We were now ready and fully committed - this was going to happen. That was when we saw the headlight beams sweep across the front of the house followe... by the slamming of a car door.Rachel shot off the couch as it she had been fired from a gun and disappeared towards her bedroom, I scrambled to pull my jeans back up and somehow get my hard on so that it was not totally visible to everyone. Fortunately adrenaline works wonders in that department and I found myself going from hard as a flagpole. I was at a total loss as to what to do now. Dammit, all my training from years ago hadn't shown me how to handle this. Kat was looking at them with wide eyes and had tears in her eyes too. I looked over at Carver and he just seemed shocked. As soon as I caught his eye, he got up and came over, taking Myrna in his arms, just holding her and letting her cry. I sat down with Sally in my lap and just held her, hoping I could figure out some way to ease the hurt I knew she was feeling. Here she was,. Damn it, she was about to scream at the doctor when she saw it was the leader."Natasha" he started, "I have need of you again." Yes leader, I can be there in an hour I just got back, looking for new recruits" she lied."Good, with any luck we'll have the city by night fall," he smiled evilly, all those tasty morsels out there, his brain could feel them and his hunger was starting to increase.The leader finally had a plan; this time there wouldn't be any Tahir to interfere.Hell, if the doctor's. After three weeks on the East Coast, they began the trip home, stopping in Lexington so Mom, Dad, and Daniel could visit old friends and neighbors, as well as the New Hope Plantation. All was not well there. The man who had bought the farms from Daniel and Tara’s parents had claimed that thirty of the freed slaves working at the New Hope Plantation were runaways from his plantation and he now had them working for him. He was also trying to say that the land the New Hope Plantation was on had.