"Well we should get going." Elizabeth said to him and started to call every one into the car.

"Yeah we should." Sano said watching her with every one else. He liked her in that way. He was sure of it.

It was about nine in the morning when they had every thing together and ready to go. They had found really big shells for Erin and Mary. They had every thing paked, stuffed into the kia and every one was settled. Sano was in the front with Elizabeth and the other three were in the back.

"Why does Sano get the front seat?" Yahiko asked as he wined to Kenshin and Karu.

"He gets it, becuase He has the longets legs," Elizabeth said and started the car. They quieted at that point and stayed quiet, for the rest of the trip. Elizabeth turned on a radio station, surprising the others. They all jumped when they heard the voices from the speackers.

"How did you do that? Who is speaking and what are they..." Kauro said as she tried to see who was talking and where the voices were comming from.

Elizabeth chuckled. "Its what we call a "Radio". They are brodcast from a fair distance a way, but we recive the signal, like a telligraph wire, only through the air." Elizabeth said, unsre if they would understand.

Sano chuckled. "Interesting. But I think that it would be more complicated than that." He was so relaxed with her. He didn't know why, but it wasn't the same with Magumi. He wanted to be by her side for ever to comfort her, to hellp her... Whoa, where did that come from? It wasn't often that he wanted to do that.

"What's wrong, Sano?" Elizabeth said from her posision at the wheel.

"Nothing." Sano quickly said to avoid voicing his thoughts.

"Oh, alright," Elizabeth said, looking alittle put out.

"Hey, would you want to learn how to fight?"

"Why? I don't need to fight, I hide in plain sight." Elizabeth siad grinning. She would have to show them what she ment by that... if she ever got around to it.

"Well, If you learned how to fight, you wouldn't have to hide," Sano said, while looking at the sceenery fly by.

"We'll see." Elizabeth said as she pulled in to her street finaly. She was begining to feel tired. She didnt' know if the tea that she had taken that morning would fail and she would be flat on her face in bed.

"Why don't you guys stay here for a moment? I have to go tell my parents that we have company, and its not going to be pritty." She said as she walked up the steps to the house and let the door swing shut behind her.

"Hey lizzy is that you?" Mary called from the kitchen.

"Yeah, its me. What did you..." Elizabeth said as she walked into the kitchen. She trailed off seeing her sisters in two chairs tied there. Behind them were two men with masks. One had all white and the other had all black. "What the hell are you doing with my sisters?"

"WE are doing what we were told to do. YOU are not. You were told to go to the beach and bring back the artifacts. You didn't. There for you must pay a price." Whitey said as he circled the chairs that Mary and Erin were in.

"And What is this price?" Elizabeth asked, willing her body to stop shaking at the man's approch.

Whitey smiled evily. "Why you didn't read that part of the contract? You have to do what ever we say, exactly."

Elizabeth pailed at that remark. She didn't like where this was going.

'Sano, if you can here me, get your asses in here now!' Elizabeth sent will all she could spare.

"Now then you are going to go out into the guest rooms and wait there for me," Whitey said as he came closer to Elizabeth, reaching a hand up to cress her cheek and let the hand fall to her chest.

Elizabeth stayed as still as she could while shaking with rage.

"What the Hell are you doing to her?" Sano said as he saw what was going on. "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!"

"Sano!" Elizabeth said and placed a sight shield around Erin adn Mary.

"It is not right for you to do that to her, that it is not." Kenshin said from behind Sano.

"Kenshin!" Elizabeth said as she tried to find a way to end this with out distroying thier iner webs. Or hers.