"You snuck out, made a friend, 'n' you think I'm gonna jus' let you walk out wit' some strange." The elderly women hissed towards the child, making her jump then look down to her lap. If she thought she could just get away with speaking to an innocent child like that then she had another thing coming. "Excuse me, as far as I'm concerned, you're keeping this children locked up in here, that boy didn't even speak a word, he looks petrified! If you continue the way you are then I'm going to report you to the police, this is child abuse." Dan ended his rant, but was ready to continue if she dared say anything more but it looked like that was enough to break her. Her expression was shocked, it looked like she wasn't used to people threatening her before. "Fine. Now leave." Growling her wrinkled finger pointed towards the door and the teen boy scuttled towards it opening it for the other two. They happily stood up, Ella taking Dan's hand again as they walked out. A cluster of children had gathered on the stairs to watch as they left. It was in a way scary, they just stared said nothing, just watched as they got to the door, once it was open all of them ran off like the outside hurt them in some strange manner.
Once the door was closed Ella giggled and jumped into Dan's arms, he was quick to catch her and bring her in to his chest. "You did it Dan!" Ella cheered delightfully, nuzzling her face into Dan's shoulder. Even though he was overly happy that Ella could spend more time with both him and Phil, he was still slightly upset though, the children in there were so isolated, they didn't deserve a life like that. No one did. The small girl noticed how distant Dan seemed to be acting after leaving the old building, at first she thought that he had been possessed and started prodding his cheek. "Dan?" She whined. "What's wrong? I thought you would be happy?" Ella was so confused by the males acts.
"Oh. No no, I am really happy about it." Dan chuckled pushing the thought to the back of his mind, then cracking a smile before walking to the edge of the road waiting for the taxi that he told to come back after ten minutes. After a few minutes the taxi pulled up again, the man hopping out and opening the door for the two before slamming it shut and jumping in again. Before the man started driving, he told the driver where he lived as he remembered that Phil wanted his lion teddy. All the way back to the hospital Ella continued to speak of how long she would spend with both of the males, what would happen when she had to go back home and would they continue to stay in contact with her.
When they got to the flats, Dan told the driver he would be a moment but Ella being the curious girl she is, wanted to join him. It only took about a minute to reach his shared flat and was already at the door slipping the key into the lock twisting it then opening the wooden door, letting the smaller girl go in first. She let out a small gasp of amazement. "It's so nice and clean. Oh!" The young girl soon wandered off looking at everything they had, whilst Dan wandered off to Phil's room grabbing his lion teddy, and also totoro. "Ella, come on now, time to go!" Dan shouted as he left the room, his eyes scanning around to fine the chocolate haired girl. "Ella? Ella come on now?.." There was no reply.
Where was she?