living the dream (sequel to the road trip

a man with a plan

" uncle martin" sebastian said letting the man into the house he looked so much like charles the only real difference was this one didnt have a menacing glare.

" everything this my uncle martin my dads brother" sebastian said as he hugged his uncle

" hello everyone" martin said smiling

" uncle how come your here" sebastian asked

" can i get you a drink" rachel asked

" just some water would be fine thank you" he said

" does he know your here" sebastian asked

" dont know and i dont really care" martin said

" i cant believe your here" sebastian said

" when you disappeared the first time and rang your mom to help you she rang me begged me to get to you before he did. Unfortunately i didnt i had been at thr other end of the country working on a case that he got you before i was even innthe same state as you were. i know i havent had much to do with you guys it was to painful to offer your mom help and her not take it and keep getting hurt by him. you know anita and i begged her to give you to us we siad you werent safw with him but she said no. we did however always ,ake sure your mom had our contact details so that if she ever decided to leave him she could come to us and we would be there to help. which is why she rang me about you. amita and i planned on coming to the house and convincing her even if she was devoted to him she should let you go. we wanted you to come to us but you left again before we had a chance when we arrived at the house your mom said you must have left during the night. " martin said taking the water from rachel

" she rang you she was trying to help me i thought she didnt care" sebastian said rachel cuddled him.

" she did anyway we went to thr house the afternoon after you had gone she said how you had run away with some girls so i looked i to them with their nmes been on the news.  i went to lima i duscovered how a coach had been purchased by a hunter claringtion the guy you had been friends with and also had run away with. so i run the lience plate was tracking you. then i got a call from maggie saying charles thought you were in key west and he was on his way so i set off for here too. i got the same flight has him though thankfully he was so focused on getting her he didnt really pay attention and never saw me. i saw you guys walking this moring charles was in a bar i wanted to warn you butbin doing so he would have seen you i was hopeing he wouldnt." martin said

" its great to see you dad as seen me" sebastian said

" i know is it because of the money" martin asked

" you know about that" sebastian asked

" seb what do ypu think he is bothered about you or his precious money so how much did you take" martin asked

" i dont know the exact figure i grabbed what i could" sebastian said

" roughly" martin asked

" mybe $8,000" sebastian said

" ok when does he want it" martin asked

" by three pm tomorrow " sebastian said

" ok dont worry about it i will get it you give it to him and be shot of him" martin said

" but how will i ever pay you back " sebastian asked

" i dont want it back i owe it to you to do it like i said anita and should have stepped in when he started turning on you. i was scared of him to now i see you seb you have a life your free of him you have a chance of been free of him i should say. how can i sit back and do nothing and let him pull you back in under his control. i will get the money together i do ask one favour " Martin said the four of them couldnt believe help had arrived whennthey needed it the most.

" anything uncle" sebastian said

" could i stay hereto tonight" martin asked

" ofcourse but we dont have any beds" sebastian said

" dont worry about that knowing that your safe if comfort enough for me" he said

later thst night.

martin was in one of the bedrooms using sebastian's and rachel's sleeping bag tbey didbt care he had really thrown them a life line.

rachel was snuggled up to sebastian neither could sleep they laid tbeir on the floor both silently thinking over the days events.

" she tried to help me" sebastian said out loud.

" i know" rachel said

" i cant believe it she actually tried to help me" sebastian said he started to cry rachel cuddled him.

" martin is lovely " rachel said

" he is i used to wish he was my dad now i know he would have had me has his son" sebastian said crying harder.

" yeah he loves you he is doing an incredible thing for you" rachel said

" for us" sebastian said holding her hand he raised it to his lips and kissed the back of it.

" yeah" rachel said

" i dobt like the idea of dad kniing where we are though even if he does get his money back" sebastian said

" we can leave here" rachel said

" but you love it here" sebastian said stroking her face

" i love it here because im here with you i would love anywhere else just as much" rachel said