A/N: Never Fear! I have not given up on my current story 'Game Change' I will still be updating it weekly until it concludes… This story will be updated fortnightly and when 'Game Change' is complete this story will be updated weekly. Just so we are all on the same page! I just had to start posting as the idea is running around in my head like an annoying song! Also the purple box thingo I called it a 'module' or 'plex module'..not correct but if anyone has a better name I'll use it! Also not a medical doctor/soldier/physicist…Please Enjoy!

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Chapter 1

Deep in the badlands, the hot afternoon sun shone down on the desolate space. Lucas felt the sweat drip down his back as he held his violet plex module. He wiped the sweat off his brow with the back of his forearm as he exhaled slowly. He, Mira, and Major Hooper with five phoenix soldiers had driven into the badlands in a rover and two rhinos to the location where Lucas had previously detected micro time fractures in his spare hours when he needed to get away from the camp.

The beauty of the time fractures was they were easy to find but making a wedge to open on and make a stable connection/portal was difficult part. Hence the terminus and the precise calculations there was a definite art to it all.

Lucas used the module as a remote control and activated the terminus. The wind blowing dust and hot air around the small group as the fracture opened.

He monitored the readings on his module. His hand was on the finger drives as he slowly manipulated the fracture to open in the terminus. The micro fracture was incredibly fragile, he watched the readings projected in the air above the module, the fracture was to 21st like so many fractures in the badlands this one didn't go to 22nd century which was what they needed.

If they walked through a fracture to an earlier time they could change the future. Something Lucas knew was irresponsible, there was no way of guaranteeing that it would change in their favour whereas if they could connect to 2150 then there was a chance of building up another army, more funding and coming back better prepared and finally finish the mess they started. Get rich and live the dream, Lucas thought sardonically. The money was irrelevant it was a matter of pride for Lucas. The goal was to finally and publicly dethrone his father from his precious colony and watch as Lucas destroyed his dreams and allowed the future stripped Terra Nova for all its resources. It wasn't a dream for Lucas it was just one of his many goals. In Lucas's opinion dreams were just unattainable goals.

Today was just a dry run, a test, so what time the fracture went to was irrelevant. He had repaired the damage to the terminus as best as he could with the supplies they had. He wanted to make sure it didn't blow up when they made a connection to the one fracture he had found to the 22nd Century but the radio spectrum was more advanced than the previous fracture. It was how his module could date the fractures it was from their radio spectrum. It picked up on frequencies government and military agencies used in that time period.

He couldn't believe it when he found the fracture but to his amazement the fracture was there and a continuous message had been sent over and over. A data burst from 2157, it was marked for any survivors of Terra Nova. Apparently a lot had happened after the first fracture had completely collapsed and Hope Plaza been destroyed. They sent all the information they had on the current fracture they said they were having difficulties in opening and maintaining a stable connection as the fracture was incredibly degraded on their side. They sent plans on how to build a new terminus with calculations to help a Luddite open a two way portal to their time. They believed if the portal was opened on Lucas's side to the future it would hopefully be stable enough for two directional travelling.

He had informed the others of the find to give them hope and to shut up their whining since they had been in the badlands for over 8 months. It hadn't been easy they had an established camp 4 hours drive from where the many of the fractures were in the edge of the forest near a cliff face.

They had lost a good number of the phoenix soldiers to Carno and nykorapter attacks the first 3 months while they set up tree huts to live in. Lucas didn't remember much from that time as he had been recovering from two bullets to the chest. But then he wouldn't have missed them anyway as he was glad for lesser number of soldiers, less people complaining and more food for him and the others who were actually pulled their weight. He had told him he found a fracture to the 22nd century he just left out what year. It wasn't worth telling them until he knew he could open a stable connection.

"It looks stable" Hooper said from Lucas's left shoulder. One man Lucas wished had been lost in those first few months.

"Looks can be deceiving" Lucas said tactfully as he really wanted ask the man where he got his PhD. in Physics and Mathematics to make such an assumption from the reading he was reading at the moment. But he held his tongue as he continued to work his 'magic' with the terminus.

"Damn it" Amelia said after a flash lightening blinded her night vision momentarily and sound of thunder boomed loudly a mere second later. She drove her bright yellow '97' Daihatsu Mira through torrential rain. No one warned the weather would turn torrential, she was drenched from head to toe and she had taken her ballet flats before running in the rain to her car.

She felt like an idiot as she had dressed up in her favourite white ¾ sleeve motorcycle jacket with epilates, a nice loose white singlet top, her favourite bootcut jeans that had a few tears and new white and yellow floral patterned ballet flats for the cute guy who worked at the information desk hoping to catch his eye but he hadn't looked at her twice. She had honey brown hair with natural caramel highlights out in loose curls. A big fail on the guy front but at least she got in 4 hours of solid studying and several books she needed for her visual arts project and for mathematics extension, she needed all the help she could get as she was taking applied physics at University as a pathways into her future degree options.

The rain bucketed down in sheets pounding the car, Amelia heard her mobile start shouting as the mp3 she programmed for her mother's calls. Her mother hated it, it was a recording of a Army cadence called 'They say that in the Army'. The cadence continued as her mother kept calling. Amelia listened to the men half singing half shouting the cadence and frowned as it just reminded her how much in trouble she was.

Amelia knew without a doubt her mother was going to ground her for a year, no she'd take the car which would be right considering it took Amelia over a year to save for it and wait for her mother to be stationed somewhere long enough for her to buy what was essentially a coca cola can with wheels. It had no air conditioner, no airbags, no power steering and its sound system was a cassette deck. She was sure back in 1997 this car was probably the coolest thing around but in 2012 it was what her older brother so lovingly called a 'clown car', it definitely didn't elevate her social status but at least it got her from A to B, cheap on the petrol and it was very easy to park.

She was barely driving 40km/hr as the rain bucketed down, Lightening flashed again. She was late for dinner as she had been studying for her mid semester exams at the local university library. She was always studying, always doing something school or sports related. Her mother the Colonel was a stickler to the credo of 'Be the best that you can be'.

Apparently being the best meant you couldn't go to parties or have much of a social life. Amelia tried to not to let it get to her, she reminded herself constantly in 4 months she would finish her HSC and settle into university for four to 6 years and finally find a balance she missed in life. To not be constantly moving around, to have a permanent address, to put a nail in a wall and hang a photo, paint the walls something other than off white and taupe. That was her dream.

"What's happening?" Hooper demanded as he watched a stable portal become erratic. It had taken 6 long months to get to this point and now what was looking like a way back to 2150 was slowly slipping away. His men were short on patience and Lucas's failure to make a stable portal back to 2150 was taking its toll.

"I don't know, something is wrong" Lucas said stating the obvious, he felt annoyed at Hooper standing at his shoulder pretending he understood what Lucas was doing when it was well above Hooper's level of comprehension. The man was an idiot, a dumb grunt with a gun and Lucas couldn't wait for them part ways. It was stressful enough trying to maintain a connection with the fracture without Hooper annoying him.

"Fix it" Hooper told him, Lucas fought the urge to roll his eyes and took a deep breath.

"If it were that easy then you would be able to do it. Now do me a favour and step ba-" Lucas stopped as he watched the Portal distorted and flashed a second later he jumped out of the way as a small yellow automobile hurtled through and smashed into the left front end of the rover he had previously been standing in front of.

The portal snapped out of existence as the terminus overloaded and the circuitry boards exploded but no one noticed as all eyes were on the small yellow automobile.

A moment passed as the group stood stunned at what had occurred before Hooper ordered his men to put out the fire in the Terminus circuitry. Lucas deactivated his module and closed the lid and placed it in the rover before he moved to the automobile. Knowing the Terminus was beyond repair so he might as well indulge his curiosity.

The left front of the yellow automobile had completely crumpled into the rover. Smoke stemmed from the engine block along with the strong smell of motor oil and Petrol or what he assumed to be petrol as he had never smelt it before only read about in school. How it was the beginning of the end when Petrol was used by motorists and factories led to the world being choked by the pollution.

He wiped the water off the roof of the car before he leaned over and looked through the rain water streaked window and saw a body in the driver's seat. It looked like a young woman from the looks of it. He ran around the car to the other side to get a better look and tapped on the window to get her attention as he saw her move her head slightly, her face was covered in blood as she looked incredibly dazed.

When she didn't respond to the tapping and her head drooped again he pulled his sonic pistol from his shoulder holster grabbed it by the barrel and shielded his face with his arm as he smashed out the back passenger seat window. When the window glass was cleared he reached in, unlocked and opened the driver's side door. He cursed as he saw she was jammed between the driver's seat and the steering wheel with a bad laceration to her leg, he called for a med kit and a laser saw. He wasn't sure what was driving him to save her but he knew better than to ignore his instincts.

Amelia groaned as she slowly came to, everything felt far away to her, the noise of tapping and glass shattering. She struggled to open her eyes as her brain would not clear up, her body pounded with pain too much pain as she tried to perform the simplest of tasks. She didn't understand why everything was taking so long to function. She barely registered the voices around her and the blast of hot dry air into the car as the driver's door was open until she saw a scruffily looking deeply tanned man with green eyes knelt down outside the car talking to her.

His mouth was moving but she couldn't quite hear the words he was saying, she tried to focus on his words but her brain was not computing. She closed her eyes and when she opened them was completely disorientated as she was no longer sitting in her car but lying in the back seat of another vehicle she heard muffled voices around her and the roar of the engine. Telling her she was in a moving vehicle as she felt every bump and rock the vehicle hit. They were probably taking her to the hospital. She closed her eyes again succumbing to sleep as her body didn't want to be conscious.

When she woke again she found she was lying in a cot, looking up at canvas roofing. She didn't feel any pain just tightness in her body and that her world was a trapped bubble, one stuffy and hot bubble as she lolled her head to the side she saw two men arguing loudly but the words weren't clear to her. She turned her head to the other side and saw a woman come towards her. She was beautiful with raven black hair, lightly tanned skin as Amelia did and soft dark brown eyes, she laid a cool hand on Amelia's forehead and it felt like heaven. She said something to her but Amelia frowned as her ears just couldn't translate the words. Amelia tried to speak but her mouth wouldn't comply as she was dragged back into a state of unconsciousness again.

3 days later, Lucas walked into the makeshift infirmary to check on his newest 'responsibility'. Hooper had become a right royal pain in his ass about bringing the young woman back to their camp. He said she was heavily injured and they didn't have the resources to keep her around even if she did recover. Lucas had held out for a second opinion, the opinion coming from Lt Alicia Washington their current Prisoner and highest ranking Medical officer.

Apparently Mira had decided to be a vindictive bitch, knowing his Father's attachment to his XO. Mira had made sure to pack up Lt Washington's body with them as they left Terra Nova. She knew Taylor would be crushed at not being able to bury his precious Lieutenant's body, laying her to rest and it would forever burn him. The Lieutenant hadn't been a very good guest of theirs the first few weeks she had been unconscious probably a good thing considering the massive trauma from the sonic blast to the head but she recovered with help from Carter. The two had a past history Lucas didn't care to listen to, all he knew was that Carter was her 'protector' and no other man was allowed to touch her. Not that anyone was stupid enough to try as Alicia had no qualms killing a phoenix soldier.

At first she of course tried to escape, many times attempted to escape and killed a few men in the process but once they placed the neck cuff on her she tempered and played her duties as their medical officer. It was after the ninth time they dragged her unconscious body back to camp that she finally gave into the role. The metal neck cuff had a tracker in it, when Alicia left the designated zone of the camp it would sound an alarm and alert Lucas, Carter, Hooper that she had left the zone, it would also send an electrical charge through the cuff and incapacitate her.

He moved to the cot the young woman, no he mentally corrected, she is Amelia Jones, 17 yrs old hitting 18 in 3 months, 5ft 3, blood type O negative, She has an international driver's licence document along with her American passport, she likes sports, photography and art along with many high school text books that told him she was finishing high school and dabbling in first year University courses he reminded himself this to make her seem more human, more real to him. He didn't know why he was driven to help her or why he should even care but he did. He had gone through all of her belongings Carter had retrieved from the car wreck. He looked at the out of date literature on applied physics, flicking through her visual arts diary and A3 portfolio of black and white photos. Getting to know her, as if preparing himself for the time when he'd have to tell her 'The life you know is over'.

He had also spent many hours of the last three days buried in the readings and the calculation trying to figure out how she even crossed the fracture to his time. He racked his brain trying to figure out what exactly had happened. He played the moments over in his head; he had been trying to open a fracture to see if the terminus was functioning, a dry run with the new calculations to make a two way portal, he didn't even open it wide enough in his opinion for something to come through. Sure a bird or something small but certainly not an antiquated motor vehicle with a person inside. Something on her side must have wedged it open wide enough to pass, or a power surge.

His eyes had gone wide as he remembered the rain on her car, a true fluke of nature. It explained why the terminus promptly overloaded and exploded. The power surge from a large bolt of lightning surged the system and opened the portal and the poor young woman driving her car went straight through the fracture to his time. When he had explained his theory to Hooper the soldier looked at him blankly and asked about the progress on the Terminus to which made Lucas wish he was surrounded by intelligent company who would appreciate what he was saying and trying to do than demand timetables and schedules.

He stood at the end of the cot looking at Amelia as Lt Washington placed a new IV bag before going through the motions of checking Amelia's vitals. She had been stripped of her clothing and cleaned up and clothed in a spare man's shirt, Amelia looked incredibly small and fragile with her slender, delicate bone structure that were covered in lean and toned muscles. Her skin was incredibly pale and covered in a heavy sheen of sweat as her delicate facial features were slightly pinched in pain. Her left eye was severely swollen and her left cheek bruised and also swollen from where she had smacked her head on the steering wheel. Her eyes kept fluttering open and closing like she trying to wake up but the effort was too much.

It made a strong contrast from the healthy smiling young woman in the passport photo with long wavy honey brown hair and natural caramel highlights and a healthy lightly tanned skin. Her dark brown eyes sparkling like someone had told her a funny joke. There were also photos on her digital camera of her with another guy who he assumed was her brother as they shared similar facial features like high cheek bones, narrow chin, narrow nose, same hair and eye colour but that's where the similarities ended as her brother's features were more masculine and stronger with thin lips, she had a softer face with lush lips that made her face more balanced than her sibling's. The photos were of them goofing around making stupid faces and smiling while the other photos in her camera were of architecture and crowds of people and nature all random with no obvious theme to them.

Alicia had informed him of Amelia's other injuries broken ribs, whiplash bruise from the seat belt and lacerations to her legs from where the metal of the front of the car crumpled in on her. Most of the lacerations were superficial except for one large laceration up the side of her left leg that had been deep which was the source of her major blood loss and current infection.

"How is she?" Lucas asked. Alicia looked up at Lucas from her knelt position on the ground.

"Delirious with a high fever, her infection has grown more severe. Carter claims that the 'Jungle remedy' that we applied to her leg wound will fix it up. Hooper has refused to give us some antibiotics as all medical supplies are restricted for his soldiers only" Alicia told him with a disapproving tone. She picked up a washcloth that had been sitting in a small bowl of fresh water and wrung the water out. She folded the cloth and placed it on Amelia's forehead, the young woman mumbled something unintelligible and her features softened in temporary relief from the cool temperature of the cloth.

"Is it working?" Lucas asked as he moved to the vacant side of the cot and knelt down to look at Amelia more closely. He had to squint slightly as the bright sun was shining down from a gap in the branches and a small hole in the canvas roofing he made a note to inform Carter about it later.

"Only been two hours, apparently it's too soon to tell" Alicia remarked sceptical that the 'remedy' would indeed work or if was just supposed to make death a little more bearable. Alicia flipped the cloth and pressed it gently onto Amelia's forehead and held her hand murmuring words of comfort.

"What has she been saying?" Lucas asked as Alicia sat back on her feet. He noted the fatigue in the woman's face and knew the Lieutenant had vested interest in the young woman in the bed. Amelia kept mumbling and struggling to breathe.

"Mostly pleading, she doesn't understand and that it's hot. What are you going to do with her?" Alicia asked as she watched Lucas lay a gentle hand feeling the heat radiate off Amelia's skin.

"I don't know, but she's my responsibility. I will try and get you the medical supplies you need. Tell me what you need" Lucas said he knew he could barter with Hooper. He didn't know Hooper had restricted medicine for his men. Lucas unlike Alicia had pull. He was the only one who could open the fracture and get Hooper home.

"If you dropped her off at the edge of the boundary of the colony and sent up a flare the soldiers would find her. She'd be taken to the infirmary and get the proper medical attention" Alicia said.

"Nice try Lieutenant. You and I both know that I'd have to take you on the excursion to monitor her, you never give up on returning to my father do you?" Lucas asked.

"I never give up on returning to my unit and to my home" Alicia corrected him. Lucas knew Lt Washington was not involved with his father in anything more than a platonic manner. They had been close friends for years something that Lucas was envious of as he once upon a time wished he had such a relationship with his father. But it was never going to happen.

"Yet they gave up on you, not even one search party to recover your body. I guess the 'We never leave a soldier behind' are just meaningless words my father prattles to keep you all loyal to him" Lucas said he knew he hit the mark with his comment as he saw a flash of pain and betrayal flicker through her eyes before she looked away.

"Antibiotics, bio dressings, ice gel packs, rally packs.. sorry IV bag that looks like the one I've hung up" Alicia said in a resigned tone as she gestured to the IV drip bag. Lucas nodded getting to his feet. He took one last look at Amelia before he left.

Amelia was trapped, she couldn't see anything but darkness as she was being slowly suffocated by sweltering heat that scorched her skin and blistered her lungs. She tried to cry out in agony but her lungs would seize and her body wouldn't comply. She felt a cool hand stroke her forehead. Restlessly she sought more.

"Please," she gasped, and groaned with relief as someone answered her plea as she felt sweet cold relief she turned and felt a hand on her arm pull her back. She turned and suddenly the darkness lifted and she was in the desert. She looked to the owner of the hand on her arm.

"It's ok, you'll be ok" It was the woman with raven black hair and brown eyes, she pointed behind Amelia "See" she said.

Amelia turned her head but saw nothing other than empty desertscape. She frowned and when she turned back to say just as much to the woman, Amelia felt the ground beneath her give out and she fell dropping into what felt like a pool of water. She kicked her legs finding they didn't function, her lungs burned from the lack of air but she didn't give up. She reached her hands up above her head struggling to swim her way to the surface.

"I thought you said this 'remedy' would work" Alicia told Carter as she, Lucas and Carter struggled to keep Amelia still. The young woman started struggling against them and gasping for air.

"Did I forget to mention the slightly hallucinogenic properties of the bark in said remedy?" Carter asked innocently as he held Amelia's legs down.

"Remind me to kick your ass later" Alicia gritted out.

"Will you kiss it better after the kicking?" Carter asked her as Amelia stopped struggling and calmed down.

"No" Alicia told him. Lucas ignored their conversation as he helped Alicia right Amelia's bedding, Alicia checked the bandages on Amelia's leg while Lucas replaced the gel ice packs on Amelia's body. She was completely delirious and the cold temperature of the gel packs seemed to kick-start her in some weird dreamscape or hallucination as it was hard to tell if she was awake or asleep.

"I hate these brown tiles" Amelia mumbled as her fingers gripped his shirt front.

"I hate these brown tiles" she mumbled to herself as she laid in a puddle of water on what looked like the bathroom of the house she and her mother were currently residing. She watched steam rise off the floor and the room was like a sauna. She pushed herself off the ground water dripped off her body onto the floor. She moved to the vanity and used it to pull herself up to her feet properly. Her head spun from the movement but she didn't stop herself as she wiped the steam off the mirror in front of her.

She saw a figure standing in the fog behind her she couldn't see his face as the steam obscured her view. She gripped the edge of the sink, her eyes not moving from figure behind her. Fear spread through her, her heart quickened in panic until she turned.

"Shh you're safe" Lucas murmured to Amelia in a low voice. The irony of what he was saying was not lost. She was far from being safe. Carter had gone to get Alicia's meal while Alicia had started going through the supplies he had acquired. Amelia had calmed down for a few moments but now she was starting to panic, her breath coming in short gasps as she trembled in the bed. The hand that he hadn't removed from his shirt front twisted and pulled on the fabric.

"No, don't leave me. You only got here" she pleaded in a breathless voice, he knew she was out of her mind and it was not a personal request but it didn't stop him from assuring her.

"I'm not going anywhere" he assured her, he gently stroked the side of her face in a gesture his mother used to do to him when he was ill to comfort him. Amelia mumbled unintelligibly but seemed to

TBC~ I'll be updating in 2 weeks, Please let me know your thoughts/suggestions! Please don't flame me :-)