AN: Sorry it's been so long to get this chapter up. Preparing for school and all the fun stuff that goes with it. Please review so I know how I'm doing. I know the story hasn't followed the episodes to well. I'm going to try and get it back on track of the episodes but this story may be a little AU-ish. As always I own nothing of Falling Skies or anything that is brought up.

Meetings and Reunions

The group was heading for the Hood's camp. They followed the setting sun after walking for about thirty minutes they heard something but were confused on the sound that they heard.

"What is that?" Hal whispered listening to the noise.

"It sounds like music." Tom said moving closer to the noise. He looked around a tree to see a camp fire and a group of at least ten people around it singing, what sounded like, Bohemian Rhapsody. They were smiling and laughing when they messed up. Tom heard Pope give a quiet laugh. After that most of them grew quiet and looked in their direction. Then they heard people behind them.

"Put the weapons down." A voice said quickly. Tom turned to see a tall, blond boy that couldn't be older than Hal. Tom put his hands up in surrender.

"We were told that the Hood would see us." Tom said cautiously.

"Hood will see you but only when we know that you can't hurt the rest of us. Turn your weapons in." The boy replied.

"Like hell I'm gunna give you my gun." Pope yelled in disapproval.

"Fine. Turn in the ammo at least." The boy said. When no one said anything he said, "You'll get it back." After a few minutes Tom started it off and slide the ammo out of his gun. Hal gave a sigh and did the same. When the boy had all the ammo he gave a smile.

"Hood will see you now. Follow me." The boy said heading for one of the many tents. The kids around the fire watched as they passed. Tom saw that some of them had spikes on their backs. When they noticed he was looking at their spikes they quickly turned away. The boy led them to decent sized tent. He stuck his head in just as a girl walked out. "How is she?" He asked the girl quietly to where only she heard him.

"It's a bad day. You might want to tell our guests." She said eyeing the group of people behind him.

"Thanks Scarlett." The boy said as she walked away.

"No problem Jo. What kinda doctor would I be if I didn't check up on all my patients?" She said smiling over her shoulder.

"So Jo, what's the deal?" Pope said looking bored.

"The deal? The deal is it's a bad day so don't be too pushy or you might get shot." Jo said looking like he hated Pope. "Go on." Jo said holding the flap of the tent back.

They all walked in cautious not to hit anything. When they stopped they looked up to see a figure facing the other back end of the tent. There was a green wool looking jacket that had a hood on it. There was a loud snap and everyone looked at Hal who had kicked a wood crate.

"Sorry." Hal said quietly.

"Don't worry about it. It's not mine." The figure said sounding a lot higher than any of them expected. "I believe you wanted to talk to me."

"Yes. Well Charleston would love to have someone as skilled as you." Tom said not really believing it would be good for Charleston.

"Is that what you really think?" The figure turned but you couldn't see anything due to the darkness of the tent and that hood.

"Honestly. No." Tom said quickly.

"Well do say what you want to. I can tell you aren't too happy with me." Hood said sounding like she was smiling.

"You shot an arrow at a Skitter that was coming at kids. My son was in that group. You could of hit someone." Tom said raising his voice a little.

"Trust me. I couldn't of hit any of them." Hood said sounding serious.

"What if you missed? You could of hurt someone." Tom said getting just the slightest bit louder.

"I can't miss." Hood said sounding angry.

"What if you did though?" Tom shouted.

"I can't miss!" Hood yelled back leaping from her seat to get in his face. The hood that was up fell.

Tom back down when he saw she was a girl about Ben's age. They all were shocked. Tom was the first to break it.

"I'm sorry." He said quietly.

"Reggie?" Pope asked in a whisper.

"Oh…great…it's you." The girl said looking like she was going to die.

"You two know each other?" Hal asked looking confused.

"Know each other?" She snorted. "Would you like to tell them?" She said grinding her teeth.

"Remember how I said I used to visit my kids. Regina, here, is my little girl." Pope said with an evil looking smile.

"I haven't been your little girl since you left and didn't come back." She stopped Pope before he could say anything. "Do you even know what you did to Jack?" Pope gave a confused look. "He nearly died! He blamed himself for everything that happened so he decided to do all the stuff you told him not to do. Drugs the whole nine yards. We got him help before anything to bad happened. Then this happened!" She said holding her arms out.

"Everything alright in here?" Jo came in quickly.

"Fine Jo." Regina said quickly.

"Pope's your dad?" Hal said shocked.

"Sadly yes." She said putting her hand to her head.

"You're still my baby girl." Pope said walking closer.

"Stay away. Just…go away." Regina said holding her hands up to keep him away.

"No hug for your old man." Pope said still getting closer.

"Get away!" She screamed as Pope grabbed her jacket sleeve. She twirled out of it as Jo came and pulled Pope off of her. Hal and Tom went to check on her as Pope was pulled out of the tent. Dai went to make sure he wouldn't be coming back in. She looked like she was having a panic attack. Hal put his arm around her shoulders to try and help. He pulled his arm back when he felt a prick in the middle of his arm.

"Jeez." Hal whispered as he realized what it was.

Hal slid her jacket off and got a better look at the spikes that came over the top of her shirt. They were shorter than Ben's and he could see clear burn marks. Tom saw what his son was looking at.

"You should leave." Jo said coming in with Scarlett. They hadn't seen them come in or see Regina cover her ears and shut her eyes tightly.

They didn't argue they got up and walked out watching as Scarlett look over her trying to peel her hands off her ears. They watched as people started running for the tent. Some were mumbling about more people coming. They stayed on the outside realizing that they didn't have their ammo back. Regina walked out of the tent looking much better with her jacket on.

"What do you mean they're coming back?" She shouted.

"We saw them. We didn't try to stop them. We figured we'd tell you first." One of the boys that must have been on patrol said.

"Do you realize that Tom Mason was just here? They will be annoying and begging for information." She shouted then looked over to Tom and his group. "Why haven't they left?" She screamed at the group.

"Crap. I forgot to give them back their ammo." Jo said slamming his hand into his face.

"Get them out of here. They'll be here any minute." Regina said looking annoyed.

Jo ran over and started passing out their ammo. He was running back when the group that the patrol must have been talking about was entering the camp.

"Someone get me my bow." Regina said quickly stretching quickly with a loud crack from her back. Someone handed her the bow just as the group cleared the tree line. "What do you want? I thought I told you we weren't interested." she said talking to someone that was hidden by the crowd.

"We wanted to give you another chance. Rethink our offer." a voice said that Tom knew well.

"Ben?" He shouted. The crowd parted and there was Ben with several other kids.

"Dad? What are you doing here?" Ben said running up.

"Shoot me now." Regina said pulling the bow over her head and sitting next to the fire.

Ben gave him a hug looking shocked. Hal gave a big smile and hugged him. Regina's kids circled around the fire looking like they were about to pounce if the time called for it. The de-harnessed kids that came with Ben stood awkwardly around the trees. Regina looked over to see them.

"Come on. We won't kill you." She said waving them over to the fire.

Some gave a quick nod and moved around the fire. They seemed to relax and enjoy the company of the fire. Tom looked at the Fire group and had to ask the question that was on his mind.

"Ben, not all the kids here were harnessed. How did she come up with all these kids?" Tom asked quietly.

"They all needed help. She helped them and they accept her for whatever happened to her, because whatever happened to her led her to them. They don't ask a lot of questions they just do what they can to help." Ben said looking over the kids around the fire. "If only everyone could be like them. Life would be easier."

"Why would anyone want to be near razor backs?" Pope asked looking superior to everyone.

"He doesn't know does he?" Ben asked already knowing that Pope had no clue Regina was harnessed.

"Know what?" Pope asked.

"You do realize that we can hear you." Regina said from the fire pit. "Dad, do you know why I can't miss?" She asked quietly.

"Because you're good?" He asked with a twisted face.

"No. The harness does different stuff to people. It improved my sight most. I can tell when the best shot will be and how to get the best shot." She said looking sad.

"You can't be a razor back." Pope said blankly.

"Really? Jack was and so am I." She said pulling up the back of her shirt to show small points on her back and the burns that surrounded them. "The doctor that took off my harness was a lot like you. HE didn't care too much. The blow torch was way to close and he didn't care." She said blankly looking like she was hiding emotions. "Aliens may have put it on, but people did this."

No one said anything for a long time. She sat back down at the fire and stared at the flames. The people from her group did the same avoiding everyone's stares. Even the kids that came with Ben were shocked. Ben just seemed like this was unnecessary and was sad that it had happened.

"You should leave now." Jo said next to Regina.

Tom, Hal and Dai left. No one seemed to notice that Pope had slipped out before them. They looked back only to see the group surrounding the fire doing nothing.