They left through the window.

Eliza's room was on the ground floor, and it was night, so it was pretty simple. They just climbed out, and walked across the hospital grounds.

Scott's car was parked at the building next door from the hospital. When the reached it, her brother handed Eliza a pile of clothes from the passenger seat, and she changed into them in the back seat. They weren't her clothes, but she made do. The shirt was one of Scott's, and was quite large, and Eliza really didn't want to know whose leggings she was wearing.

She was severely uninterested in her brothers sexual indevors that ended with him keeping the girls bottoms.

After she changed, Scott got in and started the vehicle as she got situated in the passenger seat.

Then they were gone.


After about twenty minutes of driving, they passed the city limits.

"Where are we going?" Elizabeth asked her brother.

Scott hesitated for a moment, then said; "For now? Just north. If there's somewhere specific you think we should go, feel free to tell me, because we really don't have any actual plans except for away."

Eliza didn't care where they went, and she told him so.

And so they drove north.

They passed a few toll booths, which Scott payed for with loose change sitting in the cup holders of the car.

They stopped once, in West Virginia, and convinced a teenager to switch his falling apart truck for their falling apart car.

It wasn't as hard as they thought it would be. Apparently, his girlfriend preferred cars to trucks anyway. They stopped again, after they cleared that northern boarder into Pennsylvania, and spend the night sleeping in the flatbed of the truck. It was a good thing it wasn't raining.


They next day, as they crossed out of Pennsylvania, and into New York, Elizabeth knew that they had been having extremely good luck for the last few days. Of course, that luck ran out in New York, when the trucks engine failed.

Scott stood in front of the truck, and slammed his hands on the hood.

"Of all the rotten-" he loud out a loud aggravated groan and slammed his hands down on the hood once more.

"Y'know," Eliza began, with her eyebrows raised, "I don't think hitting it will help much"

Scott groaned again.

"I bet that kid knew this would happen. Probable why he gave it up so easy."

"Doesn't matter much now, seeing as that kid is hundreds wayof miles away with your car, and we're in the middle of no where with a dead truck. "

Her brother just huffed in reply.

"So," Eliza began in a cheery voice, "I guess we'll walk from here? I don't think we're far from a town. We can probably find something to eat there, we can figure out details when we've eaten."

Her brother looked down at her and sighed.

"We're lucky you're so level headed Liz. " He walked over to her, and slung his arm around his shoulder. "No idea where you learned it though. Which way are we going?"

Eliza nodded towards the direction that the sun was just rising in, where she thought she could see the distant skyline of a small city. Or maybe it was large. Shd couldn't tell. For all she knew, someone had hung lanterns on a bung of trees, and that was what she could see.

Either way, she spoke the words "That way," to her brother, and started to walk.