Kidnapped

Chap. 30

The family and all the other kidnapped people were led out of their prison and led to a nearby community center where they were reconnected with their loved ones...well the ones that were brought into the Volcano. The authorities had a hard time placing the people and children that were born there and had nowhere to go. Most of them didn't know how to function in the outside world, they were so used to the strict regime that they grew up with.

The ones that needed medical attention were sent to the nearest Hospital. Mason and Sky refused to go, so they were treated by paramedics at scene.

Sky and Mason stood in line, waiting their turn to give their name to the woman in charge of writing down where they came from and when they were kidnapped. With all the information the next to kin were then notified. Sky learned that her father and his henchmen were arrested and will most likely never get out, her mother was questioned and was also sentenced for knowing and never telling the authorities, her youngest siblings were put under her older sibling's care. Sky looked around at all the people that she had worked beside the last three years and saw how bedraggled and pale they all looked, she couldn't help but wonder if she looked just as bad. As her eyes scanned the people she noticed two things, she saw Lucy and Mattie with the kids just standing around not really knowing where to turn, so she waved and yelled their names until they took notice and made their way over to them. Sky also saw a young girl in a wheelchair being pushed around by a young guy. The young girl looked pleased but also really sad, but that was not what Sky took notice of, she saw a shadow of a broken girl. The girl was being pushed by Sky when something clicked and she saw a memory of when she was younger.

"Hanna? Hanna Geno? Oh my...Hanna? What are you...why are y...Hanna? Is it really you?" Sky blinked at the young girl.

Hanna looked at the woman in front of her in surprise. How does she know my name? She studied the woman and the man beside her, holding her as if he was about to lose her. The children were clinging to their parents and they were both holding babies no older than two months or maybe three, she couldn't really tell; they were both really tiny.

"How do you know my name?" she finally asked the other woman. She stepped out of the line and came closer but Kris made a move as to protect Hanna from harm and the woman flinched back into line and looked down; she had tears in her eyes. Hanna glared at Kris and swatted his torso, since that was the only part of him she could reach from her position in the wheelchair.

"Kris! it's okay, he won't hurt you. He's as soft as a teddy bear. Now, who did you say you were?" She asked after the woman nodded at her.

"I'm Sky...Skyler Love...umm Thompson," she answered. Hanna saw that the guy beside her tightened his grip and he clenched his jaw slightly when Sky corrected her last name. Uh? There's definitively a story here. The name sank in and she gasped Sky's name. She tried to get up but couldn't, she let out a frustrated groan. Then she was suddenly lifted out of her wheel chair and leaning against someone, when she looked up she saw it was Kris, she just raised her eyebrow at him but didn't comment on the smirk on his face. Hanna reached out and touched Sky's face and then pulled her into a very awkward hug.

"Sky, is this where you ended up after you disappeared seven years ago?" Sky shook her head.

"How do you guys know each other?" Kris asked.

"Right after Sky disappeared I was taken in by an older couple, but before that I was fostered by a few families that lived in the same school district as Sky. We were friends for two years, before we were separated," Hanna replied with a smile. Just then another couple came over and the man beside Sky turned and smiled for the first time since Hanna had seen him. He hugged the other guy and the very pregnant woman; the children around the woman resembled a group much like she was used to in the orphanage, They can't all be hers, can they? Hanna asked herself. Sky had diverted her attention to the other woman and hugged her; she suddenly burst into tears clinging for dear life.