Charlie

It's been a few hours since Sam ran into the garden and people were still out looking for her. How big was this stupid garden?! I could see Adam starting to get nervous as Leo was stood pacing slowly around the kitchen. The cousins were also around us, waiting for any news.

Though they didn't know her, they still looked nervous as their knees was shaking slightly. They were playing video games but they would pause every time someone would come into the house. Sam knows how to protect herself, I had to teach her basic things like how to identify people's emotions and how to say kind things but she has a lot of common sense in the ways of surviving. 

After a few minutes of awkward silence, the door slammed open as someone ran inside, a body guard it looked like, with a tablet in his hands with a picture of Sam.

"We found her", He said quickly, giving the tablet to Grandfather who swiftly gave it over to Grandmother. As she watched it, her face turned from one of worry to stress.

"What? What's going on? Where is she?", Adam asked quickly as he gently took the tablet away. Grandfather started pacing as he took his phone out, the uncles did the same thing as the aunts and our younger cousins went upstairs.

"How on earth did she leave the property?", Grandfather screamed into the phone, the others all started calling other people, asking them to search different places. As calls were made, they all put their shoes and jackets on, grabbing their car keys. 

"We got people down South looking for her", Reed said quickly, the others nodded as went out the front door, Marino followed him. He seemed like Adam and Marino reminded me of Leo, they just had that sense about them. I think they were from the eldest uncle Eric though I wasn't a hundred percent sure, I wasn't totally paying attention when they were introducing themselves. 

"We'll head with them", Max and Chris said as they followed them out.

"Be safe", Leo shouted to them as they both shouted a quick okay. 

"We got people North and West", Rick and Rory said at the same time as Rodrigo nodded. They were triplets from my third uncle I believe and although they all looked the same they were all very different people. 

One of them gave a more feminine vibe, Rory I think, he had plastic butterfly clips in his hair with pretty rings on and some black eye shadow though he still looked intimidating, he obviously worked out, infact all of them looked huge. Rick had a more Captain America vibe, he was wearing a black jumper with "BOSS" written on the front though I wasn't sure who the eldest out of them. Rodrigo had Aiden and Max vibes, he seemed a bit crazier than the others, he had that atmosphere around him.

They all left together, leaving on motorbikes, one black which was Rod, Rick had a black one but with blue stripes and Rory had a black one with pink stripes, a butterfly mark on the front of it. Obviously he had a thing for them. 

"Alright, I guess we got East, we'll check all the malls and parks to see if she had turned up there", Cameron said as Enzo followed him out the door. They both gave me Leo and Raymond vibes, you could tell they were used to following the others but at the same time, they cared. 

"We'll go too", Aiden and Leo said quickly, grabbing their coats and giving a nod to Adam. 

"We'll stay behind and make some calls to the street gangs, the best way to find her is list her as someone low key, lie that her family owes us something but she is not to be harmed", Elijah said slowly to Grandfather as he nodded. 

"Okay, we will stay and make sure the girls are alright and help sort out the others room", All the uncles said, heading upstairs. 

"Me and grandpa will head upstairs and make some more calls, put the word out that we want her but we will also say we are looking for others so it looks less suspicious, we are also going to try and track that truck", Adam said to me, walking away from me, giving me a pat on the shoulder as he walked past.

"We will find her", He said in my ear as I nodded. It was just me and Raymond left as we both stood opposite each other.

"Do you think they will find her?", Raymond asked me. I shrugged my shoulder though I knew for a fact she was too smart for them.

"To be honest, no", I said, sitting down onto the sofa quickly, putting my hands to my head. 

"Well, you know her the best right?", Raymond asked me as he sat beside me,put his arm around me. I looked at him for a moment till it suddenly clicked. He gave me a smile as it did. 

"Want me to drive?", He asked me as I nodded slowly, grabbing my coat. 

"Shouldn't we tell the others?", I asked him but he shook his head.

"No, what if it's a false alarm, if you're wrong and they all stop looking? Lets just check", He said with a smile as he grabbed his shoes, putting them on quickly. 

"So where we heading?", He asked me as he grabbed his car keys.

"Galleria Borghese, the art museum, she was saying on the plane how much she wanted to go there and it makes sense, she loves those sort of museums", I said quickly, practically running out the door. 

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Sam

We have driven for a rather long time, a lot longer than I think we should of. I could hear people talking in the front as music was playing, though they were speaking a different language, presumptuously Italian. 

I was starting to get nervous at how long we have been driving for, for a few minutes I was debating if I should jump out of the truck now or wait till they stop until the driver slammed on the brakes. 

I got thrown to the front of the truck, hitting my head slightly as I did. My ankle was still messed up slightly though it was a lot better than it was before. As the truck stopped, I quietly slipped out of the back as they got out, getting away from it as quickly as possible and diving into an overgrown bush.

I took a moment to look around at where I was. It was a very large warehouse in the middle of nowhere, I mean completely in the middle of a field with nothing around but a few water tanks at the side.

Where the hell am I? 

After a few moments of utter confusion, two groups of men all wearing t-shirts with their sleeves rolled up, dressed in black, were smoking and laughing with each other,dragging something behind them, blood covering their fists and shirts. There was about twenty of them so there was little to no chance of getting away unless I hid until they were gone. As I looked them up and down I noticed they had guns tucked into their back pockets.

What the fuck have I walked into?

If it was our family's truck, are these our people? They all had a yellow and dark blue tattoo on their arm but I couldn't read the crest name. Could they be enemies, I know it was our truck but it could be a traitor? An enemy from the other side. 

When I said I wanted to learn more about our family history, I didn't mean first-hand. I sighed deeply, trying to calm my nerves as I hid in a small bush, lucky I was small myself. 

"Come on man, let's just deal with the rest of them now, the boss said he wants them all gone from the city for now", One of the leaders shouted to the others. 

"Why now? He was fine using them, if he kills them all off or makes them move, who the fuck do we blame all this shit on?", Another one replied, waving his hands in the air. He had a tattoo on his face, a crescent moon next to his eye. 

"Look we just do as were told, you know the gig, get rid of these assholes, burn the bodies it's quicker that way, dump the rest in the river", The leader shouted again as they all agreed at the same time.

Bodies? Plural? 

My heart was starting to race now, I needed to figure out a way to get back home without being spotted by them but at the same time I didn't want to go home. I didn't have a home right now, the museum is my home and that's all the way in England right now. 

Oh god what to do? 

Stay here, stay quiet and be calm. The worst thing you can do in this situation is freak out, as much as I wanted to, I needed to stay relaxed just in case I had to talk myself out of this.

"Hey, come look at this", One of the men in the group yelled to the others, showing them something on his phone. 

"A kid? Why do they want a kid?", They all asked each other but the leader just shrugged.

"They want more people than that, poor kid didn't realize who they were fucking with", He shouted as they all laughed together.

"That's right, no one fucks with the Italian mafia", They all yelled at once, pulling their guns out and shooting into the air. As dozens as shots rang out into the air I paused completely.

Frozen.

Mafia?