AN: Alright last chapter before our favorite scientist appears! By now the Seven Hours War has ended and Eli and Dr. Kliener have been relocated to City 17.

Chapter 4: After the War…

"Alright Alyx, the night watch is here you should go get some sleep."

Alyx was too tired to say anything so she just nodded and headed back inside to the lab. When she got there It didn't take long before she was asleep.

A man with a briefcase appeared. He never said anything but just looked around. Alyx then found herself in a battlefield. There were striders and soldiers everywhere, and the rebels weren't doing too well. She turned to find a rebel lying on the ground holding his knee. She ran to help him.

"Get down!" She recognized Chase's voice just as she was tackled. She then heard a strider's cannon begin to charge. She looked up just in time to watch Chase get blown away by the cannon shot and disintegrated.

Then everything went blank again. She saw the man appear again.

"Who are you?" She wanted to ask but her voice just wouldn't work. The man disappeared again and this time she found herself in a street with a sniper in the far end. She dove for cover and barely dodged a bullet.

She suddenly noticed machine gun fire in the distance. Once it stopped she saw Chase appear and run towards her position with his eyes still over his shoulder.

Just then the sniper fired another shot. She was relieved that it had barely missed Chase, but he stopped to turn around.

"Look out!" She wanted to scream but again she couldn't.

Another shot was fired and the bullet met right up with Chase's forehead.

Then everything went black and the man appeared again. He still wouldn't say anything.

Alyx found herself behind a boulder in the woods. She heard something in the distance. It sounded like running. She peeked her head around the corner to see two people running and dodging incoming fire. They were Chase and a woman she didn't recognize. They crouched behind a boulder. Alyx stepped around the Boulder to meet up with them but she ran right into a Combine Soldier. He reeled back to hit her with the butt of his shotgun and then, next thing she knew, she was sitting up in her bed breathing heavily.

"He'll be coming for you..." Alyx heard a mysterious voice that she couldn't find the source of.

After a few minutes of heavy breathing she calmed down enough to process what had just happened.

"Ok that was one hell of a nightmare." She thought out loud quietly. "Who the hell was that man? Why did I just see Chase three times, two of them involving him dying and one of those deaths immediately following saving me?" She paused for a second and then the biggest question hit her, "What the hell does 'he'll be coming for you...' mean? And who said it? Also, who's 'he?'"

"Alyx are you alright in there sweetheart?" She heard her dad calling.

She couldn't think of anything to say so she stayed silent and her dad walked in.

"I'm alright dad." She said not sounding 'alright' in any way shape or form.

"Did you have a bad dream?" Her dad asked picking up that she wasn't ok.

"Yes a weird one. I'd rather not talk about it." She said. "I need some fresh air." She continued after a pause and with that she got up and went outside.

As she left she heard her dad mumble to himself, "He found her. Damn him!"

"What the hell?! Does he know that guy with the briefcase?!" She thought to herself. The war had left her hardened but she still found herself confused and angry.