The three babies, Robert, Alice, and Joeann, were ten years old. The Prince and the Princess were huge for their age, but still babies in a way. They loved Joeann. She never left their side.
Tony and Gloria were the oldest at fifteen and refused to acknowledge the three babies’ existences. Billy, Steven, and Sarah were around thirteen; and were waiting to be teenagers.
One day, Alice asked Grandma Lily is it correct that Robert and I were almost killed when we were little? Is that true?
“Yes, Grandma Lily said, I was there. Three gangsters from your step-mother’s family tried to take you and Robert away. They failed, so they decided to kill both of you instead.”
“Alice, somehow you knew they were coming. You chased the other children Tony, Billy, Steven. Gloria, Joeann, and Sarah into the house. Robert made sure that someone carried Joeann. As the kids were entering the house, they yelled to call the police or Alice, and Robert will die. It was just me and your Grandmother, Marie at home. Elizabeth and Tracy were working. We ran outside to get you.”
The children said you both were hiding in the back brushes with Lily Kemble (Dog).”
Alice, Your Grandma and I didn’t know what to do. “The children told us to call the police, but we hoped it was one of your elaborate games and decided to take you two into the house. As we were nearing the backyard, we saw you two sorts of hiding.”
You were whispering as fast as you could to Robert. Before we could get to you, a black color car pulled up, and two men got out and pointed guns at us. We stopped in our tracks. They knew where you two were and ran right at you.
Lily Kemble jumped out of the undergrowth and ran at the men with her jaws ready to bite. The man pulled the trigger on his gun somehow Robert got between the revolver and the dog and took the shot. He flew back about three feet in the air from the hit, and we thought he was dead.
Alice, you came flying out of the bushes and before they could do anything you bit the man on his hand. He dropped his weapon. The other fellow slapped you away. Grabbed your hair and pulled you towards their automobile.
“Everyone on the block was now shouting at the two men; we could hear the police sirens in the background. The creep was dragging Robert to the car while shaking his injured hand. We saw something that was incredible, Robert snatched the man’s pistol that was lying on the ground, when the criminal was dragging him.”
Your Grandma Marie was chasing the car when two shots rang out. Then somehow Robert jumped out of the moving vehicle. He pulled you out with him. You landed on top of him, and he didn’t move.
The black car turned around and was rushing at you two while you were lying helpless on the ground.
Alice, when you saw the speeding car, you took the gun from Robert’s hand and tried to fire it in the car.
Everybody including the children was trying to get to you two, but Grandmother Marie and I stopped them we didn’t want to see any more of our babies murdered.
Robert woke up grabbed the gun from you, Alice. He then shot the driver three times in the head causing the car to veer off to the right, into a tree. I screamed and fainted.
“Marie told me in the hospital that everyone was yelling or praying when Robert killed the dude.”
We didn’t know where Clare or the Soldiers were. Later she said she ordered the soldiers away for the day. It was her property, and she can do what she wants to.
Marie also told me that Robert had enough left to crawl over to you and pull down your skirt that had rolled up.
“Later you got up and punched him. Robert was lying on his back chuckling. You were holding the wound which was bleeding. He closed his eyes. You were crying.”
Alice, you and Robert went into an intensive care unit. Only Uncle Joe could see you two, no one else was allowed. That night you two were taken to an unknown location by Elizabeth.