Chapter 2; Journey.
Stone, starred out at the road. "You know that Zeus, had a private briefing with me?"
Nash nodded as Stone looked briefly at her. She knew that it was not standard procedure.
"Then he ordered me to kill the boy." Taking a moment, to allow Nash to comprehend. "I have done some bad shit in my time, killing the Van de Kamp, is not the worst crime of my crimes."
"Michael, I may have argued against killing the Van de Kamp, but we both know that leaving them alive was not an option. The minion would have ripped them apart. Killing them was in fact mercy." Nash argued.
"For every life you take, you lose a little of your own." Stone said. "One of my old drill sergeants, used to tell my. Well, I have taken a lot of lives. Many of them innocent, but I will not kill an infant. That is one line I will not cross."
Nash knew Stone better than any others; she had worked with him for longer than most of the team. He could be cold and distant, a bastard even. Yet sometime he could surprise her.
"Why would Zeus order you to kill William Scully?"
Stone knew this was the question that had been burning on his own mind, since Zeus gave the order. "I asked him that, at the briefing. He gave me no answer. What I know is that there is some anomaly in his genetic makeup, I think Zeus is afraid that this anomaly is the key to the colonization."
"Like the minions or as some call them super soldiers?" Nask asked.
"No, the minions are flawed creations. They are just tools, cannon fodder, and expendables. Like us." Stone looked in the backseat for a moment. "He is an advanced human, either the doom of mankind or its savior. The only sure thing is that there is no safe place on this earth for him, but we must try to get him to safety."
After driving for a few hours, the minivan crossed into Idaho.
Nash had used the opportunity to catch a few hours sleep. Stone drove on through the night.
Nash woke as they stopped at a gas station.
"Where are we?"
"Just across the state lines into Idaho." Stone said as he maneuvered the car by the gas pump. "While I fill up the tank, you need to change the diaper on the boy and get us some food."
"Shit, we left in such a hurry from the farm, that I forgot the diapers."
Stone laughs.
"Well, I hope they sell some here or we are in for a long loud ride from our passenger." Stone had barely said the words, when a loud scream was heard from the back seat. "There you have it, he want a new diaper."
Nash took William with her out if the chair, giving Stone a ugly look, as Stone started to fill the tank.
Amanda Nash walked in the station and to the counter. Where a young man was reading a magazine.
"Excuse me, do you have diapers? My husband seems to have forgotten to pack them."
The young man pointed her in the right direction.
"Thank you." Nash said as she walked to the back of the station. "Come on, William, let's get you some diapers."
After finding the diapers and some food for them, she went back to the counter.
"We also have gas." Nash knew Stone would not come in, he need to stay outside to watch for any trouble.
After paying, she went out and handed Stone the diaper bag and food, before taking one of the diaper from the bag, then she went to the wc.
After locking the door, she put William on the changing table. Taking his pans of and his dirty diaper off.
Looking at the diaper with disgust. "Well, little man. That is … "
As if she discovered suddenly that she was with an infant, she throw the diaper in the trash and cleaned up the child the best she could with the supplies in the wc. After putting the new diaper on the boy, she left wc.
Stone knew that there was a remote chance that they were being tracked by the Consortium, or his own bosses, but he could not see any sign of pursuit.
Trying to a per as a man just waiting for his family, he kept scanning the road and the airway.
He felt as Nash came out of the WC.
Still scanning the surrounding. "Everything alright?"
"Yes, but we need to buy some new things for William, at the next shopping mall."
Stone sat down under the wheel. "Alright, but only you will go in, I will stay out in the parking lot with the boy."
Three hours later Stone drove the minivan away from the mall, which they had chosen.
"What did you do, buy up the mall?" Stone asked.
"Funny, at least I didn't use your credit card to the max like the rest of the wife's, husband!" Nash shot back.
Stone grinned. "A good thing that I don't have a credit card, honey." Getting a scaling look from Nash in return.
After escaping from the city, Stone took up a southern heading, towards Nevada.
Stone and Nash, took turns driving. Through Idaho, Nevada, the Utah, as they headed into Colorado, Nash was driving.
"Michael, where do we head now?"
Stone woke up from his sleep, instantly on alert scanning his surroundings. "To Colorado Springs."
"Michael, who is in Colorado Springs?"
"An Uncle of mine. He is an Airforce Special Operation. He is my mother brother; they were never close, by my mother being a few years older. He was one of the reasons I joined the service. When I was fourteen, I spend a summer with the O'Neill's, Jack came home on medical leave. We ended up spending the two months, taking and training together. The truth is up until that time, I was a mess-up kid. Jack kick my ass, gave me a goal. Taught me how to shot. But I didn't want to join the air force and I didn't want to be a officer." This was the most Stone had ever revealed about his past or family, even to Amanda Nash.
"Wake me when we are six hour from Colorado Springs." Stone settled back down, sleeping.
Stone had chosen that time, so that Nash could be rested when they drove into the Springs.
After traveling for three days without stopping, from Wyoming, Stone and his companions came to Colorado Springs.
