Young Hearts Collide

Chapter 1

This my first ever falling skies fan fiction it's an idea I got a few days ago whilst watching the show. Set during and after 1x05. This is a Ben/OC I know there aren't many out there so I thought I would give it a shot. I hope you enjoy (:

Life at the second mass for civilian Hannah Phillips was tense always tiptoeing around the fighters as her along with the other civilians tried to live a normal life in the high school where they had set up base. Being only fifteen Hannah could only study, she was deemed unsuitable to be a fighter as she had a brain that was too good to be parading a gun around all day. She had become close to Lourdes an 18 year old ex-medical student and the girls had bonded through their faith and love of science. Hannah would sometimes assist Anne the doctor of the second mass and Lourdes in the makeshift infirmary they had built up in one of science labs in the high school. She would only take down the patients details and take their temperature since that was all Hannah was capable of doing.

She was alone at the second mass her parents had been killed at the beginning of the alien invasion 6 months ago and she had lost her brother a year before the actual invasion to the Afghanistan war. She had come across the second mass a month ago by nearly being captured by a skitter and Hal Mason one of the young fighters had saved her and brought her back to the second mass. Where she was introduced to everyone and quickly attached herself to Lourdes. She and Lourdes had become great friends and Hannah would constantly warn her about her crush on Hal because he was not yet over Karen his girl friend who had been taken by the skitters a week ago.

Now Hannah was in her room that she shared with Lourdes reading a book she had found when she had first come to the second mass because she had nothing better to do and Tom Hal's father entered the room.

''hey Hannah, do you mind keeping an eye on Matt today me and Hal are going out to see if we can get Ben back'' Tom explained about his son who had been captured by the skitters.

Hannah put her book down and stood up ''yeah sure, I guess I can do that. I hope you get Ben back'' Hannah said

Tom smiled at her ''so do I, I'm sure you will like him'' Tom said

Hannah smiled at him and followed him out of the room and into the Masons room where Matt was sitting on his bed twiddling his thumbs.

''hey Matt. Hannah's going to look after you today okay?'' Tom said

''okay. Bring him back dad'' Matt said hugging his father before he left the room

''so what do you want to do today Matt?'' Hannah asked him

''I don't know, go see Uncle Max?'' He asked

Hannah liked Uncle Max he had a radio that could track signals of the skitters and Matt loved helping him with it.

''I guess so'' Hannah said smiling

They made their way into Uncle Max's room where he greeted them both with a smile. They helped him with the radio for most of the day before Lourdes came to collect Hannah leaving Matt with Uncle Max. She walked Hannah back to their room.

''do you think they will get Ben back?'' she asked Hannah

''I hope so. For Matt's sake anyway he hasn't been right all day he's hardly spoken and didn't ask Uncle Max any questions like he normally does'' Hannah said

''he's just worried like any other brother would be'' Lourdes reassured Hannah

''I know but I don't have my brother anymore'' Hannah said sadly

''we both don't have any family now unfortunately. This new world is cruel'' Lourdes said

''you're telling me. I'm fifteen I should be messing around with my friends in school right now not fighting to keep myself alive'' Hannah complained

''um. They don't know we are here though so I guess we are safe for now'' Lourdes said

''they will find us soon enough'' Hannah said

''we have our faith that's the main thing'' Lourdes said

''that's the only thing keeping me sane right now'' Hannah pointed out

The girls continued to chat before Lourdes and Hannah were summoned to the infirmary by Anne as night fell. They followed her into the science lab to find six harnessed kids all lying down on their backs ready to have their harnesses taken off. Anne would use a blow torch to take them off so the kids had a better chance of survival since just cutting them off would send them into shock and kill them. Hannah saw that Tom was by a boy who must have been Ben and he was sending Hal out of the room. Hannah was relieved their mission had been successful and they had managed to bring some kids back with them and save them from the harnesses.

Lourdes and Hannah helped hold the harnesses up as Anne melted them off of the kids. When it came to Ben Hannah took a step back as Tom held the harness off of his son. So Hannah went around with a damp cloth and cleaned the backs of the newly unharnessed kids most of them looking around her age. But she was happy to help, they wouldn't be awake for a while since Rick, Mike's son had taken over a day to wake up from when he had been unharnessed.

Hannah left the infirmary after cleaning up the kids, Anne had lost one and she was devastated but she had saved five which was the main thing. Hannah returned to her bedroom and fell asleep not realising how much her life would change after a certain Ben Mason would wake up.

I hope you enjoyed my opening chapter to my story (: Hannah just a normal girl trying to survive in the alien invaded world (: please send me a review to let me know if I should continue with this story (: Thanks Vmk-xx