Chapter 3

Origins: Jack

Jack came home from work tired as news of the Locust war got worse and worse. He closed his eyes taking a deep breath. Opening the door to find his mother saddens and his father not there. His brother Joey looked angered as he stood by the fire place. His mother rushed to him hugging him as she cried for the loss of his oldest brother. His sister Hailey took a quick gulp of water as she stared at Jack. He didn't know what had happened as his mother told him about his oldest brother.

Jack cried in front of them as he looked at his brother Joey who threw his glass cup into the fire place. His sister looked away as he to her. His father walked down the stairs and saw him at the doorway with his mom. Out of anger his father looked at him and walked towards him pointing and yelling at him. Jack tried to speak but was then punched to the ground. His mother fell to her knees as his father yelled and yelled. His father continued to yell at him as the weakest link, as the weakness not as strength. Blaming Jack for his brother's death Harold. His father yelled at the top of his lungs, as Joey tried to hold his father back and sister Hailey helped as well.

His father was pulled back inside as Jack yelled back at him. Jack stood back up as he helped his mother up. His father took a glass of liquor and began to drink as he looked away then back at said nothing as he looked at the family portrait of them all of them together. In his mind he could remember the voice of his dead brother Harold Phillips. Jack scratched his neck thinking about what to do. His brother walked up to him holding a recruitment bag with his name on 's eyes grew wide as he looked at his mother and father. His father stared with a threatening look as knocking came from the door. Jack looked back seeing Hailey opening the door,2 Gear soldiers rushed in along with a Gear captain. Jack was approached by the captain as Joey left with them and they waited on Jack as he look disappointed by the actions taken by his father. Knowing that his father forced his enlistment without his permission, without talking to him about it.

Jack reached in his pants and threw onto the table a crumpled piece of paper along with the family crest of a angel with a gear circle around father took another big gulp of his drink as Jack was pulled and walked out into the night, rain poured all around him. His button shirt and pressed pants got went. His combed blonde hair was un combed as he walked out. His mother cried knowing her boys were gone, she reached for the crumpled paper opening shoved it into her husband's chest as she rushed upstairs. He looked at it as it said

"Accepted to Harvard Gear College of Scientifics"

He said nothing as he threw it onto the floor and sat on the couch. He cried his eyes his daughter Hailey hugged him tightly as both cried over the loss.