I'm all, the Alice thing will take like, 3 chapters. Then we can move on to Bo stuff. The story's all NO! I'm gonna make it take like 10 million chapters! Ugh.

Story-

"Alice," Natalie called. "C'est temp de releve. Le dodo fini."

She said this as she opened the nursery door, and stepped inside. When she saw an empty crib, Natalie wasn't too concerned. She simply reached out with her mind to see where in the room her daughter was hiding.

She wasn't there. She wasn't anywhere. Realizing that someone had taken Alice from her crib while Natalie herself had been napping, Natalie panicked.

Flinging their house door open, Natalie ran down the hall like a woman possessed. Searching out her child with her mind, she ran past the lounge and into the medical ward. Her shoes pounding against the stone hall floor, she shoved people and carts out of her way, blond hair flying behind her. She passed another room, then stopped and turned back.

Alice was sitting on top of a table. A strange man in a white coat stood next to her, a hand to her back. The other stacking alphabet blocks. Another glance showed both Dr. Skouras and her own husband standing in windowed room attached to this, watching. Then Natalie saw the wires coming out of her child's head, attached to her skin.

With a scream of fury and terror, Natalie yanked the door open.

"Get away from my daughter!" She screamed, scooping Alice into her arms and yanking the tangle of wires from her head with one swift pull. Holding Alice to her protectively, she ran from the room.

"Natalie!"

She heard Robert's voice, now far behind her as she headed to the closest exit, a locked fire door.

She head Skouras' voice too. "Make your wife stop," he spoke coldly. "I want Alice back here."

"Natalie, stop!" He yelled.

And that's when Natalie knew she needed to either kill the man she was married to, or divorce him. Coming up to the door, she blew it open with her mind, ignoring her promise not to show the full strength of her powers around Roman Skouras. Without breaking her stride she continued to run across the lawn, intent on reaching the forest, nearly a quarter mile away.

"Can't leave here my ass," she muttered, instantly making herself and Alice disappear into thin air.

A few moments later, Natalie, not having made herself travel via floating, let alone travel a great distance while invisible and doing the same for another body, reappeared.

She was still holding Alice clutched tightly. Looking behind her, Symphonique couldn't be seen, but, the outline of a road was just ahead. Knowing that time was of the essence, she closed her eyes and reached out with her mind in order to time her next move perfectly.

At the right moment she made herself and Alice appear at the side of the road. Natalie stuck out her thumb, hitch-hiker style, and the truck coming around the bend stopped. Natalie was glad of this, but had planned to stop the truck if its driver wasn't so inclined.

"Stranded, eh?" A deep cheery voice sounded from the bed of the truck. Natalie tossed Alice up on the seat, then pulled herself up next to her and slammed the door.

"You might say that," she breathed, winded and exhausted.

"You headed to town?"

She simply nodded.

The man didn't say another word the rest of the drive. When they got to a cobblestone street lined with vintage facade businesses, Natalie simply pointed her finger a block away from what she hoped was a bank and said,

"Right here is our stop, sir."

The man nodded, his green nylon cap nodding with him. The car squealed to a stop, as Natalie opened the door of the truck. It creaked in protest, but swung open, allowing Natalie to reach over for Alice, who'd sat silently the whole time as well, and hop down from the truck.

"Thanks so much!" She called, smiling, and slammed the door shut. The old truck rolled away, leaving Natalie and Alice alone.

Too tired to carry Alice, Natalie put her down on the ground, and listlessly led her by the hand across the street and into a small grassy area with benches. When they'd been sitting for a while, Natalie perked up and announced,

"I know what we need to do!"

As she stood up, Alice climbed down from the bench, still silent, and took Natalie's hand.

Without explanation Natalie walked them down to the bank. Just across the street she paused and closed her eyes. After only a moment she opened them, and tightening her grip on Alice's hand, she led her across the street with a joyous, confident step. As she picked Alice up to get her over the curb, she mentally made one of Alice's shoes come undone. Then, placing her back down, she again took up her daughter's hand and continued on to the bank.

At the west wall of the bank, the side with no windows, Natalie stopped walking and pointed down at Alice's foot, exclaiming, "Alice, your shoelace is untied! I better tie it so you don't lose your shoe."

By now Alice had figured out that something was up. But, not able to decipher it, she remained silent and stuck out her foot so that her shoe could be tied.

Natalie knelt down in the grass, using one hand on the bank wall to steady herself, then she placed her purse on the ground as well so as to keep it from falling forward. Thus unencombered it was easy work to tie the shoe. She stayed as she was kneeled on the ground, and closed her eyes as she checked Alice's other shoe. In a moment she opened her eyes and reached for her purse. Lifting it onto her shoulder, she used the wall again and Alice's shoulder to steady herself as she stood up.

"Now," she smiled at Alice, "we can tell people that you got to visit the bank today. Le banc," she repeated in French.

Taking up Alice's hand again, she led her around to the front of the building, and through the heavy glass doors.

"Hi," the teller smiled, "and what can I do for you today?"

"I just wanted to bring my daughter in to see what a bank looks like," Natalie smiled back and lifted Alice up so that she could be seen.

"Oh, she's adorable!" The teller gushed and reached for a glass jar to her right. "What's her name?"

"Nina."

"Nina," the teller smiled, "would you like a lollypop?"

Alice still didn't know much english but she had learned the words for candy. While she didn't like being called the wrong name, she nodded eagerly.

"Red or purple?"

The woman held up two lollypops of different colors. Concentrating hard, Alice knew she just had to say the same word or words back to get the prize.

"Wed!" She yelled. It was easier to say than the other word.

Natalie grinned with joy and Alice could feel her happiness, but her mom didn't say anything.

The woman handed Alice the red lollypop and Natalie put her back down on the floor. "Thank you so much," she smiled at the teller as she began to lead Alice ahead of her to the doors.

"Happy to help," the teller called back.

Back outside however, Natalie gave a shrill squeal and spun Alice around in the air.

"You spoke English! Good girl!"

She squeezed her tight in a hug before putting her down on the sidewalk.

"Wed," Alice repeated, liking the sound of it.

"Here," Natalie grabbed for the sucker, "let me get the plastic off." She undid the candy and handed it back to Alice. "Don't choke on that now."

Alice grabbed the sweet and put it in her mouth.

"Wed!" She cried around the sucker as she jumped forward on the sidewalk.

"Wed! Wed! Wed! Wed!"

She jumped down the walk, until Natalie pulled on her hand.

"Stop it, you'll choke," she ordered, reining Alice in at her side.

They walked on through the streets of the downtown in silence for a while. Finally Natalie looked down at Alice, still grinning and sticky with red sugar sweet all over her hands and face.

"Now we need to find a car that's for sale."

Alice looked at her, confused wonder why she could no longer understand the words her mother spoke.