Wow, story told from the side of the hostage taker.. I never even thought of that! Cool names you came up with.

Bizarre new direction…interesting.

so are they the sons, or was that not why they picked her?

This would be a fork in the chain: the kidnappers in this universe don’t appear to be her sons (although I suppose one or more of them could be, if someone wanted to write a sequel taking things in that direction).