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"Alright. We're here. Get out," he said. I glared at this Shannon guy.

"You're kidding, right? Where do I go?" I asked. Shannon huffed and got out of the rover. I followed suit. He then led me to what looked like a bar.

"Find my son, Josh. Tell him you're staying with us and have him or my daughter show you around." I nodded in understanding. As he turned to leave, I added,

"Uh, Shannon? What's your name, so I don't have to keep calling you a girl."

"Jim," he said curtly, and then he turned on his heel and left. I turned to face the almost empty bar. Well, it was the middle of the day to be fair. I went up to the bar to an attractive boy, probably my age, seventeen or eighteen. He had dark brown hair that covered his forehead and pale, mysterious blue eyes.

"Excuse me," I said, "but do you know where I could find Josh Shannon?" He gave me a questioning smile.

"That's me. What can I do for ya?" he asked. I explained my situation to him, how I was new and staying with his family.

"Sorry, I'm working right now, but tell you what. My sister Maddy can show you around." He gave me directions to the Shannon house and told me he looked forward to seeing me later. As I approached the home, I took a deep breath. I still hadn't found out anything about Mark. When Maddy opened the door, I explained my entire story once more. She was a bit shy, but nice enough. I found it fun to talk to her. She showed me all around the colony, telling me all about the rules about O.T.G. and different things we didn't have in 2149. We had a laugh when she had to teach me how to eat fruit.

"Wanna meet my mom?" Maddy asked after the fruit lesson.

"Sure! I'd love to," I said. I found out that her mother Elisabeth was a docter, and a pretty important one at that. She was extremely nice, and she had an unexpected accent that made me smile. I also met Malcom Wallace, the Chief Science Officer. He was very knowledgable; I knew I would find myself asking him many questions in the future. After that visit, while we were walking back to the house, Maddy asked,

"So did you know anyone in Terra Nova before you came here?" I bit my lip and frowned.

"Well, I know Commander Taylor from when we were in the army in the beginning, and I see a couple of familiar faces, but not the one I'm looking for." Maddy looked at me with a sympathetic weak smile. Awkwardly putting a comforting hand on my shoulder, she asked,

"Parent? Best friend? Sibling?" I just took in a shaky breath in response. "Wow, that has to be scary. And hard."

"I don't even know if he's alive." Then Maddy sighed in understanding.

"It was your boyfriend, wasn't it?" I shook my head "no", but she gave me a half-hug anyway. Even though I didn't know this girl very well, there was something comforting about her, something that reminded me so muh of him and made me want to cry. No, I wouldn't let myself. He could still be alive, I could still see him. I wouldn't cry just because I wasn't sure. Either way, Maddy was being very kind.

"Thank you," I said. "I suppose even if he's not here, I'm still less alone than I was back in 2149." She smiled at me and just gave me another hug. I had a feeling this girl could come to be a good friend.

It at that moment that I heard the pounding footsteps of someone running towards us. I'd heard that footstep before; it was a military boot, for sure. A breathless voice, sounding like whoever it was ran from O.T.G, spoke my name.

"Jackie. What have you done to your hair?" I turned and immediately gasped. There standing before me was a handsome soldier with dark chiseled features. The last I saw of him, he had still had some growing up to do, but now his chin was angular and his smile was one of an experienced man. I stood in front of him, so proud of what I knew he had become, without actually knowing. We stood there, not sure what to say; we hadn't seen each other in three years. Then, as if rehearsed, Mark Reynolds and I grabbed each other and clung to each other, tears escaping from the corners of our eyes. We took turns crying out muffled words of love and kissing each other's cheeks. I could stay there forever with my best friend, my brother, my guardian.

As soon as the first stage of our reunion concluded, we looked at each other and laughed, like the old times. We then turned to Maddy, who stood by awkwardly and confused, and Mark slung his arm around my shoulder.

"Maddy," he said, "this is my sister, Jackie." He looked at me and we smiled at each other. It felt great to hear that again. Maddy, though, looked confused.

"Wait," she said turning towards me, "I thought your last name was Porter." I smiled.

"It is."

"But if you guys are"-

"She's not my real sister, Maddy. We kind of adopted each other, because we're both orphans. But she might as well be my sister, I mean look at us, we're almost identical!" Mark and I then did our "picture perfect" smiles, and all three of us laughed. It couldn't have been less true. He had dark brown hair and bright blue eyes, with tan skin; I had black hair that I had recently dyed purple, bright green eyes, and porcelin-white skin. Well, that was going to have to change with all of the sun here.

"Right, Jackie, I haven't formally introduced you," Mark said, taking Maddy's hand with a shy and goofy smile, "to my girlfriend." My heart exploded. That was the sweetest thing I had ever heard. Maddy seemed so nice, and I just knew that they would treat each other well. I laughed about it at the same time though.

"Ha, have fun with her father. He's one hell of a grouch." Mark and Maddy smiled.

"Trust me," he said, putting an arm around me again with his available arm, "I've noticed."