One of my friends really wanted me to write her a story. Happy Amie? This story is a little dark but it has a happy ending. Enjoy.

Maddy sat at the edge of the clearing, her feet dipped into the water of the infinite falls. She stared more at the equations then the the rock it was on or the water wetting her feet.

She reached forward and traced them with the delicate tips of her fingers.

"Little girls shouldn't be out here alone." A raspy voice came from behind her, she whipped around and squeaked when she met Lucas Taylor inches from her, "especially pretty little girls."

She moved to get her feet out of the water and stand away from him. He grabbed her wrist and pulled sharp and quick enough to pull her to her chest. "L-Let go."She weakly protested, struggling harder when his free hand grabbed her thigh. He pushed up the pink material of her skirt and pulled her into his lap.

"You know, I bet you are a sweet little virgin." He snarled and grabbed her hair roughly yanking her head back to kiss and bite at her neck. She quivered beneath his mouth afraid of what he would do to her.

She had earlier decided to go outside the gates to go to the falls after Josh told her about the geometry scratched onto rocks. He had told her that morning and she even took her father's gun with her, but she couldn't reach it from her position.

"I wonder what you taste like?" He said against her throat, and she instantly understood what he was saying. A chill of fear ran down her spine as she struggled harder, but he was much stronger.

"Please, let me go." The tremble in her voice made him laugh and bite on her pulse point. She should have told somebody she was doing this, or taken Mark with her.

"You are so soft," He said as he slipped his hand in between her thighs and rubbed her, eliciting a gasp and shiver from a frightened Maddy.

"You're supposed to be dead," her eyes grew blurry as tears welled up in them. The blue sky and white clouds became wet blobs, the highly defined falls and cliff face less detailed.

"Like I would tell you," He bit down hard on her collarbone, a crying shriek erupting from her throat. "Now, now, this will all be over soon."

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Three months later

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She sat on her bed and cried, the test she had stolen from her mother had confirmed her fears. When her period stopped coming she was suspicious, but now… How could she face her family, or the commander, or Mark? How could she tell them she had been attacked by Lucas.

"Maddy are you alright?" Her mother knocked on the door, since hearing the sobs. Her daughter opened the door and grabbed her mother, crying openly in her arms.

Elizabeth held her daughter tightly, almost crying herself when she couldn't ease her daughter's sadness. "What is it? What's wrong?" She inquired and was answered by Maddy showing her the test, unable to talk.

"Did Mark do this to you?" Elizabeth asked worry twisting her face, but the girl shook her head.

"I'm sorry…I'm so sorry…I went out to the falls alone…and Lucas…" She sobbed some more, closing her eyes tightly.

"Did you cheat on Mark? Is this Lucas's child?," her mother question with more worry

"No…I'd never cheat on Mark, but I was out there alone…and…and Lucas came, and he held me down…and…It's his baby." Maddy became incoherent as she sobbed again, her mother rocking her from side to side, understanding and pain crossing her face. This was the worst nightmare of a mother, their child being hurt so bad, that they couldn't help them.

"Maddy, there is a drug that will make your body abort the baby, but you have to talk to Commander Taylor to get it and since your seventeen you're old enough to qualify. Look at me." Elizabeth raised her daughters face to see the red eyes, "You also have to talk to Mark, because as soon as the Commander knows so does Mark."

Maddy nodded quickly and grabbed her coat, throwing it on and running out the door to Mark's place.

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"Miss Shannon, is there a reason for dragging Mark into my home at three o'clock in the morning?" A very tired, but very alert Commander Taylor growled.

She opened her mouth, prepared to tell him what happened, and felt bile come up. Running to the bathroom she emptied her stomach or all contents, before looking up at a worried Taylor and Mark, standing in the doorway.

"Maddy what's wrong?" Mark entered and sank to the floor next to her before pulling her into his arms.

"I…I'm pregnant." She choked out and began sobbing again, with Lucas's baby, I'm sorry."

Mark was quiet for a second, tensing muscles pulsed under her hands and ears, "You cheated on me?" Was his whispered response.

"No, no never," Maddy said with tears streaks on her face after she pulled away to look at him. "I…I was at the falls, on an unauthorized otg, looking at the equations when Lucas came up behind me…and," Her face twisted as violent sobs racked her body.

"Did Lucas rape you?" An enraged Nathaniel barked, making her jump and nod.

"I'm sorry this never would have happened if I hadn't gone out there." She felt strong arms pull her into a hug and warm hands rub circles into her back.

"It's okay Maddy, we'll figure this out," She was shocked when Mark said 'we'.

"No not until this is right," She wiped her eyes and looked at the Commander, "My mother told me of a drug that you oversee that will abort the child. I need some of it."

A shocked no came from both men, and a questioning glare from Maddy. "What'd ya mean no?"

The Commander spoke first, "Maddy, I know you will hate me, but You are carrying a Taylor, my grandson. And since I am too old to have another child, and Lucas hates me. Well I am hoping you will carry the child, and if you still don't want it when it's born, than I'll take it." He looked at her sadly, but firmly.

"Commander, I understand why you want me to keep the baby, but I can't do this, I can't look down at my belly or at a baby in my arms without thinking about what he did to me. Please just give me that drug."

Before either of them could speak Mark growled out, "You will not take that drug." They looked at the young soldier and he looked straight at Maddy, "That baby is only half Lucas, the rest is you, I couldn't live with myself if I allowed you to kill off a piece of you." He pulled her to him and she sobbed into his chest.

"I can't…"her muffled voice came from under his neck, where she pressed her face into, "I can't do this alone."

"You aren't alone Maddy, you have me, and the Commander what's to be a part of the baby's life." Mark swayed to an imaginary beat to calm her down, "And I bet Zoe will be excited to have a baby around, besides it might wizen your bro up to ask Skye out?"

She laughed at that; a wet sad laugh, but a laugh non-the-less. She smile at him and at the Commander who spread his arms to allow her to hug him as well, "I suppose I could call you my second dad?"

The older man laughed and nodded, "But first we need to tell your first dad." She pulled back with a horrified look on her face. "Mark and I will go with you to make sure everything's fine." She nodded and took their hands as they lead her to her housing unit.

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"What do you mean pregnant?" Her father and brother glared at Mark, who held her hand and at Commander Taylor who seemed so calm.

She explained to them what happened and cried when they hugged her and whispered apologies to her. It wasn't until her family accepted that they failed in protecting her that the Commander explained their plan, and josh greed to it. Jim shook his head, ready to shout again when something else interrupted them.

"No," Her mother was furious, "She is just a child, I sent her to you so you could fix her not potentially maim her." Elizabeth pointed at Nathanial, "I will not let you do this to her. To be some kind of…of surrogate for your own gains," she screamed angrily.

"I never wanted this to happen to Maddy, but Wash is dead," He took a breath, "and she was pregnant, she was carrying my other child when she died, and I almost died too. I know you hate me for this, but that baby," He pointed at Maddy's non-existent baby bump, "is my only connection to this world now." That silenced the room, and Jim stepped between the two to take Elizabeth to their room before returning alone.

"I don't like this, but I don't want Maddy to regret whatever choice she makes," He took a deep breath and looked at the said person. "You know we are all here for you though, right?" She nodded and smiled tiredly.

Emotionally drained she fell asleep on Mark's shoulder after detailed discussions concerning Maddy and the Baby. Her mother eventually coming around to the idea and giving her a bottle of prenuptial pills.

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6 months later

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"Maddy, just one more push," her mother instructed as Mark held her hand. The rest of her family plus Commander Taylor paced in the waiting room as they heard her screams.

A nurse came out running from the room with a big smile, "It's a healthy baby girl." A wail following her words as the said baby cried for Maddy, her mother. Taylor walked forward, and entered the room where Mark and Maddy were smiling at a tiny moving bundle.

"She has you're complexion," Maddy said tiredly. He walked forward and to Mark;s offered spot to look at a pale, black haired baby girl. "I also decided on a name." She informed them before smiling at their surprised looks.

"Tell." Mark said, impatient after three hours of holding Maddy's hand.

Maddy smiled as her baby opened her eyes and looked at Nathenial, brown orbs as dark as burned chocolate stared at him, "Alicia Beth Taylor."

Taylor and Mark smiled and nodded, the name was perfect.

Alicia Beth Taylor was perfect.