"Daddy, please no!" Liz sobbed, as she tried to rip the needles sticking into her arms off. "DADDY!" She screamed and tried to lunge for his raised arm, but couldn't reach him; as his raised hand plunged down to bury itself in Ellie's heart. The knife had struck home.

Liz screamed as she thrashed around, and tried to fight her covers, believing them to be the needles sticking into her arms.

She suddenly felt strong hands holding her arms down, and believing that those arms were her father's, she began to scream louder, and tried to fight them.

"Liz, it's okay. You're not in the hospital anymore." A soft voice floated through her sub-conscious, and her eyes fluttered open. She looked into the kind face of Rachel Morgan.

Rachel felt the fight leave Liz's arms. She held her arms out as Liz collapsed in sobs. She began to stroke her hair, and whisper soothing things into her ear. "It's going to be okay, Liz, it's going to be okay."

The heart-racking cries woke the others up, and they all climbed onto Liz's bed, and held her, as she cried.

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"We need to do something about getting custody for Liz." Abby slammed her hands down on the sofa arm. "We'll need to get social worker who would work towards our demands…well, not demands, but preferences. And…I think I know who has connections."

"I'll talk to Summer, but the thing is, she won't work towards our 'preferences' unless she's sure it's the right choice and place for Liz to live. Also…who is going to be taking custody? We can't exactly have…the school take custody of Liz, can we?" Joe looked at the small group that had gathered to discuss Liz's situation.

"I'm willing to take custody, or apply for custody of Liz." A voice broke through the silence, as everyone considered whether or not they would be suited to providing Liz a home. The voice that spoke…was, unexpected, least to say.

Everyone turned to face Edward Townsend.

"Are you certain, you're ready for this?" Rachel was the first to speak.

"I'm certain." Edward replied stoically.

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"Yes, I'm willing to help you, if I find Edward suitable for keeping Liz at his house." Summer answered evenly, when Joe asked her about being Liz's social worker.

"Thank you." Joe got up to go, but before he left, he gave Summer a chaste kiss.

"Goodbye." Summer waved, as he left. She looked at her hands, and noticed that there was a slight trembling.

"Goodness, Summer."

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"So…Agent Townsend is going to have custody of me?" Liz meekly asked, to be certain. She always had to double check, triple check even; to make sure what she heard or read was true. In this case, it was quadruple check.

"Yes, Liz." Abby rolled her eyes, exasperated. "He is, and…if he does anything to you, you can just call me, and I'll beat him up for you." She grinned jokingly at Liz, intending to make her laugh.

"If, you'll excuse me, can I please go?" Liz got up to go, and was almost out of the door when she asked.

"Sure." Rachel nodded at her.

When Liz had closed the door, and Rachel assumed she was out of earshot, she glared at her sister. "You simply had to mention, Edward doing 'anything' to her! She just got out of an abusive situation! How could you be so…inconsiderate, and just…insensitive!" She ran her hands through her hair, apprehensively.

"I'm sorry, I didn't realize…well…I'm sorry, okay!" Abby screamed back at her. Her nerves were beginning to fray from the seriousness, and graveness of the situation.

There was a knock on the door. Miss Dabney waltzed in. "There is a Miss Summer Adams on the phone for you, Mrs. Morgan."

"Thank you." She nodded curtly, waiting for Miss Dabney to leave. "Thank you."

"She means…leave." Abby translated.

Miss Dabney looked at Abby stretched out on the couch, one leg hanging over the end of the couch, and the other one on the floor. She looked disgusted, and she flounced out of the room.

Abby burst out laughing, as soon as the door was closed. "Did you see her face? Oh, goodness, that was priceless!" She fell off the couch, and into a heap, before getting up, and blowing the hair out of her face.

"So…what does 'Miss Summer Adams' want sis?"

Rachel was still on the phone, so she gestured to Abby to keep her mouth shut. Abby mimed zipping her mouth shut, then gave Rachel thumbs up.

As Rachel hung up, and began to put the phone down, Abby jumped over to her desk, and cornering her sister, asked "So…what's happening?"

"Summer would like to have Liz, Bex, Cammie, and Macey over to her house tomorrow. She wanted my consent on the matter, and I gave it."

"Uh." Abby's face twisted in disgust.

"What? I thought it was a lovely offer." Rachel stared at her confused.

"You're beginning to sound like Townsend!" Abby managed to get out, between her gritted teeth.

"Oh, good. I'm glad you noticed." Rachel winked at Abby, before getting back to work.

"You…you…you did it on purpose!" Abby stared at Rachel horrified.

Author's Note:

Hello, everyone. I want to apologize for taking literal ages to post another chapter to this story. Life has been quite hectic, as of late. I also want to say sorry, if I have gotten anything wrong with the legal issues, etc. I'm not exactly an expert on them; I even tried to look it up…so I'm very sorry.

Last of all, I'm sorry if this chapter was rather boring. I'll try to do better next time.

I hope ya'll have had a wonderful summer!