The 39 clues: WANTED: hunted

Chapter 1

17 year-old Amy Cahill sat inside the command center inside her house. Her 15 year-old brother, Dan was sitting beside her.
"Do you see what I'm talking about?" their guardian, Nellie Gomez asked.
"Yeah," Dan said. "It looks like half of the family is missing!"
"Quarter," Amy corrected. "Do you think this is like what happened with the Vespers?"
The Veseprs were an organization that had kidnapped their family a year or so ago.
"No," Nellie said. "They just disappear at random, not all at once."
Amy examined the times. "You're right."
Dan sighed, standing up. "It's too early for Madrigal work."
"Dan, it's 11:30," Amy said.
"Exactly! We haven't even eaten lunch yet!"
Amy sighed. "Well then let's go eat and come back to this later."
Nellie made lunch for them, and Dan ate it as quickly as he could.
"Chew your food!" Amy said, disgusted. "We need to work and we can't do it if you're choking."

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"What?!" nine voices cried.
"How could they just disappear?" Hamilton Holt wondered.
Amy had called the other Cahills and told them what was going on.
"Hey Amy?" Dan asked.
"What is it?"
"I got a text from Atticus.," he said.
Atticus Rosenbloom was a twelve year old genius and Dan's best friend. Atticus already had a chance to go to Harvard.
"Jake's missing."
"What?!" Amy cried.
Atticus's older brother was Amy's boyfriend.
"Hold on. I'll add him to the call," Dan said.
He typed a few things and then Atticus's face appeared on the screen as well.
"So what happened?" Dan asked.
"W-well, I woke up and heard something fall. So I walked into the kitchen and nobody was there. H-he was gone.," the boy's voice broke.
"What was it that fell?" Cara asked.
"A frying pan."
"Cliche much?" Ian muttered in his clipped British accent.
"Where's your dad?" Amy asked, ignoring Ian.
"I think he's in Portugal."
Jake and Atticus's dad, Mark Rosenbloom was an archaeologist and travelled a lot.
"So where are you?" Dan asked.
"Jake and I were in Rome, but right now I'm at the... uh.. police station."
"Why?" Jonah asked.
"They think it's suspicious that a twelve year old is flying to the USA all alone."
"You're in Attleboro?" Dan asked.
"Yep."
A voice in the back ground said something firmly.
"Bye..." Atticus said before disconnecting.
"I can get him," Amy said.
"Alright."
She grabbed her shoes and tied them quickly.

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Amy quickly to the Attleboro police station.
"Hello miss. Do you need anything?" the officer at the front asked.
"One of my friends was taken here by mistake. I'm just here to get him."
"His name?"
"Atticus Rosenbloom."
"Ah. We found he was travelling alone."
"Yeah. He was coming to visit," Amy said.
The officer said something into his walkie-talkie.
Atticus walked out a few seconds later.
"Amy!" he cried.
"Hi," she said. "Ready to go?"
Atticus nodded.
As they walked back to the mansion, Atticus suddenly stopped. "Amy?"
"Yeah?" She turned to face him.
"You will find him, right?"
He looked less like a university student and more like the eleven year old boy she'd first met. He was clearly worried about his brother.
"Of course!" Amy said firmly.
The younger nodded and they kept walking.
Whatever it takes, Amy thought. But we will save him. ALL of them.