I kinda would love to hear if this story is going in the right direction or if I should just give up.
(Terra Nova, Year: 85 million years in the past)
Jim felt his world falling apart. The man had heard his daughters scream about an hour ago and when he had gone to investigate he couldn't find them. Just Maddy's plex which never left her person and alarmed Jim when he found it and scorch marks on the ground.
He sent up and alarm, and now almost half the damn colony was looking for the Shannon girls. And Elizabeth was tearing through any evidence she could get her hands on. Her babies were somewhere, but where.
It wasn't until Malcolm delivered the news that those scorch marks were caused by a portal opening and closing did the Jim collapse to the floor in stony silence.
His daughters were in a different time, maybe a different place….and most of all they could be hurt or dead and he couldn't do a thing about it.
This is what it felt like to be on the receiving end of the bad news.
What the hell was he going to do?
(Hurculeneum, Ancient Rome, Year: 77 AD)
Maddy woke up to bright light flooding through the window and onto her face. She groaned and sat up, stretching her back. "Good morn." A deep voice greeted her in Latin and she jerked, her head snapping to him.
The only reason why Maddy knew Latin was because she got bored one month in 2149, having finished the year of all her other classes while it was still the technical school year.
One day, she was looking into History of Medieval Europe and found an old scripter in Latin. So she spent the rest of the year learning how to speak Latin, though she was still struggling with some of the reading and writing of it.
"Wife?" The man that spent the entire night respectably next to her, was now shirtless, only wearing pants. She would admit he was quiet beautiful…er….handsome actually.
Blue eyes but a tanner complexion, just not as dark as her or her sister. He was well muscled, almost reminded her of the soldiers that would jog around the colony shirtless during the hot summers. He was also half a foot taller than her and had dark brown, short hair.
One of his hands reached out and cupped her elbow. "Are you ready to get up?" Nodding she slipped out of bed and moved to leave the room before he caught her. "You cannot go around my home dressed as a whore." She froze up and her brain started thinking.
Of course, in Rome only loose women or very young children wore clothes as short as the sun dress she wore now. "I have nothing else." She confessed and he sighed.
"Take your dress off, uh, just stay under the covers. I will send my seamstress to you, but it won't take long." He left her in the room as she took a deep breath.
She turned from the door and stood before the bed before grabbing the straps to her dress and easing them off her. She had the dress at her hips when he walked back in and she heard hi breathing change. She covered herself with her arms as Maddy felt his eyes bore into her smooth back.
"Don't cover yourself, you are beautiful." He moved forward and her cheeks burned as the rough palm of his hand gently laid on the middle of her back. "Perfection."
Maddy barely understood half the things he said, but she understood the tension in the air and it frightened her.
Never has a man taken an interest in her, but then again, she was apparently wife and mother to him and his two children. God how did this happen?
He moved again and to Maddy's horror, he now stood before her. "Please let me see you?" he cupped her face and she felt tears well up. This was too far already, what if he didn't stop….what if he raped her?
She trembled and took a step back, "Please, No….I-I've never-" His eyes widened and she could see the slight tint in his cheeks.
"Perhaps after the ceremony." He mumbled and leaned forward to kiss her, his lips bushing hers before claiming her lips with more assurance.
However, Maddy was terrified, fearing that he would do something else should she move a muscle. Hell he was already taking her first kiss, and he could easily force her into more intimate acts.
Though honestly her main concern was her little sister, Zoe, she would do whatever it takes to protect her.
"Master?" A woman chirped from the door and separated Marcellus from Maddy.
"Ah, dress her as a woman worthy of being my wife, then bring her down to the morning meal." He commanded and the seamstress bowed, doing as he asked.
Maddy let out a sigh of relief when he left her but soon felt the small hands of the woman on her. "Please take off your tunic Mistress." She asked and started pulling fabric from her basket.
Maddy took a deep breath and let the rest of the green fabric fall to the floor. She had never let anyone see her this naked before….well expect for her family minus Zoe.
(Terra Nova, Year: 85 million years in the past)
"Damn it Jim, I'm not going to work faster with you watching me." Jim Shannon had basically been stalking Malcolm since he told them it was a portal they went through.
Then Taylor ordered him to make a terminus to open the portal so that he and Jim could retrieve the Young Shannons.
"Well, you should hurry up, now!" Jim barked, but Malcolm shook his head, he understood why Shannon was so on edge, though he was lucky enough to never experience it first hand.
"Alright, go away, your wife and son need you." His words seem to penetrate Jim's mind and the man rose and left the doctor to his work.
(Hurculaneum, Ancient Rome, Year: 77 AD)
Zoe was sitting next to Leah and Sam, they were telling her something, she just didn't understand and it made her feel left out.
She watched the man walk around the table she was at, he seemed anxious like her father would get when a soldier would sometimes ask to take her mother on otg trips…she was the doctor for them and always had extra band aids, or so her sister would tell her.
Thinking of Maddy only made her curious to where her sister was, so she jumped up and started towards the door. If she had to, she would search this whole stone house to her only family member with her at the moment.
A hand grabbed her and she looked up to the man, he had blue eyes like Leah and Sam, but in a different way…she couldn't explain it, but it was just different.
He said something and walked her back to the large pillow that was her seat, pointing at it and repeating his earlier words.
"It's alright Zoe, sit." Maddy walked in, her hair curling and falling down her back as she took a seat next to the little girls.
She was dressed in soft pink dress she would learn later was called a stolla, she thought it was very pretty, but Maddy kept shifting, especially when the man stared at her too long.
"Are you okay Maddy?" Zoe asked as she took a bite of the fruit placed on her plate. A flash of her sisters dazzling smile made the little girl relax as she assured her everything was fine. "Maddy when will we go home?" the older girl lost her smile.
"Zoe, there is a chance that this is our new home." Maddy ran her fingers through his sister's hair.
However, Zoe didn't understand yet.
(Hurculenceum, Ancient Rome, Year: 77 AD)
Maddy stared after the kids as they ran out of the room, chasing each other, after breakfast. About to stand too, Marcellus took her hand.
"Wife, I want to talk about the ceremony." He paused, waiting for her to sit back and continuing when she did. "I want us to be officially wed today."
But Maddy shook her head. "I don't want to become wife to you, I barely know-"
"And yet, both you and your little sister are in my care and it is me keeping you two off the streets. As I see it, it would be in Zoe's best interest if you marry me." Marcellus was cool and collected as he spoke, frightening Maddy.
She bit her lip to keep her tears in. "Please don't, please." She covered her mouth with her free hand, but he just stared at her.
He was young and told her he built himself up from scratch, well now she knew how. He had an iron grip and knew how to twist and blackmail others. He was horrid.
Suddenly the children ran by and Maddy saw a flash of Zoe, smiling as she chased the two blonde haired children. In this time, this life, would she be able to feed protect and raise Zoe? Or make her as happy on the streets as Maddy could make her here?
"When will we be official Marcellus?" Maddy asked in defeat, and saw a corner of Marcellus's mouth quirk up.
"You may call me Marc." He waited till she nodded. "Tonight," He stood up, pulling her to her feet with him. "You will be all mine," he pulled her closer and twirled her around, to bring her back to his strong chest, "the moment the sun goes down."
She shivered and tried to contain a whimper, biting her lip as she stared at the floor. What has she just done?
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