Darkness Surrounding

== Plot  ==
This is about a tween-aged car whose parents all the sudden disappear. Can someone find them before it's too late? Make sure to comment about how you think it is! The rating is moderate or teen for graphic violence, child abuse, and kidnapping.
==Preface==
10-year-old Justin Willer returned from school to a empty house. He yelled, "Mommy, Daddy? Where are you!?" No one responded. His preschool-aged sister, Justina, tapped Justin and asked, "Where Mommy and Daddy?" Justin shrugged and said, "I don't know, let's wait for them." The little car started crying, and Justin tried to comfort her. A week passed, and they still didn't arrive. By now, Justin was crying, thinking that his parents had died. 
==Chapter One- Scared to Death==
One day, Justin and Justina watched their babysitter open the door to a green car. He growled, "I will kill those kid's parents if you don't give me all the money on you! No joke!" The babysitter, no more than 15, was really scared and whispered, "Nooo... You will not kill those children's parents!" He growled, "I can, and I will." He took out a pistol, and Justina's eyes widened in absolute horror. Justin's understanding of the situation was that the baddie wanted and was going to kill his parents, so he pleaded, "Don't kill Mommy and Daddy! Please!" He burst into tears, and the bad guy said to the teenager at the front door, "Contain him, or you and their parents die. I will orphan them!" The fear in the babysitter's eyes made the green car laugh at terrorizing a teenager. She comforted the tween, and the cruel car said, "Give me all of your money, or you die! I don't care that you and those children are young!" The young car handed him all the money on her, eyes cast downward. He asked the youth what her name is. The 15-year-old whispered, "Gianna Arrow." He grabbed Gianna and tied her first two tires together!  
== Chapter Two- Gianna is Car-Napped! ==
Gianna grimaced as the green car tugged her from the house! A cop watched in horror as Gianna screamed, "Help! He's kidnapping me!" The green car slammed her down! Not only that, he cocked the gun and aimed it at his weak and helpless victim, and told her, "If you don't cooperate, I will shoot you." She pleaded weakly, "No. Take me back to the children." The cop's eyes widened at that. He rushed to the direction that her kidnapper had come from, and saw into a house, two terrified children. Justin pleaded, "Can you bring back our babysitter? I'm scared!" He put his front in a small space between the cop's tire and chassis. He said, "I'll try, children." He noticed a preschool-aged child trying to sleep in the tiny shelter of the cop, and he glanced in the direction of the kidnapper. Noo... He thought, The kidnapper did not... The cop was horrified. A 10-year-old and preschooler alone in a big house. That's just cold! 
== Chapter Three- Teenager Left to Die ==
He returned to the scene, and now-limp Gianna had been left on the sidewalk to die, horribly bleeding in some places. The cop looked in horror at the scene, thinking yet again, Noo... The kidnapper did not... He called a human cop over, and the cop's hand flew to his mouth. "Can you help her?" asked the police car in worry. The police officer crouched at the teenager's side, gasoline staining the knee of his blue pant leg. Worry was written all over his face. Finally, after accessing the damage, he said, "We can save her. She's dying, though. Let's get a professional to help." He called the Hospital and said, "There's a bleeding teen car, and she needs dire help! Quick!" A worker replied, "How bad is she bleeding?" The human cop said, "Pretty badly, if she doesn't get help quick, she'll die!" Then the police officer said, "She was kidnapped away from two children, one 10, and the other a preschooler. I don't know if they're siblings, but she was babysitting them until the green car kidnapped and abused her." 
== Chapter Four- Taken to the Hospital ==
An ambulance arrived quickly, and took Gianna to the Hospital, and Officer Daril got in the police car, Officer Jaren, and Officer Jaren allowed the human cop to drive him to the Hospital. They worriedly waited in the waiting room, and when the nurse called them, they visited Gianna's room, who'd woken up by that point. They asked if she was okay, and she whispered, "Better than I was." Then she struggled to get up, and said, "How are the children?" Officer Jaren said, "I hired another one to take your place. She has a high rank in babysitting, so she's pretty good." Gianna lied back down, content with his answer. She fell asleep shortly, and they both whispered, "Good night."
== Chapter Five- Back to the Willer Household ==
Carrie Xavier yelled, "Justina! Put that plate back!" Justina said innocently, "It fake glass." She dropped it when Carrie pushed her toward the sink. The angry 16-year-old car picked up the child and dropped her outside. The little kid banged on the door, crying, "Babysitter!" 
=== A day later ===
Justina huddled by the door, cold and starving. Officer Daril passed the home, and saw the huddled child. He rushed over, and tried to wake her up, but she was unconscious and frostbitten. A tear slipped down the officer's face. He put his head in his hands and said, "No. This cannot be." He knocked on the door, yelling, "What is this!?" His face was rightfully red with anger. Justin looked down at his young sister, and tears ran down his hood. He looked painfully up at his babysitter, and said, "My baby sister." He asked the human officer, "Is she... dead?" Officer Daril said, "No, honey, but she is frostbitten. And that could lead to death." Justin looked down and cried. The officer carried the child into the house, with Justin's help, and dropped her gently on a couch. He said, "Can you please get me a quilt for the child?" Justin drove up the ramp quickly, and brought back a heavy quilt with really thick and colorful patches. He laid it on his young sister, and Officer Deril ordered Carrie to make chicken soup. He fed the sleeping preschooler gently, like a baby. The little car woke up, and the officer's dark eyes brightened. Justin said, "She's awake!" with a huge grin. Officer Daril left, feeling sure that Carrie wouldn't hurt or abandon them with a cop watching her. Unfortunately, he thought otherwise. 
== Chapter Six- Abandonment ==
A day later, Carrie left the two children alone, angry at Justina. The two children cried at being heartlessly abandoned. Two days later, they were both starving, and were pleading for food, their words weak. Hunger showed in their eyes and words, and when the Officer Daril came by, he noticed that there was no yelling from within the house. Hmm, kinda suspicious, he thought. He turned the knob, and it was obvious that whoever left was in a hurry. And left the door unlocked! He came in to the sickly weak children on the floor. They pleaded for food, and it was tragically obvious that Carrie had abandoned them. Just coldly left them to die. Melted ice cream in a bowl lay near Justin and Justina, and it was crystal-clear that someone had given them each ice cream, but the children fainted of hunger before they could finish eating. He found out Carrie had been rightfully stripped of her title as a good babysitter after they found out what punishment the children got for being "naughty", and the fact she abandoned them without any nourishing food. He made food for them with the beans and noodles he found in the cabinet. Not only had she not given them food, she also took most things from the canned food cabinet! Officer Daril knew if he'd hadn't checked up on the babysitting earlier than usual, both the children would've died from starvation. And that would've been a really sad sight, two dead car-children.
== Chapter Seven- Food! ==
He handed a dish of his makeshift meal to Justina, and the other to Justin. They gulped it down, and weren't the least ungrateful. He also looked in the fridge, seeing a gallon of green Hawaiian Punch in it. He poured them both a cup, and also gave them straws. He went to the babysitting place, and said, "There's two children at 722, and they're all alone. One is three years old, and the other is 10." He whispered, "I found them lying on the floor, and it was dead clear that they haven't been fed properly for a while, probably about three days of neglect. They'd been abandoned by one of the babysitters here, Carrie." Carrie threatened, "Tell them more, and the children will suffer!" The superintendent yelled, "No! You will not hurt those kids!" Carrie said, "I know where they live, and I will be willing to harm them while they're weak." Officer Daril said, "I locked the door. Unlike you!" 
== Chapter Eight- Carrie is Fired! ==
The superintendent said gravely, "Carrie, they could've been kidnapped or even killed. You know that?" Carrie replied, "Yeah, that's why I left the door unlocked. So they could be kidnapped." Another babysitter said, "I'll take care of the children, NOT neglect them. And bring them food." The cop said, "Speaking of food, Carrie stole most of it. So those two innocent children die!" Everyone gasped. Except Carrie. She was rightfully fired. Carrie swore revenge on the children, even though they did nothing. The new babysitter, Deniece Righter, with Officer Daril behind her, knocked on the door and obviously Justin answered the door. The children looked weak, to her horror. The cop said, "I just fed them, don't worry." Deniece said, "Okay." She went inside, and locked the door. 
== Chapter Nine- Two Weeks Later ==
Deniece was suspicious when she heard someone picking the lock. Carrie casually drove in and said slyly, "Better start protecting those children." Justin came down and rubbed his eyes. Then Carrie violently grabbed him and banged him against the floor and walls! After the horrifying abuse, Carrie threatened to kill Deniece if she intervened! Justin tried to get up, but was too weak. Carrie kicked him on the side several times before he passed out. Carrie callously laughed as she beat up Deniece! Then she went up-ramp and tugged a sleeping Justina off her bed! She threw the crying 3-year-old down, and the child instantly lost consciousness. Officer Jaren entered the house, and was horrified at the sight of the babysitter and two children all unconscious and mildly bleeding. He knew who this was the work of. Carrie. He called Officer Daril and told him what happened. Officer Daril came over and said, "No, Carrie meant she was gonna take revenge on them!" Officer Jaren arrested Carrie for assault and child abuse. 
== Chapter Ten- All Go to the Hospital ==
Officer Daril called the Hospital and a female ambulance was sent. She said, "The teen and both children have to go to the Hospital. If they don't, they'll all die. The children are most vulnerable, especially the 3-year-old." She took Justina first, then Justin, then Deniece. The patients were treated well, and because they were weak, they were fed quite well. By the end of the week, the group was very healthy. 
=== Back at the Willer house ===
They finally returned to the house, and Deniece said, "Let's go to my home. We'll be safer." The children said, "Yeah! We want to meet your parents!" 
== Chapter Eleven- At the Righter house ==
She took them to her house, and the mom, Hope Righter, opened the door. She immediately fell in love with Justina, or rather, her cuteness. Justin was sadly ignored by her. Deniece said, "They're my responsibility, so make sure they're well taken care of." Then she left. Hope picked up Justina, and said, "C'mon, boy, hurry up!" Justin looked after his third babysitter and asked, "When is she coming back?" Hope put down Justina, and harshly pulled Justin in! He fell to the floor, and murmured, "Ouch." Justina went over to her brother, and attempted to help him up, but Hope pulled the little car away from her hurt brother. Justina cried and said, "Big brother!" Hope locked Justin in the attic! Justin lied on the bed, feeling forgotten and lonely. Seven hours passed, and Justin felt really hungry. 
== Chapter Twelve- Neglected ==
Two hours later, Hope finally unlocked the door. She yelled, "Justin, if you bang on the door again, I'll starve you for a week!" He went down-ramp, seeing an empty table and dark dining room. He said, "When are we going to have dinner!?" The larger car smiled sinisterly and said, "We already had dinner." The child whispered in fear, "So I'm going to... starve?" She dumped the scraps on the four plates onto the floor! She said, "Justin, clean it up or eat them!" He looked at her in fear and said, "But I want fresh food!" She said harshly, "You don't get everything you want in life." Two tears dripped down his hood as he glanced at the noodles and peas on the floor. He put his tire on the lower part of his chassis. He cleaned the mess up, and after that, went into the kitchen and reached desperately for the lowest cabinet. The snack cabinet. He couldn't reach it, and he would go to bed hungry. 
== Chapter Thirteen- Discovered ==
Aaron Righter caught Justin trying to reach the snacks again while getting a cup of milk, and Aaron knocked him down aggresively and shouted, "Go up to your room!" The helpless child whispered, "I was just trying to eat." Aaron shouted, "I don't care! Go up to your room and let yourself starve!" Justin, heartbroken and hungry, said, "Please, sir, I'm hungry!" The grown-up kicked the child several times, and he lost consciousness, lying on the tile floor, helpless. He carried Justin up, without care, and threw him on the ground of the attic! He laughed callously, knowing the child wouldn't wake up until morning. 
=== The next morning ===
Justin woke up on the floor, and he whispered, "Help, Mommy." Then he remembered that she was missing. He tried to open the door, but it was locked. He threw himself against it, and it crashed down! Justin knew he would be punished, and sure enough, Aaron came angrily to the attic. 
== Chapter Fourteen- The Punishment That Shocked All ==
He grabbed his young charge, and smashed him against the hallway floor! Justin said, "Please, sir!" He was pleading to be spared. Then, Aaron dropped him from the banister, and callously smiled as Justin fell, knowing that he would be severely injured or even killed! A sharp gasp sounded from the child, and then, he bled badly from the fall, having lost consciousness. Justin wasn't killed from the fall, but he was injured to the point where he could've died. He glanced at the (auto) body of Justin and merely shrugged. He went back to bed. 
=== Two days later ===
Justin finally woke up, to Justina's delight. She had thought that Justin was dead because of the gasoline surrounding him. But, someone had seen the child fall to the floor and nearly die. The Trucktown News truck. And you know what that means.
== Chapter Fifteen- The Broadcast ==
That afternoon, a news broadcast came on. The reporter said, "Two days ago in the morning, I saw a young car fall from seemingly nowhere!" He viewed a short clip of Justin falling, and he had turned away when the child was one foot away from the ground as to avoid a highly-graphic scene. He said, "I'm gonna check on him off-camera." He came over and knocked on the door. Deniece answered the door, and he asked, "Can I see the young car?" Deniece said, "Sure?" She gently woke up the sleeping child, and said, "Someone wants to see you." She took his tire in hers, and guided him to the door. Justin waved tiredly, and said, "Hi, Mr. Reporter." He said, "C'mon outside, you two. I want to talk to the child." The two went outside, and they quickly heard a click. 
== Chapter Sixteen- Locked Out! ==
Deniece quickly drove over and tried the door. "It's locked!" she gasped. She looked sadly at Justin and knew they would end up super-cold by the end of the night. The child had no idea that the door was locked. After an hour, the interview was over. Deniece rapidly knocked on the door, and her dad said, "Deniece, quit it, or I'll leave you and the d*** child out there for a week!"
=== One day later ===
Deniece had tried to keep Justin warm by letting him cuddle into her, but he still shivered violently from the cold. He looked up weakly, and whispered, "I'm hungry." Deniece knew she had no way of feeding Justin, and she felt sad because she wanted to tend to his needs, but couldn't because her wallet was inside of the house.
== Chapter Seventeen- Hear the Thunder ==
A storm came along, much to Deniece and Justin's horror. Justin said, "I'm scared, babysitter!" The scared teenager hugged him closer than what she was. She said, "We'll be okay," trying to comfort the terrified tween. Justin asked, "Will I be able to go inside? I'm cold and scared." Deniece looked down sadly. Her parents showed pure hate for him. She knew he was too young to understand why they hated him. Simply because Justina is cuter, and if they love someone else more, the other they neglect. Deniece knocked on the door and said, "May we come in now? It's cold and stormy." Aaron opened the door for his daughter, but when Justin drove up to the door, he just closed it! Justin cried, cold and scared.
== Chapter Eighteen- Finally Eating ==
Justin said, his words barely audible, "Please! I'm starving!" Then, Deniece heard him fall, and she knew her parents had not been feeding the quiet child. She yelled, "Why haven't you fed him!? He's my charge, and you abuse and neglect him!?" The child woke up quickly, and Deniece let him in and fed Justin. She gave him mac-and-cheese, and Justin happily ate it. He looked up at her, and smiled widely. Hope and Aaron said, "Stop feeding him. Now!" They took his plate, and gave it to Justina, who just said, "No," and pushed it back toward Justin, whose grin was replaced by a deep frown. Hope yelled, "Go up to the attic. Right now!" Justin whispered, "I didn't do anything." Aaron hit him, and hard. "GO!!!" The tween's eyes filled up with tears, heartbroken. Deniece watched with sorrow as he sadly drove up the ramp. Her own eyes filled up with tears.
== Chapter Twenty- Justin Sneaks Into Justina's Room ==
That night, Justin left the cold attic, and sneaked to his little sister's room. He quietly knocked on the door, and Justina opened it tiredly. They played with toys for a while, princes, princesses, and horses. For the first time, Justin was actually having fun. She hugged her big brother, and held his tire as she dragged him along to her princess bed. She pointed to the left side of her pink bed. They settled back down to sleep. They cuddled into each other, and fell asleep, Justin dreaming of good times, and Justina dreaming of princesses and and rainbows. 
== Chapter Twenty-one- Woken Up Harshly ==
When Aaron saw them sleeping together, he angrily grabbed Justin and threw him on the hallway floor! He laughed cruelly as Justin cried, "Stop!" in pain. He beat up Justin so badly he bled! When Justina came out, she looked at her brother's limp (auto) body and burst into tears. She wailed, "Ms. H! Justin is dead!" Hope came up and said, "He's not dead." There was no emotion in her voice. The 3-year-old looked sadly at her brother. "I want my brother!!!" she wailed. When it was dinnertime, Justin woke up, and went down-ramp, smelling pasta. He looked on the table, and asked quietly as usual, "Is there a seat for me?" Hope and Aaron said, "No, starve and die." The tween sadly looked down and whispered, "No one cares about me." He sadly went back to the attic, simply a room with a bed and a worn quilt. 
== Chapter Twenty-two- Car-napped! ==
Hope and Aaron came up, ignoring the fact that they were driving over the attic door. Aaron said harshly, "C'mon, kid." He led him outdoors and said, "We have him here." They pushed Justin toward the 26-year-old green car who car-napped his parents and Gianna. He frowned at him, and said, "A weak 10-year-old kid? You can do better!" Aaron just closed the door. Justin cried, knowing his life will never be the same. Then, he thought of a plan. He stole a glance at the house address. 362. Eventually, Derek Wyne (wine; BTW, I'm not sayin' this char'cter's drunk) yelled, "Shut up!" Justin whimpered, "Stop." He threw the kid to the ground to make him 'shut up!' Justin's innocent brown eyes filled up with pained tears.
== Chapter Twenty-three- Father, Mother, and Son Reunited ==
When Derek got Justin to the Hideout, Justin's eyes lit up when he saw his parents. "Mommy! Daddy!" he shouted happily. Isabella said, "Where's Justina?" The young car replied, "At house 362. Being very good taken care of." His eyes filled up with tears. Xavier said, "Why are you crying, son?" He said, "I was abused. Forgotten. They ignored my pleas for food. They starved me. They locked me and babysitter outside when it was cold and storming." His parents' eyes filled up with horror. "How many babysitters have you two had!?" Justin answered, "Three. The first was 15 years old, but was kidnapped. The second was 16, and very strict. She left Justina outside for a day! Shortly after that, she left us to... to die. The third one is with Justina, and is 16."
== Chapter Twenty-four- Justina's Thrown Out ==
Justina noticed that Justin had been forced out, and she caused a lot of trouble emotion/word-wise. She cried for her brother, and being super-young and moody, she cursed at Aaron and Hope constantly. Eventually, about a week later, the couple pushed her out, even though she only understood they were bad words, and didn't know the actual meanings. After two days of being on the street, the child fainted of hunger and frostbite. Officer Daril found the child shivering greatly, to his shock and horror. He called the Hospital, and a male ambulance quickly arrived. He looked down at the 3-year-old child and yelled, "What sicko would abandon a toddler!?" The little car woke up slowly, weakened by malnutrition and the cold weather. She whispered, "Here help me?" The ambulance said, "Of course, little one." He gentured for Officer Daril to put Justina in the back.
== Chapter Twenty-five- Family Reunion ==
A week later, Justina woke up, and Officer Daril had rescued the family. He escorted them to their home to keep them safe from kidnappers. He told Justin, "Your little sister is coming home today. Can you tell mommy and daddy?" Justin's eyes lit up, and he drove really fast to the living room and shouted, "Justina's coming home!" two times. Isabella and Xavier's eyes lit up as well and yelled, "Our daughter is okay!" Justin joined the family hug, and Officer Daril said, "She's coming home at 4:00," hands in his pockets. He was smiling. The child returned three hours later.
== Authors' Notes ==
Hey, this is Sisi. I know this story was very shocking overall, and next time, I won't make it so rushed. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed it, despite the rushed feeling overall and violence in it. I can't think of anything else, so bye, have a nice day!
Love, Sisi. <3
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