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Chapter 2: Are we Hostages?
The car ride home was quiet as each passenger was contemplating of what could possibly put Andromeda into a fit. Finally they reached Andromeda's home. Parking in the driveway and turning the engine off, Andromeda turned and looked each passenger in the eye. Sara broke down first.
"Mom, are you planning on kidnapping us?" Andromeda looked at her youngest daughter.
"Sara Marie Tonks, this is no time for joking around."
"Well maybe if you actually told us what the problem was, we wouldn't joke around so much." Mother and daughter were about to have a showdown in the car when Sam broke in,
"Is this about Grandma?" Andromeda turned and looked Sam then Nicole in the eye, her composure (if she still had any) broke down and she hoarsely confirmed the dread that was settling in everyone's minds.
"Yes, her house was attacked by Dea- I mean robbers and she called and wanted me to pick you girls up seeing that she went to the hospital to get a few things patched up." Sam looked horrified, Nicole looked suspicious. Estelle just stared out the window in thought. What was Andromeda really going to say but caught herself? I'll have to ask Uncle Ted if he knows what's up. Coming back to the dead silence of the car, she broke the silence.
"Um… are we just going to sit here or are we going to go inside?" Andromeda broke free of her 'trance' and opened the garage door.
"WAIT! Shouldn't we go visit Grandma in the hospital? She might need moral support."
"NO! I mean… we… she doesn't want us to visit her… she said that you would get upset and she hates seeing you upset. She'll call when she's ready to be picked up." Andromeda proclaimed as she drove the SUV into the garage. Getting out of the car Estelle suddenly felt cold, almost as if she was being watched. She turned and, without her even realizing it, she started walking out onto the driveway. Everything around her blacked out as her sight focused on the only thing that wasn't blacked out – the driveway.
"Yes, yes that's right, just come a little further out and-" something, or someone was trying to get her to go out a little further but somewhere deep in her mind told her to slow down and think on the situation. But her legs wouldn't listen. Closer and closer she was to getting outside when a woman screamed
"ESTELLE!" suddenly Estelle's sight was back to normal, well, almost. As soon as she came out of her 'trance' everything blacked out for real and Estelle felt herself losing control of her body. Hearing someone, probably Andromeda, scream her name again, Estelle slowly sunk to the ground.
A/N: for those of you who are actually reading, hopefully this leaves a cliffhanger :D! Another chapter coming up! Please review!