While the brother and sister were scavaging around town, they panicked once they heard a tin can click and clank. It came from down the stairs across from them and they both stepped back nervously. Rodney held Robyn close as she looked down and firmly gripped her backpack. They saw glowing eyes coming closer.

"Let me handle this," Rodney whispered to this sister and grabbed her backpack by the straps and flung it against whoever was coming near them.

"Whoa!" a voice called that neither of the siblings recognized. "Hold it! Hold it!"

Robyn and Rodney came close and saw it was just a gray cat and a brown mouse.

"Who are you?" Rodney demanded.

"Oh, nobody." the cat shrugged as the mouse got on his shoulder.

"Just us," the mouse replied, then introduced himself with the cat. "He's Tom and I'm Jerry."

"Oh, we thought you were somebody else." Robyn clarified, sounding relieved.

"I thought you were following us." Rodney explained.

"Heck no!" Tom shook his head.

"What are you doing all the way out here?" Robyn asked as she walked with Rodney to look at the cat and mouse better.

"We're lost and we're looking for something to eat." Tom sighed as he put his paw to his head.

"Yeah," the mouse nodded. "We're kinda hungry."

"Well, we got cookies, and some apples and water..." Robyn opened her backpack.

Then, the group decided to hide out somewhere. They were by the pond under a bridge and everyone got acquainted. Rodney built a fire for all of them to keep them warm.

"So, your name's Robyn and you ran away from home." Jerry said as he bit into his giant cookie.

"How did you know?" Rodney asked since he and Robyn hadn't given the cat and mouse their names.

"Your name's on your locket." Jerry pointed out.

"Yeah, it's Robyn Starling." Robyn looked at her golden locket from her and Rodney's father. "This is my older brother, Rodney. I'm afraid the both of us don't have a home anymore."

"We're... We're orphans." Rodney sighed. "Our mother died when Robyn was a baby."

"What about your father? What happened to him?" Jerry asked.

"Our father's on an expedition climbing a mountain," Rodney explained.

"Yeah, but the mountain had an av...av...aval..." Robyn struggled with the next word.

"Avalanche?" Tom asked.

"Uh-huh!" Robyn cried, and Rodney held her as he decided he should continue the story for his sister's sake.

"And he's the most wonderful father." Rodney took Robyn's locket and opened to show a picture of him and Robyn with their father, Daddy Starling. "We all had a good time, just the three of us. He often taught me how to survive in the wilderness and how to be a good big brother."

"And that's why you both ran away from home?" Jerry asked.

"Uh-huh." Robyn stopped crying and Rodney let her go gently. "And to get away from our Aunt Figg." Robyn cringed as she brought up Aunt Figg.

"She's not really our aunt, just our guardian." Rodney told them. "She's taken over our house and moved us to the attic. She turned my room into a private bank with all of Daddy's money and gave Robyn's room to her dog, Ferdinand."

"Ferdinand?" Tom asked as Robyn rolled her eyes at that.

"Aunt Figg's always calling us orphans," Robyn put her hands on her hips in anger.

"She even stole Robyn's locket and threw it out the window into a tree, but I climbed for her and got it." Rodney added. "And..."

"Kept on running..." Jerry sounded empathetic.

"As fast as we could." Robyn explained. "And we're never going back."

"Oh smart kids." Tom got up and sassed the children. "Real smart. You both got a roof over your heads, few short meals a day, a couple of warm beds, who'd leave with that?"

"I hate to admit it Robyn and Rodney," Jerry turned to the Starling children after Tom's rant. "But Tom's right. You never know what you miss until you don't have it."

"But you don't know Aunt Figg! She deceives us!" Robyn defended.

"She's bad you guys, REAL bad!" Rodney added.

"Aw come on, I bet she's frantic looking for you." Jerry smiled.

"Oh sure," Tom added. "I bet she's crying her eyes out for you both right this minute."