost or George dented a cop car AGAIN. She knew that every thing was going to turn out okay but she was still worried. She'd gotten a little more of her sisters worrisome nature than she'd thought. Just then Edwin stormed through the door getting snow every where.

"Ed-win! You got snow EVERY WHERE!" Lizzie yelled. Before she even realized she was sounding a lot like Casey.

"Liz, I'm kind of upset. I SAW Derek and Casey. They were flying on a big bird. I was using the looking glass that the men gave me." Edwin said,

"And that upsets YOU, how?" Lizzie asked.

"Well, that means they aren't trying to get home. But it is good that they haven't killed each other yet."

"Well Ed, I don't really care about that at this moment. I'm more worried about mom and George. They probably got lost." Lizzie said pushing Edwin down on the sofa gently. His legs were too cold to for him to sit down on his own. Lizzie flopped down beside him and snuggled into the side of the sofa.

"Don't worry dad dinged the side of a police car and they are trying to talk their way out of another ticket." Edwin broke the silence.

"I must be psychic, I was just thinking that." Lizzie giggled.

"No, dad's just predictable."

"True." Lizzie looked at Edwin who turned his head when her eyes made contact with his.

"I know what you're thinking Lizzie and its not going to work."

"But Edwin I know you feel the same." Lizzie pouted.

"But Lizzie its different." Edwin defended his cause.

"Just because they are 'Missing' doesn't mean we can't do what we do at home." Lizzie gave him the puppy dog face. Edwin couldn't resist her puppy dog pout. It got him every time and it wasn't even convincing. It just reminded him of Marti, actually it hadn't affected him until Lizzie taught it to Marti and then they used it together. No one could resist Marti's cuteness.

"Fine lets go." They made their way to Derek and Casey's room.

George and Nora walked through the door to find Marti sleeping in Edwin's bed. They went into the other room to see why she wasn't in Derek's where she had been sleeping since she arrived. Nora walked in and saw Lizzie wearing Casey's make-up and clothes and sleeping on Derek's bed Edwin draped over top of her wearing Derek's leather jacket and wrist bands.

"George, isn't this a sight. The middle children all cuddled up like this. Its heart warming." Nora said closing the door behind her. Over the last two months George and Nora had taken turns staying at the cabin so the younger children could go to school three days out of the week. They'd made a special agreement with Lizzie and Edwin's school because Lizzie's dad lived in New York. Marti stayed with her mom all week and came to the cottage on the weekend to be with them. Edwin could do the same as Marti but his school suggested that he be with Lizzie.

Lizzie woke up in a very uncomfortable position with something very heavy crushing her back. She rolled over and found out that it was Edwin on top of her when she heard a loud thud on the floor. She started laughing and ended up rolling off the bed too.

"Sorry Edwin, I didn't know it was you on top of me." Lizzie said sitting up.

"No problem, Liz" Edwin replied in a Jamaican accent. Lizzie threw a pillow at him and lay back. She was still a bit groggy from her sleep.

"Looks like Marti is in our room want to just sleep in here tonight?" Lizzie asked not really wanting to leave the room.

"Yeah, might as well." Edwin replied, hopping up on Derek's bed. Lizzie crawled in beside him, too tired to climb to the top bunk. For some reason Derek's bed was more comfortable and warmer than either of theirs. Maybe it was because they were in there together, or because they knew that right now Derek and Casey were probably freezing in some strange world with some weird creature bothering them.

Edwin woke freezing on the floor. Lizzie had kicked him off the bed and stolen his blanket during the night. He started to think about what he wanted to do that day. He got up and went to the cabin kitchen and got some eggs. He made scrambled eggs and pancakes. He sat down to eat it when George burst through the door.

"Edwin! We've found them come on you have to get Lizzie! Derek and Casey are being brought back as we speak it will take all day but they will be back and the ranger wants the entire family down there." George was frantically searching for words. Edwin ran in and got Lizzie up. When Lizzie was ready they all left leaving Edwin's carefully prepared breakfast behind. When they got to the station Nora was waiting with Marti impatiently. Marti never liked sitting still for too long and this place didn't have any games or toys for her to use.

The rangers station was smaller than their cabin. The inside was decorated like the northern stations were in the movies. It was made of logs the entire thing inside and out. The bathroom was a bit more modern but not much. The walls to that weren't logs but that was probably for lack of space. It was tiny and had very little room, so someone with a baby would have to change the diaper on the counter of the office. The office its self was split into sections. There was a large half wall that was made into a desk with a little half door in it that you had to lift up the desk to get through.

"How far away are they now?" Nora asked impatiently.

"We have no way of knowing the person they are with doesn't have a talky ma'am. But we assure you they are safe." The woman that was standing behind the counter replied. She then whispered something into her talky that no one else in the room could really make out.