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Chapter 2

A Late Warning

To say Hal was exhausted, would be an understatement. He was just finally heading to bed after helping unload everything in the vehicles that Weaver and his Dad had brought back. It was already almost midnight and he had been up since dawn. He could already feel the softness of his mattress.

But as he opened the door and entered his bedroom, two arms wrapped around him, one around his neck, hand covering his mouth, and the other around his shoulders, pulling him to the side and out of view. Hal lifted his one arm and elbowed the person holding him in the neck, causing the attacker to loosen his hold and fall back against the dresser so hard that it fell over.

Hal turned to look at his attacker, but he was already getting back up and came straight at the young man. Hal held his arms out to defend himself, but the other man pushed them away and wrapped his hands around Hal's neck and squeezed. Hal's lung started to burn while his head started to throb. He tried to punch him in the face, but his attacker shoved him head first into the mirror, the glass cutting the right side of Hal's face, before Hal fell onto his back.

Hal looked up at the man. At first, all he could see was that the man was white and bald. Then he lifted his head, and Hal looked right into his eyes. Pope. And Hal's vision went black.

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Tom stood silently as Anne finished telling him what had happened between her, Pope and Anthony. Weaver, Ben, Maggie, and Matt were also in the room, as they discussing their plan to move out to Washington, before Anne came bursting in.

"He didn't hurt you." Tom checked, worried about what Pope was now willing to do in order to get back at him.

Anne shook her head and said, "No, but he was planning on it. He's snapped, Tom. And he's taking anyone who's even mildly annoyed with you, with him."

"I just don't believe Anthony would do that though. Or Pope for that matter. He makes a lot of threats, but he like, never acts on them." Matt declared, refusing to believe that the man he considered a friend, would do such a terrible thing.

"Pope's not the same man that you knew Matt. He's beyond furious, so angry he'll take it out on anyone. He's letting his angry take over and will do whatever he thinks will bring any form of justice." Anne explained. She knew that this would be most difficult for Matt, as he had created a friendship with Pope over the years, and he was still so young, he didn't understand how one terrible event could change someone so drastically.

"What do you think Dad?" Matt asked, hoping his father would tell Matt something differently, but Tom didn't respond. Tom was staring out the window, apparently not hearing Matt's question.

"Dad?" Ben asked, reaching out to grab his father's shoulder. Tom jumped the minute Ben's hand touched him, and he looked around confused.

"You okay, Tom?" Weaver checked, worried about his friend. Tom nodded and looked around the room, as though he was looking for someone.

"Was it another vision, hallucination thing?" Ben asked. Again Tom nodded but didn't say anything.

"What happened?" Maggie's voice chiming into the conversation. But Tom didn't answer, just looked around the room again before answering with a question of his own, "Where's Hal?"

"I think he went to bed." Weaver tried to remember and was about to ask why, as Tom ran past him and out the door. The others followed him. Tom didn't stop running until he ran into his son's bedroom and stared at a message on the wall.

This is Fair! Come Alone

The rest of the Masons, and Maggie and Weaver came into the room and stared at the message in shock, while Weaver took a look around the room.

"Hal put up a fight." Weaver noted, eyeing the dresser lying on the ground.

"Pope took Hal?" Matt asked in disbelief. Anne felt guilt rising into her chest, remembering her exact conversation with the man. Was this her fault? Was he already planning on to this after he thought he would kill her, or did she put the thought into his head, which was why he let her go?

"Tom." Weaver called out. Everyone finally turned away from the message on the wall to see what Weaver was looking at. The mirror the used to be hanging on the wall on the other side of the room, was now shattered on the floor, blood covering many shards of glass.

"I'm going after him." Tom declared, and left the room.

"Tom wait! You can't just go!" Weaver yelled catching up to him in the hall, the rest of the group following.

"If I don't what's going to happen to Hal?" Tom asked his friend, stopping and looking Weaver right in the eye before adding, "I have to go. I'm not going to let Hal, or anyone else get hurt because of my problems with Pope."

"We're coming with you." Anne said. Ben, Matt and Maggie nodded in response to Anne's decision.

"No, Pope said - " Tom started but was cut off by Maggie, "He won't know. As long as we stay out of his sight and make no noise, he won't know we're with you. You can't go alone." Tom looked over his family, and relented, knowing they were right.

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Hal woke up to Pope's voice saying, "Wakey wakey."

The bag that was on his head was pulled off, and Hal saw that he was in woods, hands tied behind his back and he was alone with Pope who was holding a handgun.

"So you're gonna kill me?" Hal voice croaked. Pope had squeezed his neck so tight he was surprised the he woke up all. Pope bent down so he was somewhat, eye level with Hal, who was sitting on the ground, back pressed up against a tree.

"Don't worry young Mason. You'll get your chance to die for the cause. I could've killed your Daddy, I could've killed him right in front of the entire 2nd Mass, but I didn't and you wanna know why?" Pope asked, pressing the side of the gun against the side of Hal's face.

"It was too easy," Pope answered for him, and added, "Then I thought, he'd come for you. And when he does, I'm gonna kill you, then I'm gonna kill your Dad. And that's fair." And stars exploded in Hal's eyes and Pope slammed the gun into Hal's face.

Author's Note - So as you now know, I put the scene where Tom tells his family about the visions of Rebecca because I wanted them to be with Tom when he got the warning about Hal and when they found out that Pope took him, cause otherwise they wouldn't have found out about Hal, as Tom wouldn't have told them and would've instructed Anne and Weaver to do the same. Chapter 3 will come up soon, some of it will follow what happened in the actual episode but there will be some changes as well, mostly because of Maggie, Ben, Matt and Anne being there. I hope you liked this chapter, and again, please review and tell me your thoughts.