AN: This is my first fanfiction and it's still in progress :) note that this story is written from skye's point of view.

i hope you like this story ;)

and: a big thanks to emtheunicorn who is editing all my stories and corrects the mistakes :)

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Chapter one: Banished

I slowly made my way through the crowd at the Terra Nova market place. I felt like everyone was staring at me. Some of them looked curious and some looked disgusted at me. Since everyone found out that I had been the Sixer's spy the colony treated me differently. It had only been a couple of days ago when Jim Shannon destroyed Hope Plaza and Commander Nathaniel Taylor had a confrontation with his son, Lucas Taylor. The horrible memories still went through my mind like ice cold raging water and the hatred and blood I saw still consumed my thoughts. A shiver ran down my spine when I saw Mark Reynolds heading towards me. He didn't smile. Reynolds led me to Commander Taylor's hut. On our way he explained that Taylor wanted to see me to talk about the past days and weeks. After he had found out that I was spying for the Sixers to get medicine for my ill mother who was kept hostage, we hadn't talked. Reynolds and I walked up the dusty stairs. When he knocked on the door I heard Taylor saying that we were allowed to come in. The Commander was sitting at his magnificent glass table with the dinosaur skull beneath when his gaze met mine. His icy blue eyes looked disappointed. I sat down across him, staring my feet, feeling a little ashamed of what I've done.

"Skye Alexandria Tate. Look into my eyes! Why did you do that? You betrayed me and more importantly you betrayed especially Terra Nova,"Taylor whispered. I didn't know what to say, but then I looked up to him and spoke as confidently as was possible.

"You know that the Sixers kept my sick mother. They only gave her medicine when I gave them information. I had no choice!" I nearly whispered the last part of the sentence.

"I know that you did it for your mother and I also know that you love her, but you risked the lives of the whole colony!" Taylor replied after giving it some thought.

"I didn't give them important information. I only told them-" Skye tried to defense herself.

"Of course you told them too much! I can't trust anybody who betrayed us for three years, Skye..!" Taylor interrupted.

My heart pounded so heavy in my chest and I couldn't hold my tears back anymore. Taylor had been like a father to me and is the only person who cares, I mean cared for me, besides my mother who is nearly dead because of the syncillic fever for which Dr Shannon doesn't have any medicine. She and Malcolm are trying to figure out what the Sixers gave her, but Mum fought against this illness for three years, so she doesn't have the power to keep on fighting. It's only a matter of time until she is too weak to fight anymore.

Taylor looked out of the window, his eyes lost in the deepness of the seemingly endless jungle. He thought about my words. Suddenly he raised his voice and spoke to me with a dutiful overtone.

"The law here in Terra Nova is very strict and says that if someone doesn't obey the rules or does anything which is harmful to the colony we have to banish him or her. I know that you're only a teenage girl and I know that teenage girls often do stupid things but I'm convinced that if you are outside the gates for two weeks, you have enough time to think about what you've done. Our soldiers will pick you up again. I'll give you a gun and a knife, so that you can keep the dinosaurs away."

I couldn't believe my ears. Did Taylor really banish me? That couldn't be. It all happened so fast. I really wasn't attuned to this shallow decision. This wasn't the same Taylor who played chess with me on the balcony of his hut every week or who had long conversations with me about him or me, or Terra Nova.

"But, Commander Taylor, you know, everyone makes mistakes! I'm so damn sorry for doing this! Please-" I protested.

"Skye, this is my last word. We want to avoid any kind of betrayal and criminality here in Terra Nova and that's the only way of being loyal to my colony," Taylor said, cutting of my sentence. His words caused me to become desperate.

Taylor stood up, gave me a gun and a knife and guided me to the door of his hut. It was such a short conversation; he couldn't judge me that fast. Most of all I couldn't come to terms with how heartless it was of him, to only banish me because of this little betrayal. Okay, it wasn't a little betrayal, but I think there were also other ways of punishment. Me, a teenage girl, completely inexperienced at living OTG should stay there for two weeks, with the Sixers also running around in the jungle? I only got a gun and a knife, okay, at least a gun and a knife.

When we went out of the hut, the sun tickled my skin. I felt the warmth of the sunshine. Instead of saying "goodbye" or wishing me luck, Commander Taylor nodded in my direction and went inside the hut again while Reynolds got the instructions off him and guided me down the stairs, over the destroyed market place to the gates. Everywhere people worked, trying to rebuild the houses Lucas and his soldiers had destroyed. They wanted to take over Terra Nova because of the raw materials which they could sell to the old world to make a lot of money. Lucas, the ineluctable genius, had wanted to make the gate to 2149, the terminus, go both ways. For a short time they could go back to 2149. Jim Shannon got the command off Taylor to get through it to Hope Plaza to place a bomb there. It worked well but then Terra Nova wasn't connected to the old world anymore. With no doubt the Phoenix group did all this for the money they would have gotten if the plan had worked, but I'm quite convinced that Lucas only did it to work against his father and maybe to finally kill him in the end. I remembered how I stopped Lucas from stabbing Taylor by shooting him. I asked myself if he was still alive.

The colony seemed happy to have their Terra Nova back but I think everyone was still shocked by the events of the last few days. I took a long look back to the houses where my loved ones, my mum, Hunter, Tasha, my friends and Josh Shannon stayed. Taylor had been one of them too, but I think he is not any longer.

Reynolds gave me a backpack and hugged me. I liked him very much. He's the boyfriend of Josh's Sister Maddy Shannon. Then suddenly, Reynolds walked back to the colony and the gates closed. I felt the curious gazes of the working Terra Novans on my back.

I ran away. I ran and ran through the soft foliage which covered the floor. It crackled a bit under my feet. I sprinted such long distances I've never done before, my thoughts drunk in anger and fear. It was too early for me to understand what had happened and I couldn't deal with the situation yet. Though I was, a very brave and social girl, I didn't know how to live alone in the jungle, with nobody to laugh, talk and joke with. Did Taylor really wants to kill me?

Completely exhausted I sat down on a little rock, my face covered in tears. My dirty hands wiped them away. I couldn't breathe anymore. Suddenly I remembered Taylor's words:" We'll pick you up in two weeks again."

"Too bad that he didn't tell me where they'll pick me up!" I said in an sarcastic voice to myself. I had no idea where I was. I only knew the area east and south around the colony, which was the direction where one of the Sixer Camps was. Convulsively I tried to remember what Wash told me in her Survival Training lessons. I went there when I was younger, like each Terra Novan did. Suddenly I became sadder because I had to think about Wash. Lucas killed Wash. She was a confident woman and a good teacher. I liked her very much, but I hadn't talked to her that much. I had often seen her when I went to play chess with Commander Taylor.

Nevertheless, I had to find a safe place to sleep before nightfall. I already saw that the sun was on her way down when I found a little cave. It was a bit wet and not that big, but the size was small enough so that no dinosaur could get in there. I put my head against my knees. I was so afraid and so angry. I had no chance of surviving. One possibility was that a dinosaur would eat me, the second was that I starved or froze to death and the third was that one of the Sixers, or better, Taylor's mental labile son Lucas, found and killed me. If the Sixers hadn't kept my mum, I wouldn't have had to be a spy for them, so then I would not have to sit here.

I looked to the dark sky, at the shiny stars, thinking about every person in my life. I felt the cold in my chest and the anger, the desperation and the fear. There was a big hole inside me, I couldn't stand the thought that Taylor was that angry with me that sent me here. I should be happy that he didn't banish me forever. I stayed awake the whole night, lying on the stony, wet floor.

Still lost in my mind, I nearly didn't recognized that the sun was about to rise. I was lucky that it hadn't been that cold at night. I felt the hunger in my stomach, I had to get myself something to eat; maybe some fruit. I looked up at a huge tree; there were some of these green-red sprinkled fruits which they also sell at the Terra Nova market place. Taylor bought me one of these when I first came to Terra Nova. I had to think about Taylor, my mum, Josh… Josh. I don't know what to think about him. He's a very nice guy. I liked him very much and he liked me very much but I don't know if there ever could be something more than a friendship, a relationship, between us. Everytime he looks at me I get the impression that he sees his dead girlfriend, Kara, in me. In my opinion he just was too overstrained with the situation.

My belly mumbled and I remembered that I wanted to get me some fruits. The huge tree had many branches. I jumped and lifted my body up to jump on the first branch, the belt of the gun over my shoulder and the knife in my pocket. When I sat on it, my arm reached out for the next branch. When I was in the tree top I took my knife out of my pocket to cut off one of the fruits. The red-green sprinkled paring was thick and I had to cut it open like Commander Taylor did years ago. The fresh, a bit bitter tasting, juice dropped into my mouth. The soft flesh of the fruit was yellow and sweet tasting. I don't know how high the tree was but, because of the fact that I wasn't afraid of heights, I didn't care. I sat there for a while. Here, in the tree top I was safe. No dinosaur could come here, besides the flying ones, no Sixer could see me here and I had something to eat. First I really liked to be alone, alone with my thoughts, but as time passed I wanted more and more to sit in Boylan's cosy bar, to talk with the others around there. I really missed Terra Nova.

Taylor was so unfair! I also betrayed for him, for Terra Nova , so why the hell had he done that to me? I had betrayed Lucas, his one and only son, so that Taylor could take over his precious Terra Nova again. I also shot Lucas twice; I saved Taylor's life! I realized that it didn't help to agonise about that. I sat there in my tree for the rest of the day. Later I watched the sunset. Thoughts full of Taylor spun around in my head. Under Taylor's confident surface, he was a caring and nice person, but once you looked deeper inside him he was too strict and dutiful to be loved. I could comprehend that Lucas hated Taylor so much because of Taylor's high demands. Nobody was allowed to make mistakes and nobody could get a second chance although he told everyone that his Terra Nova was about getting second chances. Yes, of course, Taylor.