While David acknowledged that his captor terrified him he didn’t give up hope right away. He was probably telling the truth, people like that didn’t lie unless it served them and this was a situation where he already held all the power.<br/>David also knew that this bastard couldn’t have been completely thorough, abducting one person was easy but a whole family especially a family as large as his would raise more than a few red flags. Yuyuko and Kat were both popular and their friends would miss them.<br/>More importantly the Swanson family had two very persistent army officers who wouldn’t buy official lines. David was sure that even if this bastard got away with taking them he certainly wouldn’t keep them. If he was planning to sell them he was free to try but you can’t keep people hidden forever, all he had to do was keep his family together, keep them sane.<br/>He looked at his children, deeply conflicted, he couldn’t not his girls, not his son.<br/>He had the illusion of choice, he had to keep that choice true to his beliefs.<br/>He cleared his throat and looked his tormentor in the eye unblinking.<br/>“I have no doubt you’ll kill us if we cease to be useful, but I won’t willingly bring harm to any of my children,” he said unable to keep the pain from his voice “If you’re going to torture someone torture me instead, if not then at least know that my son is a strong man and you won’t break him,”<br/>He knew that it wouldn’t make any difference, this evil man was clearly going to molest one of his children, he looked first to Yuyuko, then to his blood children finally focussing on Sam pleading that they understand his desire to protect them, closed his eyes hoping that his wish would be fulfilled and the bastard would take the glee of humiliating him first.<br/>