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"I really need to get there now, knowing my luck I won't make it in time and no taxi will be there. Dammit!" I said, running across the street. The cars honked at me,

"Sorry, sorry. Pedestrian has the right-away though!" I yelled at the open window of the green car that was closest to me.

"Just get out of the street kid!" my friend, Marley yelled at me. I laughed and ran across the other three lanes of traffic to get to the taxi pull in. There was a black SUV blocking the way,

"Jeez, pick a more illegal place to park why don't you?" I muttered as I walked around it and slid into the front seat of the first taxi I saw. I jumped as the taxi driver slammed two guys' heads onto the hood of the taxi, they were dressed in suits and looked really scary.

"I drive a taxi in Vegas." I heard the taxi driver's voice say, although it was muffled by the windshield.

"You're dead, Jack." one of the guys in the suits said ominously, I shivered unconsciously. Those dudes were seriously threatening the taxi driver, who had to be at least six foot and built like a boxer, they were going to get their asses kicked. I rolled down my window a little to see if I could hear anything else, as I was doing so, a police car rolled up behind the SUV.

"Hey! What are you doing? Man, are you insane? Now, move this out of the taxi zone before I give you a ticket." the officer said indignantly.

"See you soon, Jackie." the suited guy said coldly. "Jackie" the cab driver slid into the car and turned the key in the ignition; he looked over to my side of the car and jumped.

"You really should wait until I can get out of the taxi zone before you just hop in the car." Jack said, so he had seen me slip into the car while he was scaring those dudes, he looked into the rear-view mirror to see the cars behind him and jumped,

"Where'd you come from?" he asked the kids that had basically appeared in the backseat. I hadn't seen them when I'd gotten in the car so they must have slipped in almost silently; while I was looking in the rear-view mirror I realized that they weren't actually kids.

They were about my age, sixteen or seventeen and both of them were blond; they looked like twins. The girl had huge blue eyes and long blond hair; she was wearing a blue shirt under a grey jacket and khaki capris over a pair of brown tights. Her brother was absolutely gorgeous, short blond hair and cold blue eyes. He was wearing jeans, a brown t-shirt, and a brown hoodie. I realized, as I was checking the guy out, that he was about to speak.

"Outside." he said simply. Jeez, his voice is amazing I thought, it's deep and kind of calming. He seems really serious though…

"Yeah, I figured that part out on my own. How'd you get in the car?" Jack asked, completely startled that he hadn't seen them come into his cab.

"Through that portal" the girl said as she and her brother pointed to the car door.

"You mean the door?" I asked and the girl nodded.

"I'm Seth. This is my sister, Sara. We require your transportation services immediately." Seth said seriously. Ok, these guys were completely weird. But they seemed nice, if a bit demanding. Jack looked as if he agreed with me.

"Well, I require…" he started as Sara interrupted him

"A currency transaction." she stated as her brother whipped out a wad of cash, my mouth gaped.

"Would this amount suffice?" Seth asked Jack as I closed my mouth, only to open it again to make a stupid remark, as usual.

"What did you two do? Rob a bank?" I asked, and immediately rolled my eyes at my own stupidity.

"Is this acceptable, Jack Bruno?" Sara asked, kind of scaring the shit out of me. How the hell did she know his name?

"How'd you know my name?" Jack asked, scared as well. Thanks for asking Jack! I mentally cheered him on. Sara's response was to point to Jack's Taxicab Driver's Permit, I sighed in relief that she wasn't just creeping on Jack. I knew that the twins weren't scary, I suddenly felt like I could trust them; it was a weird feeling, I didn't easily trust many people.

"If we have a deal for your services, we must move forward rapidly. It is urgent that we get to our destination without delay." Seth said rather pressingly.

"Alright, alright. I'm going." Jack yelled at the car behind us that was honking, "Where to? I need an address." Jack said impatiently

"We must travel in that direction." Sara said vaguely, pointing in a direction.

"I'd need something more specific than just 'that direction'." I insisted

"We must locate latitude 40.54 cross-intersection longitude…" Seth started to explain the exact coordinates of the place they wanted to go. Seth was looking up the coordinates on a device that kind of looked like PS3 but was more advanced, I was jealous.

"We're just going to stick with 'direction'" Jack said, driving in "that direction", "You're going to have to sit in the back." he said to me, "Passengers are in the back" he said as I threw him a disbelieving look at him.

"Three years of using this company and you throw me in the back, some service. You see if I ever come back." I said jokingly as I nimbly slid into the seat by the window that Seth had moved out of to make room for me, I stuck my tongue out at Jack teasingly. We continued driving for what seemed like hours, I looked at the meter of how much the siblings were spending.

"Jeez. That's a lot. Where are you guys going?" I asked them.

"Are your parents gonna be okay with you guys spending all this money?" Jack asked me as Sara opened her mouth to answer me, Seth answered Jack.

"We have previously agreed upon a financial deal. If your concern is regarding your compensation…" Jack interrupted Seth.

"My concern is the fact that I got a couple of kids in the back of my cab with a big wad of cash with a drop-off location that's pretty much in the middle of nowhere. Now in my book, that's a little chapter called 'running away'…"

"You'd know all about running away wouldn't you Jack?" I interrupted quietly, he was silent for a bit.

"How do you know that?" he asked me seriously. I was quiet and looked out the window until the radio crackled and Jack's boss started talking.

"Jack, you better be getting desert miles on that fare. And they better be able to pay. And you better get me an ETA! Capisce?" he said demandingly

"I'm losing reception, Dominick." Jack said as he turned off the communication radio. I laughed and shook my head, he smiled at me in the mirror before he remembered that I knew something about him that he didn't want me to know and scowled.

"Jack Bruno, the vehicles behind us are indicating a pattern of pursuit." Sara said and I looked behind us, how was it possible that she had seen the black SUVs behind us?

"There's no vehicles following…" Jack said before he was interrupted again by Seth.

"At your current rate of speed versus theirs, they will overtake our vehicle in less than one minute." Seth said. Even though his speech pattern was slightly off, a bit different from normal, he was still amazingly hot.

"What do you mean my brother's speech pattern is different from 'normal'? Is his speech pattern wrong? And do you mean that my brother has an abnormally high body temperature?" Sara asked curiously. Did I say that out loud? Shit! I did not need Seth to know that I thought he was attractive, or that I thought that he and his sisters sounded kind of computerized.

"Relax, kid. I'm just gonna let them pass." Jack ignored our conversation, "Open road, people! It's all yours" he said, waving them on.

"You find my brother attractive?" Sara questioned inquisitively, of course she picks that out! I blushed in embarrassment but controlled it and decided to play it cool.

"Of course, who wouldn't? He's very good-looking" I said, teasingly playing with Seth's fingers. He blushed but regained his composure quickly and pulled his hand out of mine, Ouch, I thought, Rejection always stings a bit. Sara shot her brother a look in disappointment and it seemed as if they were communicating silently.

"See, what did I tell you? Nobody's following us. I'm the king of these roads…" Jack said as the SUV passed us, speeding past. But it spun and blocked the road ahead of us and two more tinted windowed, black SUVs appeared behind us.

"Jack Bruno!" Sara yelled in shock.

"I said I was out, and I meant it!" Jack yelled as he went around the SUV blocking the road.

"Who is Mr. Wolfe, Jack Bruno?" Sara asked curiously.

"How did you know that..? Jack asked as one of the SUVs hit the back of the taxi, throwing me forward. I threw my hand up to protect myself and it hit the back of the front seat, twisting my wrist more than it needed to be twisted,

"Get down, now!" Jack yelled to us, I felt a hand on my back that pushed me down. The hand stayed there, it was big and strong. There were two SUVs on either side of the taxi and one behind that was successfully boxing us in. Jack drove left and hit on of the SUVs then hit the other one on the right and they both moved back in,

"Hold on!" Jack yelled, hitting the brakes and hitting the car behind us and then speeding ahead. One SUV blocked our way and I braced myself for an impact but it skidded out of the way. Two of the SUVs skidded off the road into the dust, throwing the dust up and making it hard to see. When the dust settled, I saw that all of the SUVs were following us again.

"Jack Bruno, it would appear that we have not eluded them." Sara pointed out the obvious.

"I'm so over this." Jack grumbled then yelled at us, "Stay down! Stay down!"

"Seth, no! It's not a good idea" Sara whispered to her brother, I tried to follow the conversation when Seth said,

"I have to try" I completely gave up on trying to figure out what the conversation was about and just listened.

"It's too dangerous." Sara insisted, what was Seth about to do?

My question was answered when he seemed to melt out of the car, through the back seat. He landed in a crouched position on the road, I was stunned; he had somehow gotten through the car and onto the highway. He stood up and Sara gasped in fear, he turned toward the SUV and I gasped in fear. There was no way he could survive being hit by a SUV going really fast. He tensed his body and the car seemed to hit him as if he were made of a strong metal, it bent around him and parts of the car broke off. The car parts were flying away from the car and landing on the highway, the SUV had flipped over Seth and was blocking my view of him and the other SUVs. Sara quickly moved and I turned my attention towards her, her hand was in a fist and the car stopped.

"Now what?" Jack yelled in frustration. Sara lifted her open palm towards the roof of the car and the car started going in reverse. The men in the SUV were scrambling to get out of their seatbelts before the taxi hit them. Luckily, the taxi stopped a foot away from the SUV; Jack got out of the car,

"Stay here." he told Sara and me. He walked up to the completely trashed, beat up SUV and started talking to one of the men in the car. I couldn't hear what he said at all, he said it quietly. One of the men responded, it looked as if he was threatening Jack but Jack hit the side of their SUV with the tire iron he had brought with him. He got back in the taxi and asked us,

"How are you three holding up back there?"

"We're fine." Sara answered as Seth melted back into the seat next to me. I took his hand unconsciously; I didn't realize that I had until his hand gently contracted around mine. I looked over at him and smiled nervously, he looked away and I looked down at our intertwined hands. I looked up to see Sara giving Seth an approving look and a nod.

"I'm sorry that I dragged you three into all this." Jack apologized to us.

"There's no need for you to apologize, Jack Bruno. You are not always the one to blame." Sarah said softly.

"But the urgency of our trip has not decreased." Seth said, gently withdrawing his hand from mine. I pursed my lips and looked dejectedly out the window.

"Look, don't worry. I'll get you where you need to go. You've earned it." he said, expressing his regret.

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AN/ Hey y'all! Just wanted to welcome you to my first Race to Witch Mountain story. I've loved Alexander Ludwig since this movie came out and recently watched it again. I think I've gotten all the dialogue right, I did have to watch the movie in parts on Youtube and write down what they say in a word document so I'm just hoping it's correct. As always, if you find a spelling, grammar, etc. mistake please tell me so I can fix it! If you guys like this then I'll continue writing, if not I won't bother posting any more chapters. Please review!

Love,

tori.m