Going back home, being near the bedroom... I think having experienced what I did and then losing it is not something I want to face right now. It’s ...ike learning your favorite childhood home was bought by someone else. You don’t want to go and see what they’ve done to the place - the memories are too painful. Traffic is somewhat light and it only takes me ten minutes to find a parking spot in the sprawling mall parking lot, near the JC Penny side of the mall. I feel nervous being in public.. You know damn well who I am, now don’t you?”“You just told me your name is Karen - and I saw your sign in the front yard by the flower beds that said - The McClintocks.”“Lucien, something happened while you were in the bathroom! Something that defies reality. Please, if you know anything about this, tell me before I go crazy. Do you realize, my two daughters and each of their two daughters, have all suddenly dropped twenty-five pounds, and there’s no blood to be seen ... that is - unless you. ? She darted her head back to forth, from guard to leader to guard. ?No, please! I change my mind, I’ll do anything?? ?It is too late for that. Your decision was final, as was mine.? Eric could only watch as Hannah was dragged from the bedroom, screaming and crying. A sense of dread filled his stomach; it hurt to see a fellow human being have everything she held dear pried from her in an instant. ----- Less than an hour later, the door opened again. Hannah. "Oh God," he breathed into her hair. "I didn't know where you were. I thought he'd gotten you."Tears were streaming down her cheeks, tears that soaked into his coat as she held him tight. "He almost did," she whispered.Looking up, she met his worried blue gaze. "Jack and Chuck?" she asked."Jack might make it. Chuck didn't," he answered her truthfully, pushing her hair from out of her face. He could see the guilt in her expression and shook his head. "No, Kaylee, don't you even think to blame.