Harley's POV

I ran as fast as I could away from them. Why hadn't I saw that coming? How had I let him lead me right into what was meant to be a trap?

I knew I couldn't go back to the house. They obviously knew where that was. I took a sharp turn and fled with as much speed as possible for me. I could remember when Father had forced me to run on a treadmill for hours. He shouted at me to gain the ability to move faster.

I never could. I couldn't count how many scraps I had received because he would increase the speed and I could not keep up. Father would let me fall.

I broke out onto a road. I glanced around and then began to run down the road until I heard wheels on the street behind me.

I shot back into the forest. The transportation company vehicle rounded the corner at a high speed and I heard the wheels protest as they approached the destination I was closest to. How are they tracking me?

I realized that it was the power inside me. The power that was keeping our planet alive. I ground my teeth and ran.

The women got out of the women left the vehicle in a hurry and began to run after men.

"Harley, we need to speak with you!" The blonde one shouted. I recognized her voice from the time I had listened through the door of my father's office and he had been giving her a ship licenses. Sara.

I knew she could read minds and I fought not to think loudly as I planned my moves. I made a quick left turn and Sara didn't hesitate to do the same.

Leave me be, Sara! I screamed in a thought.

Sara didn't leave me alone. "We only ask for one conversation—"

I was tackled to the ground by the one Seth had called Jack. I thought I had immobilized him already. I was about to do it again when someone grabbed my wrists with a speed I could not comprehend and I felt cold metal snap around each one.

The man named Jack released me then and Seth stepped away breathing heavy from the exertion running had forced from him. I stared down at my wrists in horror.

The cuffs were from our world. They had been placed on me several times and I knew what they could do. If I were to attempt to use one of the abilities I had developed they would send a current of electricity through my veins and cause me unbearable amount of pain.

I gave Seth a look of pure hate.

Jack's POV

I didn't know what the hand cuffs did but they made Harley pissed. She sat on the ground glaring up at Seth with a look that clearly stated she wanted to rip his head clean off his shoulders.

"Get this off of me!" She snapped with a voice filled with venom.

Seth grabbed Harley's arm and jerked her off the ground. "Why so you will try to run off again?"

Harley elbowed Seth in the stomach and started to run again. I grabbed her around her waist and tossed her over my shoulder. Harley kicked and shouted furiously for me to let her down. Sara and Alex ran up breathing hard.

Sara stepped towards me while Harley continued to shout. She glanced at Seth. "Were they necessary?"

"Yes." Seth said at the same time Harley almost snarled, "No!"

Sara sighed. "I apologize for our rash actions, Princess, but we much converse about the dire urgency of your return home."

Harley became still on the last word. "That's where you are wrong, Sara. That planet holds no home for me."

"I understand that you feel this way but if you do not return your father has ordered for our military to invade and take siege of this planet. In your being here you have put not only our home but the home of all those who reside on this world in danger." Sara said calmly.

Harley apparently did not want to hear this because she began to fight with me more. I lost my hold on her at one point and she fell to the ground. It didn't seem to faze her because she was instantly scrambling to her feet.

I had time to think that Seth should have put the cuffs on behind her back before Seth grabbed her and pinned her arms to her chest. "You are acting selfishly, Princess." Seth spat the name at her.

"Fuck you!" She snapped.

I turned to Alex. "She doesn't act to much like a princess, does she?"

Alex just stared at Harley. "We need to get her to your ship."

Sara nodded. "Seth, bring her this way."

Seth lifted Harley enough to where her feet couldn't touch the ground and semi-carried, semi-drug Harley to the cab. Sara opened the door but Harley refused to be put in the car. She kicked it every time Seth tried.

Seth seemed to lose his patients. "Just open the trunk."

Harley went still for a moment. "You wouldn't do that."

Harley couldn't see Seth's smirk but I could. I knew he would do it if Sara had let him. Sara instead grabbed Harley's legs during her moment of being still and Seth shoved Harley in the backseat.

Once she was finally in the car, Alex and I jumped in and Seth and Sara sandwiched Harley in the backseat.

Harley fell into and angry, motionless calm. Alex turned to stare at her. "I am Dr. Alex Friedman."

Harley just glared at her.

Alex smiled tightly. She waved a hand at me. "This is Jack Bruno."

Harley continued to stare at her. I drove slowly, not sure where I was to take them.

"We have a long ride, Jack." Sara spoke from the back. "You will want to increase the speed if we are to make it before our dead line."

"Is going to be one of the overnight trips kids?" I asked. "If so I need to stop and get some money."

Seth leaned forward. "That will not be required." He held out a roll of bills that told me they had made a stop at an ATM before meeting us.

Alex grabbed the money away from him. "Seth, you cannot do this! On Earth it is stealing!"

"Our mission is of grave importance. I would think that allows us to do whatever is necessary." Seth told her stubbornly.

Harley spoke for the first time since she had entered the car. "I suppose I don't have to act like a princess. I have Seth to do it for me."