Running

Disclaimer: I own nothing, i am a fan writing a fanfiction.

A/N: Wow this is my first ever fanfiction, I'm so nervous. so background. this is a direct sequal to season one of Terra Nova (so if you haven't watched it don't read or you will be notoriously confused. Also to clarify this is not a Lucas / Skye Shipping! i may write one after this but for now this is just my idea on what would possibly happen in the second season (which they better make!). However saying that, there will be romance, not sure how intense it's going to get at this stage. but there will be Lucas romance. alright i think thats it.

oh and of course a HUGE! thank you to my friend Andrea who edited the first chapter for me, you are officially my editor.

ENJOY! also, please review, but be kind, but then again not too kind, constructful criticism is always welcome.

IT BEGINS

She keeps on running, trying to focus on her breathing, whilst the constant mantra of 'I can do this' keeps repeating itself in her head. She knew she could do this. "Just shut up and run, she thinks to herself it's just a marathon the same one you run every week. What's the difference? Just five kilometres of bushland to go". She has no idea where she's placed. She takes a sharp turn to the right, thinking it was a flag, her breath catches slightly and the searing white light blinds her eyes. recovering quickly, She continues to run, completely oblivious to the change of scenery.

After about ten minutes she stops dead in her tracks whilst taking in her surroundings. The trees look different; no longer do they resemble the normal Australian bush she knows oh so well, instead, these trees are twice as tall, with leaves like nothing she has ever seen before, as they are streaked with strange colours and patterns evident in their veins. She quickly glances up at the sky, trying to determine where she is, and what time it is. Judging by the sun it looks about ten in the morning. But how could this be? She began the marathon at one pm and has been running for at least two hours.

She analyses every inch of what surrounds her. She walks to a nearby shrub with fruit hanging from its small branches, looking at it, she tries to recall different fruits which grow on shrubs, but none of them resemble anything lie this, as the fruit is deep blue in colour, and hard as a rock. It has a notoriously pungent smell to it, to which she can't help but wrinkle her nose at. She dare not taste it though, despite growing parched and hungry.

Just as she drops the putrid fruit on the ground a loud noise howls through the forest and she feels her stomach drop. She begins to back away in the opposite direction of the noise. The ground vibrates, growing with intensity as something edges closer and closer to her. The branches rustle violently, some crash to the ground, as a giant monster (which resembles that of a dinosaur) steps into the clearing with a ravenous look on its' scale like face.

Without skipping a beat, she tears off through the jungle, in an attempt to run away from the huge nightmare which she can tell by the loud roars is pursuing her. With every ten steps she runs, the monster simply closes the gap. Dread overwhelmed her as she knows she will not out run the giant lizard. Suddenly her foot catches on a large branch as she passes it, causing her to tumble, roughly tripping to the hard surface. She lets out a scream of both pain and fear as her cranium impacts with the solid ground. She can feel the ground shaking under her becoming louder and more intense. She snaps her eyes shut praying for this to be a dream and wake up. Holding her breath, she waits for the pain that is to inevitably come as she is ripped to shreds by the monster. The vibrating comes to a sudden stop but she swears she can still hear it ringing in her ears. Suddenly she is overwhelmed by hot breath that smells like two week old rotten meat.

Then a new sensation ripples through her ears, instead of her own screams and the tearing of human flesh, She hears four quick sharp gun shots, and piercing screams of the monster, followed by an eerily dead silence. Not wanting to look up in case it isn't real and the jaws are still leaning voraciously over her, she waits a minute until she ever so slightly lifts up her head to find the outline of a man leaning against a log about fifty meters away, writhing in pain with a gun by his side. She finds the strength to sit up and glancing behind her the figure of the bleeding dinosaur a very miniscule two meters away.

She scrambles to her feet distancing herself from the carcass. she slowly, hesitantly nears the man, pausing about two meters away from him she takes him in. He is still squirming in pain and now she realises why. Two bullet holes become evident in his chest, her first instinct is to try and help but she is still weary, he did get shot by someone, for some reason. Still hesitant to approach him she looks for some sign of danger. Yes, he has a gun right next to him but where would she be if he didn't. He appears to be well built, lean but muscular, and also very, very dirty, as though he has lived in this jungle for years. He looks up and stares into her eyes. His eyes are a deep jade green, and she feels as though they can see into the deep chasms of her sole. His eyes are soft, confused and pain ridden. She gives up and approaches him; if it weren't for him she would be dead.

She kneels down next to him, fear and confusion temporarily gone as she goes into 'doctor mode'; she's the top of her class at university, studying medicine and psychology. His wounds aren't too deep suggesting that whoever shot him did it at a distance. "What's your name?" she asks as she applies slight pressure to one of the wounds.

"Lucas!" he replies in a strained voice as he screams with pain at the pressure.

His soft gaze disappears and is replaced by anger. "Hey, calm down, I'm a doctor. Shhh, you're going to be alright." only a slight lie as she is a qualified doctor but never actually worked full time in a hospital, she is actually due to start her first job next week. "This might be a weird question but where are we?" Determined to keep him talking and distracted him from the pain.

"About four clicks from the colony" he says confused at who this mysterious woman is, he has never seen her before. She is dressed differently, she's not a sixer, but she doesn't look like any colonist he's ever seen.

"Colony? What colony? "She asks confused she doesn't know of any 'colony' near the running track. And she couldn't have wandered far from it. She pushed the thought out of her mind as she tried to think of a way to get these bullets out Lucas. She looks around but all she can see is some thin twigs, and a idea pops into her head.

"Terra Nova, what other colony is there?" he replied. Terra Nova, she has never heard of this place before in her life.

"Have you got a knife on you by any chance?" if he doesn't, she won't be able to get the bullets out.

"Back…pocket" he says just as another spasm of pain overwhelms him. She removes it, grabs some twigs and starts hacking away at the tip of them until they are both neatly pointed. It won't do much to fight infection but it may help him heal having the bullets out. She kneels right over and tells him she's going have to undo his shirt. As she does it tries her best to ignore his perfectly toned body, she hides her slight blushing with her hair.

"Ok Lucas. This is going to hurt."

thank you so much for reading, hope you liked it, i know it's a first chapter and nothing really happend but more will, i promiss, stay tuned.

Bridgie