Happy Again~ A Hamliza Story~

Chapter 14

"Wha... what?"

Eliza started to tear up. "They we're running towards the day care... Alex what if Pippa-"

"Eliza, Pippa's probably fine..." Alex said, but he wasn't very convinced. Those guys Eliza described did seem pretty bad...

"We... we have to go!" Eliza exclaimed, jumping up. Then she winced and held her stomach. Alex leaded her back to sit down on the couch.

"Eliza, your still hurt. You cant-"

"Alexander. That is my daughter. I'm going, and you can't stop me" she said, and slowly got up again to grab her jacket. Alex nodded and grabbed his.

"I can't stop you, but I'm not letting you go alone. I'll drive. Lets go" he said, and opened the door for them.

They drove for about a 2-3 minutes, and parked the car close to the day-care. They walked up to the front of the building. It looked fine on the outside. 

"Maybe they ran past?" Alex whispered, but Eliza wasn't convinced. Mother's instinct, I guess. She walked up to a window and gasped. Alex came running over.

"Eliza what's- oh my god! What the hell?!" he exclaimed, peeking through the window as well.

All they saw was dark lumps and a dark, crimson red splattered on the window

"What if... Phillipa..." Eliza whispered.

"We won't know unless we go in" Alex said and broke open the window.

Alex crawled inside and helped Eliza in. Alex and Eliza both got their phones out and put the flashlight feature on. Eliza was first to react.

"AH!"

"What the..."

They saw two adult bodies, and a couple children too.

"Alex... is one of them her?"

"I- I don't know" Alex replied, grabbing Eliza's hand as they walked across the room.

"Wait... look!" Eliza said, and grabbed a paper taped on the railing

"To whoever is reading this now" Eliza read in a shaky voice. "We have taken your profits and the children in this room. Some may be dead, but the rest are with us. You can track us down all you want, but you will not reach these children until you give us what we want. We want the money of all of the parents or guardians of these children. We had the surviving children say their names. The children's names are listed here:

Robbie

Kayla

Marie

Chris

Michael (IN THE BATHROOM BY HIMSEEEELLLLFFFF)

Lily

Troy

JD (sorry, not sorry XD)

Jack

Shawn

Ella

Pippa"

"Pippa! No!" Eliza exclaimed, and started to cry. Alex went pale.

"We... we need to call the police" Alex whispered, and dialed 911.

While Alex was calling, Eliza ran behind a wall when he wasn't looking. She tripped over a lump, and she stumbled on a shelf. She then scraped her arm. Since it was dark, she was startled by the invisible dark object that had come in contact with her, so she let out a scream. She sank down against the wall and started to cry. She then heard the sounds of heavy footprints getting closer and louder with each step. She curled up in a ball and started shaking. 

"ELIZABETH?!"

" ...Alex?" Eliza whispered towards the familiar voice

"Where are you?!"

"H-here"

"Eliza? I don't- Eliza? A-are you ok?"

"Yeah... I think I just cut myself, thats all"

"Ok. I called the police. They should be here soon. C'mon, lets get out of here"

They walked out and stood outside of whst used to be a hppy, livley, safe day-care

Eliza turned to face Alex. He looked at her and engulfed her in a huge, loving, comforting hug. And they stayed like that for a solid minute. They broke apart, and Alex wiped a new tear forming out of the corner of Eliza's eye away. She leaned in at his touch.

"Alexander... what do we do?" she asked

"I... I don't know, Eliza. But I promise you, with my life, that we will find our daughter. I wasn't there for you in the past, but times have changed. I have changed. And I am not leaving your side, ever again".