The Secret to Survival

Summary:

Alexander "Andy" Cahill is the son of Ian and Amy, only he was kept secret from everyone except Amy and Dan. When Andy turns ten years old, Isabel escapes prison and threatens to kill the people Natalie and Ian love if they don't help her. As leverage, Isabel tries to get her hands on Amy. Follow Andy as he jumps from place to place in his mother's effort to hide him. Will he escape Isabel's clutches? Will he ever meet his father?

Prologue

Amy Cahill, age eighteen, was heading off to collage. Her eyes were red and puffy. She was leaving her younger brother, Dan, for a few months at a time. It was the first time they'd been away from each other for more than a few days.

Dan Cahill was sad to see his sister go. When he was four years old and Amy seven, they'd lost their parents in a fire. Amy had looked after him ever since. She'd kept by his side. Together, they'd found the 39 Clues and defeated the Vespers. But now, they were going separate ways, and they wouldn't see each other for at least a couple of weeks.

Amy was heading off to France to study law. She had a fascination with the justice system since she had read about her parents' murderer, Isabel Kabra's trail. She had gotten thirty-five years for the murders of Hope Cahill, Arthur Trent, Irina Spazky and Lester. Isabel had also gotten two years each for the attempted murders of Amy, Dan and Fiske Cahill, Jonah Wizard, Ned, Ted, and Sinead Starling, Alistair Oh, and the Holt family. She'd nearly killed her own kids, Ian and Natalie.

She'd be in jail for approximately sixty-five years.

Fiske and Nellie helped Amy with her bags, and Dan stood watching. Amy shared a hug with Nellie and Fiske. She opened her arms out to Dan.

Dan walked into them. Amy started to cry again. "Stop being such a girl, Amy." Dan whispered to her. Amy gave a watery smile and jumped into the taxi waiting for her. She waved until she couldn't see them anymore.

Amy Cahill kept contact with then for nearly three years, and then they never heard from her again.