"Sarah, you have to believe me Axel is capable of things you can't even imagine. Just let me show you the house. His Father's old place, you have to listen to me, he's dangerous."

Sarah wanted to believe him, her heart screamed for her to trust him, the way she had ten years ago before Tommy Hannigan had left Harmony, and the horror, the murders and her all behind. But it had been Axel that had been there for her then, in the aftermath of the bloody Valentine's day tunnel five killings. Tom had fled the town, leaving his friends, his family, everything behind him and she had found herself picking up the pieces of that tragic night alone; until Axel had taken her hand and soothed her heart and been the man she had needed him to be. And she didn't blame Tom, she could only imagine the hell he had suffered just in those moments between being struck a glancing blow by the pickax and finding himself covered in Harry's blood after the sheriff had blasted a hole through his back and out his chest....

She had suffered from nightmares for months, and her life had not been in as much jeopardy as his had. She also did not carry around the guilt that Tom did in regards to the original mining accident that had been attributed to him forgetting to bleed the methane lines.

So while she didn't blame him and while the sight of him alone brought back memories both sweet and terrible she hadn't managed to forgive him either. Nor had she forgotten the man Axel had turned out to be, before Megan...before they had lost their way together.

Her phone rang and she answered it, trying all she could to give Axel the answers he needed without cluing Tommy in on who she was really speaking to on the phone.

"That was my Mother. Tom you need to take me home Noah isn't feeling well. I have a son to take care of, please turn the truck around now."

She tried to remain calm, but she was feeling anything but...Tom had been in an institution for seven years. Seven years he had spent locked up trying to deal with the events of a decade ago, and while she understood why he would need professional help in that kind of environment; she still could not easily put aside the fact that it was his return to Harmony that had heralded the murders.

Irene was dead, Megan was dead, Ben was dead...people they had known from childhood, from high school, all their lives were dead and there was a very real chance that Tom...her Tom was the one responsible for it.

"Sarah listen to me. Axel is not who you think he is. I'll take you back to Noah, I promise just as soon as you see this, but please for your own sake you have to trust me."

And she argued a bit more in defense of her need to see to her son, but Tom wans;t listening and her logic and reason fell on deaf ears. All the while she could not get Axel's voice out of her head, he had sounded just as sincere as Tom when he had told her what he knew of the man sitting next to her and how dangerous, how sick and twisted he had to be.

That was when she took the wheel of the Bronco and gave it a sharp tug, taking control of the vehicle from Tom; even though she would have none herself. Anything to stop him, anything to get away from him..and the truck careened across the quiet road, spinning as Tom screamed for her to let go of the wheel, as he tried to push at her hands and shoulder her away so he could stop them from wrecking, or rolling the truck. They hit the shoulder of the road and a tree branch the size of a man's leg shattered the windshield and went through the cab of the truck and all the way out the back window. When she could she pushed her door open and pulled and pushed and fell out of the truck onto the ground beside it with a yelp of pain. She didn't have time to inventory her injuries, she could only trust and hope that her legs could carry her as she got them beneath herself and lunged into the woods on the side of the road. She had scampered through these same woods as a child, as a teenager, her entire life. She knew exactly where she would need to go to meet Axel at his Dad's old place. If she could only make it there she would be safer for his protection.

She ran head long into the darkness, leaving Tom to pull himself out of the cab of the truck; head bleeding body bruised and possibly broken. He hadn't fared as well as she when the Bronco had left the road and he hit the ground on the passenger side of the truck with a scream.

Part of her very much wanted to run back to him, she knew that he was hurt and from the sounds of it badly. Part of her wanted to believe him, but with he and Axel both warning her in different directions she didn't know who to believe, she didn't know what to believe, she only knew she needed to get away for her own sake. Even if that meant leaving the love of her life screaming and injured on the road side.