A woman and a young child hide under a fallen tree in a forest near the Canadian border, both of them terrified. The woman turns to look at the child, "I'm going to distract them," she whispers, "Once it's clear, I want you to run, do you understand?"
The child looks at her like she's crazy, "What? No I'm not leaving you!"
"You have to," the woman takes off her backpack, reaches in, pulls out a map, and a Canadian passport, "You take these, and you get into Canada, once you're in you'll be safe I promise."
"We're supposed to go together!"
"This is not a discussion you will do what I say!"
"You're not leaving me on my own-"
"Listen!" She says grabbing her arms, "Only one of us is going to make it, and there is no way I'm letting be me instead of you, you will be safe, and I promise I will find you, I. Will. Find you."
The young girl's eyes begin to well with tears, "I don't wanna go," she sobs, "I don't wanna leave you." The woman starts to look as if she might cry too, but she knows she needs to be strong. She pulls the girl into her arms and holds her tight, "I will find you. I will find you," she pulls away to look her in the eyes, "Be ready to run okay?" the girl nods.
The woman steps out from under the tree and into plain view, "Hey!" She shouts, "You want me I'm right here!"
"Get her men!" a voice shouts and the girl hears rustling sounds coming towards them. The woman looks at the girl one last time, "I love you," and then runs off. The girl sees a group of men with guns running past her hiding spot to chase down the woman. After they disappear out of sight, she follows the instructions given to her, and runs.
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The woman looks behind to see her pursuers catching up, she knows she won't outrun them, but she can at least lead them far enough away from the girl so she can make her escape.
She runs out of the trees and onto the road where she is nearly run over by a car. It stops a few centimetres away from her, and before she has time to start running again, she is tackled to the ground by her one of pursuers, who grabs her arms and holds them behind her back, keeping her on the ground.
The driver of the car wisely decides to back up, and drive around the scene, disappearing into the distance.
"Were you trying to get yourself caught?" one of the soldiers laughs, "When you're being chased it's not exactly clever to give yourself away like that. Get her up," the soldier holding her down gets her to her feet.
"And what's your name beautiful?" the soldier asks, "Fuck you!" she fires back at him.
The soldier smirks, "Well it doesn't matter what your name is, you're property of Commander Brenner now," she spits in his face.
"You fucking bitch!" he raises his arm to backhand her, "Callahan!" a voice shouts, freezing him in place, "We do not mark potential Handmaids, you know what he does to Guardians who do that!" Callahan puts his arm down and backs off from the woman, "Sorry Sergeant."
The sergeant steps in front of the woman, "Our Commander likes to know the names of his Handmaids, so what is it?"
"Jane. Jane Wheeler."
The sergeant smiles, but there isn't any friendliness to it, "Can you conceive?"
She averts her eyes, "Yes," she knows there's no use in lying, they had ways of finding out the truth.
"Good."
"Sergeant?" Callahan asks, "There was a child with her should we let it go?"
The sergeant looks back at Jane, who is looking at him with pleading eyes, "No. Take Jefferson and Peters, find it and kill it," an evil smile grows on Callahan's face, "Yes Sergeant."
Jane struggles against her restrainer's grip, "No! Please!" she begs, "Please she's just a child!"
Callahan laughs, "Don't worry, she won't suffer… much."
Jane feels burning anger running through her veins, "You fucker! You touch her and I will kill you, I will fucking kill you ya hear me!"
"Bring me the anaesthetic gun," the sergeant orders, walking over to a soldier holding a silver gun.
"I will rip you to fucking pieces if you hurt her! I WILL YOU MAKE SUFF-" she gasps as the gun is pricked into her neck, administering the liquid into her body, causing her to lose consciousness within ten seconds.