This chapter was written by FallenSurvivor. All credit goes to them. I hope you like it.
Stepping out of his office, Taylor's eyes run over the length of broken fence. One of the easily fixable scars from the occupation of Terra Nova by the Phoenix Group.
"Come on Guz," Wash barked, but that was what he got for volunteering to help create the fence.
"Just a little higher," Her voice cut the air, even over the howling wind that came through the valley. They almost had the parameter fence finished, which meant they could sleep with peace of mind for the first time since coming to the ancient world.
Taylor stood watched with a bemused smile as she helped lift the last beam in place. As soon as the construction crew yelled out that the fence was finished, a cheer went up from everyone.
All except Wash and Taylor. They just made eye contact, her warm amber eyes meeting his cool blues. This was their way of communication after so many years of partnership in battle. Best friends on and off the field.
Turning when one of the men hugged her, she let out one of her rare smiles. When her eyes met his again, he was smiling too, but that was because she was about to be doused in water by the soldiers that had been working under her.
She was going to be so pissed-
"Commander?" A soldier had saluted him, pulling him from his reverie at the same time. He dismisses the soldier and finds one of the two people he is looking for.
"Reilly!" The young woman turns around and salutes him, "At ease, where is Reynolds?"
"Behind you, Sir." He snaps his head around and calls out to him.
"Both of you in my office." With this, the old Commander returns to the Command Center, leaving the two like little children who have just been called to the principle's office.
"What did we do?" Mark asks when he reaches Reilly. "Are we in trouble?"
"I don't know," she responds adding, "but whatever it is, I blame you."
They walk up the stairs and stand stiff in Taylor's office.
"I have been watching you two for a while now. You conducted yourselves very well over the past few weeks. You have both been put in danger and handled it with a great amount of dignity. You not only helped yourself but also your peers stay calm and alert through this whole ordeal. So I am proud to tell you I am promoting you both to Squad Leader. Congratulations."
~o0O0o~
"How could this happen again?" Elizabeth asks herself.
Then again she was a doctor and well aware on how babies are made. But still, she's thirty six, she has had all the kids she wanted, and now she was having another.
Staring at the glass of her plex, she kept rereading the words Pregnancy Test: Positive.
What will Jim think?
It was already difficult to convince him to have Zoe, now….what will they do?
Sighing, Elizabeth places her plex on the counter, about to shut it off when her youngest daughter runs in, saying something about Vampires and dragging her along to her and Maddy's room.
Now Elizabeth's next question was; where did my five-year-old get so much garlic?
~o0O0o~
Jim waves at Taylor, the man seemed distant since the return to Terra Nova and both Jim and Elizabeth worried about him. But at the moment, Jim wanted to get home and relax, it had been a long day.
As he enters his home, he looks around, hunger gnawing at his stomach.
The kitchen!
Walking by the counter he sees a plex on, and his eyes swept over it, before fixating on the fruit….then bouncing back to the plex.
What the….pregnant?
Picking it up he reads the information. He checks the top for a patient name. All it says is Shannon.
MADDY!?
~o0O0o~
Josh was working like a machine, rarely smiling, always going through the motions of life. Hell he hasn't felt happy since….since the last day he spent with Kara before coming through to Terra Nova.
Sighing, Josh puts his tray down waiting for Boylan to refill the platter, the older man watching him.
"How ya' goin'?" the question was asked often with the same response.
"I'm goin'." Taking the now full tray in hand he turns to leave.
"Ya know, you can talk to me." He informs cautiously as Josh freezes and puts the tray down after a moment.
"I just miss her, and I feel like everyone is going on living and I'm just…stuck, ya know what man, never mind."
"Josh," this pulls the boy back. "I know they buried her and never marked her body, but that doesn't mean you can't mourn for her at Memorial Field."
"She's not buried there." He growled. It made him a little angry on how they didn't even remember where they buried her. Josh could have gotten her and buried her right.
"And there are about a hundred blank head stones out there. Maybe you can pretend one of them is hers?" The man then turns back to his bar keeping, leaving the boy to stare for a moment.
Maybe he really needed to say good bye properly.
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