11/27/04, Cena household…

The noise downstairs was getting too loud for her to ignore, Amanda pulling herself up and swinging her legs over the left side of her grey and green queen sized bed.

Yawning slightly and rubbing her tired hazel eyes, she stood up and stretched her arms before slipping her tiny feet into her grey fuzzy slippers and heading downstairs.

"I'm telling you, something strange is outside!" Dan yelled.

"Shh, you'll wake them up!" Sean whispered… but both brothers heard footsteps at the staircase.

"You already did… well, one of us."

The two turned, seeing their 14 year old sister in her pajamas with her collarbone length hair in a bedhead texture.

"Why do you have Dad's shotgun, Dan?" Amanda asked with a sleepy yawn.

"There's something strange outside, kiddo." Dan said, Amanda looking to the windows… but all she saw was the late autumn frost on them.

When she walked over with a towel and wiped the window clean, she saw a strange light… but it disappeared as her brothers reached the window.

"Alright, back upstairs." Sean said, taking Amanda back to her room and helping her lie down after she took her slippers off.

Amanda's eyes closed after her head hit the pillow, Sean kissing her on her forehead after pulling the covers over her.

"Sweet dreams, kiddo." Sean whispered, heading downstairs after pulling Amanda's bedroom door to a close.

"I wonder what she saw out there, Sean…" Dan said.

"If she saw anything, it was most likely the neighbor's watch lights. Now let's just crash." Sean said, heading back up to his old room.

Dan put the gun's safety back on and put it away in the safe, locking it… but he knew that his teenage sister saw something…

12 years later...

"Okay, why did you drag me all the way out here again?" Amanda asked as she and Finn stopped in the field not too far from the Cena house, the light from the moon in the darkened sky surrounding them on the chilly November night.

"Being honest, I was freaked out about meeting your family… your mom's a kind hearted woman but your dad was starting to scare me with that shotgun on the table." Finn answered.

"I'm sorry… I keep telling him not to threaten the people in my life with it." Amanda said as their hands entwined with each others. "I don't think I'll ever understand why a father feels the need to aim a shotgun whenever his daughter brings a guy home."

"Something about being the figure in her life, I suppose… I'll probably understand it one day." Finn replied.

"One day…" Amanda said before the two kissed… and were startled by the blinding light even though it was a good distance away. "Oh damn, I think the neighbors horse got out of her gate again." She said before the two found one of the ATVs and turned the light and engine on.

"Has that happened before?" Finn asked as they climbed on.

"No, Bella's normally behaved at night… now you might want to hold on tight, I haven't driven one of these since I was 14." Amanda answered, Finn putting his arms around her before she up the ATV and the two were speeding off.

But when they reached the farmhouse, it wasn't Bella… leaned against the railing was a man who made Amanda's older brothers look like they were child sized because of his imposing stature.

"Sir, are you alright?" Amanda asked as she and Finn got off the ATV and walked over, the man seeing them once his vision cleared up.

"I don't know, ma'am… where am I?" The man said, a bit shaky as though he was coming down from an adrenaline rush.

"West Newbury, Massachusetts…" Amanda answered.

"Massa… damn… that's a long way." The man said, in a quieter tone towards the end.

"From where? And why are you out here?" Finn asked as he and Amanda helped the man sit down, neither of the three truly phased by the light sprinkle of snow on the grass.

"From Europe, sir… I was in Iraq…" The man answered, pulling one side of his jacket aside to show a military name patch and Air Force wings, the patch reading 'L. Khranitel.'

"That is a long way…" Amanda says as the man pulled himself back up, not wanting to use them to balance himself as he easily dwarfed both of them in size.

"Yeah… I was flying and then there was a bang… then it's all blurred and suddenly, there you two are… Name's Logan, by the way." The man said.

"Nice to meet you… I'm Amanda, he's Finn." Amanda says as she and Logan carefully shook hands.

"Gotta be careful with someone like you or your wrist will break." Logan joked once they let go of each other's hands.

"I get that a lot, especially from my coworkers." Amanda said with a slight laugh as she started to wish that they hadn't just taken the ATV as Logan clearly needed medical help.

"Well you're in the same as Balor here, right? One of the guys I serve with… he's obsessed with the lot of you." Logan said.

"Not all that surprising, the company used to go overseas for the Tribute To The Troops events." Amanda says as she looked around, trying to remember where she last left it. "Hah!" She said, lifting up a fake rock and finding the key to an old van that John had taught her how to drive one summer.

When they found it, they had taken off to the nearest hospital… while waiting, Amanda heard her phone ring and answered it.

"Hey. Sorry about taking off like that." Amanda answered, knowing that John was wondering where they were.

"Where the hell did you two sneak off to?" John asked.

"Out for a bit to talk… but then we found someone beaten up pretty badly." Amanda answered as she glanced at Logan.

"You're lucky they found you when they did. Another few hours, you would've been a damn icicle." The nurse said, Logan glancing at her.

"Is there a snowstorm heading in tonight?" Logan asked.

"Supposed to be the worst one in nearly two decades… my former sister in law knows this area like the back of her hand." The nurse answered, Logan realising that the nurse was talking about Amanda.

"Oh, right… well… I'll just have to be in a warm spot when it hits then." Logan said, looking out of the window. "Haven't got many places to go, really… I'm not supposed to be here."

Amanda couldn't help but think that she had seen Logan before…