I love Terra Nova, and I love most of the characters, but I never really felt the romance of it all. I don't really like Josh and think Skye is great, and deserves better. I like Reynolds more than Maddy, and although they're sometimes cute they also sometimes bug me. Anyway, when the first Skye/Lucas scene happened, probably like you guys if you're reading this, I could feel the chemistry through the screen. Haha, anyway this is my first story.

It had been exactly 4 months and 3 days since there had been peace in Terra Nova, Skye was counting. It wasn't that she was worried about another fight, or worried about what Lucas Taylor, or Mira and the Sixers were up to. Or maybe it was. So many things happened to Skye during the confrontations with the Phoenix group, and it had ended so quickly. It was almost as if she was holding her breath. The first nights after the fighting had ended, she had stayed out late talking to Tasha. It had been so long since they had talked just the two of them and Skye felt like they both needed it. Tasha was sweet and caring and tried to understand as Skye would pour all of her thoughts out about the recent events, wanting to tell her most about how she had shot a man, and how her mind never stopped replaying those few minutes over and over. It's not that Skye felt bad for Lucas, she hated him in a way that she couldn't really explain. Even more than Mira even after the way she had treated her mother. Lucas had threatened to kill her mother, had beat Josh to a pulp, and would have killed Taylor who she loved like a second father, if she hadn't intervened. Skye didn't feel bad for him, but he was a human being, and it scared her to know that she had shot another human being in the chest, and that she had possibly killed him, if not from the shot than from the many weeks that he would have spent, his wounds becoming more and more infected. All right maybe she felt a little bad for him.

Tasha tried to understand, and to an extent she did, but it would have been impossible to try to tell her all of the things that Skye was feeling, and so she didn't. After a while she just kept it to herself, and they talked about other things, while the memory of that day still nagged at Skye's conscious.

These days it was easier. Tasha and Hunter dated after a while as Skye knew would happen, and it became harder for Skye to talk to Tasha because being the third wheel wasn't that appealing to her. She had found comfort in whatever she could, mainly talking to Josh, her mom, and Taylor, and after a while the shock over what she had done stopped giving her nightmares although it never stopped making her worry when she was alone.

Today Skye was going to talk to her mom. When Skye's mother had recovered, and the dust had settled after the fighting, Skye had been offered the decision to move in with her mom, and she took it. Tasha, Max, and Hunter were a bit hurt, but they understood. Skye had spend too much time without a family other than Taylor, she wanted to feel what it was like to have a mother again.

"Mom," she called out when she had put her grocery bag on the counter, "I'm home."

"Skye," said her mom "I have to tell you something, I've been thinking about how I should tell you for a while now."

"What is it?" Said Skye her voice becoming tense.

"Sweetie, well a couple months ago a note showed up on the doorstep. I don't remember where you were, probably with Doctor Shannon in the infirmary." She laughed lightly, "anyway when I opened it I wanted to tell you but you weren't home and so by the time I got to the infirmary my second thoughts kicked in and I didn't."

"Mom, you can just tell me," said Skye quietly "don't worry about breaking it to me softly, just tell me, what's the matter?"

"Sweetie... well let me see, I opened the letter and it said... it said that it was from your father. I know, I know just let me finish. It didn't say much, only that he loved us and that he was sorry."

"Sorry for what?"

"I wish I knew, on the back all it said was Isabis, and a couple days ago I finally realized what it meant. You see your father loved to map the area around the colony, but he decided one day that it wasn't enough and that he wanted to map further and more, he left the colony for around six months, much like Ken Horton did like you've told me, and when he returned all he could talk about were the Isabis Lakes that he had found far out beyond The Badlands. He said they were the most beautiful things that he had ever seen, water as blue as the Bahamas were said to have been back at the start of the 20th century. He always said that he hoped that he could return one day." She sighed, "all these years I thought that he was dead and as much as I want to, I don't have much hope. All I have are these pictures of his beautiful lakes." With that Deborah handed over the plex, and Skye flipped through the pictures.

Skye stared at her mother, her expression hard to read. "Why are you telling me this?"

"Because you're the closest person that I have, and you needed to know, seeing as he is your father."

"Not is mom, was! He's dead mom, he's dead, you're trying to bring back ghosts! Do you know how hard it was in the beginning trying to come to terms with the fact that I was never going to see him again?" A single tear rolled down Skye's face, over her tiny freckle looking beauty mark on the lower part of her cheek, and onto her neck. Skye turned away from her mother. "Every time I'd see you at the Sixer's camp I was so happy, but for a while when I got back to the colony, all I could think about was how we were never going to be whole ever again."

"Skye sweetheart, I'm sorry I should have told you when it happened."

"Yes Mom you should have, I'm sorry I have to go." Skye got up and flung herself out the door. She walked quickly toward the main house where she knew she'd find Taylor, but was so preoccupied with her thoughts that she walked into Maddy Shannon by mistake.

"Oh," said Maddy "I'm sorry, it's my fault."

"No, I wasn't looking where I was going don't worry about it." Said Skye, "but I have to go."

"Wait, you look like you need to talk to someone, I'd love to lend an ear, you've been so good to my brother, I feel like we could have been friends in another life."

Suppressing an anxious groan, Skye decided that the commander was probably busy working to rebuild the colony, and she shouldn't worry him so she decided to try Maddy. "Okay," she said, "walk with me." After a pause where Skye waged an inner war with herself about what she was going to say and then collected her thoughts, she finally spoke. "Maddy, you know about how my mom is alive even though I thought she died a long time ago from Syncillic fever?"
Maddy nodded a yes. "Well, my mom thinks that somehow my dad survived, and that he is far away at the Isabis Lakes."

"The Isabis Lakes! Wow I've always dreamed of going there they're past The Badlands, really far away, only one person is said to ever have gone there," she broke off, "that was your dad! Wow that's so incredible, sorry sorry I'm lending an ear, I'm shutting up!"

Skye chuckled, "it's fine, anyway yea it's possible that he's there."

"So are you going to go find him?"

Skye stopped, and not just her feet, all of the thoughts going through her head just stopped.

Am I going to go look for him?

It suddenly occurred to her that looking for him was exactly what Skye would do, what she would do, why hadn't she thought of it before? Her mind was so jumbled that was why. She smiled at Maddy, and kissed her forehead quickly before saying, "Maddy, I don't know why we aren't best friends, more than that, sisters!" With that she ran off leaving Maddy happy but slightly puzzled, standing in the middle of the path.

So that's it for now, I'm trying to give Maddy a break I'm sure she's a good character... :) The part with Lucas isn't immediate, it's coming but it's not immediate, I think I need some back story. Leave a review, thanks!