Loved all the feedback from the first chapter! Thank you all so much! Anyways, here's the second. Enjoy!

Chapter Two: Runaway

Temperance sat there for what seemed like hours, but in reality only minutes, looking out at all the happy people. People with families, children, at work, with spouses. She envied those people, whose lives seemed never to have been any worse then they were at this moment, when they lived in bliss.

Temperance began to glare at them, hate slowly seeping into her heart, when she saw something that caught her eye.

It was a wanted poster with her mother and father sketched to an exact likeness. Her brow furrowed as she looked at the reward offered for them. $10,000. She gasped. She had never seen that much money, nor heard of anybody in the village acquiring that much. Surely, anybody would give in even their closest friends for that much.

She turned away from the window, breathing heavily, a soft sob or two escaping her, before she heard a frantic knock on the door, and the frantic whispering of her friend, Angela Montenegro. "Sweetie!" she whispered frantically, "Sweetie, it's just me! Please open the door!"

Temperance rushed to open the door to her friend's relief.

Lady Angela Montenegro Hodgins, stood there, with tears in her eyes, smiling at her best friend, with such a feeling of relief that her heart could've burst right there.

There was a small bundle in her arms. Not a baby, but a toddler, wrapped in a blue blanket.

"Angela!" Temperance whispered, grateful for her friend's appearance. She smiled at the bundle. "Hello, Lance."

The little boy smiled up at her. "Hello, Lady Temperance."

Angela giggled at the nonchalant greeting between her son and her friend, but shook her head at Temperance. "Sweetie, now is not the time. The police are looking for your entire family! Especially your parents! You all have to leave right now!"

A tear escaped Temperance's eye. "They already left," she whispered, "and they didn't even tell me."

Angela gave her a rueful look. "Oh, Sweetie! I'm so sorry. But I'm sure they had there reasons. But, that doesn't matter, because at this point, they're willing to kill anybody with any association to your parents, even if your innocent."

Temperance's eyes grew wide. "But, that's not fair! I did nothing to deserve that!"

Angela frowned. "Apparently, they don't care." she sighed. "So, you have to pack. Everything that's important, but nothing else. You have to get away from here."

"But-"

"Now!" A tear escaped Angela's eye now. "They're coming right now. Jack's holding them off as long as he can, but I don't even think he stands a chance."

"But, he's the richest man in the village! It's by his money that we get so many goods here!" Temperance protested.

"It doesn't matter to them, anymore. Because, whoever gets her first will get paid as much, even more, that him. So, just get your things together. Jack and I will come around back in the buggy to drive you out of town."

Temperance began to protest again, but thought better of it, and nodded, hugging her friend once more, before running to her chambers to get her things together.

10 minutes later, narrowly escaping a group of men, who entered her house, searching for her family, Temperance was sitting in her best friend's buggy, with Lance on her lap, on her way to a new life.

So whaddaya think so far? I really want your input. Also, I've been thinking that instead of doing one story a night for four nights each time, how about two stories a night where I update every other day? Does that sound good? Please REVIEW!

PS: Who's excited about the finale tonight? I know I am XD